The Journal of Selcuk University Social Sciences Institute

1. The journal is a peer-reviewed scientific publication of the Social Sciences Institute of Selcuk University and is published 3 times a year (April, August and December). Research in the field of Social Sciences is included in the journal.

2. Works to be published in the journal must not have been previously published in any scientific journal. Furthermore, works to be published in our journal must not have been presented or published as abstracts or full texts at any conference, symposium, or scientific meeting.

3. The language of article writing in the journal is Turkish and English. Spelling and punctuation are based on the latest edition of the TDK Spelling Guide. Submitted articles must be clear and understandable, in accordance with scientific criteria in terms of language and expression.

4. In the studies to be sent to our journal, an Ethics Committee Decision should be taken, stating that "all kinds of research conducted with qualitative or quantitative approaches that require data collection from the participants using survey, interview, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview techniques", before starting the study, and after that, the study is allowed. work must be completed. Articles should include a statement about compliance with Research and Publication Ethics.

5. For studies requiring ethics committee approval, information regarding the approval (committee name, date, and approval number) must be included in the Methods section and on the last page of the article. In case reports, the article must include information confirming that an informed consent form has been signed.

6. Articles are on A4 size (210 x 297 mm) vertical paper; 3.5 cm from the top and bottom edges, 2.5 cm from the right and left edges. It should be written in “Garamond” character, 11 points, with spaces left and justified; The entire text (including references and extended abstract) should not exceed 10,000 words.

7. Articles submitted to the journal must be written in Microsoft Word. The title of the work should be in capital letters and bold, centered in 16-point Garamond font. The type of work (research/review) should be indicated immediately below the title.

8. Write the name of the author or authors, leaving a blank line just below the title of the study; Title, institution (university), author numbers and e-mail addresses from https://orcid.org/register should be given at the bottom of the page with a (*) sign. If the work has been supported by any institution, the name of the supporting institution should be placed on the last word of the main title of the article and the name of the supporting institution should be given as a footnote on the same page.

9. The summary of the study should be written after the names of the author and the author, with a blank line. The Turkish abstract of the study should be at least 150 and at most 200 words. The abstract should be written in "Garamond" character and 9 points.

10. The paper must include at least 3 and no more than 7 Turkish keywords and at least 2 and no more than 5 JEL classification codes.

11. The English title, summary, keywords and type of the study should be written with 1 line space right after the Turkish keywords, taking into account the criteria mentioned above. The English summary of the work should be considered as a summary of the work and should be a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 200 words.

12. Articles must contain an extended abstract of 600-800 words in English. The English title of the work should be presented above the English abstract. The extended summary should include information about the research, purpose, problem, method, findings and conclusion. In the article, the extended summary in English should be included before the bibliography section. Extended abstract in English is mandatory only for Turkish articles. Extended abstracts are not required for articles in English.

13. The main text of the study should be written by leaving 1 line space right after the English keywords, especially the Introduction. The titles used in the study should be numbered. All titles should be written with the first letter capitalized. One line space should be left before the titles used in the study.

14. Paragraph dimensions to be used during the text to be written throughout the study, the text should be justified, the first line should be 0.5 cm. and at least 12nk line spacing should be used.

15. Figures to be used in the study should be numbered from 1 and named and placed under the figure. Just below the name of the figure, the bibliography of the figure should be stated in full. The font to be used in the bibliography of the figures is 9 points.

16. The tables to be used in the study should be numbered from 1 and named and placed above the table. Just below the table, the bibliography of the table should be stated in full. The font to be used in the tables and in the bibliography of the table is 9 points.

17. In our journal, only doctoral thesis summaries can be published within thesis summaries, in accordance with the publication policy.

18. Studies submitted to the journal are evaluated within the framework of the plagiarism report declared at the application stage. Articles that do not comply with research and publication ethics or that have a risk of plagiarism are not evaluated. In this framework, if the similarity rate detected by the TURNITIN or IThenticate screening programs is above 15%, the relevant study cannot be published even if it is approved by the referee. If the study was published without noticing the situation, once the situation is noticed, access to the relevant study is blocked and the study is removed from the publication list and from the full issue. Again, in line with the report, the similarity rate of the articles to a single source cannot be higher than 3%. During the application, the author(s) should upload the TURNITIN or iThenticate report together with the study to the system.

19. Articles are sent to our journal only through the DergiPark system. In order to submit an article to the journal, it is necessary to have a DergiPark user account and ORCID ID number.

20. To be sent to the journal

• For Turkish articles;

Main title; Author(s) Name and Surname; Institution of the Author(s) (the responsible author must be specified and their e-mail address must be provided); Summary; Keywords; English Title; Abstract; Keywords; Login; Material and Method; Findings and Discussion (or Findings); Conclusion (or Discussion and Conclusion); It should be arranged as Extended Summary and References in English.

• For articles in English;

English main title, Author(s) Name and Surname; Institution of Author(s) (responsible author-corresponding author must be specified and e-mail address must be given); Abstract; Keywords; Turkish Title; Summary; Keywords; Introduction; Materials and Methods; Results (or Results and Discussion); Discussion and Conclusion (or Conclusion); It should be organized as References.

21. The sources used should be stated in the text according to the surname of the author, year and page number system, and the names of the authors should be written in capital letters, other letters in lowercase. In the two-author reference statement and (if the article was prepared in English and); In the declaration of three or more references, the abbreviation et al., (if the article was prepared in English) should be used. References used in the text should be given in alphabetical order without using numbers at the end of the text (in the references section).

In-text citations and the reference list must be prepared in accordance with APA 6 guidelines. Articles must be submitted with in-text citations and a reference list formatted in accordance with APA 6 guidelines. Manuscripts that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the author.

22. Before the article is submitted to the journal editor, its compliance with the spelling rules should be checked.

23. All responsibilities of the published articles and translations belong to the author.

24. Any corrections regarding the text are made by the author(s).

25. The first application for the articles to be sent to the journal should be made at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/susbed.

26. The articles to be published in the journal must comply with the spelling and grammar rules. The Editorial Board of the Journal has the right to request changes in terms of content and form from the owner of the work, if it deems necessary.

27. The Editorial Board of the Journal sends the articles that it finds appropriate in terms of format and design to two referees randomly assigned by the computer program, the articles are published in order according to the completion dates of the referee reports with the approval of two of the referees.

28. The usage rights of the academic content published in the Journal of Selcuk University Social Sciences Institute are under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) unless otherwise stated.

29. In the Journal of Selcuk University Institute of Social Sciences, the authors have the right to publish an article once a year.

Journal Ethics Declaration

The editorial board pursue the best practice guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). To guaranty the integrity of the published papers, Journal of Selcuk University Social Sciences Institute (SUSBED) editors are guided for using COPE’s flowcharts whenever they suspect an ethical issue about the paper they process. The authors, reviewers, editors and owner of the journal are expected to strictly committed to ensuring the policy of publication ethics and malpractice, and respect to the following statements