Journal of Political Science

The journal aims to contribute to the social science literature by providing an intellectual platform for original research that adheres to scientific standards. 

The journal publishes original research and review articles as well as book reviews that are written in the Turkish, English and French languages in the field of political science, public administration, international relations and local governments. Special issues of the journal are edited by guest editors and focus on a specific topic.

Manuscripts are accepted in the Turkish, English and French languages.

For special issue proposals, the editors of the journal should be directly contacted via e-mail.

Manuscripts including the bibliography and appendices should be between 6,000-8,000 words for research and review articles, and 2,500 words for book reviews and editorial letters.

Manuscripts should be prepared with 12-point Times New Roman characters and 1.0 line spacing.

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal via the DergiPark system: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/marmarasbd

The name of the author(s) should be written right below the title of the manuscript (right aligned). The name, institution, e-mail address and ORCID of the author(s) should be indicated with a separate footnote to be inserted at the bottom of the first page.

Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title, author(s), abstract, keywords, main text and references.

Manuscripts should include an English (or French) abstract in addition to a Turkish abstract (200-250 words) that summarize the objective, scope, main findings and methodology.

Manuscripts should include at least five keywords both in English (or French) and Turkish.

Articles that are written in the Turkish and French languages should additionally include an "extended abstract" (800-1,000 words) in the English language which indicate the objective, scope, methodology and main findings of the research. The executive summary should be placed at the very end of the manuscript.

U.S. punctuation and spelling should be used throughout the manuscript.

Manuscripts should be divided into clearly defined and numbered sections.

If necessary, author(s) should submit a statement obtained from the research ethics committee or institutional review board indicating their approval of the research.

References

For references, the APA (author-date) system should be used in the manuscripts: author’s surname, publication year, and page numbers should be provided in parantheses. For sources taken from the internet, the name of the website should be used instead of the author’s surname. Examples: (İnalcık, 2002, p. 201); (İçduygu & Keyman, 1998, pp. 157–170); (Amnesty International, 2018); (BBC Türkçe, 2023); (TRT Haber, 2021).

For sources without a publication year, “n.d”. should be used. Examples: (Brittanica, n.d.), (Ministry of Foeign Affairs, n.d.).

For references to the different publications of the same author published in the same year, the sources should be indicated as a, b,c… Examples: (İnalcık, 2002a, p. 201); (İnalcık, 2002b, pp. 26–50).

The list of references should be placed in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript in accordance with the examples provided below.

Books

Single author: Arato, A. (2000) Civil Society, Constitution and Legitimacy. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Two authors: Parla, T. & Davison, A. (2004) Corporatist Ideology in Turkey: Progress or Order? New York: Syracuse University Press.

More than three authors: Ratha, D. et al. (2021) Recovery: COVID-19 Crisis through a Migration Lens. Washington: KNOMAD-World Bank.

Edited Books

Eisenstadt, S., ed. (1992) Democracy and Modernity. Leiden: Brill.

Journal Articles

Single author: Kalaycıoğlu, E. (2011) The Turkish–EU Odyssey and Political Regime Change in Turkey. South European Society and Politics 16(2), 265-278.

Two authors: Wood, R. M. & Gibney, M. (2010) The Political Terror Scale (PTS): A Re-introduction and A Comparison to CIRI. Human Rights Quarterly 32(2), 367–400.

More than three authors: Gleditsch, N. P. et al. (2002) Armed Conflict 1946- 2001: A New Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 39(5), 615–637.

Without a volume number: Kalın, İ. (2008) Turkey and the Middle East: Ideology or Geo-Politics? Private View, no. 13, 26–35.

Online Journal Articles

Toal, G. & Eroğlu, D. İ. (2024) The Many Semantic Lives of Geopolitics: Evidence from the New York Times Archive 1900-2023. Geopolitics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2411331.

Articles in Edited Books

Arato, A. (2019) Populism, CCs and Civil Society. In C. Landfried (ed.), Judicial Power: How CCs Affect Political Transformations (318–341). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Aydın-Çakır, A. (2023) Court-curbing through Legal Reforms or Coercion? In R. M. Howard, K. A. Randazzo & R. A. Reid (eds.), Research Handbook on Law and Political Systems (8–24). Cheltenham & Northampton: Edgar Elwar Publishing.

Unpublished dissertations

Köse, M. (2014) The Evolution of the Separation of Powers in the Turkish Republic: The Case of the 2010 Constitutional Referendum [unpublished MA thesis]. Istanbul: Boğaziçi University.

Akkoyunlu, K. (2014) The Rise and Fall of Hybrid Regimes: Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey [unpublished PhD dissertation]. London: London School of Economics.

Articles in newspapers

With author: Neubauer, C. (2006) Thousands Rally to Stop the Violence in Darfur. The Los Angeles Times, May 1.

Without author: The New York Times (2011) Putin Criticizes West for Libya Incursion. April 26, 2011.

Conference Proceedings

Adaman, F., Akbulut, B. & Avcı, D. (2012) Polanyi Meets Gramsci: Explaining Local Environmental Conflicts. Presented at the 12th International Karl Polanyi Conference, Buenos Aires, November 2012.

Internet Sources

With author:

Hirsh, M. (2023) How AI Will Revolutionize Warfare. Foreign Policy, April 11. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/11/ai-arms-race-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-military-technology/ (Accessed: 30.10.2023).

Arato, A. (2017) How We Got Here: Transition Failures, Their Causes, and the Populist Interests in the Constitution. Public Seminar, October 11. http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/10/how-we-got-here/ (Accessed: 20.10.2023).

Without author:

Bloomberg (2024) Centuries-Old Principality Set to Become IMF’s Youngest Member. April 16. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/centuries-old-principality-set-to-become-imf-s-youngest-member (Accessed: 19.06.2024).

World Bank (2019) World Development Indicators 2019. https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators (Accessed: 18.04.2024).

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (2016) The 13th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of The People’s Republic of China. https://en.ndrc.gov.cn/policies/202105/P020.210.5277858.001.03339.pdf (Accessed: 11.11.2023).

For other sources, please see: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf. 

Marmara University Journal of Political Science upholds a strong set of publication ethics to ensure the integrity and credibility of the research that is published in accordance with the principles of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). 

The journal ensures that the submitted manuscripts are judged on their merits regardless of the author's race, religion, nationality, sex, political view, seniority or institutional affiliation. The journal's policies are prominently displayed on the journal's website.

Authors should present an objective discussion of the significance of their research as well as sufficient details and references in order to enable other researchers to replicate the experiments. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements in the manuscripts are unacceptable. Review articles should also be objective, comprehensive and accurate. Authors should ensure that their work is original. In case the work(s) of other researchers is used, this should be appropriately acknowledged in the manuscript. Plagiarism is unethical and unacceptable. Similarly, submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal is unethical and unacceptable. The corresponding author should ensure that the co-authors approve the final version of the paper as well as its submission for publication. Authors should also make sure that there is no conflict of interest in their submissions. They should obtain the approval of the “Ethics Board/Committee” for clinical and experimental studies conducted on humans and animals (including opinion polls, surveys, interviews, observations, experiments, focus group studies). This approval should be clearly stated and documented in the article (board’s name, date and issue number). They should make sure that their submissions comply with the copyright regulations (especially for tables, graphs, illustrations, pictures, photographs).

Reviewers should treat the manuscripts they receive for review as confidential documents. They should not use the original information or ideas that are presented in the manuscripts for their own personal advantage. They should conduct their reviews in an objective manner, and suggest their revisions in a clear and understandable way in order to help the authors improve the manuscript. They should notify the editors if they think they are unqualified to review the manuscript or if they believe they cannot review the manuscript in a reasonable amount of time. They should not accept to review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest.

Editors should evaluate the manuscripts on the basis of their academic merit regardless of the author's race, religion, nationality, sex, political view, seniority or institutional affiliation. They should not use unpublished information in their own research without the written consent of the author(s). They should also take adequate measures to address ethical complaints that could be presented with regard to a submitted manuscript.

The journal applies no-charge policy, which means that there is no charge for submission, publication or management for the authors.