IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: An Extended Abstract is requested in all submitted papers. 
IMPORTANT: Citation and bibliography in the texts should be done according to the APA6 rules. Papers will be rejected if the rules are not followed. You can access the APA6 rules here.

IF THE FOLLOWING ISSUES ARE NOT FOLLOWED, ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE REJECTED BEFORE STARTING THE REVIEW PROCESS.

Files Required to be Uploaded to the System in Article Submissions (Mandatory)

1. Papers should be prepared by using the article template. You can download the article template from here.

2. The copyright transfer form should be scanned with signature and uploaded to the system. Download the copyright transfer form from here.

3. The author information form should be filled and uploaded to the system (in Word format). Download the author information form from here.

4. Ethics Committee Approval is required for studies that require ethics committee approval.

-While the articles are uploaded to the DergiPark system, the Title, Abstract and Keywords should be filled in English and Turkish. All English and Turkish Article Titles should be written in capital letters.

-Studies should comply with the rules of grammar. A clear and understandable narrative should be followed in the articles; information out of the purpose and scope should not be included. Valid scientific methods should be followed in the preparation of articles.

-The purpose, subject, scope, method, etc. of the study. sections should be adequately explained and studies should be prepared within a certain systematic. In this context, articles that do not comply with the spelling rules will be rejected.

-According to the TR index criteria, the relevant works of the authors who do not have ORCID information will not be accepted.

-Author Information Form must be uploaded to the system during the article submission process. Information regarding author name and affiliation should not be included in the text. You can find the author information form here.

RULES ON THE TEXT AND REFERENCES

1- In each article, just below the main title, there should be an abstract of 150-300 words containing the purpose and importance of the article. Abstracts should not exceed the specified word limit. Keywords that do not exceed 5 words should be added under the abstract. In short, the articles should be written in the order of Main Title, Abstract, Keywords, Article Text, Notes and Bibliography. Paragraphs should not be made in the Abstract section.

2- The word count of the articles should not exceed 12000 words, including the bibliography, abstract and extended abstract.

3- Each article should have a title. The title should be brief and descriptive, consistent with the content of the study. Article titles must be numbered manually.

4- In-text references and bibliographies of all articles should be arranged in accordance with the APA system. The sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association should be used as the source.

5- In the bibliography, only the references cited in the text should be included with their full citations, and all references should be arranged according to the surname of the author and the year, regardless of their types.

6- If the citation and bibliography were prepared using Endnote, Mendeley, and similar programs, these program links should be removed in the files to be uploaded to the system.

7-Short quotations in the text should be given in double quotation marks, and if quotation marks are required within the quotation, single quotation marks should be used. Quotations longer than 40 words should be written as a block, without quotation marks, in line with the first line of the paragraphs (1.25 cm indented from the left) and in Italics (Italic) with a single line spacing. When quoting, words and sentences extracted from the original work should be indicated with three dots (…) in parentheses.

Note: Ethics Committee Approval should be obtained for studies that require an Ethics Committee Decision, this approval should be stated in the article and submitted as a document during the application.

• Studies Requiring Ethics Committee Permission are as follows:

o All kinds of research carried out with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques.

o Use of humans and animals (including material/data) for experimental or other scientific purposes,

o Clinical studies on humans,

o Research on animals,

o Retrospective studies in accordance with the law on the protection of personal data,

• Also,

o Stating that the “Informed consent form” has been received in case presentations,

o Obtaining and specifying permission from the owners for the use of scales, surveys, photos belonging to others,

o Stating that copyright regulations are complied with for the ideas and artworks used

Note: Ethics committee approval is not required for articles that used data obtained before 2020, retrieved from master's/doctoral studies (must be specified in the article), submitted an application for publication to the journal in the previous year, and accepted but not yet published. You must indicate in the author information form that your study has this status.

Important Reminder: Below are the issues that we request from our referees to be examined during the evaluation process. In this direction, it is useful to check these aspects before uploading your study to the system:

- The relevance of the study to the Journal of Public Administration and Policy as a subject

- The harmony between the title of the article and the content

- The adequacy of the abstract and keywords of the article and its compatibility with the content

- The purpose of the article, its scope and the level of disclosure of its importance

- The adequacy of the theoretical framework of the article

- The suitability of the research method used in the article for the purpose

- The adequacy of the academic language and expression used in the article

- Level of access to basic sources in the article

- The level of compliance with academic ethical rules in the article

- The regularity of the editing of the article and the flow of content

- The originality of the article and its contribution to science

- The compatibility of the conclusion part of the article with the content

- The adequacy of the conclusions and recommendations reached in the article

- Compliance of the article with the spelling rules