Style and Formatting

The articles submitted to the journal should follow proper academic language and maintain a clear and consistent theoretical and methodological agenda, which should be systematically stated in the paper.

All articles should have a title, abstract, keywords, introductory section, conceptual/theoretical discussion, methodology, analysis/discussion, conclusion, acknowledgments and bibliography.

If the article is a thesis or a conference presentation prior to its submission to TURCOM, it should be stated in the acknowledgments.

The authors are welcome to submit articles based on their theses as long as they are properly converted into an article format. These articles will be reviewed as usual and revisions could be requested as the result of the referee and/or editorial assessment. If the necessary revisions are not submitted, the articles will be returned to the author.

The articles should be written and submitted in a Microsoft Word document, font type should be set as Times New Roman, size 12 and 1.5 space.

The in-text citations and references should be formatted by Endnote or Microsoft Word Reference Tools according to APA 7.

The word limit for the articles is 8000, including abstract, bibliography, figure/table captions, and footnotes.

The word limit for commentaries and book reviews is 2000 words including footnotes and bibliography. 

The articles should include abstracts between 150 to 200 words and 5 keywords.

According to TR Indexing criteria, the authors must submit an "ethics committee approval" for their research that involve field research (interviews or surveys with individuals). According to Article 6, "In studies requiring ethical committee permission, information about the permission (board name, date, and issue number) should be included in the method section and on the first/last page of the article." Please submit your articles by reading the guidelines: https://trdizin.gov.tr/en/criteria/ If your research does not necessitate an ethics approval, you don’t need to submit a document.

Authors must submit the following documents:

1- Full article file (including author information)
2- Full article file (anonymized)
3- Author Agreement Form
4- Plagiarism Report (Turnitin or iThenticate)
5- Ethics Committee Approval (if necessary)

Articles should be uploaded via the journal’s submission system at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/turcom through the “submit article” button.

During their submission, the authors are asked to upload an "Author Agreement Form" including a conflict of interest and disclosure statement.

For inquiries and questions, the authors can contact the journal at iletisimdergi@marmara.edu.tr 

Editorial Assessment and Peer Review

The articles submitted at TURCOM should be original and should not be submitted to any other journal.

Papers presented in conferences can be submitted to TURCOM as long as they are written I the form of an article and acknowledged as a conference paper in the footnotes.

Submitted articles go through an initial process of editorial assessment. Articles that do not comply with the publication rules and fail to contribute to the journal's quality publication ambitions will be returned to the author(s) without initiating the peer review process.

During the assessment process, an anonymous double peer review process is conducted by the editorial team. Referees, who are experts in their fields regarding the article, are invited appointed to provide quality feedback to the authors. The articles are initially sent to two reviewers. As a result of the reviews, the editor makes a final assessment and makes a decision about the article.

Upon the revision decisions, the authors are expected to revise their work and submit it according to a deadline stated by the editor.

It is the Editor’s authority and responsibility to make the final decision regarding the publication of articles as the result of the peer-review process.

Ethical Guidelines

The authors should make sure that their articles do not include any unethical and unlawful materials, discrimination, and hate speech. Authors are entitled to the legal responsibility of the article content.

The authors do not pay fees for the submission and the publication of their articles. The copyrights of the articles published belong to TURCOM and the authors are not paid for their articles.

The authors approve that the articles can take place at a noncommercial electronic database for the sake of sharing knowledge in the domestic and international sphere, therefore, Marmara Communication Journal can publish the item with full text as General Public License.

Formatting Bibliography

In Text-Citations:

The authors should follow the guidelines of APA (6th Edition) in referencing and in-text citations.

Explanations and further remarks should be provided in footnotes and numbered appropriately.

Use double quotation marks in inserting quotations. If quotations are longer than 40 words, they should be provided in a distinct paragraph without quotation marks.

Citations in the main text by indicating author’s name, publication date and page number within parenthesis. (Surname, Publication Year, p. Page Number).
(Foucault, 1977, p. 25)

If the author’s name is provided in the sentence, the reference should be inserted at the end of the sentence as (1977, p 25).

For multiple authors: (Horkheimer & Adorno, 1972, p. 122); further citations in the text should be given as (Horkheimer et al., 1972, p. 122).

For consecutive pages: (Foucault, 1977, pp. 25-26)

If multiple publications with the same author and same publication year will be referenced, these publications should be differentiated by adding a, b, c, etc. to the publication year: (Foucault, 1977a; 1977b).

If multiple references will be made for the same subject, resources should be separated by a semicolon: (Foucault, 1977, pp. 25-26; Mitchell, 2007, p. 90)

References:

References should be inserted at the end of the article in alphabetical order.

Books
Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and Punish. London: Penguin Books.
Horkheimer, M. & Adorno, T. W. (1972). Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York: Herder and Herder.

Journal Articles
Mitchell, J. P. (2007). A fourth critique of the enlightenment: Michel de Certeau and the ethnography of subjectivity. Social Anthropology, 15(1), 89-106.

Translated Books
Laplace, P. S. (1951). A philosophical essay on probabilities (F. W. Truscott & F. L. Emory, Trans.). New York, NY: Dover. (Original work published 1814).

Edited Books
Jensen, K. B. (2002). (Ed.). A handbook of media and communication research: Qualitative and quantitative methodologies. London: Routledge.

Articles in Edited Books
O'Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men's and women's gender role journeys: A metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107-123). New York, NY: Springer.

Unpublished Dissertation
Demir, M. (2008). Sinemada ‘öteki’. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. İstanbul: Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences.

Newspaper Article
Internet pioneer to oversee network redesign. (2007, 28 Mayıs). The Canberra Times, p. 15.

Electronic Sources
Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 149. Retrieved from https://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving
Spotlight Resources. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/about_the_owl/owl_information/spotlight_resources.html

Please refer to Purdue Online Writing Lab for APA 6th edition guidelines.