In the publications of The Turkish
Journal for Psychology of Religion (TDPD), APA style is used for both text and
bibliography. Therefore, manuscripts that are written according to APA citation
system are accepted.
Manuscripts,
sent to The Turkish Journal for Psychology of Religion (TDPD), should be
original studies related to the psychology of religion centered and / or other
sub-fields of psychology that contribute to this discipline, and should have
the following characteristics:
Titles in Turkish
and other foreign languages should be consistent with the content of the
manuscript, and should reflect the manuscript subject in a manner of short,
clear and detailed.
Abstracts
in in Turkish and other foreign languages should reflect purpose, scope and
results of manuscripts.
If paper is based on a presentation as sort of
academic study, a master's or a doctoral dissertation, this should be indicated
on the first page of the paper.
In the
preparation of study, scientific techniques and methods should be followed.
Also, information related to subject, purpose, scope, reason for preparation of
study and so on should be sufficiently provided, and given in a specific order.
Sources
that used in manuscript should be organized in accordance with the writing
rules, all kind of used documents should be placed in bibliography, but other documents,
not used in manuscript, should not be placed in bibliography.
Research results
should be appropriate to the purpose and scope of the research, supplied with
baselines and tersely, data or findings not mentioned in the text should not be
included.
Page layout: within A4 size, margins should be set to 5 cm from the top, 5
cm from the bottom, 4.5 cm from the left, 4.5 cm from the right.
Text format:
should be written in Garamond font with 12 point and titles should be written
as bold. Row range of main text part should be full row, its value should be 14
nk. (If it is necessary) row range of footnotes should be full row, its value should
be 10 nk within the same text format with the main text, with 9 point. Main
text and footnotes should be in the form of Range → Before: 0.3 nk, after: 0 nk.
Text title
should be written at the beginning of the first page, with 12 point and capital
letters, by centering page, in both Turkish and English.
Author
information (at the beginning of the text): after text title, with 2 tow
ranges, on the center of page should be placed, and author names and surnames,
academic titles, institutions and ORCID should be stated in both Turkish and
English. Also contact information of authors (email address) should be
implicitly indicated. Sample:
Mustafa KOÇ
Doç. Dr., Balıkesir
Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi
Din Psikolojisi Bilim
Dalı
Assoc. Professor,
Balıkesir University Faculty of Theology
Department of
Psychology of Religion
Balıkesir, Turkey
E-mail:
mustafakoc@balıkesir.edu.tr
Orcid no:
0000-0003-1299-7963
Author information (at the end
of the text): author information including contact information of author,
e-mail address and areas of interest should be given by giving 2 row ranges
after the main text, in accordance with pattern that specified by the journal.
Sample: Mustafa KOÇ (Doç. Dr.)
Correspondence Address: Balıkesir
Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi (NEF Yerleşkesi) Altıeylül / Balıkesir
E-mail:
mustafakoc@balikesir.edu.tr
Areas of Interest: (a) development
and childhood in the context of psychology of religion, adolescence, adulthood
and elderliness psychology (b) religious orientation and religiosity typology (c) psychology of religious rituals
(d) relationship between
religion and mental health, (e) Mental health of Muslim-Turkish diaspora, (f) spiritual care and counselling, (g) psychology
of death and afterlife (h) relationship between religion and self, (i) religious concept development
(j) psychology of religion’s
history and literature etc.
After
author information, abstract should be written in Garamond font with 11 point, and with 2 row
ranges. Turkish and English abstracts should consist of minimum 150 words and
maximum 250 words. Within the abstract; subject, scope, importance, purpose and
results of the research should be indicated.
After the
abstract, keywords consisting of at least 5 and at most 8 words should be
placed. The first keyword must be the discipline name (psychology of religion).
Then the other keywords fully reflecting the content of the text should be
included.
After
bibliography in text, with at least 750 and at most 1000 words, extended abstract
in English should be written. Subject, purpose and results of the research
should be briefly indicated in the extended abstract.
Text;
should not exceed 40 pages including tables, figures, photographs and
references
According
to APA style, citation within the text is as follows: Author surname, publication
year: Page numbers. Example: (Pargament, 2001: 46-49)
If the
primary sources cannot be reached, when doing citation, the primary source is
cited first and then the secondary source which is quoted or transmitted: Example: (Pargament, 2001: cited from 210. Cengil, 2014: 31)
According
to APA style, bibliography style is as follows: Author surname, name,
publication year, publication name, place published and publisher. Example: (Pargament, K. I. (2001). The psychology
of religion and coping: Theory, research, practice. New York: Guilford
Press).
If an author’s
multiple publications are used in the text, references are written in
chronological order in bibliography. If an author’s more than one publications
in the same year are used, they are listed as “2008a” and “2008b” in
alphabetical order.
Note: For the use of APA Citation Style, examples
and detailed information see. https://www.apastyle.org/