Turkish History Education Journal

TURKISH HISTORY EDUCATION JOURNAL (TUHED) is an international, academic, non-profit, peer reviewed, free access, online journal which aims to enhance theory, research, and practice in history education at all levels through the publication of primary research, review, and translated articles. TUHED committed to no single approach, discipline, methodology or paradigm. Its main concern is to improve effective teaching of history at all level both local and international scale. TUHED recognizes that many disciplines especially history and other social sciences have important contributions to improve history teaching thus invites researchers and writers from them. The journal welcomes both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, theoretical and conceptual analyses, and reviews related to history education, history of history education and historiography.

TUHED is published online bi-annually (May and October).

TUHED aims to increase the quantity and quality of the studies in this field therefore have adopted the free and open access publication policies. Readers are advised to register the new publication notification service. This can be done by using Journal Register link at the top of the homepage. This will allow the Contents page of new issue to be forwarded to reader via e-mail. This e-mail addresses will not be used for any other purposes, please dfer to the journals safety regulations. Libraries are advised to include TUHED - Turkish History Education Journal in their open access journals database. For detailed information about open access journal systems please check Public Knowledge Project web page.

Within the Budapest Open Access Initiative framework TUHED supports the idea of knowledge sharing for free and without interference. For this purpose, TUHED provides free and unlimited open access to its content. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles. Also, TUHED does not require submission, evaluation or publication fee for the manuscripts. 

This journal seeks articles related to the history education/teaching/didactics and historiography. Its scope will include the following topics:

1.    Reports on new classroom techniques, methods, curricula, evaluation technics and all types of teaching materials related to field of history education.

2.    Analyses of the history of history education at local and international scale.

3.    Analyses of important interpretations, leading historians, historiographical problems, history writing and methodology.

4.    Critical review essays on books, textbooks, and journal articles related to history teaching and historiography.

5.    Translated re-publication of significant international articles aiming to inform Turkish researchers about studies on history education in different countries. 

TUHED invites all scholarly work to contribute to history didactic, history teaching, and history of history teaching written either in Turkish or English.

TUHED does not have an article submission or article processing charges (APCs).

Please organize your manuscript prior to application in accordance with the TUHED Manuscript Template (Link). TUHED uses Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition as a citation and referencing guide. Please see APA 6th edition for more information.

Submission Preparation Checklist:
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
• The submission has not been previously published in any other journal, nor submitted to another journal for publication consideration.
• The submission is original and written by stated author(s).
• The submission is written either in Turkish or English. Manuscript written in English has to have min. 200 max. 250 words abstract followed by 5-7 keywords.
• The submission should not exceed 8.000 words (including abstract and bibliography).
• The submission file is in MS Word (.doc or .docx) format.
• Proofreading have been performed.
• Authors' names, institutions and address information should be excluded in the first submission text.

Documents to be uploaded to the system:
During the first submission, the following files must be uploaded to the system:
1. Maximum 8000 words, Turkish or English full text article formatted according to the TUHED Manuscript Template (Link). (Name, institution information, e-mail, ORCID number and acknowledge must be removed!)

2. Ethical Declaration Form: If the study requires ethics committee approval, the relevant document (s) should be attached to the back of this form (as the 2nd and 3rd page) and uploaded to the system as a single PDF file. If a personal data collection tool or a copyrighted image is used, the required usage permission documents must be attached to this form as well.
3. Similarity report (The similarity report of the article should be obtained using İntihal.net or IThenticate services and this report should be uploaded to the system during the first application)

4. (For the Applications in English) Certificate of Editing: This certificate has to obtained from the relevant institutions showing that the proofreading has been performed on the English article.

For the articles accepted for publication after the peer-review process, the following files must be uploaded to the system:

a) Applications in Turkish:
1. Full text article in Turkish with a complete name, institution information, e-mail, ORCID number, and Acknowledge
2. Full text article in English with a completed name, institution information, e-mail, ORCID number, and Acknowledge
3. Certificate of Editing: This certificate has to obtained from the relevant institution, indicating proofreading has been performed on the English article.

b) Applications in English:
1. Full text article in English with a completed name, institution information, e-mail, ORCID number, Ethics Declaration, and Acknowledge. 

Note: ORCID number must be entered for all authors of the article.

Guidelines for publication reviews and interviews:
Review and interview works should also formated in accordance with TUHED Manuscript Template in terms of layout and format, but section and sub-titles can be edited the authors in accordance with the content.

Guidelines for translation works:
This section aims to share with Turkish readers important works in the fields of history education / teaching or historiography published in Old Turkish or other languages. Your translation works should conform to the TUHED Manuscript Template in terms of layout and format, but chapters but section and sub-titles can be determined by the authors in accordance with the content.

For all translation / reprint submissions:
1. Authors has to obtain required translation and reprint permission from the legal copyringht holder. Permission documents should be uploaded system as an Appendix to the Ethical Declaration Form. 

2. Translations should include the entire article / book chapter (without skipping any section, paragraph or footnotes). 

3. Make no adding to the main text, place the additional information, explanation and critcs belogns to translator in the footnote section by adding the translator's note (tn) at the beginning of the sentence. 

4. Submit the original version of the work as an Appendix to the translation text in image form. 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement 

Our publication ethics and publication malpractice statement is mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011).

a) Editors' Responsibilities:

1. The editor is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published. The editor will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the paper’s importance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and its relevance to the journal's scope. Current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism should also be considered.

2. The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

3. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

b) Reviewers' Responsibilities:

1. The peer-reviewing process assists the editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper.

2. Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw from the review process.

3. Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

4. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

5. Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers will notify the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

6. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

c) Authors' Responsibilities:

1. Authors of original research reports should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are
unacceptable.

2. Authors could be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the paper for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data
center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.

3. Authors will submit only entirely original works, and will appropriately cite or quote the work and/or words of others. Publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited.

4. In general, papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal. Submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Manuscripts that have been published as copyrighted material elsewhere cannot be submitted. In addition, manuscripts under review by the journal should not be resubmitted to copyrighted publications. However, by submitting a manuscript, the author(s) retains the rights to the published material. In case of publication, they permit the use of their work under a CC-BY license [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/], which allows others to copy, distribute and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and to make commercial use of it.

5. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also verify that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

6. All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

7. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper in form of an erratum.

Notification of Non-Ethic Practices: 

In case the unethical situation is determined about an article in an early view or in an evaluation process, which does not comply with ethical principles, please inform us by sending an e-mail to editortuhed@gmail.com. If it is determined that the data used in the article is manipulated or distorted this situation will be officially notified to the relevant institutions, and the article will be rejected, if published, it will be withdrawn. Our journal has the right to request raw data or analysis results from the authors according to the evaluation made by the editor and referees.

Publication Policy: 

1. Turkish History Education Journal is a free, open-access journal. In addition, for the articles submitted to the journal, no submission fee or article evaluation fee is charged from the authors.
2. Only the articles related scope of the journal are evaluated.
3. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must be prepared in accordance with the Writing Rules.
4. The evaluation and referee processes of submitted articles are normally completed within three months.
5. The Editor / Editorial Board finally decides whether the submitted articles are published or not.
6. The results of the evaluation regarding the work are sent to the authors through the DergiPark system.
7. The Editor / Editorial Board has right to reject any manuscripts for which necessary corrections have not been fulfilled within the given time. 

References:
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from:

http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf 

TUHED does not require submission, evaluation or publication (APC) fee for the manuscripts. It also provides free and unlimited access to published articles.