Academic impartiality and scientific quality are important criteria in the evaluation of articles submitted for publication. Therefore, the International Standards for Editors and Authors of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) should be taken into account in scientific articles submitted to the Sakarya University Faculty of Law Journal (SLJ).

General Information

• SLJ is a peer-reviewed journal published since 2013 and indexed by ULAKBİM TR DİZİN.
• SLJ is a journal published twice a year in July and December
• The language of the articles can be Turkish or English.
• The percentage of similarity in articles should be less than 20% excluding references.
• Article applications are not accepted via e-mail.
• The referee process is not initiated for articles that do not comply with the writing rules of the journal, without footnotes, bibliography, preface or abstract. The Editorial Board may take a decision for special cases. Click for the writing rules of the article.
• Manuscripts to be published must be sent via the “Submit Article” page.

NOTE: If any editor sends an article to the SJL, the editor's access to the editorial panel is prevented. The editor follows all processes as a writer. After the process is completed, the editorial authority is given to him again.

Required files to be uploaded when submitting an article:
1- WORD document of the article prepared by considering the spelling rules (Author(s) information, name and surname, Orcid(s), responsible author, e-mail(s) must be found.)

Non-essential files that must be uploaded when submitting an article:
1- It is recommended to upload a plagiarism report to the system.
2- If necessary for the study, the approved version of the Ethics Committee Permit must be uploaded to the system. In addition, this approval (name of the board, date and number) should be stated in the "Article Information Form" at the end of the study and in the method section. Ethics committee permission is requested for all kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants by using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, and interview techniques, regardless of when the study was conducted.