Style Guidelines

• Manuscripts to be sent to the journal should be prepared according to the Chicago style (Notes and Bibliography / Footnotes and Bibliography). (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)
  
• The article should be based on Times New Roman or Adobe Garamond Pro typeface.
  
• Articles should be saved in “doc” or “docx” format. It should be prepared on A4 size white paper, with a mirrored margin of 4 cm on the top and inside, and 3 cm on the bottom and outside.
  
• The text should be written in 11 pt, 1.15 line spacing, justified, first lines indented 1 cm, and 6 nk space after the paragraph. “-” sign is not used to divide words into syllables at the end of lines. Instead, “Auto Hyphenation” feature of MS Word is used.
  
• Block quotations should be in 10 fonts, the first line without indent, without quotation marks, in straight form, 1.25 from the left, without indent from the right and 1.15 line spacing.
  
• Article Name: It should be 13 pt, 12 nk space before and after, 1.15 line spacing. The article should be written justified in the middle, and it should not exceed 100 characters including spaces.
  
• Abstract and Keywords: 9 pt, 1.0 (single) line spacing, first line indented 1 cm, before and after the paragraph should be uninterrupted (0 pt).
  5 keywords (without any spaces) should be added to the abstract of the article in Turkish and English of 150-200 words.
  
• Headings: All headings should be written in bold font, starting each word with a capital letter, leaving no space between the body of the text and the headings.
  
• The subtitles of the article (Introduction, Subheadings, Conclusion, Bibliography) should be written in 11 pt., 6 pt before the paragraph, 6 pt after the paragraph, and 1 cm indented from the left.
  
• Footnotes: 9 pt, 1.0 (single) line spacing, 0.5 cm hanging (first line aligned with the others), justified, before and after the paragraph (0 nk).
  
• Bibliography: 9 font size, 1.0 (single) line spacing, 1 cm hanging, justified, with 6 nk space after the paragraph.

Reference Guidelines

• The works submitted to be published in Kırıkkale Law Journal should be compatible with Chicago style (Notes and Bibliography). See Chapter 14 of The Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition for details and countless examples.