Journal of Logical Studies (Mantık Araştırmaları Dergisi, MAD) is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in October. MAD aims to publish and share with the public original scholarly works of national and international academic quality. It focuses primarily on logic but also includes contributions in all areas of philosophy, such as research articles, book reviews, and symposium evaluations.

Journal of Logical Studies (Mantık Araştırmaları Dergisi, MAD) is a scholarly journal in the field of philosophy, with a primary focus on Logic, History of Logic, and Philosophy of Logic. Articles submitted for publication undergo a double-blind peer review process by at least two reviewers. In addition, each submission is checked for originality and plagiarism using specialized detection software to ensure that the work has not been previously published and does not contain any plagiarized content. Articles must include an abstract of 200 to 250 words. Once peer review is complete, articles in Turkish also add an extended English abstract of at least 750 words. Details are given in the Author Guidelines.

Manuscripts submitted to Journal of Logical Studies (Mantık Araştırmaları Dergisi, MAD) are prepared according to the rules below. These rules apply together with the journal's publication policy and ethical principles.

1. General Principles

• MAD is an international peer-reviewed journal based in Kayseri, Türkiye. It is published annually (once a year), but special or supplementary issues may be released when necessary.
• MAD is an academic journal primarily focused on Logic, and also covers Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Philosophy of Religion. It publishes scholarly articles, interviews, translations, review essays, and similar academic works.
• Uploading a scholarly article, interview, translation, or review essay to the journal's online system is considered an official submission and initiates the peer-review process.
• The languages of publication of MAD are Turkish, English, and Arabic.
• Submissions must not have been previously published elsewhere. Conference papers may be accepted only if the prior presentation is clearly indicated in the article.
• MAD is an exclusively electronic journal and does not publish in print.

2. Copyright and License

Authors retain the copyright of works published in MAD. Works are published under CC BY-NC-ND. Authors bear full legal responsibility for the content of their work.

At submission, the Copyright and License Agreement signed by all authors is uploaded as a “Copyright Form” file. Details are given on the Open Access and Copyright Policy page.

3. Title, Abstract and Keywords

The first keyword indicates the discipline to which the article belongs. In articles written in Turkish, the extended English abstract is placed after the bibliography, in the Extended Abstract section that begins on a new page. This section is ready in the template for articles in Turkish. Articles written in English have no extended abstract and are prepared on the Article Template for articles in English.

Manuscripts that do not meet these requirements are not published, even if they have passed peer review.

4. Submission and Peer Review

• Peer review is blind. The full text therefore contains no information that identifies the author. The imprint box, the author name in the running head and the declarations in the template are left as placeholders.
• The names, titles, affiliations, e-mail addresses and ORCID iDs of the authors and the declarations are given in the Title Page form. The form is uploaded as a “Title Page” file during submission and is not sent to reviewers. The editor adds this information to the article after peer review.
• Authors refer to their own works in the third person. Before uploading, personal information is removed from the document properties with Word's “Inspect Document” command.
• The editor or assistant editors review the manuscript for compliance with publication and formatting guidelines. Articles that pass this stage are assigned to at least two reviewers from different institutions who are experts in the relevant field.
• Manuscripts are submitted from the author's personal dashboard, accessed with the registered email address and password. Authors track the review of their submission on the same dashboard.

Only one revision is allowed. Authors should therefore not upload any revised version until reports from all reviewers have been received.

5. Author and Reviewer Registration

When registering as an author or reviewer for MAD, all required fields must be completed. In the “Biography” section, the author's or reviewer's areas of research and interest must be listed. In the “Department” field, the main discipline followed by the sub-discipline should be specified (e.g., Philosophy and Religious Studies / Logic).

6. Page Layout

Manuscripts are prepared in Microsoft Word on the journal template. The styles of the template carry the following settings:

• If the article uses a special font that is not standard in Microsoft Word, the font file must be submitted alongside the article.
• The running heads, margin text and page numbers of the template are not changed. The editor sets them at the publication stage.
• Except where content-specific needs require otherwise, the Turkish Language Association's (TDK) orthographic and punctuation guidelines must be followed.

7. Citation and Bibliography

Articles follow the footnote version of the ISNAD Citation Style, 2nd edition. Every article ends with a bibliography, under the heading BIBLIOGRAPHY (KAYNAKÇA in articles written in Turkish), listing all works cited in the footnotes in alphabetical order of the authors' surnames. Surnames are not written in capitals.

Articles written in Turkish use the Turkish forms of the abbreviations (çev., 18. Basım). Cases not covered by these examples follow the ISNAD guide.

8. Articles in Arabic

In articles written in Arabic, the title, abstract, keywords and bibliography are also given in Latin script. Arabic works in the bibliography are written in Latin script according to the transliteration system used by the journal. This also applies to references to works in Arabic script in articles written in other languages.

9. Headings, Tables and Figures

Headings have at most three levels, and headings of the same level are formatted the same way throughout the article. Tables and figures are numbered separately (Table 1, Figure 1). Table captions are placed above the table and figure captions below the figure. The source of any table or figure taken from another work is given below the caption.

10. Article Types

MAD publishes research articles, translations, book reviews, symposium reports and interviews. The type of each contribution is stated in the table of contents and on its first page. Book reviews begin with the bibliographic details of the book reviewed.

11. Declarations

If generative AI was used, the statement required by the AI Policy is also given in the Title Page form.

12. Review and Publication Process

The review stages, reviewer criteria and target timelines are described on the Peer Review and Publication Process page, and the ethical rules in the Publication Ethics and Policy.

Journal of Logical Studies (Mantık Araştırmaları Dergisi, MAD) follows the Core Practices and flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) at every stage of the publication process, including COPE's international standards for editors, authors and publishers. The journal also complies with the Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics of Higher Education Institutions in Türkiye. These principles bind authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members and the publisher.

All work published in MAD must have been prepared in accordance with research and publication ethics. Authors confirm this at submission, and the confirmation is printed in the declarations of the published article. The use of generative AI tools is covered separately on the journal's AI Policy page.

1. Publication Policy

2. Responsibilities of Authors

• Submissions must be original. They must not have been published before and must not be under review elsewhere. Work developed from a conference paper is accepted if this is stated in the text.
• Ideas, data, text and images taken from others must be cited. Material reused from the author's own earlier publications must be cited as well.
• Copyright law must be respected for all intellectual and artistic works used. Scales, questionnaires, photographs, maps and similar material owned by others are used only with the permission of the rights holder, and this permission is stated in the article.
• Only those who made a scholarly contribution to the work and take responsibility for it are listed as authors. In multi-author work, each author's contribution is stated in the declarations, by role and by percentage. Once review has begun, adding or removing an author or changing the order of authors requires a justified request to the editor, approved by all authors.
• Authors must be registered with an ORCID iD.
• At submission, authors provide statements on research and publication ethics, originality, author contributions, ethics committee approval, funding and conflicts of interest. These statements, together with any acknowledgements, are printed in the published article under the heading “Declarations”, before the bibliography. Submissions with missing statements are not reviewed.
• Authors provide the ethics committee approval and any other permissions obtained for the research when the editor asks for them.
• Authors who discover a significant error in their published work must inform the editor promptly and cooperate with the editor on a correction or retraction.

3. Responsibilities of Reviewers

• Reviewers decline an invitation and inform the editor if they have a competing interest with the author or if the manuscript falls outside their expertise. Close collaboration at the same institution, a joint project, a supervisory relationship and family ties are examples of such interests.
• Manuscripts under review are confidential. Reviewers may not share them with third parties, use them in their own work or upload them to AI tools.
• Reviewers' identities are not disclosed to authors, and reviewers do not try to identify authors.
• Reviews do not take into account the author's identity, institution, beliefs or opinions. A review is not limited to formal checks. Reviewers assess the research problem, the method, the consistency of the argument, command of the literature, use of sources and the contribution to the field, and they write their criticism in a reasoned and respectful way.
• Reviewers submit their reports within the time set by the journal (15 days) and notify the editor in advance if they need more time.
• Reviewers who recognise the author, or who suspect plagiarism, fabricated data or duplicate publication, report this to the editor.

4. Responsibilities of Editors

• Editors base acceptance and rejection on the scholarly quality and originality of the work, its fit with the journal's scope and the reviewers' reports.
• Editors choose qualified reviewers from different institutions and make sure that reviewers have no competing interest with the author.
• Editors maintain double-blind review. They do not share information about submissions with anyone other than the author, the reviewers and the editors handling the manuscript, and they do not use manuscripts under review in their own research.
• An editor with a competing interest in a submission withdraws from it, and the submission is reassigned to another editor. Submissions by editors and editorial board members go through the same review process, handled by an editor with no connection to the author.
• For research that requires ethics committee approval, editors make sure that approval was obtained before the research began and ask for the approval document when necessary.
• If the reviewers disagree, the editor obtains the opinion of a third reviewer or makes a reasoned decision after assessing the reports.
• Editors keep reviewer reports and review records for at least five years after publication.
• Editors investigate and resolve allegations of misconduct following the COPE flowcharts.

5. Responsibilities of the Publisher

Erciyes University, the publisher of the journal, respects the independence of the editors and does not interfere in editorial decisions. It provides the resources needed for the journal to be published regularly, archived and kept accessible. It works with the editors when allegations of misconduct are investigated.

6. Similarity Screening

Submissions with a similarity rate above 20%, excluding the bibliography and properly marked quotations, are returned to the author without review.

Every submission is screened with iThenticate during the initial check. A rate below this limit is not sufficient on its own. The editor reads the report in detail and may also return a submission that shows heavy overlap with a single source, uncited borrowing or repetition of the author's earlier published texts. Similarity reports are kept with the review records.

7. Ethics Committee Approval and Other Permissions

For research that requires approval, the name of the committee and the date and number of the approval are stated both in the section describing the method and in the declarations of the article. For case studies, the article states that informed consent was obtained. If the research was carried out in an institution, such as a ministry, a school or an archive, the permission obtained from that institution is also stated. For research that does not require approval, the ethical status is nevertheless stated explicitly.

8. Conflicts of Interest, Funding and Acknowledgements

Authors declare all financial and personal relationships that could affect the results or interpretation of their work. For work supported by a project, grant or institution, the funding statement names the funder and, where applicable, the project number. If there is no conflict of interest or funding, this is stated explicitly. People who contributed to the work but are not listed as authors are named in the acknowledgements.

9. Research and Publication Misconduct

In suspected cases the editor asks the author for a written explanation and follows the COPE flowcharts. If misconduct is established, a submission under review is rejected and a published article is retracted. Where appropriate, the author's institution is informed.

10. Corrections and Retractions

If an error that does not affect the conclusions is found in a published article, the journal publishes a correction notice. If an error invalidates the findings or conclusions, or if misconduct has been established, the article is retracted in line with the COPE Retraction Guidelines. Retracted articles are not deleted. They remain available, marked “retracted” and accompanied by a notice explaining the reason. While an investigation is under way, the editor may publish an expression of concern to alert readers.

11. Appeals and Complaints

Authors may appeal an editorial decision with a reasoned letter within 30 days of being notified. Appeals go to the Editor-in-Chief, who reviews them with an editor not involved in the original decision and may seek an additional review. The outcome is communicated to the author with reasons and is final.

Complaints about the publication process or a published work, and reports of misconduct, should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief through the address on the journal's Contact page. The identity of the person making the report is kept confidential.