Author Guidelines
A) General Information
• Sakarya University Journal of Education (SUJE) is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality articles on social sciences.
• SUJEis a journal published 3 times a year in April, August and December.
• One article per year of each author is published. With the approval of the editorial/advisory board, this number can be increased to two articles in a year, once a year in a routine issue and once a year in a special issue. This rule is not changed depending on the number of authors.
• The language of the articles can only be English.
• The percentage of similarity in articles should be less than 15% overall and 3% similarity rate from a single source excluding references.
• The number of articles published in routine issues of SUJE in a year and whose authors are Sakarya University staff members cannot exceed 30% of the total number of articles of that year. This rule cannot be changed depending on the number of authors. Having only one Sakarya University staff member in the article is sufficient for the article to be included in this rule. In special issues of SUJE, this rule is determined according to the relevant issue and the total rate in routine issues is not taken into account.
• 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.
• Ethics committee approval must be obtained for all studies on clinical and experimental humans.
• Manuscripts to be published must be sent via the “Submit Article” page.
• SUJEis a journal published 3 times a year in April, August and December.
• One article per year of each author is published. With the approval of the editorial/advisory board, this number can be increased to two articles in a year, once a year in a routine issue and once a year in a special issue. This rule is not changed depending on the number of authors.
• The language of the articles can only be English.
• The percentage of similarity in articles should be less than 15% overall and 3% similarity rate from a single source excluding references.
• The number of articles published in routine issues of SUJE in a year and whose authors are Sakarya University staff members cannot exceed 30% of the total number of articles of that year. This rule cannot be changed depending on the number of authors. Having only one Sakarya University staff member in the article is sufficient for the article to be included in this rule. In special issues of SUJE, this rule is determined according to the relevant issue and the total rate in routine issues is not taken into account.
• 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.
• Ethics committee approval must be obtained for all studies on clinical and experimental humans.
• Manuscripts to be published must be sent via the “Submit Article” page.
B) Information to Authors
1. Manuscripts have to be sent to our journal through DergiPark with creating an account from DergiPark. There is a template file for manuscripts to be submitted to SUJE located bottom of this page. Submitted candidate manuscripts should be prepared according to APA7 rules. Apart from this, the paper size of the candidate manuscripts should be standard A4 and 2 cm margins from all edges. The font should be "Cambria", line spacing should be 1,15, and paragraph spacing should be "0 nk" before and "6 nk" after the paragraph. The title of the article should be written at the very beginning of the candidate article in 12 pt, only first letter of all words capitalized, left-aligned and bold. Abstract and keywords should be given after the title of the article. The abstract should be maximum 300 and minimum 150 words. At least 3 and at most 5 English keywords should be written under the abstract. The bibliography should be written according to APA7 style. All other rules are specified in the template.
2. There should not be any information about the author(s) in the manuscripts submitted to SUJE journal. If there should be any description about the submission, it should be stated in the section of “Note to the Editor”. There is no need to upload a similarity report (plagiarism). The report will be received by our journal during the preliminary review phase. Details can be found on the "Ethical Principles and Publication Policy" page on our website.
3. The length of the manuscript should be in the range of 5000-10000 words, including appendices and bibliography. After revision, up to 12000 words are acceptable.
4. TRDİZİN stated that the date of the meeting where the ethics committee permission was obtained and the issue number of the relevant article should be stated in the method section of the article in studies that require ethics committee approval. This information will be added to the home page and last page of the article by the typesetting manager after the article is accepted for publication. Ethics committee reports should be uploaded to the journal with wet signature or electronic signature, and additional documents should be provided if requested by the journal officer.
5. In accordance with TRDizin criteria and SAU Journal Commission decisions, the information in the "Copyright Agreement and Author Acceptance Form" below must be filled in and signed by all authors of the article in the article application. In the author contribution section on the title page, percentages should not be written, and statements such as "all authors contributed equally" should not be stated. The contributions of the authors should be clearly written.
C) Template
Please use the template below while submitting your manuscript for double-blind review (Author information or information identifying the authors should not be included in the article file.)
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/30051
Please use the template below while submitting your manuscript for double-blind review (Author information or information identifying the authors should not be included in the article file.)
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/30051
* Please Click for Template of Copyright Agreement and Author Acceptance Form
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/27778
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/27778
Note: If any editor sends an article to the SUJE, 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 (There should be no information belonging to the authors. This file will be sent to the referees in accordance with the double-blind refereeing policy)
2- Copyright Agreement and Author Acceptance Form
3- 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 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. If the manuscript is one of the articles that does not require an ethics committee report mentioned in the previous sentence, this situation should be explained in a Word document and this file should be uploaded instead of the ethics committee document.
Note: The author does not need to submit the similarity report in new manuscripts submitted to the journal. Plagiarism check will be carried out by the journal secretariat by iThenticate software. References and appendices are not included in the plagiarism check.
2- Copyright Agreement and Author Acceptance Form
3- 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 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. If the manuscript is one of the articles that does not require an ethics committee report mentioned in the previous sentence, this situation should be explained in a Word document and this file should be uploaded instead of the ethics committee document.
Note: The author does not need to submit the similarity report in new manuscripts submitted to the journal. Plagiarism check will be carried out by the journal secretariat by iThenticate software. References and appendices are not included in the plagiarism check.
