Click here for sample Article Writing Template.
Cilk here for Conflict of Interest and Author Contributions Statement.
Basic principles

• Journal of Kocatepe Islamic Sciences is a peer-reviewed, and academic journal that is published electronically twice a year when necessary, special or additional issues can be published. It publishes scientific research articles about Social and Human Sciences/Theology field.

• Article acceptance dates of the journal published in June and December are between 1 January and 1 March for the June issue and 1 July and 1 September for the December issue. Applications received after these dates will not be accepted. If the number of articles reaches a sufficient level, the process of accepting articles may be closed before these dates.

• The scope of the journal includes studies in the following fields: - Basic Islamic Sciences: Tafsir, Hadith, Kalam, Islamic Law, History of Islamic Sects, Sufism, Arabic Language and Literature and Kiraat;  - Philosophy and Religious Sciences: Islamic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Psychology of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Religious Education, History of Religions, Logic; - Islamic History and Arts: History of Islam, History of Turkish Islamic Arts, Turkish Islamic Literature, Turkish Religious Music; - Education of Religious Culture and Ethics.

• The articles submitted to the journal should not be previously published or accepted for publication from elsewhere. Articles produced from post-graduate theses and symposium reports can be uploaded to the journal system along with the ethical statement at the beginning of the article.

• Example: This article is extracted from my doctorate dissertation entitled “…”, (PhD Dissertation, ….. University, Afyonkarahisar/Türkiye, 2020).

• It should be stated the ethical committee approval on the first page and in the method part of the study for the studies requiring ethical committee approval (as board name, date, and issue no). Ethics committee permission certificate must be uploaded to the system as an additional file. Please see the Ethical Principles and Publication Policy of the journal for the studies requiring ethical committee approval.

• Articles are passed through the plagiarism control process through intihal.net software. The similarity rate in the plagiarism detection policy is 20%. 

• The author or at least one of the authors must have a doctor's degree. In articles produced from the thesis, the student must be the first author and the advisor should be the second author.

• For studies with more than one author, the conflict of interest and author contribution rate declaration form must be filled out and uploaded to the system. For Conflict of Interest and Author Contributions Statement click here.

• Turkish, Arabic and English articles can be published in the journal. Just one study of an author can be published in an issue.

• The length of articles should be at least 3000 words and no more than 10000 words (including Turkish and English abstracts and bibliography).

• At the beginning of the article, there should be Turkish and English Abstracts consisting of 250-300 words, at least 5 Turkish and English Keywords, Turkish and English titles and bibliograpy.

• In the abstract, the topic and method of the research should be stated, findings related to the topic should be included, and results should be mentioned. In the part of Turkish Abstract/English Abstract, main methodological framework should be stated such as topic, scope, importance, aim, and method of the research, but obtained results and bibliography should not be mentioned. Turkish Abstract/English Abstract should be written in a single paragraph. In the part of Turkish Abstract/English Abstract, for spelling proper names (religion, sect, person, surah, and so on), book name, and terms that are not Turkish, the usage in the Religious Foundation of Türkiye Encyclopaedia of Islam (see https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr) should be followed. For spelling proper names, book names, and terms in the English texts (abstract and keywords), the 3rd edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam should be considered.

• Journal of Kocatepe Islamic Sciences suggests using Zotero, Mendeley, or Endnote in terms of international coherence in article writing.

• The article can be written using the article template or existing text is imported into the template. Studies that do not use an article template will not be evaluated.

• The citation system used in articles should be in accordance with the Isnad Citation Style 2nd version (with footnotes). Click here for the Isnad Citation Style. For Arabic Isnad Citation click here.

• The article is reviewed once for compliance with the journal's writing principles, and if the requested changes are not made, it is rejected and will not be processed again in the same publication period.

Template features

Page numbers should not be used.
Margins: top and bottom 4 cm, left and right 3,5 cm.
Abtract and Öz: special indentation none, spacing before and after 0 pt, line spacing single, font size 10 pt.
Text:  special indentation first line 1 cm, spacing before and after 3 pt, line spacing single, font size 10 pt.

Footnote: special indentation hanging 0,5 cm, spacing before and after 0 pt, line spacing single, font size 8pt.
Bibliograpy: special indentation hanging 1 cm, spacing before and after 0 pt, line spacing single, font size 10 pt.
Text fonts should be in Cambria Font for Turkish and English, Tradational Naskh for Arabic