Research Articles
Aim & Scope
Rahva Journal of Technical and Social Studies aims to make an important contribution to the literature in these fields by publishing original and scientific studies in the fields of Technical and Social Sciences at national and international scale.
In the fields of Technical and Social Sciences, research and review articles in Turkish and English are published, as well as short papers that explain important results and findings about a research and describe it with an innovative method or technique. Research articles are expected to be based on theoretical and empirical results. In review articles, on the other hand, it is expected to convey the subject in a deep way by using a wide bibliography on a particular subject. The studies submitted to our journal should not have been published in any journal before and should not have been submitted for evaluation to any journal for publication.
Writing Rules
Our journal organizes articles according to the rules of APA 7 (2020) and demands that the studies be prepared according to the latest APA format. Accordingly, in-text and end-of-text bibliography samples that we use in our journal will be obtained according to the rules in the link below and applied according to the writing language of the article.
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples#textual-works
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
For articles and papers sent to our journal with a request for publication, at least two referees who are experts in their fields are consulted on format, content and method. Articles and papers that are decided to be published in line with the positive opinions of the referees are sent back to their authors for final checks. If a negative opinion is received from at least one referee for the article or paper in question, the article or paper is sent to another referee for evaluation. In case of editorial errors, the correction will be published. No fee is paid to the authors for the articles published in the journal. Studies submitted for publication in our journal should be prepared in accordance with ethical rules. References in the text must be specified in accordance with the journal writing rules. The upper limit of acceptable similarity rate for the studies in question is 20%. The publication period of our journal is 2 issues per year.
Price Policy
Rahva Journal of Technical and Social Studies adopts the Open Access policy and no fee is charged by the journal.
