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.
• Manuscripts to be published must be sent via the “Submit Article” page.
1. The text of the articles must be prepared in accordance with the Journal Article Template. The text of the book reviews should be prepared according to the SLJ Book Review Template. Grammar rules must be complied with in the articles.
2. Scientific studies submitted to the journal for publication must be in the fields of public law, private law and financial law and must not have been previously sent for publication elsewhere.
3. In the articles to be sent to the journal, only the First Letter should be Capitalized, "Abstract" and "Keywords" should be included in English, and Only the First Letters of the words in the keywords should also be Capitalized and separated from each other with commas (see also
Journal Article Template)
4. Indented paragraphs should not be included in the text, all paragraphs should be left aligned.
5. In the articles to be submitted to the journal, the author's name should be given under the title of the article on the first page, the academic title, the university, faculty and department where the author is working, the author's institutional e-mail address and ORCID number should be included respectively, formed with the symbol ( * ) next to the name (see also
Journal Article Template).
6. The text of the article should be written in Cambria font and 11 pt font, 1.15 line spaced and justified. Introduction and Conclusion should not be numbered (see also
Journal Article Template)
7. The heading symbols to be used in the articles should be created as shown below, respectively.
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.
I. FIRST DEGREE SUB-HEADING
A. SECOND GRADE SUB-HEADING (A, B)
1. Third Degree Subchapter (1, 2)
a. Fourth Degree Subchapter (a, b)
AA. Fifth Degree Subchapter (aa, bb)
ah. Sixth Degree Subchapter (aaa, bbb)
aaa. Seventh-Degree chapter (aaaa, bbbb)
8. References in the text regarding the sources used should be given as footnotes at the end of each page. Footnotes should be written in Cambria font, 9 pt, 1 line spaced and justified. Footnotes should be added to the end of the relevant page as sequential numbers. Citations in articles should be made in accordance with the ISNAD 2nd Edition citation system. For examples of citations, the ISNAD 2nd Edition-Annotated Online Manual should be viewed at
https://www.isnadsistemi.org/en/guide/isnad2-2/isnad-author-title-system/ (Valid for articles submitted after 1 July 2022.)
10. Articles to be submitted for publication must include an English abstract of at least 100 and at most 250 words and an Extended Abstract of 750-1000 words.. The articles are also required to include an English title and not less than 5 keywords in English (see also
Journal Article Template).
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.)
2-Sakarya University Faculty of Law Journal
Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgement of Authorship FormNon-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.
