Manuscript Preparation Guidelines
All manuscripts submitted to KEFAD must be prepared in accordance with the Turkish and English Article Template (APA 7th Edition).
Submissions are subject to a page limit. Manuscripts must be prepared in Times New Roman, 11-point font, with paragraph spacing of 6 pt before/after and single line spacing. The Turkish version—including the abstract, tables, figures, references, acknowledgments, and appendices—must not exceed 20 pages.
Submitted manuscripts must include the following sections: Introduction, Method, Findings, and Conclusion and Discussion. Manuscripts lacking one or more of these sections will not be considered for review.
When submitting a manuscript, any names, institutional affiliations, or similar identifying information that could compromise the anonymity of the parties involved and undermine the review process must be removed from the file before it is uploaded to the system.
"Complete and accurate entry of manuscript metadata at the time of submission to the DergiPark system is of great importance. In this regard, the abstract and keywords in both the Turkish and English sections, as well as the reference list, must be entered into the system in full at the outset."
1. Ethics Committee Approval: Following the 2020 revision to the TR Dizin Journal Evaluation Criteria, "Ethics Committee Approval" is required for articles across all scientific disciplines, including the social sciences. Accordingly, all research articles submitted to our Journal must have obtained Ethics Committee Approval. Studies without ethics committee approval will not be included in the evaluation process. Ethics committee approval may not be required for meta-analyses, document reviews, and systematic review articles under consideration, depending on the nature of the subject matter.
2. Similarity (Plagiarism) Screening: All candidate manuscripts must be screened using software such as iThenticate© or Turnitin© prior to submission to KEFAD, and the corresponding similarity reports must be submitted together with the manuscript. The overall similarity rate for the manuscript must be below 20%, and the similarity rate for any single source—excluding matches originating from the article template—must be below 1%. KEFAD reserves the right to reject, at the editorial stage, any candidate manuscript found to contain academic plagiarism.
3. Publication Language: The peer review process for manuscripts submitted to our Journal is conducted on the full Turkish text. Following the completion of peer review, both the Turkish and English full texts will be required for manuscripts accepted for publication. Both the Turkish and English final full texts are checked by our Journal's language editors, both at initial submission and at the acceptance stage. Where the language editors deem the quality of the manuscript's language to be insufficient, the author(s) will be requested to have the manuscript professionally copyedited. Manuscripts for which language editing is requested must be edited by one of the accredited language service providers listed below, and the corresponding editing certificate must be submitted to the editorial board. Alternative providers from which authors may seek translation and copyediting support for their manuscripts are listed below.
Manuscripts must be prepared using our Journal's current article template. Full manuscript preparation guidelines are provided in detail within this template.
Elsevier Language Service (http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices/)
Editage (http://www.editage.com/)
Enago (http://www.enago.com/)
Edit My Turkish (https://editmyturkish.com/)
Tandf Language Service (https://www.tandfeditingservices.com/)
American Manuscript Editors (https://americanmanuscripteditors.com)