The text submitted for publication may not be previously published or accepted for publication by another publisher. 

Papers may not exceed 6000 words, excluding abstract, summary, and footnotes.

The language of OKSİDENT is English and Turkish.

The editorial board peruses the submitted paper with regard to both form and content before sending it on to referees. They may also consider the views of the advisory board. After the deliberation of the editorial board, the submitted paper is sent to two referees. If the paper is rejected by one of them, it is sent to third referee. In order for any paper to be published, at least two of the referees must approve it. The revision and improvement demanded by the referees must be implemented in order for a paper to be published. Authors are informed within the process about the decision regarding the publication of their papers. The authors have to take notice of referees' report. The authors assume the responsibility of the paper with regard to the style, content, scholarly value and legal aspects. The editorial board reserves the right to accept or reject the text. The texts submitted to the journal are not returned, even if they are not accepted for publication. The published texts of the authors could be removed from publication in accordance with the decision of the board. They could not be withdrawn from the journal without the decision of the board.

The copyright fee is not paid for the texts.

According to publication standards of the journal, texts to be considered for publication must be uploaded in "word" file format without specifying name and surname, after being a member of OKSİDENT, by paper sent button. The texts submitted for publication should be written in A4 size with white space at the top, bottom, right 4 cm and 5 cm from the left side with at least 12nk line spacing, two sides, without line hyphenation and 10 points Palatino Linotype font. However, the submitted tables, figures, pictures, graphics and etc. should not exceed 12X17 cm in order that they will not go beyond the edges of the page and will be for easy usage. Therefore, smaller points and single space could be used in tables, figures, pictures, graphics and etc.

 The MECRA Citation Style is highly required in footnotes and references. 

Papers will be tested in that are subjected to plagiarism detection program (iThenticate), whether they contain plagiarism or not.

The information below must be given: The title of the paper, the name and surname of the author, his/her title and institution and ORCID number must be specified. Besides, information of the author (e-mail address) must be given completely. 

OKSİDENT does not require any fee for article submission, and processing or printing charges from the authors. 

THE PERIODICAL RANGE AND TIME

July and December

FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY REFERENCING STYLE

OKSİDENT highly requires the authors to use the MECRA Citation Style. For more information you can visit the website

http://mecra-sistemi.blogspot.com/

and download the handbook and templates from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZvoiIrCKlewSr93iW7b9FlUVNX4gbli/view