Moment Journal

Moment Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic journal which has been published biannually in December and June by the Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University. The Journal, which has been published since 2014, aims at making contribution to the broad field of cultural studies with genuine academic works that promise new questions and strong theoretical perspectives on national and international level by featuring articles both in Turkish and English. As an interdisciplinary journal, Moment includes critical studies and discussions in all areas of humanities and social sciences. Moment Journal regards, not only readers with academic interests in social sciences and humanities but also all the readers who have this interest and curiosity, as its audience. Inspired by Gramsci’s concept of “moment”, Moment Journal’s aim is to quest for praxis possibilities for a critical reading of social phenomenons.

Every issue of the journal is based on a certain theme. In each thematic issue, the editorial staff and guest editors work together. Continuation of our journal over the themes is adopted both in terms of increasing the accessibility of information about certain topics and in steering new debates by providing an intellectual basis for the topics which are on the agenda of the academy. No fee is demanded for the submission, evaluation and publication processes of the articles.

The manuscripts submitted to the journal are evaluated in terms of compliance with the editorial principles of the journal, and then presented to the double-blind peer review process at least by two reviewers. It is confirmed through anti-plagiarism softwares that the articles have not been published before and do not contain plagiarism.

Our journal continues publication in accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines and policies of Budapest Open Access Initiative.

PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES

1. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published/scheduled for publishing or at the evaluation process in another journal.
2. Author should denote references for visual and textual original works.
3. Authors are responsible for their articles published in Moment Journal.
4. Republishing of full articles, that are already published in our journal, is liable to Moment Journal's permission.
5. Quoting from the published articles is possible on condition of referencing.
6. Article submission dates are stated in the call for papers for the upcoming issue. Therefore, submissions made after the deadline will not be evaluated.
7. Authors can only submit one article for an issue of the journal.
8. Moment Journal considers any racist, sexist or discriminatory content as hate speech and uses its right to refuse such contents without sending them for review. 
   

INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS

1. Moment is an online journal published biannually with a blind peer review system. Authors will be able to send articles through signing up Moment's online journal system.
2. Submitted manuscripts should be between 6000-8000 words in length (including footnotes and references).
3. Submitted book reviews should be between 1500-3000 words in length (including footnotes and references).
4. Authors are required to send their manuscripts with abstracts (100-150 words). Abstracts should be written in English and Turkish. Authors should also include 5 keywords that are central to the manuscripts.
5. Manuscripts and abstracts should only contain the title of the article.
6. Articles should be sent in 12 pt Times New Roman font, 1.5 spaced on MS Word. (doc / docx). Footnotes should be written in 9 pt and 1 spaced.
7. Footnotes should be at the end of the page, numbered.
8. Order of titles:
   - The main title should be in capitals and bold.
   - Subtitles' only first letters should be in capitals and all bold.
   - Intrasectional titles' first letters should be in capitals and all italic.
   - All the titles should be left aligned and numbered.
9. Paragraphs should be contiguous and 1 tab recessed.
10. If the quotations are short, they should be given in double quotes within the text; if longer, they should be given as block quotes, 1 tab recessed from both left and right. Quotations should be coherent with the main text's font and space. Block quotes should be 1 spaced.
11. For the abbreviations in minuscules, the affixes should be used as pronunciated, for the abbreviations in capitals, the affixes should be used as the last letter's pronunciations.
12. Dates should be mentioned in numbers and apostrophes should be used for the affixes. (e.g. 1950's)
13. Graphics, photographs, charts etc. should be placed appropriately into the text. Such visuals should be numbered as Chart1, Chart2, Figure1, Figure2 etc.
14. Explanatory notes should be given as footnotes, not as endnotes.
15. Authors are required to submit their title and institution information, e-mail adress information into relevant places in the Dergipark system.
16. Authors should not mention their names and institutions anywhere in the manuscript, including footnotes and etc.
17. If the authors use self-references, they should mention it as "The Author" and note the date. No other expression should be noted.

REFERENCING

All the articles should be written accordingly with APA style's sixth edition.
For detailed information, see
http://www.apastyle.org
http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01

Book (One author)

Intratextual reference:

If the name of the author is not mentioned in the text and the book is referred:
(Draaisma, 2007)

If the name of the author is a part of the sentence, publication date should be mentioned in parenthesis:
Draaisma (2007) discusses the metaphorical structures of daily idioms about remembering and forgetting.

If a certain page is to be referenced, the author's surname, publishing date and page number should be given in parenthesis:
(Draaisma, 2007, p. 19)

Book (Two authors)

(Deleuze ve Guattari, 1992)
(Deleuze ve Guattari, 1992, p. 45)

Book (More than two authors)

(Levy et al., 1991)

Secondary Sources

If the author of your reference is quoting from another author, intratextual reference should be such:
(quoted from Foucault in Bernauer, 2005, p. 50)

If the author of your reference is quoting from another author and the name of quoted author is mentioned in the text, intratextual reference should be such:
(quoted in Bernauer, 2005, p. 50)

If the reference is to more than one source, these are mentioned in the same parathesis as such:
(Jones 2011; Biggs 2010; Smith 2009)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Book

One authored books:
Peters, J. D. (1999). Speaking into the air: A history of idea of communication. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

If the same author published more than one book in the same year:
Carlson, N. R. (2007a) Foundations of physiology and psychology. (7. Basım.). Boston, Mass: Pearson Allyn & Bacon.
Carlson, N. R. (2007b) Physiology of behaviour. London: Pearson Allyn & Bacon.

Two or three authored books:
Çaylı, E. and Depeli, G. (2012). İfade özgürlüğünün on yılı 2001-2012. İstanbul: IPS İletişim Vakfı Yayınları.

More than three authors:
Telli Aydemir, A., Doğu B., Özçetin, B., İslamoğlu, G., Bayraktutan, G., Binark, M., Çomu, T., (2014). Siyasetin yeni hali: Vaka-i sosyal medya - seçimden seçime, gezi direnişi'nden hükümet cemaat çatışmasına. İstanbul: Kalkedon.

No author:
Atlas of Anatomy. (2002). Cobham, Surrey: Taj Books.

Compiled book:
Coşar, S. and Yücesan-Özdemir, G. (Ed.), (2014). İktidarın şiddeti. İstanbul: Metis.

Book chapter:
Karabağ, Ç. (2013). Muhalif anlamlardan söylemdeki çatlaklara: 12 Eylül filmlerinin alımlaması. Hakan Ergül (Ed.), in Sahanın sesleri: iletişim araştırmalarında etnografik yöntem (pp. 55-81). İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.

Translated book:
Allen, D. S. (2011). Platon neden yazdı? (A. Batur, Trans.). İstanbul: İletişim.

E-book:
Sadler, P. (2003). Strategic management. Erişim http://www.netlibrary.com/Reader/.

Journal

Article in printed journal:
Tefts, K. and Blacksee, S. (2000). Did you hear the one about boolean operators? Incorporating comedy into library instruction. Reference Services Review, 28 (4), 369-378.

Article in online journal:
Wilson, J. (1995). Enter the cyberpunk librarian: future directions in cyberspace. Library Review. 44 (8), 63-72. Access http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Doi numbered publications:
Van Vugt, M., Hogan, R. and Kaiser, R. B. (2008). Leadership, followership, and evolution: Some lessons from the past. American Psychologist, 63(3), 182-196. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.63.3.182

Other Sources

Newspaper Column:
Sherwood, H. (20th of June 2014). Global refugee figure passes 50m for first time since second world war. The Guardian.

Newspaper Column (Online):
Randerson, J. (26th of February 2008) Researchers find fish that can count up to four. The Guardian. Erişim: 22 Mayıs 2008, http://www.lexisnexis.com/uk.

News text in newspaper (No author):
Exploration of the Coast (24th of November 1987). The Guardian.

Web sites:
Factory Gloom worst since 1980. Access: 21st of October2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7681569.stm

Artworks:
Broom, S. (2002). Daylight [Photographs]. Manor Art Gallery, Manchester.
Cedar, M. (1938). Mars at Night [Sculpture].Manor Art Gallery,Manchester.

TV Series:
Leavitt, Ron ve Moye, M.G. (Author) and Cohen, G. (Director). (1987-1997). Married with children [TV Dizisi]. R. Leavitt and E. L. Fogle (Yapımcı). USA: Sony Pictures Television.

Movie:
Ledoux, P. (Productor) ve Besson, L. (Director). (1994). Léon [Movie]. ABD: Columbia Pictures & Gaumont.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Moment Journal is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to meeting and upholding the following principles of Core Practices prepared in accordance with the guidelines and policies developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for journal editors.

1. Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published, or scheduled and/or evaluated to be published in another journal.
2. Moment Journal adheres to the standards of COPE for publication ethics. Therefore, in cases of misconduct or violation of publication ethics, the journal will take the publication ethics flowcharts developed by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts) as a reference.
3. In accordance with the double-blind peer review process, Moment Journal preserves the anonymity of authors and reviewers when submitted articles are sent for review.
4. It is the journal’s responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of any information regarding authors. However, such information may be shared in a possible enquiry in order to investigate any allegations of misconduct. Moment Journal defines its principles regarding any allegations of misconduct in accordance with the guidelines prepared by the COPE and shares these principles with the stakeholders on its website.
5. Text recycling, that is using the chapters of a single text in various publications of the same author without any reference, is unacceptable for Moment Journal. In such cases, the journal acts according to the relevant guidelines determined by the COPE.
6. Moment Journal protects and supports freedom of expression under all circumstances. Moreover, the journal considers any racist, sexist or discriminatory content as hate speech and uses its right to refuse such contents without sending them for review.
7. In case of a conflict of interest regarding an article, the journal openly supports intellectual and ethical standards; and defines relevant ethical principles that authors, reviewers, editors and theme editors should adhere to.
8. In case of a conflict of interest regarding an article, the journal suspends the peer review process until the ambiguity is clarified; and it has the authority to request the Ethics Board Waiver Form, Interview Consent Form and other documents that need to be submitted from authors regarding their articles.
9. Moment Journal is sensitive and responsible for publishing edited contents, commentaries, apologies and refutations.
10. Editors and publishers of the journal are obliged to follow legal advices in case that repetitions in an article, that is coinciding texts in two different publications, violate any intellectual property rights.

Copyright Regulation and the Conflict of Interest Principle

1. Authors own the copyright of their works, and the right to publish the article for the first time resides in Moment Journal; authors grant permission to the journal to share their works with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and the journal under the principles of the Creative Commons Attribution.
2. Moment Journal considers possible conflicts of interest between its stakeholders to damage the publication ethics. Therefore, the journal defines the liabilities of all stakeholders in order to determine and prevent conflicts of interest.
3. Authors have to sign the Copyright Transfer and the Conflict of Interest Forms and upload them on the system during the submission process.

Principles for Handling Allegations of Misconduct

Moment Journal adopts COPE’s guidelines regarding “allegations of misconduct” in cases of misconduct and violation. Hence, the journal defines in detail the liabilities of the publisher, editors, reviewers, the Scientific Board and authors prior, during and after the publication process in the Publication Ethics.

1. In cases when an article is submitted to various publishers, comparing different versions of a single work submitted to various journals and explanations of authors and enquirers regarding the work in question enables to cooperate and make an effort in cases of suspected misconduct and violation and to act accordingly together with enquirers/authors and/or their institutions.
2. Having regard to the significance of confidentiality in scientific publication process, Moment Journal shares information regarding authors and reviewers only in order to prevent suspected misconducts and to fulfill the obligation to handle such cases.
3. Journal editors and theme editors have to make the first enquiries in suspected cases before sharing such information. Thus, sharing information is only at stake when the author does not respond, provides insufficient explanation or the said allegation of misconduct might affect more than one journal.
4. If required, such information is only shared with editors whom are believed to have knowledge of the subject in question, and the shared information is limited with factual content only.
5. Editors and theme editors guarantee to protect confidentiality of communication to the greatest extent possible.

1. PUBLISHER

1. Moment Journal’s publisher is the Dean of the Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication.
2. The publisher guarantees that the stakeholders maintain the publication ethics principles, that access to the journal’s contents is uninterrupted and free of charge, and that the publications are archived and protected.
3. The publisher is obliged to take the necessary actions to clarify any suspected violations of publication ethics such as misconduct, plagiarism, conflict of interest and text recycling.

2. THE SCIENTIFIC BOARD

1. The Scientific Board of Moment Journal meets at least biannually.
2. Members of the Scientific Board accept the publication ethics principles and policies, and evaluate decisions regarding these principles and policies.
3. They determine themes and relevant editors for each theme.
4. They recommend members for the Scientific Board.
5. They make proposals in order to improve the national and international recognition of the journal.
6. Members of the Scientific Board have to inform editors of the journal to clarify any suspected violations of publication ethics such as misconduct, plagiarism, conflict of interest, copyright infringement and text recycling.
7. They make recommendations of citation indexes in which the journal might be included in order to improve its academic quality.

3. EDITORS

1. Submitted articles are evaluated regardless of authors’ race, ethnicity, gender, worldview and beliefs by the editors.
2. Editors make comprehensive and constructive evaluations of submitted articles.
3. The journal includes writings that do not require a peer review process such as essays and activity reviews. The difference between reviewed publications and the publications that do not require a peer review process is distinctly made clear. If required, editors might make comments and suggestions as to under which category submitted articles should be published, and share them clearly with authors. In such cases, authors and/or editors make the final decision.
4. Editors are responsible for making contact between authors and reviewers during the peer review process. They conduct the process by documenting the whole process meticulously from the date of submission to the date of publication with academic courtesy. If need be, editors feel free to give account of the whole peer review process for each article (provided that they look after the personal rights of authors and reviewers and the journal’s principles of confidentiality).
5. In case that two reviewers present different opinions on an article, editors have to seek the opinion of a third reviewer.
6. Editors should withdraw themselves from their editorial task if they are in conflicts of interest or in relationships that could lead to a conflict of interest regarding articles. Other editors who will continue as editorial staff shall report on the current status of the financial interests or other disputes (which may affect the editorial process) and withdraw themselves from the editorial staff in case of any conflict of interest. The editorial staff should not use any of the information obtained from the reviewed article for personal interest.
7. If editors find errors in a published article, and if this error invalidates the work or its important sections, it’s non-ethical, it contains plagiarism, they withdraw it. In this case the editors are responsible for providing a statement which clearly indicates the withdrawal of the article and an explanation of the reason for the withdrawal, besides, by providing a link which connects two versions, grant access to all readers in online platforms.

4. AUTHORS

1. Authors have academic, ethical and social responsibilities.
2. Authors cannot submit more than one article for the same issue of the journal.
3. Article submission dates are indicated in the call for papers for the upcoming issue. Submissions made after the deadline will not be evaluated.
4. Responsibility for ethical violations such as plagiarism, improper citation, missing a citation, not mentioning the names of grants and supporting institutions rests with the author. In such cases, articles are refused.
5. Authors should state the resources of the work/research support they get in their articles.
6. Authors are responsible for revealing any financial and personal relationships which may cause bias regarding their work when they submit a work in any kind or format. In this context, authors have to sign the Copyright Transfer and the Conflict of Interest Forms and upload them on the system during the submission process.
7. Authors are responsible for the fact that the ideas and expressions of the manuscript they submit for publication have not been used in their previously published works. If these ideas and expressions have already been used, they should be indicated by references in necessary places. Otherwise, the authors are obligated to correct overlapping parts upon the editors’ request or to do their part for publication of a correction if the article has been published.
8. Authors undertake that, submitted manuscripts to Moment Journal have not been previously published, or scheduled and/or evaluated to be published in another journal.
9. Authors should be able to render an account of validity and ethics for each part of the work.
10. If there are multiple authors who contribute to the work, the name order of these authors which has been sent during submission process should be co-decision of the authors.
11. The responsibilities to include only those who have active contributions in the work as authors, not to include non-active contributors among the authors, to sequence the authors, and to provide appropriate justification for any changes in the author sequence while evaluation process is in progress, rest with the author. The author should be able to provide explanation regarding all these matters if it is deemed necessary by the journal editors.
12. If the authors find errors and mistakes after publication of their work, they should immediately notify the editors of the journal so that appropriate action can be taken.
13. Authors cannot publish the same article or part of it in multiple journals without providing an appropriate reason, without permission or cross-reference. Authors are obligated to comply with the license and copyright transfer agreement they have signed.

5. REVIEWERS

1. They adopt double-blind peer review process and fulfill the requirements of it.
2. When a peer review has been requested, they should respond positively or negatively within a reasonable time period.
3. They should reveal if they do not have expertise on the subject regarding the work, or if they are able to evaluate only a part of the work.
4. They should accept carrying out the evaluation within a mutually agreed time period and they should inform in case of delay.
5. Reviewers should reveal to the editors any conflict of interest which may cause bias in their reviews regarding article, and they should refrain from reviewing the article in such cases.
6. Reviewers are responsible for informing the editors when they identify text recycling in a submitted article.
7. Reviewers should not use any information within the article which is about their field of interest, before the reviewed article is published.
8. If they think that they cannot make a fair and unbiased assessment, they should report it.
9. They should refuse to review manuscript if it is very similar to their work which they have been preparing or in the evaluation process.
10. During review;
    - They should inform the journal if they notice a conflict of interest arise, which was non-existent when they accepted peer reviewing.
    - They should keep all the writings and peer reviews confidential.
     -They should ensure that their evaluations are only scientific; they will not be affected positively or negatively due to personal, financial or intellectual bias.
    - They should not make personal comments or unjustified accusations against the author.
    - They should be specific in their critics; for example they should concretize a general statement such as “a previous study”, this will help the editors to act fairly to the authors in the evaluation and decision-making process.
    - They should remember it is author’s work and if the manuscript is written clearly, they should not attempt to rewrite it in the way they choose; but recommendations of clarification of expressions are important.
    - They shouldn’t contact authors directly, without informing the journal.
    - They should recognize the sensitivities that may arise out of writing in another language and express it in a respectful and appropriate manner.
     -They should not recommend to reference works just to be visible or increase the number of referrals of themselves or their colleagues. If a recommendation is made, it should be justified scientifically.
11. After review;
    - They should maintain keeping the work and the evaluation process confidential.
    - In case a situation arises which may affect their comments and feedbacks, they should notify the journal.
    - They should try to respond to requests from the journal for revision and reassessment.

6. THEME EDITORS

1. Theme editors of Moment Journal acknowledge the scientific publication ethics of the journal and fulfill their responsibilities accordingly.
2. Theme editors undertake the responsibilities of publication ethics which are described for the editors of the journal, from call for papers for the issue they prepare until the publication of that issue.
3. The theme editors are obligated to respond to the questions addressed by the journal and share the required documents if necessary under the code of ethics after publication of the issue they are responsible for.
4. Persons are also committed to fulfilling the responsibilities listed above when they accept theme editorship proposal of Moment Journal.

For ethical problems other than the circumstances which have been mentioned above, the guidelines on publication ethics of COPE (The Committee on Publication Ethics) will be taken as a reference. Moment Journal has been a member of COPE since May, 2019.

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

Ethical violations such as plagiarism are unacceptable by Moment Journal and it is primarily author(s)’s responsibility to ensure that submitted articles do not contain such violations.

All submitted articles are examined via Turnitin, and a similarity report is received prior to the peer review process.

If the similarity rate is 20% or more, editors share the results of the report with the author and reject the article without sending them for review.

Open Access Policy

Moment Journal provides open access for a continuous and free use of its content in order to produce beneficial results for humanity by increasing the global exchange of information. Therefore, all the articles published by the journal are available at https://dergipark.org.tr/moment/archive and http://www.momentjournal.org/index.php/momentdergi/issue/archive

In this context, Moment journal accepts, within the open Access definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and on condition that proper citation of references are provided in accordance with scientific ethics and rules, that the peer-reviewed and published scientific literature can be accessed, read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, scanned, linked to the full texts, indexed, transmitted as data to software, and used for any legal purposes via internet without any financial, legal and technical obstacles.

Moreover, all authors whose articles are published in the journal are deemed to have accepted open source access and the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

Moment Journal gives authors the only restriction authority on the reproduction and distribution of published articles and the only copyright role in this regard.

No fee is demanded for the submission, evaluation and publication processes of the articles.