Article Preparation
Language: Turkish, English
The journal is published in Turkish (Türkiye) and English.

Accepted Article Types: Research Article, Review Article, Book Review, Compilation, Technical Note, Thesis Abstract, Conference Paper, Short Communication, Translation, Case Presentation, Interview, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis, Short Report, Monograph, Clinical Research, Photo-Quiz, Letter to the Editor, Note, Conference Summary, Law Review, Decision Review, Correction, Editorial, Biography, Bibliography, News, Report, etc.
We recommend that authors include Turkish and English abstracts whenever possible to help disseminate their work. In the case of research and review articles written in Turkish, it is mandatory to provide an expanded English abstract, in addition to the initial abstract, following the references.

Article Format: Word (doc/docx)
Citation Style: APA 7

Authorship Changes: Changes in authorship are only processed before the article is accepted. Authors should carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their articles and provide the definitive author list at the time of the original submission.

Writing Rules
Please first check the "article template." When there is a conflict between the Writing Rules and the article template, the current article template is valid. This template can be found on the "About" section of our journal's homepage. 

* 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 15% without a bibliography and below 30% with a bibliography, the refereeing process will be started. Otherwise, it will be returned to the author. This rule does not apply to publications derived from the thesis, provided that the decision of the chief editor is valid.

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 5000 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 7.0 (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.
*** Journal of Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Political Sciences accepts and declares that it complies with the ethical rules for each published article and evaluates it accordingly.

Citation Style
Articles should be prepared according to the APA 7 Citation System. In the field of science, either APA 7 footnote or in-text citation system can be used, depending on which one is commonly used. APA 7 Guidelines

Final Checklist
It is hoped that this checklist will be useful during the final check of the prepared article before it is uploaded to the journal system.

Please ensure that the following items are present on a separate title page for all authors:
1. Author information is added
- ORCID number
- Email address
- Author's title
- Author's affiliated institution information
- Full and, if possible, institutional information and city information of the institution
- Phone number (for the corresponding author)
2. All required files are uploaded.
- Full article text
- Similarity Report (Although a report is requested, the editorial board always obtains the similarity report for each work. This section is important for testing the validity of the honesty protocol between the author and the journal.)
- Copyright Notice Text
- Title page (containing author information)
- Necessary tables and graphics (should be uploaded separately from the full text)
3. The article has undergone "proofreading" and "grammar check."
4. All references mentioned in the bibliography are cited in the text, and vice versa.

Submitting the Article
In submissions, the account of the corresponding author should be used. All correspondence related to the submission is sent to the corresponding author via electronic mail through the journal system.
When uploading the article file, ensure that it does not contain any elements that would disclose the author's identity, due to the double-blind peer-review process.
Files Must to Upload Separately:
1. Full Article Text
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Noctice Text
4. Similarity Report

Author Commitment during Submission
1. I am authorized to submit this work to your journal or have been authorized by co-authors.
2. The article is original, has not been officially published in another peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration by another journal, and does not violate any existing copyrights or other third-party rights.
3. I agree that if the article is editorially accepted for publication, it will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
4. The copyright and intellectual property rights of the author(s) or the employer of the author(s), if any, are reserved. The author(s) acknowledge that the publisher has no responsibility for any claims or lawsuits arising from copyright infringement, and that all responsibility lies with them.
The author(s) guarantee that there are no criminal elements or illegal statements in the article, and that no illegal materials or methods were used in the research.

Author GuidelinesAuthor Guidelines
Author Responsibilities and Contributions

Authorship and Contribution
Authorship should be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study. All individuals who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Those who have contributed very little, such as language editing, should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the article and have agreed to its submission for publication. Authors are expected to carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their articles and provide the definitive author list at the time of the original submission. In exceptional cases, the editor may consider adding, removing, or rearranging authors after the article is submitted, but all authors must agree to such additions, removals, or rearrangements. Authors share joint responsibility for the work.

Requests for Author Changes
Changes to the list of author names can only be made before the article is accepted and only if approved by the journal's Editor. If such a change is requested, the Editor will ask the corresponding author to provide written consent (email) from all authors stating (a) the reason for the change in the author list and (b) their agreement to the addition. The Editor will only consider adding, removing, or rearranging authors after the article is accepted in exceptional cases.

Writing the Article
Authors of original research articles should address the topic with originality and objective discussion. The article should contain sufficient detail and references to allow others to reproduce the study. Deceptive or knowingly false statements are unethical and unacceptable.

Originality
Authors must ensure that the article is original, has not been published elsewhere, is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and does not violate any existing copyrights or other third-party rights. However, the journal does not rely solely on the author's statement, and it is not to be expected from authors. The journal's editorial board always obtains a similarity and originality report for each work. If the program used by the author(s) to generate the originality report produces different results from the program used by the editorial board, the editorial board informs the author(s) of the results using a second similarity program. Appropriate action is taken depending on the similarity percentage.

Use of Original Sources and Citation
Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works and, if they have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, should not be used without the express written consent of the source.

Data Access and Preservation
Authors may be required to provide the research data supporting their articles for editorial review and/or to comply with the journal's open data requirements. Authors should be prepared to provide access to such data, if possible, and to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication. Our journal recommends that research data be uploaded to TUBITAK's Aperta Portal.

Multiple and Simultaneous Publication
An author should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously is unethical. Authors should not submit previously published articles except in abstract form.

Publication of Survey and Interview-Based Studies
For all research in all disciplines that requires ethical committee approval (ethical committee approval must have been obtained, this approval should be mentioned in the article and documented), the information related to the approval (committee name, date, and number) should be included in the method section and also on the first/last pages of the article. In case presentations, information about obtaining informed voluntary consent/consent form should be included in the article.

Conflict of Interest
Conflict of interest refers to any financial or other interests that could interfere with a person's objectivity, significantly compromise their objectivity, or provide an unfair advantage to any person or organization. Authors should disclose any sources of financial support for the conduct and preparation of the research and the role of the sponsor. If there is no source of funding, this should also be indicated. Examples of potential conflicts of interest to be disclosed include consultancies, employment, grants. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed as early as possible.

Error Reporting
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor. The author must cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the article when necessary. If the editor or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error or inaccuracy, it is the obligation of the editor to work with the author to retract or correct the article.

Image Integrity
Altering, enhancing, moving, removing, or introducing a specific feature in an image is unacceptable. Authors should adhere to the journal's policies regarding graphic images.