Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Dergisi

NECMETTİN ERBAKAN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL INFORMATION (NEU SBF Journal) is an international peer-reviewed journal published in print and electronically in June and December, free of charge, open to access, in line with the principles of double-blind arbitration, and taking into account the ethical rules.

The journal includes publications based on original research in the fields of Social Sciences. The publication languages of the journal are Turkish and English, and an extended abstract in English should be included if the article is written in Turkish. If the article is written in English, no extented abstract is necessary. 

Please Check "article template" first

* After the article is uploaded to the system, it will be checked by the editorial office using the plagiarism scanning program, and if the similarity rate is below 10% without a bibliography and below 30% with a bibliography, the refereeing process will be started. Otherwise, it will be returned to the author.


1. Publication languages ​​are Turkish and English.


2. Studies should include the following sections:


• Title, full names of the Author(s) and their institutions, contact information, article title), Turkish Abstract, key concepts, English abstract and key concepts,


• Main article text,


• References,


• Appendices, tables, figures.


3. Turkish abstract consisting of 150-250 words and Turkish keywords of 3-5 words at the beginning of the article; Turkish title should be included.


4. The English abstract should be between 150-250 words, and the English abstract and 3-5-word English keywords should be included.


5. For articles written in Turkish, the Extended English Abstract of the article should also be attached. This broad summary should be between 750-1500 words and an English title should be included. The title of the article should also include subheadings and all references. The Extended Abstract section can also be submitted after the work is accepted for publication. In this case, the work should be submitted without writing the Extended Abstract section, preserving the existing formatting. Proofreading of the long summary is the responsibility of the author. Articles whose abstract is insufficient in terms of language will not be published until language validity is achieved.


6. Turkish abstracts (including extended abstracts) will not be written for works whose language is English.


7. Abstracts should include the purpose, scope, method and brief conclusions of the article.


8. The works should be done on A4 paper size, leaving 2.5 cm margins from the top, bottom, right and left.


9. Studies to be sent to the journal must be written in MS Word processor and must be in .doc or .docx format.


10. Articles should be at least 3000 and maximum 10,000 words (excluding Extended abstracts), and book reviews should be an average of 1000 words. It is imperative that the number of words in book reviews should not be less than 1000 words. However, the eligibility of articles with more than 10,000 words is decided by the editorial board.


11. The letters of the words in the main title should be written in capitals, Cambria should be 16 pt, bold.


12. A maximum of two subtitles should be used; The second title should also be italicized.


13. The name of the author should be written in the upper right corner, one line below the title, in Cambria 12 pt; author(s) title, place of duty and e-mail address and ORCID number or link should be given as footnotes (8.5 points). Footnotes for other explanations should be numbered in the text and at the bottom of the page.


14. Abstracts should be Cambria 10 pt.


15. Main texts should be Cambria 11 pt.


16. Paragraph spacing should be 6 pt and line spacing should be 1.0.


17. The first line indent should be 0.5 cm.


18. Footnotes should be Cambria 8.5 points.


19. Double quotes (“…”) should be used in direct quotations.


20. Figures, pictures, graphics and tables should be numbered. Under the names of figures, pictures and graphics; The table name should appear above the table. Text and numbers in figures, pictures, graphics and tables should be written in 10 points.


21. Graphics must be openable in Windows MS Word, graphics and tables must be numbered.

22. Tables, figures, pictures and charts should be sized to fit the page of the journal. If necessary, they can also be written in smaller fonts and single line spacing.

23. Photos should be in .jpeg format and of sufficient size and at relevant places within the text.


24. APA 6.0 (http://www.apastyle.org/) style should be used in the bibliography of the referenced works.


25. For citations from the Internet, the guide published by Harvard University can be used http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf


26. Articles should be uploaded to the DergiPark site


Address: http://dergipark.org.tr/neusbf


27. Authors should be given page, size, line spacing, paragraph, citation, reference, etc. An article template that can help with technical issues is available in the appendix. The texts that are not prepared in accordance with this template will be sent back to the author without being included in the refereeing process and the authors will be reminded that the text should be prepared according to this template.

* It should be stated in articles that ethics committee approval is obtained for studies such as surveys and experiments conducted on humans and/or animals that require ethical committee approval. In addition, it must be documented by uploading documents to the system.

In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the method section and also on the first and last pages of the relevant article. In case reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article. In addition, for the intellectual and artistic works used, it is necessary to comply with the copyright regulations and when a work is sent under the title of book evaluation, it should be ensured that the full tag of the book is included on the last page of the article, as well as the reference to the book.

** Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of the Faculty of Political Sciences accepts and declares that it complies with the ethical rules for each published article and evaluates it accordingly.

Separate ethics committee approvals are requested in our journal for clinical and experimental studies on humans and/or animals that require an ethics committee decision.

Studies without ethics committee approval are not included in the evaluation process in our journal. It is also not considered appropriate to be published.

In addition, in terms of ethical rules, the recommendations and guides developed by the Commitee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Council of Science Editors (CSE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) within the scientific framework is based.

All stakeholders are expected to bear ethical responsibilities within the scope of publication ethics of the Journal of the Faculty of Political Sciences of Necmettin Erbakan University. In this context, NEU SBF Journal undertakes to follow the Code of Conduct and Principles of Transperency and Best Practices prepared by the COPE (Publications Education Committee).

It is within the scope of the editors' duties to monitor the Cope Guidance for Editors; Journal referees must also follow the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.

The requirements for uploading ethics committee approvals to the system and how they should be included in the article are also included in the writing rules section of our journal. In the specified section, ethical rules regarding matters requiring copyright are also stated in our journal.

For each study in our journal, at least two referees are applied for blind refereeing.

Similarity reports are strictly taken into account. While the evaluation process was started for those whose similarity rate was below 15% before 2021, the issues related to the similarity rate as of 2021 were further detailed; It has been stated that the evaluation process will start only for the studies with a similarity rate of less than 10% without reference and 30% with bibliography.

Information on the above-mentioned issues is included both in the information on the home page of our journal and in the writing rules.

Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of the Faculty of Political Sciences accepts and declares that it complies with the ethical rules for each published article and evaluates it accordingly.

Necmettin Erbakan University Journal of the Faculty of Political Sciences (NEU SBF) does not charge any fees for the submission, evaluation and publication of the articles. Authors do not pay article processing fees for the studies they send to the journal. All expenses of the journal are covered by Necmettin Erbakan University.