Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi

“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is an interdisciplinary academic journal aiming to provide an international basis for original works in social sciences and humanities. The main purpose of the journal is to give opportunities for publication of high-quality interdisciplinary studies and to present them as open access to researchers.

“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is an interdisciplinary academic journal based on the preparation of original works in social and human sciences. It was decided to publish in electronic form all the issues of the journal, which was established in 2018 with the cooperation of independent scholars in different disciplines in the field of social and human sciences. The journal is not affiliated with any official or unofficial institution, organization or group. J-SCS; focuses on Turkish and English studies in sociology, social work, philosophy, history, Turkish language and literature, Arabic language and literature, Western languages and literatures, religious sciences, Islamic history and arts, economics, political science and closely related fields. The common purpose of all scientists who support the journal with their ideas and efforts is to contribute to the academic development of social and human sciences academicians and to seek new possibilities to benefit more from social and human sciences for society. For all the scientists who share the same thought, the pages of our journal are always open.

Sample Sheet 2022

Copyright Form

Conflict Statement

Turnitin /iThenticate report must also be uploaded to the Dergipark system.

Articles that do not fully comply with the stylesheet, the ethical rules, and the publication principles will not be evaluated. Please read the “Ethical Rules and Publication Principles ” menu before checking the stylesheet.

• All submissions to be considered for publication should be written in Turkish or English.

• All texts should be sent by e-mail in .doc or .docx format after being overwritten on the “Sheet” which is seen as a link above. (e-mail: editor@toplumvekultur.com)

• It should be noted that work submitted to this journal has not been previously published or is not under
consideration for publication elsewhere.

•  The margins should be set at 2.5 cm top and bottom, left and right on A4 paper. The spacings in paragraph settings of main body text should be as written below.

  The main body text space line:1,5, Spacing before:6 pt, Spacing after: 6pt; Abstract text space line:1, Spacing before: 6 pt, Spacing after: 6pt

• Font of the text should be “Garamond”. The main body and Abstract text should be 12 pt type. For quotations longer than 3 lines
or 40 words, start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented 1 cm from the left and right margin, use 10 pt type and 1-spaced paragraph for the text. Italic text type is not allowed for quotations less or more than 3 lines or 40 words.

• Use bold for the title of the article and section headings only.

• Notes and explanations must be inserted as end notes.

• The text must be justified, except titles and headings which should be ranged left.

• The papers should not be less than 3,500 words, nor should exceed 9,000 words. Abstract should not be less than 200 words, nor should exceed 300 words.

• If the article is written in Turkish, it should include an abstract in English too.

• All submissions should conform to the requirements of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association (6th ed.). Further information can be obtained from the American Psychological Association’s style website: http://www.apastyle.org/.

• References in the article should be as in these examples:
Bourdieu (2014) in a paper on … [commonest version];
Wagner (2001, pp.81-82) state that … [where page number is required];
———– (Berger, 2011: p.38).

• Sample for references:
Timasheff, N.S. (1967). Sociological Theory: Its Nature and Growth. 3. Ed. New York: Random House
Stevens, J. (2001). Devletin Yeniden Üretimi. (Çev. Abdullah Yılmaz). İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları

While citing the articles, one of the following can be preferred for the volume, number and page range presentation in the bibliography: V.3. No.19. pp. 103-132 or 3(19), 103-132.

 Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Social & Cultural Studies) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Conflict Statement

Copyright Form
Contribution Rate, Conflict Of Interest And Statement Of Support Received

All authors of scientific papers submitted to the journal should take into account the International Standards for Editors and Writers of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).
Authors are required to use their ORCID ID when submitting an article for consideration.
It is allowed all versions of the articles to be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.
Turnitin or Itenticate plagiarism reports should also be attached to the articles to be submitted.
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is published in Turkish and English. The journal is published twice a year, in June and December.
Evaluation Process:

“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” is open to the work of all researchers who have the title “Ph.D.” or “Ph.D. student”. It is not obligatory that the second, third, and fourth authors of the article have the title “Ph.D.” or “Ph.D. student”. An article should has been written by max. four authors.
Double-blind peer-review is valid in the journal. The articles prepared in accordance with the writing rules are presented to the reviewer for review after they have passed the editorial review. The reviewer may ask for a correction to the article, directly refuse or accept it. For the articles declined as a result of the reviewer evaluation, a second reviewer may be requested by the author, If the editors’ board finds that the request is appropriate, the article will be sent to a second reviewer.
The articles previously published in another publication or in the evaluation stage by another publication are not accepted into “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” publication process. All the ethical and legal responsibilities related to the published articles belong to the authors.
Estimated evaluation period of each articles is 90-120 days.

Price Policy:

No fees are charged for publications, no fees are paid to the editors, the editorial board, and the reviewers and their owners. It is accepted that the authors who submit articles to the contact address for publication in the journal should read and acknowledge this copyright statement.

Open Access Policy:

“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is published only in electronic form through its website & Dergipark. It adopts “Open Access Policy”.
All articles submitted to the journal are deemed to approve the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License under which the journal is licensed.
According to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License the material can be copied, redistributed in any medium or format and adapted for any purpose, including commercially purposes, under the terms specified in https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.tr#.
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi) J-SCS supports the initiative of open access of the peer-reviewed journal literature included in the Budapest Open Access Declaration and offers all published articles free of charge in an environment that everyone can access. In this declaration, open access means that “scientific literature can be accessed, read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, linked to full text, indexed, transferred to the software as data and used for any legal purpose, without financial, legal and technical barriers via the internet”. Therefore, studies in this journal can be used as long as the author and original source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the journal authorities. The work in this journal is available across search engines, websites, blogs and other digital platforms. These open access policies adopted by our journal can be accessed at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read

Plagiarism Policy

Turnitin and iThenticate – Plagiarism Prevention Programs are used in many academic journals and “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” to detect plagiarism in academic studies.
The program has a comprehensive academic content directly related to the evaluation of academic publications. Each document uploaded to Turnitin and iThenticate is compared to documents in a large database.
The authors who submit their works are deemed to have declared that they have not committed any ethical violation. The works of authors who are found to have plagiarized through the Turnitin and iThenticate programs are not included in our journals.
Journal editors review the reports qualitatively and quantitatively. The report on this subject is sent to the author and (if necessary) to the relevant institutions and organizations.

Contribution Rate, Conflict Of Interest And Statement Of Support Received:

Contribution rate, conflict of interest and statement of support received must be submitted by completing the form above. This form, together with the article and other documents, should be uploaded to the system during the application or sent to the editor via e-mail.

Ethical Rules for Authors:

All authors must have significantly contributed to the research.
All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
Authors should read and sign the copyright agreement at the top of the page and send it to the contact address.
The articles previously published in another publication or in the evaluation stage by another publication are not accepted into “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” publication process.
All the ethical and legal responsibilities related to the published articles belong to the authors.
It should be ensured that the articles, figures, drawings, findings and conclusions are made in accordance with the rules of academic publication and do not contain plagiarism in any way.
The author whose name is written first in the article is assigned as Corresponding Author and acts on behalf of all co-authors and ensures that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately addressed.

Role of the Corresponding Author
The Corresponding Author is responsible for the following requirements:
Ensuring that all listed authors have approved the manuscript before submission, including the names and order of authors;
Managing all communication between the Journal and all co-authors, before and after publication;
Providing transparency on re-use of material and mention any unpublished material included in the manuscript in a cover letter to the Editor;
Making sure disclosures, declarations and transparency on data statements from all authors are included in the manuscript as appropriate.

Ethical Rules for Editors:

Field editors and issue editors will examine whether the articles are original, scientific, or not, according to the criteria above.
A plagiarism report from the Turnitin or Itenticate plagiarism program will be evaluated by the issue editor. Articles that appear problematic will be reviewed by the editorial board.
The reviewer evaluation process will not be initiated for any article that is not approved by the Editor – Editorial Board.
Ethical Rules for Reviewers:

Peer-review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers’ expert in the field.
Judgments are required to be objective.
Reviewers are required to have no conflict of interest.
Reviewers are required to point out relevant published work that is not yet cited.
Reviewed articles are treated confidentially.
Reviewers will evaluate the article in terms of academic quality as well as compliance with https://publicationethics.org/guidance standards and general international publication ethics.
On ethical issues, Reviewers and editors work on the principle of cross-checking.

No fees are charged for publications, no fees are paid to the editors, the editorial board, and the reviewers and their owners. It is accepted that the authors who submit articles to the contact address for publication in the journal should read and acknowledge this copyright statement.