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. Two separate referees evaluate articles that comply with these rules. 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 to publish 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 are expressed in the published articles, and the responsibility for these opinions belongs 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.

Multiple articles by the same author cannot be published in one journal.

A similarity report must accompany all submitted articles to the journal. 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, the top margin should be 3 cm, the bottom margin 2.5 cm, the right margin 2.5 cm, and the left margin 2.5 cm, and each page should be numbered.
3. Quotations and references throughout the text should be prepared in 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 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. The author's affiliation and email address should be provided in size 10 bold font below and to the left of the title.
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 provide sufficient information about the article's content.
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. "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 called "Figures." Titles (sequential number and description) should be given to 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 the APA-6 citation style. For instance:
Figure 1. Bache, I. (2010). Europeanization and multi-level governance: EU cohesion policy and pre-accession 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 archive or the illustration is based on data from …)
20. In tables, horizontal and vertical headers should be bold, while other values should be in regular font.
21. Only headings within the text should be in bold. Therefore, essential 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 (by 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.