AUTHOR’S GUIDELINES
• Submitted works should be written using MS Word program in Garamond and follow the order indicated below.
• Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal’s author guidelines will not be considered for review.
• All submissions are subject to plagiarism screening, and manuscripts found to involve ethical violations will be rejected. The journal adheres to international standards of publication ethics.
• For papers with multiple authors, a statement of contribution and a conflict of interest declaration must be submitted by the authors during the submission process.
• If the paper is derived from a thesis or a project, or if it was presented as a conference paper, this must be clearly stated on the first page of the manuscript.
• At the time of submission, if the study was supported by any institution, organization, or funding source, this support must be clearly stated. Additionally, if there are individuals, institutions, or organizations to be acknowledged, the relevant information must be clearly included in the manuscript.
• If AI-based tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly, etc.) were used during the article production process, the specific stages in which they were utilized must be clearly indicated. This information must be provided at the time of submission. All responsibility regarding the use of AI rests with the authors.
• Our journal requires that all scientific research requiring ethics committee approval obtain the necessary approval from the relevant ethics committee. In accordance with the regulations implemented by ULAKBİM TR Index effective in 2020, studies without ethics committee approval will not be considered for review. Research requiring ethics committee approval includes qualitative and quantitative studies that involve collecting data from participants through methods such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, and discussions, as well as retrospective studies evaluated under the Law on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK). Authors must clearly state the name of the ethics committee, the approval date, and the decision number in the text of the article.
• The authors are legally responsible for the articles published in the journal.
1. Title: The title must be written in 16 point capital letters and centered. There must be 6nk space between the sub-headings and paragraphs.
2. Affiliation: The Author’s name(s) must written in 11 point and appear below the title on the right hand. An asterisk footnote (*) following the last name should provide the author’s affiliation and correspondence e-mail, ORCID number, city and country information, written in 10 point.
Example: *Prof. Dr., Ankara University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History, e-mail: xxx@xxx.edu.tr, ORCID: 0000-0000-0000-0000, Ankara/TÜRKİYE.
3. Abstract: Works apart from book reviews, translations and news must include abstracts of 150-300 words in both Turkish and English and placed after the title. The abstract must be set in 10 point type.
4. Keywords: The Turkish and English abstract should be followed by 4-6 keywords.
5. Main Text: The main text of the article must be written in 11 point, single-spaced. Pages must be numbered and have the following margins: Top –Bottom: 5.6 cm; Right–Left:4.5cm; Paragraph indent 0,75; 6nk space between paragraphs.
Articles should generally be no more than 10.000 words in length (plus figures and tables).
Authors of larger manuscripts should contact the Editor for advice.
6. Quotations: Quotations must be enclosed in quotation marks. Citations up to two lines should be integrated into the text in italics. Quotations longer than two lines must be set as a separate paragraph, indented 1 cm from both left and right margins, formatted as a block with single line spacing, and written in 10-point italic font.
7. Section Titles: Section titles may be used to provide an orderly flow of information in the article. Section titles must be written in 11-point bold, and the first letter of each word in the title must be capitalized.
8. Tables and Pictures: Tables must be numbered and titled. Table numbers must be at the far left and non-italic. The title must be in italics with the first letter of each word in the title capitalized. Tables should be placed in the body of the text.
Pictures must be high resolution (300 dpi). Pictures must be numbered and have a caption. Diagrams, tables and pictures must not exceed one-third of the total space of the article.
9. Footnotes: Footnotes should be written in 10pt. In-text footnote citations must follow punctuation. The first time a work is cited in a footnote, the full citation must be given. Subsequently, the citation may be shortened. If the work to be cited in the footnote is exactly the same as the work cited in the footnote immediately before it (with no intervening footnotes), you may use ibid. or ibid. with a page number.
For instance:
A) Book:
1- Halil İnalcık, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klâsik Çağ (1300–1600), Tr. Ruşen Sezer, YKY, İstanbul 2003, p. 12.
2- İnalcık, Klâsik Çağ, p. 14.
3- İnalcık, ibid., p. 577.
B) Article, Encyclopedia Entry, etc.:
1. Article
If the journal features both volume and issue numbers, they should be formatted as volume/issue number.
1- Halil İnalcık, “Osmanlılarda Raiyyet Rüsûmu”, Belleten, XXIII/92, 1959, p. 575.
2- İnalcık, “Osmanlılarda Raiyyet Rüsûmu”, p. 577.
3- İnalcık, ibid., p. 577.
If only the issue number is available, use the abbreviation "No."; if only the volume is available, use "Vol.”, as demonstrated in the following examples.
1- İlber Ortaylı, “Ottoman Family Law and the State in the Nineteenth Century”, OTAM, No. 1, 1990, p. 323.
2- Ortaylı, “Ottoman Family Law”, p. 325.
3- Ortaylı, ibid., p. 326.
2. Encyclopedia Entry
- Halil İnalcık, “Adâletnâme”, DİA, Vol. 1, İstanbul 1988, p. 346.
3. Online Encyclopedia Entry
1- Tülay Ercoşkun, “Ayşe Sabiha Gökçül Erbay (1900-1998)”, Atatürk Ansiklopedisi, ATAM Yayınları, July 2022, p. 2, https://ataturkansiklopedisi.gov.tr/detay/892/Ay%C5%9Fe-Sabiha-G%C3%B6k%C3%A7%C3%BCl-Erbay-(1900-1998) (Access Date: 03.05.2025).
2- Ercoşkun, “Ayşe Sabiha Gökçül Erbay”, p. 2.
3- Ercoşkun, ibid., p. 2.
4. Article in an Edited Book
1- Mehmet Seyitdanlıoğlu, “Tanzimat Dönemi Osmanlı Sanayii”, Tanzimat, ed. Halil İnalcık-Mehmet Seyitdanlıoğlu, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 5th Edition, Ankara 2015, p. 715.
2- Seyitdanlıoğlu, “Tanzimat Dönemi Osmanlı Sanayii”, p. 718.
3- Seyitdanlıoğlu, ibid., p. 719.
C) Thesis
1- Merve Cemile Sönmez, Osmanlı Devleti ve İtalya Krallığı Arasındaki Diplomatik İlişkiler (1870-1909), Ankara University Graduate School of Social Sciences, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Ankara 2023, p. 78.
2- Sönmez, İtalya Krallığı, p. 80.
3- Sönmez, ibid., p. 95.
D) Archive Documents
For documents obtained from the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Directorate of State Archives, the abbreviations “BOA” should be used for the Ottoman Archives and “BCA” for the Republic Archives. The document date may be included in the citation.
1- BOA, C. ADL., 53/3203.
2- BOA, HAT, 39/1978, 3 R 1215/24 Ağustos 1800.
3- BOA, MAD, no. 1206, s. 26, 14 Şevval 1067/26 Temmuz 1657.
10. Works Cited: Only cited works should be listed in the following format:
A) Book
İNALCIK, Halil, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Klâsik Çağ (1300–1600), Tr. Ruşen Sezer, YKY, İstanbul 2003.
B) Article, Encyclopedia Entry, etc.
İNALCIK, Halil, “Osmanlılarda Raiyyet Rüsûmu”, Belleten, XXIII/92, 1959, p. 575-610.
Encyclopedia Entry
İNALCIK, Halil, “Adâletnâme”, DİA, Vol. 1, İstanbul 1988, p. 346-347.