1. Prerequisites for Manuscripts Submitted to our Journal
a. All submissions must be original, unpublished , and not under the review of any other publication synchronously. Authors are deemed to have committed to this when submitting their work to our Journal. In this regard, the Ethical Declaration Form in the DergiPark system must be signed by the author and sent to our journal through the same system.
b. Manuscripts submitted to our journal are checked by Turnitin plagiarism program. Manuscripts with a similarity rate of more than 15% (bibliography, footnotes and similarities less than 3% are excluded in the Turnitin review) are rejected without being sent to the referee review.
2. Manuscript Submission Procedure
a. Manuscripts should be submitted in two copies in ".doc" or ".docx" format only through the DergiPark system. One of the copies should be anonymous and should not contain information about the author(s). Articles sent via e-mail will not be considered for the publication.
b. The manuscripts to be sent via the DergiPark system should cover all the information about the author (titles, institutions, e-mail addresses, ORCID numbers) fully.
3. Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to our Journal
a. Word Limits:
Manuscripts submitted to the journal should consist of Turkish and English title, Turkish and English abstracts, Turkish and English keywords, text, bibliography and footnotes. The text of the manuscripts submitted to the journal should not be less than 3,000 words and not more than 15,000 words. Abstracts and bibliography are not taken into account in the calculation of the word count limits for the text. Turkish and English abstracts should be at least 150 words and should not exceed 250 words. The number of keywords should not be less than 5 words and not more than 10 words.
b. Title and Author Name:
The title of the text should be written in 14-point font, all letters capitalized, bold and centered. The author's name should appear to the right of the title. The author's name should be written in 13 pt, bold, right justified, with capitalized initial letters. In the footnote to be created with the (*) symbol next to the author's surname, the title, institution, e-mail address and ORCID number of the author should be included respectively.
For example: Prof. Dr., Çankırı Karatekin University Faculty of Law, Department of Civil Law, e-mail: example@karatekin.edu.tr, ORCID: 0000-0000-0000-0000
Turkish and English Abstract and Keywords: Turkish abstract, English abstract, Turkish keywords and English keywords should be bold and capitalized.
c. Text:
1. There should be no indented paragraphs in the text and all paragraphs should be left justified.
2. The body of the manuscript should be in Times New Roman font, 12 pt., 1.5 line spacing; footnotes should be in Times New Roman font, 10 pt., 1 line spacing and justified.
3. Headings should be formed as shown below respectively:
I. FIRST DEGREE SUBSECTION
A. SECOND DEGREE SUBDIVISION (A, B)
1. Third Order Subdivision (1, 2)
a) Fourth Order Subdivision (a, b)
aa) Fifth Order Subdivision (aa, bb)
aaa) Sixth Order Subdivision (aaa, bbb)
aaaa) Seventh Order Subdivision (aaaa, bbbb)
4. Foreign words used in the text must be written in italic.
5. A table of contents should not be included in the text.
6. There should not be a table of abbreviations for abbreviations used in the text; when the name or title to be abbreviated is used for the first time in the text, it should be written without abbreviation and the abbreviation should be indicated in parentheses next to it.
7. The citation system adopted in footnotes and bibliographies is "Chicago-Style", click here for examples according to this citation system. (Link ekle)
8. Footnotes used at the end of a sentence should be given without a space and inserted before the end-of-sentence punctuation mark.
9. If more than one work is cited in a footnote, each work should be separated by a semicolon.
10. Abbreviations in footnotes and bibliographies should not use periods.
11. The abbreviations supra, infra, ante, id, loc cit, op cit, contra should not be used in citations.
12. A single bibliography should be organized regardless of the nature of the works used in the bibliography (e.g. books, articles, etc.) and the works used should be listed in alphabetical order according to the surnames of the authors.
13. References should be written in Times New Roman, 12 font size, 1.5 line spacing and justified.
14. Legislation or court decisions cited in the text should not be included in the bibliography.
YOU CAN ACCESS THE SAMPLE TEMPLATE CONTAINING THE SPELLING RULES FROM THIS LINK.
