Journal of Medeniyet Art

Medeniyet Art is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal published twice a year in digital in June and December. The journal's languages are in Turkish or English. There is no charge for the publication of the articles. Medeniyet Art has an open-access policy that allows all concerned parties to access all the articles published through the DergiPark platform.

Publishing Conditions and Writing Rules for Journal of Medeniyet Art

Medeniyet Art is an internationally peer-reviewed journal. It is published at least twice a year, in June and December.

Publishing Conditions

Articles written in Turkish and English languages are published in the journal.

Research articles, review articles, and articles of an investigative nature submitted for publication in the journal must not have been previously published elsewhere.

It is a requirement that the articles to be published in the journal adhere to writing and grammar rules. Articles that comply with these rules are evaluated by two separate referees. In case one referee's opinion is positive and the other's is negative, a third referee is consulted. A minimum of two positive referee opinions is required for the publication of articles. Authors may be asked to make abbreviations and/or corrections based on referee opinions. Articles are published in sequence after receiving positive referee opinions.

The copyright of the articles published in the journal is transferred without compensation to Istanbul Medeniyet University by the author(s). For this purpose, authors must declare the transfer of their copyright by signing the "Copyright Transfer Agreement" form.

Opinions expressed in the published articles and the responsibility for these opinions belong to the author(s).

In translated articles to be published in the journal, the translator must obtain written permission from the author of the work and/or the person or institution holding the copyright, and submit this permission document to the editorial board.

In one issue of the journal, multiple articles by the same author cannot be published.

All submitted articles to the journal must be accompanied by a similarity report. Articles with a similarity rate exceeding 15% are not published according to journal rules. Moreover, the similarity rate of individual sources should not exceed 3%.

Writing Rules

1. Articles should be written in Microsoft Word.
2. Text should be written in Arial font, size 11, with single spacing. For page layout, top margin should be 3 cm, bottom margin 2.5 cm, right margin 2.5 cm, and left margin 2.5 cm, and each page should be numbered.
3. Quotations and references throughout the text should be prepared in accordance with the APA-6 format.
4. The length of your articles, excluding abstract, references, and footnotes, should be between 3000 and 7000 words.
5. The number of images used in your article should not exceed 15. Images should be included both within the text and separately in a high-quality file (300 dpi, jpeg, tiff, or pdf formats).
6. The main title of the article should be left-aligned, in bold, size 12 font (with Initial Caps for Each Word).
7. The order of publication should be: Turkish title, followed by English title, Turkish abstract, and English abstract.
8. Below and to the left of the title, the author's affiliation and email address should be provided in size 10 bold font.
9. The author's affiliation and contact email should be provided at the bottom of the page in Arial font, size 8, and italicized. An asterisk (*) should be used in the footnote to indicate the insertion of this information. Additionally, the ORCID number of each author should be included.
10. Abstracts written in both Turkish and English should be between 150-250 words, in Arial font, size 8.
11. The abstract should cover the purpose, methodology, and results of the study and should provide sufficient information about the content of the article.
12. Keywords should be listed below the abstract in italics and font size 8. The number of keywords should be a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5. Only the first letter of each keyword should be capitalized. The words "Anahtar Kelimeler" and "Keywords" should be in bold.
13. There should be a single line space between the abstract heading/other headings and between paragraphs throughout the text.
14. The article text should begin from the second page.
15. All headings in the text, except for "Introduction" and "References," should be numbered and in bold. All heading levels should be in size 11 font. First-level headings and subheadings should follow the rule of "Capitalizing the First Letter of Each Word." Headings should be left-aligned and without indentation.
16. Images without tables (photographs, drawings, diagrams, graphics, maps, etc.) should be referred to as "Figures." Titles (sequential number and description) should be given to both tables and figures. Table titles should be placed above, while figure titles should be placed below. Table and figure titles should be centered, in Arial font, size 11, and bold. Only the first letter of each word in the title should be capitalized. There should be a 6 pt space after the table title.
17. Possible source information for tables or figures should be indicated within the text. Additionally, all tables or figures used in the text should be listed under a separate heading "VISUAL REFERENCES" in the references section, following APA-6 citation style. For instance:
Figure 1. Bache, I. (2010). Europeanization and multi-level governance: EU cohesion policy and preaccession aid in Southeast Europe. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 10(1), pp. 1–12.
Figure 2. ___________
Figure 3. ___________
Images should be referenced and formatted according to APA-6 standards under the "VISUAL REFERENCES" heading in the references section.
18. Tables should be cited within the text.
19. Self-created images (photos, drawings, illustrations, etc.) should be indicated next to the image's name in parentheses. (Photo from the author's personal archive or the illustration is based on data from …)
20. In tables, both horizontal and vertical headers should be in bold, while other values in the table should be in normal font.
21. Only headings should be in bold within the text. Therefore, important and emphasized points should be indicated in italics.
22. Items listed with bullet points in the text should be designated with Roman numerals for items of significance (i, ii…x) and with • for items without a specific order of importance.
23. If an explanation in footnotes refers to a source, it should be added following proper source citation rules.
24. If an additional source is to be provided within the text for further information, it should be indicated as a footnote. For these footnotes, after writing "See:", the complete source reference (in accordance with APA-6 citation style) should be provided. Furthermore, the sources provided for additional information should be listed in the "References" section at the end of the article.
25. In publications derived from theses, a footnote should be added.
26. The text should be justified on both sides.
27. If the same author has multiple sources, all source citations should include the surname to form the source entry. The same author's publications in the same year should be coded as a, b, and the older publication should be listed first.
28. The references section should be written in Latin script.

Note: Articles that do not adhere to these rules will not be considered for evaluation and will be directly rejected.

In scientific articles sent to the journal, ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations and COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) International Standards for Editors and Authors should be taken into consideration.

1- Studies requiring questionnaire or scale application, including interviews and observations; documents, pictures, questionnaires, etc., developed by others and requiring permission to use require the Ethics Committee's permission. For research conducted in all disciplines, including social sciences and ethics that require a committee decision, ethics committee approval must be obtained separately, and this approval must be specified and documented in the article. In the absence of these permissions, the publication is returned to the author during the pre-review phase.

2- In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the permission (name of the board, date, and number) should be included in the method section and on the article's first page. The information that the informed consent form was signed should be included in the article in the reports.

3- It is necessary to comply with copyright regulations for the intellectual and artistic works used.

4- It is obligatory to submit the raw data of the researches that are in the referee evaluations when requested by the referees. It is obligatory to provide the data when necessary after the publication of the article.

Candidate articles should be sent with the originality report taken from the academic similarity prevention program (For example, ithenticate, plagiarism.net, etc.). This rate is accepted up to 15%. Studies with a similarity rate of over 15% will be returned at the pre-check stage.

1- The authors guarantee that their work is original, and when they include other researchers' ideas, language, pictures, graphics, and tables in their work, they must cite it. Quotations without specifying the source are the reason for plagiarism.

2- Each author mentioned in the study is equally responsible for the content of the study. It is unacceptable that the researcher's name is not included or the name of the researcher is unfairly included even though he/she contributed to the study.

3- Authors must stay true to the findings of their research. Changing findings, making up findings and conclusions, and conducting research based on them is out of the question. Situations such as tampering, deletion, removal of data and materials, or skipping the interpretation of data that are difficult to handle are trust-breaking.

4- It is not possible to send the work simultaneously to journals. Authors cannot send previously published work to the journal.

1- Referees should know that the evaluation process is confidential and should not be shared with third parties.

2- Referees should submit an objective, impartial, scientific, understandable, and constructive evaluation report about the study within the specified time.

3- The referee reports will also include assessing the scientific nature of the article (subject matter, a method used, or appropriate use of the relevant literature). This evaluation must be made about the content, whether positive or negative.

4- When it is understood that the work is plagiarized or has been published elsewhere before, the referees should report the situation to the editor.