PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE AUTHOR GUIDELINES

FILES REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION

The mandatory and optional (supplementary) files expected to be uploaded by authors via the DergiPark system are listed below:

Anonymous Full Text (Mandatory): This is the full draft text of the work that does not contain any information about the author or institution (including project numbers) in any way. It must include the title, abstract, keywords, main body, and references.

Title Page (Mandatory): This file must include the Title, Name/Surname, Address Details, Institution, City, Country, E-mail, ORCID ID, and Phone Number of all authors added to the DergiPark system. Additionally, the title of the work, abstract (in Turkish and English/German/French), keywords, and JEL codes (if applicable) must be included. If the work is supported by any institution and/or if its abstract has been presented as a paper at a congress/symposium, it must be stated in this document. This title page must be uploaded to the system separately from the article text. No author-identifying information should be written/added to any manuscript file other than this document.

Copyright Agreement Form (Mandatory): PAUSBED does not assume the copyright of the publication in any way. Matters regarding copyright are regulated by the Copyright Agreement Form. The form must be filled out completely, signed by all authors, and uploaded to the system.

Similarity Report (Mandatory): All studies submitted to our journal are processed with a similarity screening report (intihal.net, Turnitin, or iThenticate). DergiPark generates a free similarity report via intihal.net for authors/editors. This report can be used at this stage. However, in addition to the intihal.net report, PAUSBED generates a report once again during the editorial process using Turnitin or iThenticate. Authors may upload a report from their preferred similarity software at this stage.

Ethics Committee Approval Document (Preferable/Conditional): For studies based on surveys and interviews, if an ethics committee approval document is required to establish ethical assurance in scientific periodical publishing, it must be uploaded to the system as a supplementary document. To determine which studies require an Ethics Committee Approval Document, TRDIZIN rules can be reviewed.

Supplementary File (Preferable): Any document related to special circumstances of the study that may need to be conveyed first to the Editor and then to the reviewers can be uploaded to the DergiPark system as a supplementary file.

GENERAL WRITING AND FORMATTING RULES

Manuscripts that do not comply with the writing rules will not be processed at the secretariat stage and will be returned to the author.

In addition to the Intihal.net report generated by DergiPark, authors may obtain reports from other similarity screening systems such as iThenticate or Turnitin and upload them with the study. (As a multidisciplinary journal, PAUSBED refrains from setting a specific limit on the similarity rate. For detailed information, please review the Ethical Principles and Publication Policy page). Based on the Editorial Board's decision, texts with a similarity rate suspected of plagiarism may receive a desk rejection.

Authors must upload the Copyright Agreement Form along with the study. (The form may occasionally fail to open in Google Chrome; please try using a different browser).

To our current and prospective authors: Please do not pressure the editorial team and the journal secretariat to speed up the article processes or to publish articles immediately for Associate Professorship applications. Publishing articles is for contributing to science; publishing articles solely for personal employee rights is not acceptable.

Multiple Submissions: More than one article involving the same researcher as an author cannot be published within the same year. PAUSBED has adopted this decision to maintain publication quality and increase author diversity.

Open Access Policy: PAUSBED adopts the principles of the TUBITAK DergiPark Academic Open Access System and the "Budapest Open Access Initiative". According to these principles, peer-reviewed scientific studies should be freely accessible, readable, downloadable, copyable, distributable, printable, searchable, linkable to full texts, indexable, and usable for any legal purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

License: Authors whose articles are accepted are deemed to have agreed that the information in their studies may be shared with reference, in order to protect copyright and the rights of the journal under the Creative Commons Attribution License. In this direction, PAUSBED applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License for all articles it publishes.

Language and Punctuation Notes

"TURKIYE" Usage: In English articles and titles, the phrase TURKIYE (Turkiye) should be used instead of TURKEY.

Capitalization: In English, there is no capital "İ"; there is "I". Please pay attention to this in the English title of the text and author surnames in the References.

Decimals: Decimal numbers are shown with a comma in Turkish and a dot in English. The percent sign comes before the number in Turkish and after the number in English. (e.g., In Turkey, 20.2% of men are obese.)

FORMATTING GUIDELINES (Template Rules)

1. HEADINGS Section headings such as Introduction, Method, Findings, Conclusion, and References must be written in 11-point font, all uppercase, and Bold, and must be numbered. Section headings should be left-aligned with 6 pt spacing before and after.

1.1. Second-Level Headings: Must be numbered, 11-point, Bold, and left-aligned. Each word in the heading must be capitalized (Title Case) except for conjunctions. No punctuation marks (such as periods or colons) should be used at the end (? excepted). Spacing: 6 pt before and after.

1.1.1. Third-Level Headings: Must be numbered, 11-point, Bold, and left-aligned. No punctuation at the end. Spacing: 6 pt before and after.

1.1.1.1. Fourth-Level Headings: Must be numbered, 11-point, Bold, and left-aligned. No punctuation at the end. Spacing: 6 pt before and after.

1.1.1.1.1. Fifth-Level Headings: Must be numbered, 11-point, Bold and Italic, and left-aligned. No punctuation at the end. Spacing: 6 pt before and after.

2. PARAGRAPHS Paragraphs should have a 0.5 cm indentation. A paragraph must contain at least 3 sentences. Single line spacing with 6 pt before and after should be left between paragraphs.

3. TABLES Tables must be arranged in academic table format. This is defined as a style where vertical lines are not used, and only three horizontal lines are used (top line, bottom line, and the line separating the header row from the data).

Spacing: Single line spacing, 0 pt before and after within the table.

Font: 10 pt.

Alignment: Tables must always be left-aligned.

Statistical Data: Use a maximum of two decimal places (except for p-values). P-values can be given as two or three decimals (e.g., p=0.05 or p=0.001). However, values smaller than 0.001 should be expressed as p<0.001.

4. FIGURES Figures must be left-aligned. Figure captions should be written immediately above the figure, in italics, with only the first letter of the first word capitalized (Sentence case), and should not end with a period.

Example: Figure 1. Figure explanation section (Calibri, 10 pt, Normal)

CITATION AND REFERENCES (APA 7)

5. IN-TEXT CITATION Examples of in-text citation according to APA 7:

Single author: ... (Sönmez, 2007).

Two authors:

Outside parentheses: Tunç and Alim (2006) stated that...

Inside parentheses: (Tunç & Alim, 2006).

Three or more authors: (From the first use): ... (Atakan et al., 2005: 21).

Multiple sources: Separate with semi-colons (;), ordered alphabetically by the first author: (Kurt et al., 2012; Sabah, 2023; Tatar, 2004).

Secondary sources: Aeron (2000, as cited in Salih, 2003)...

6. FOOTNOTES PAUSBED uses the APA 7 citation system. Scientific citations should not be given in footnotes unless necessary. Footnotes should be used for additional information, explanations, and to state that necessary permissions have been obtained for visual/data tools belonging to others.

Format: 8-point Calibri font. Single line spacing with 6 pt before and after.

7. DIRECT QUOTATIONS

a) Short Quotations (1-39 words): Specified within the text with double quotation marks "...", written in normal font (not italic), and must include the page number.

Example: "Always provide the page number when quoting directly..." (APA 7 Manual, 2019, p. 471).

b) Long Quotations (40+ words): Block quotations. Written as a separate paragraph, normal font (not italic), indented 1.25 cm from the left, without quotation marks. The page number is added at the end. The period is placed before the parenthesis containing the page number.

8. REFERENCES SECTION APA 7 rules apply.

* Sort alphabetically by surnames.
* Use a hanging indent of 0.5 cm for the second and subsequent lines.
* Do not separate sources by type (e.g., Books, Articles).
* Avoid bold font in the reference list.
* Italicize book, journal, newspaper, and thesis titles.
* Do not use abbreviations like "Ltd.", "Inc." in publisher names.
* List all authors (not just the first one).
* For English articles, use "&" instead of "ve" and "et al." instead of "ve diğ.".

Reference Examples: (Please format your references strictly according to the structure below)

Book: Newton, I. (1998). Mathematical principles of natural philosophy (A. Yardımlı, Trans.). İdea Publishing.

Book Chapter: Kangallı Uyar, S. G. & Uyar, U. (2021). Title of chapter. In M. Ural & Ü. Aydın (Eds.), Financial Econometrics Applications (1st ed., pp. 309-336). Seçkin Publishing.

Article: McDaniel, S. H., Salas, E., & Kazak, A. E. (2018). The science of teamwork [Special issue]. American Psychologist, 73(4), 51-104. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1495067

Thesis: Miranda, C. (2019). Exploring the lived experiences... (Publication No. 27542827) [Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University]. PQDT Open.

Internet: Schaeffer, K. (2021, October 1). What we know about online learning... Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/...

Conference Paper: Davidson, R. J. (2019, August 8–11). Well-being is a skill [Conference session]. APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, IL, United States.