Dear Researchers,

Before sending your article to J-LER, carefully review the general rules, article writing rules, and templates, similarity report, ethics committee approval, and declaration form.

a. General Rules

J-LER is published as an e-journal three times a year in March, July, and November. Therefore;

1. There is no first or last date for submitting an article to our journal.

2. There is no page limit in the number of articles to be published in the journal issues.

3. Article writing rules and author declaration forms are given in the attached files. Please, fill them by reading carefully. Acquire the article similarity report. Upload all of them to the system together with the article.

4. Each submitted article is pre-screened. Studies that contain block citations, do not conform to the citation rules, are not original enough, have little contribution to the field, are not related to educational sciences and field education, and do not have ethics committee approval are rejected. The editorial board of the journal may return the articles to their authors when it deems necessary, and these studies will not be re-evaluated.

5. Completing the review process as soon as possible is among our priorities.

6. In each issue, two articles are included that are produced from oral presentations and theses, but explanatory information must be included in these studies.

7. For research conducted in all scientific fields, including social sciences, if the study involves work on clinical and experimental humans and animals, an ethics committee approval must have been taken, specified in the study, and uploaded to the system along with the article. The phrase "This article has been approved by the Ethics Committee" will be added to the study that has uploaded an Ethics Committee Approval document.

8. You can track your article through our emails. It is possible that the emails we send may fall into the spam/junk/unwanted mail folder, so please be aware of this.

9. For any communication regarding the process, you can write to editor@sead.com.tr. We will definitely contact you as soon as possible. Please do not try to communicate with use through third parties.

10. No fee is charged to initiate the peer-review process or to publish articles in our journal.

b. Article Rules and Template

Manuscripts in Turkish and English to be submitted to J-LER should be prepared according to submission guidelines. Also, authors must use the article template below.


1. Page Layout
A4 Vertical, Margins (Normal) (3 cm from 4 sides). While creating the text, top and bottom 6 pt should be selected from the paragraph text box in the word program. Line spacing should be 1.5. Use the template below for the page layout.

2. Font
Turkish and English main headings should be written in 16 points Calibri, sub-headings in Calibri 11 points, abstract, abstract and keywords in Calibri 10 points with single line spacing, the text in Calibri 11 points with 1.5 line spacing.

3. Article Sections
Research and review articles sent to the journal should include titles such as " Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and Suggestions, Bibliography and Appendices”. Details about each section are explained in the article template in Turkish and English. Read them carefully and apply them.

Makale Şablonu (Dil: Türkçe ve İngilizce)

Manuscript Template (Language: English)

a. Similarity Report

By the agreement made by the Dergipark system with Intihal.net, our journal has approved receiving the similarity report through the system. A similarity report will be prepared while the authors upload their articles to the system, and after the similarity report is prepared, the article submission steps will be completed. The resulting file will be sent to the author by e-mail by the system.

In articles submitted to J-LER, If it will be taken by the author; a similarity report must be obtained and uploaded to the relevant section of the Dergipark system according to the following rules.

1. The similarity report is prepared by the author using similarity programs such as Turnitin, iThenticate and uploaded to the relevant section of the Dergipark system along with the article.

2. When creating a similarity report, only the following settings should be used: "Exclude Bibliography" and "Exclude sources that are less than: 5 words".

The following principles apply when reviewing similarity reports:

1. Studies that have more than 15% similarity throughout the entire work or more than 3% similarity from a single source are not considered for preliminary evaluation.

2. The manuscript is returned to the author with the necessary explanations.

3. Manuscripts with a similarity rate below 15% are checked in terms of;

- Whether the source cited at the end of each quoted sentence is checked. (In some cases, a quotation consisting of 4-5 sentences is made and the source is only cited at the end of the last sentence. In such cases, the quoted expression should be placed in quotation marks and shown in italics)
- Whether the source is cited for sections where similarity is found. (In some cases, a source may not be cited even though a quotation is made)
- Whether the similarity is from the main source or a different source, (as in some cases, a quotation may be taken from a different source and referenced to the main source rather than the source)

4. Whether there are block quotations in the study, if the references to sections where similarities are found are not made, or if the similarity belongs to a source other than the main source and there is no reference to the source. In such cases, the manuscript is not evaluated.

5. The preliminary evaluation process of manuscripts that pass these reviews is completed.

6. Authors are solely responsible for any ethical violations.


b. Ethics Committee Approval

The following ethical rules are expected to be followed in articles submitted to J-LER.

For all articles, except for the compilation type, that will be submitted for publication in all journals indexed in TR DİZİN (Turkish Academic Network and Information Center's Index) in 2020 and under evaluation, as per the decisions taken by the relevant committees of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM TR DİZİN, the authors are required to;

1. State and document on the final page and methodology section of the candidate article that ethical committee approval was obtained for research requiring data collection through methods such as scales, questionnaires, interviews, and observations (ethics committee name, decision date and number),

2. Include information in the article that informed consent was obtained and signed,

3. Present evidence in the article that ethical principles were followed in the data collection process (such as obtaining permission to use scales, questionnaires, and documents from others),

4. State in the article that research and publication ethics were followed.

To declare that the rules are complied with by the author(s), the form below must be filled out and uploaded to the system.

Ethics Committee Approval Form

c. Declaration Form

The following declaration form is filled out and uploaded to the system for articles submitted to the Journal of Limitless Education and Research.
J-LER Declaration Form