Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 10/31/21

Year: 2021

RESEARCH ARTICLES

BOOK REVIEW

International Journal of Economics, Business and Politics aims to contribute to the development of science at national and international level by creating a platform for publishing scientific studies.

International Journal of Economics, Business and Politics publishes original and scientific researches prepared in Turkish and English in the fields of economics, business, banking, finance, public finance, labor economics, econometrics, public administration, international relations, and book reviews of books published in this fields.


ARTICLE WRITING RULES

The Articles submitted to the International Journal of Economics, Business and Politics (UEİP) are to be prepared according to the submission rules and conditions specified below and to be sent electronically by uploading via “Submit a Manuscript” section in the website of the journal. Any article that does not comply with the submission rules will be rejected by the editor without initiating review process. 

1. Language: The articles submitted to the journal should be written either in Turkish or English.

2. Length: The articles should compose of at least 4000 words and should not exceed 7000 words including the references, footnotes and figures etc.

3. Page Format:  The articles should prepared in the format of an A4 page and there should be 3,5 cm margins from each side of the page.

4.  Writing Format: Articles should be prepared in the Microsoft Word Program. The graphics should be prepared in the Microsoft Excel Program. All text should be in “Bookman Old Style”.

5. Page Number: Page numbers should be added to the right at the bottom with a font size of 10 and underlined.

6. Title: Main title of the article should be defined in a way to reflect the content and should not be too long. It must not exceed 2 lines. Main title should be in capital, bold, italic, 12 fonts, centred with a space of 6nk before and after. The same rules are also applicable for the English title.

7. Abstract and Keywords: The articles should start with an abstract that does not exceed 150 words. There should be also 3 to 5 keywords after abstract. English articles should also have a Turkish abstract and keywords. Abstract and keywords should be in italic, 9 font. The titles of these sections should be written in italic, bold, left centred; the text should be centred with single line spacing. The space should be set to 6 nk before and after the paragraph.

In this section, the purpose of the study, the data set and method used, the findings obtained, etc. should be focused on. Giving general information should be avoided

8. Author Information: The articles should not be uploaded with information about the author(s).

The information about the author in article should be added under the title as centred, italic, bold and 11 fonts.

The surname of the author(s) should be in capitals. The title, institution, contact information (e-mail and ORCID ID) should be added as a footnote. This footnote should be italic and 8 font with a 6 nk before and after the paragraph.

9. Main Text: Main text should be designed in a way to include the introduction, method, findings, discussion, conclusion, bibliography and annexes (if any) parts.  All subtitles should be numbered as 1., 2., 3., including the introduction and conclusion parts.  Subtitles should be written as 10 fonts, bold and left centred with a 1cm margin. First initials of each word in the subtitles should be capitalized. Line spacing should be set to single. Main text should be 10 fonts and centred. There should be 1 cm margin for first line of the each paragraph and 6 nk space before and after each paragraph.

1. Introduction

2. The Relation between X and Y

3. Econometrical Analyses

3.1. Data Set

3.2. Method

3.2.1. Unit Root Test

3.2.2. Co-integration Test

3.3. Findings

4. Conclusion

Bibliography

10. Tables, Graphs and Figures: The tables, graphs and figures in the articles should be prepared in the Microsoft Excel program and each of them should be numbered separately. The titles and numbers of the tables, graphs and figures should be placed above, should be centred, bold, 8 font. The initials of the each word in title should be capitalized. Titles should start as Table:1...; Graph 1:…; Figure1:.... If there are any sources related to tables, graphs and figures, they should be indicated below on the left side in 8 font. All the information provided within the tables, graphs and figures should be written in 8 fonts. Tables, graphs and figures can be coloured in a modest way.  

11. Equations: The equations in the study should be prepared electronically. They should be right centred and numbered as follows: (1). References made to the equations within the text should be made according to the number given to the equation.

12. Indicating References:  Articles should be prepared according to the American Psychological Association (APA) writing style. Please visit the following link to get detailed information on the APA writing style: http://www.apastyle.org/manual/index.aspx. Please do not use footnotes to indicate the sources used in the text. Details related to showing references are provided in the table below.   


13Author Statement: Author (s) must make the following statements.

Statement of Support and Appreciation (Required): The institution(s) and / or person(s) that support the conduct of the research should be specified here; A statement of appreciation to thank the institution(s) and / or person(s) should be added.

In case of no support, the following statement should be added: "No external support has been received during the conduct of this study."

The details regarding the status of the studies derived from the master's theses, doctoral dissertations, projects or conference papers should be provided here.

Researchers' Contribution Rate Statement (Required): The contribution of each researcher in the conduct of the study should be stated.

Conflict of Interest Statement (Required): Among the authors of the study; Potential conflicts of interest (personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial, etc.) that may arise between the institutions / persons supporting the research or between the authors of the research and the institutions / persons supporting the research should be declared.

If there is no conflict of interest, "We do not have any conflict of interest declaration as the authors of the study." should be declared in the form.

Research and Publication Ethics Statement (Required): The following paragraph should be copied in this section.

All the rules stated in the “Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive” were strictly considered at every stage of this research. None of the actions specified under the heading "Actions Against Scientific Research and Publication Ethics" of the directive has not been carried out. During the writing process of this study, the citations were made in accordance with the ethical rules and a bibliography was created. The study was subjected to plagiarism control.

Ethics Committee Permission (If any): If the ethics committee permission has been obtained for the research, the details such as the name of the ethical evaluation committee, the date of the evaluation, the document number, etc. should be indicated here.


14. Bibliography: Bibliography should follow the text without any blanks. The list of sources should be presented as centred, 10 font, single line and 6 nk space before and after the paragraph and should be in alphabetic order. Details related to showing references are provided in the table below.  

15. Thesis and Proceedings: The articles submitted to the journal should not be published before. The articles depending on the thesis and orally presented proceedings without publishing full text can be submitted. These cases should be indicated with a footnote given to the article title. Relevant footnote should be in “Bookman Old Style” and 8 font.

16. Book Review: Book reviews should have 1500-1800 words. All the text should be in “Bookman Old Style”, single space, 10 font, centred. There should be 1 cm margin in the first line of each paragraph with 6 nk space before and after each paragraph.  

The title of the book review should be bold, italic, 12 font, centred and with a 6 nk space before and after the paragraph. The initials of the each word in the title should be capitalized. The original name of the book should be indicated. The main title of the book review should be written as follows:

Full name of the book’s author, Publishing Year, Original name of the book, City of publishing, Publisher, Number of pages, ISBN Number.

An example title for a book review:

Caner Bakır. (2016). Dünyayla İş Yapanlar Küreselleşme Sürecinde Türk Çokulusluları. İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları. 230 Sayfa. ISBN: 9786059389112

 

 

SAMPLE TABLE FOR REFERENCES

BOOK

Text

Single Author:                   (Dinler, 2017: 32)

Double Authors:               (Sandalcılar ve Erdoğan, 2017: 53)

More than Two Authors:   (Çelik vd., 2016: 42)

Bibliography

Single Author:                  

Dinler, Z. (2017). İktisada Giriş. Bursa: Ekin Yayınevi.

Double Authors:              

Sandalcılar, A. ve Erdoğan, S. (2017). Ekonomik Entegrasyon Teorileri Avrupa Birliği ve Türkiye. Bursa: Ekin Yayınevi.

More than Two Authors:  

Çelik, K., Kalaycı, C. ve Sandalcılar, A. (2016). Dış Ticaret İşlemleri Yönetimi (11. Baskı). Trabzon: Celepler Matbaacılık.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Text

(Erdoğan, 2017: 190)

Bibliography

Erdoğan, S. (2017). European Union’s Involvement to the Disputes between Turkey and Greece in M. Uydacı (Ed.), Turkish Studies from Different Perspectives (s.187-202). Atina: Atiner Publications.

TRANSLATED WORKS

Text

(Hale, 2003: 180)

Bibliography

Hale, W. (2003). Türk Dış Politikası 1774-2000, (P. Demir, Çev). İstanbul: Mart Matbaası.

ARTICLES

Text

(Kalaycı, 2017: 138)

 

Bibliography

Kalaycı, C. (2017). Serbest Ticaret Anlaşmalarının Türkiye’nin Dış Ticaretine Etkileri: Açıklanmış Karşılaştırmalı Üstünlükler Endeksi Uygulaması. Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Yenilik Dergisi, 3 (2), 133-147.

Kalaycı, C. (2017). Serbest Ticaret Anlaşmalarının Türkiye’nin Dış Ticaretine Etkileri: Açıklanmış Karşılaştırmalı Üstünlükler Endeksi Uygulaması. Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Yenilik Dergisi, 3 (2), 133-147. Accessed by: http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/343495

Kalaycı, C. (2017). Serbest Ticaret Anlaşmalarının Türkiye’nin Dış Ticaretine Etkileri: Açıklanmış Karşılaştırmalı Üstünlükler Endeksi Uygulaması. Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Yenilik Dergisi, 3 (2), 133-147. doi: 10.20979/ueyd.337299

PROCEEDINGS

Text

(Sandalcılar ve Palyoş, 2016: 762)

(Erdoğan, 2016: 262)

Bibliography

Printed Proceeding Book:

Sandalcılar, A. ve Palyoş, E. (2016). Türk Dış Ticareti Üzerindeki Olumsuz Beklenti: Transatlantik Ticaret ve Yatırım Ortaklığı. 2. Uluslararası Kafkasya-Orta Asya Dış Ticaret Ve Lojistik Kongresi, 757-772, Erzurum.

Proceedings Published Electronically:

Erdoğan, S. (2016).  Avrupa Parlamentosunun Avrupa Birliği Bütünleşmesi ve Genişlemesindeki Artan Rolü. I. Uluslararası Multidisipliner Çalışmaları Sempozyumu (ISMS) 20-23 Ekim 2016, 757-772, Belgrad, Sırbistan. Accessed by: http://www.ismsymposium. org/source / ISMS%20BOOK.pdf

THESIS

Text

(Erdoğan, 2015: 58)

Bibliography

Erdoğan, S. (2015). Avrupa Birliği Genişlemesi ve Ulusüstü Avrupa Birliği Kurumları: Yeni Kurumsalcı Bir Değerlendirme. (Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi). Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Ankara.

ONLINE SOURCES

Text

(TÜİK, 2017)

(Erdoğan, 2015: 16)

(İnternet Ortamında Yapılan, 2007)

 

Bibliography

TÜİK. (2017). Dış Ticaret Endeksleri. Accessed by: http://www.tuik.gov.tr/PreHaberBultenleri.do?id=24839

Erdoğan, S. (2015), Black Sea Extroversion at European and International Level. Accessed by: http://icbss.org/index.php?pid=952

İnternet Ortamında Yapılan Yayınların Düzenlenmesi ve Bu Yayınlar Yoluyla İşlenen Suçlarla Mücadele Edilmesi Hakkında Kanun. (2007, 23 Mayıs). Resmi Gazete (Sayı: 26530). Accessed by: http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2007/05/20070523-1.htm

 

NOTE 1: In case of a situation that is not implied in the instructions above, you can check the source below to reach additional information.

 

Şencan, I. ve Doğan, G. (2017). Bilimsel Yayınlarda Kaynak Gösterme, Tablo ve Şekil Oluşturma Rehberi APA 6 Kuralları (2. Edition). Ankara: Türk Kütüphaneciler Derneği Yayınları.  Accessed by: http://www.tk.org.tr/APA/apa_2.pdf

 

NOTE 2: The authors have to add their ORCID IDs to the articles accepted for publishing. ORCID ID can be taken from this link hhttps://orcid.org/ free of charge. 

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, BUSINESS AND POLITICS
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES


The most important function of a refereed journal is to have an efficiently working publishing process. This process burdens some responsibilities over all the publishers, editors, referees and authors. The parties have to act in line with the highest professional ethics and standards in the process of publishing an article.

International Journal of Economic, Business and Politics applies the publishing ethics at highest standards. UEIP Journal follow the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers guide prepared by the COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics.

The UEIP Journal also shows respect on the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing prepared with the cooperation of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), as well as the principles in the Turkish Higher Education Council’s Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics.

The basic ethical responsibilities of the UEIP Journal’s editors, referees and authors are listed below. Related documents can be checked for detailed information.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EDITOR

• Editors are responsible for all the works published in their journals. Therefore, they have to show a constant effort to improve the quality of their journal. They should defend freedom of expression. They should be ready to make corrections, clarifications, refutations and apologies.

• Editors act as the final decision authority about the decisions on the publishing articles. They can reject or accept an article by evaluating its importance, originality, clarity, validity as well as its relevance to the scope of the journal.

• Editors should inform the authors about the delivery of the submission in three days and should launch the evaluation process in an efficient, fair and punctual manner.

• Editors should respect to the decision of acceptance as long as there is not any severe problem related to the submitted article.

• Editors should publish all the details related to review process in the journal and should be ready to defend all the issues related to the process.

• Editors should be responsive to the author’s requests related to referees as long as the author grounds its requests on a valid and applicable basis.

• Editors should publish the submission and acceptance dates and should stick to the periods indicated in the journal.

• Editors should respond to the complaints immediately. There should be additional steps to be followed, if the complainer does not become content about the response.

• Editors should provide guidance to the referees about their work. The evaluation of the articles by the referees without acting against confidentiality has a primary place among the expectations from the referees.

• Editors should not do any discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, religious belief, political ideology, gender or race, while taking his/her decisions.

• Editors should request from the referees to state any potential clash of interest before making their evaluation.

• Editors should encourage the referees to state their opinions concerning the potential threats of ethical conflicts and publication abuses.

• Editors should request from the referees to convey their opinions regarding the originality of the articles and invite them to act prudently against plagiarism.

• Editors should transmit the opinions of the referees to the authors as long as they do not have a belligerent and contumelious content.

• Editors should refrain from sending the articles to the referees showing a poor performance, making delays and using an tactless language in his/her comments.

• Editors should pay effort to guarantee the fairness, objectivity and promptness of the review process.

• Editors should follow the relevant process if they face with a situation that is not appropriate with the publication ethics or in case of a complaint. This obligation is also valid for the past issues.

• Editors should not introduce any hidden or overt conditions to accept articles for publication.

• Editors should not use any data, report or information existing in the unpublished articles.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE REFEREES

• Referees provide input to the editorial process in order to increase scientific value and publication of the article. They act with the consciousness of making contribution to the science.

• The Journal uses double blind review system. Accordingly, the referees should not know the identity of the authors; should not make any research about the identity of the authors and should not establish a direct contact with the author.

• The referee invited to the review of an article should convey his decision about reviewing the article to the editor in soon.

• A referee who does not see herself/himself qualified enough to review an article or does not believe in his/her capacity to end the review process in time should notify the editor and should leave the review process.

• Referee should make her/his review confidentially. She/he does not make any clarification to any people, except the ones allowed, related to the article and do not make any discussion.

• Referee should evaluate the originality of the article in the review process. If she/he notices any act of plagiarism or has doubts about it, the editor should be informed urgently.

• Referee should carry out the review process according to the scientific criteria and should be unbiased and stable throughout the review. Referee should refrain from making criticisms targeting persons and should use a kind language.

• Referee should not use any information or opinion acquired during the review process for her/his own favour.

• Referees should be clear and short in their comments and questions on the article.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AUTHORS

• Authors carry out the primary responsibility related to their article.

• Authors should collect and interpret their data by using honest, unbiased and scientific methods. They should not use wrong and manipulated data.

• The raw data used in the study should be kept by the author. They should be accessed easily during and after the review process.

• Author should refrain from sending the article to different journals simultaneously and also should not submit her/his published article for review.

• Author should prepare the article according to submission rules of the journal; should submit the article as requested and should follow the review process.

• Author should not publish the results of a study by dividing it into pieces in a way to destroy the integrity of the research.

• All the people contributed to the article should be listed as author. A person does not make a real contribution to the article should be listed as author.

• Author should consider the comments of the authors carefully and make the requested corrections. Authors can criticize the comments of the referee in a kind manner.

• Author guarantees the originality of their work. Author should make references by using a proper citation style, if she/he uses the works produced by other authors. Author should refrain from all kinds of plagiarism.

References
Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors
Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
Turkish Higher Education Council’s Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics
Academic Periodical Publishing Guide in Social and Humanities Sciences


INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, BUSINESS AND POLITICS

PUBLICATION POLICY


International Journal of Economics, Business and Politics (UEIP) is an international, refereed and scientific journal. It makes publication according to the publication principles listed below:

• UEIP Journal, as a platform for publishing scientific works, aims to make contribution to the improvement of science at national and international levels.

• UEIP Journal publishes original and scientific articles and book reviews related to the fields of economics, business, banking, finance, public finance, labour economics, econometrics, public administration and international relations.

• UEIP Journal publishes scientific works written in the languages of Turkish and English.

• UEIP Journal publishes two issues, as Spring (April) and Fall (October) issues, in a year electronically. Special issues can also be published, if it is deemed necessary.

• UEIP Journal does not accept an article for a specific issue. It is always possible to make submissions.

• UEIP Journal is published by using the TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM DergiPark system. All the processes related to the article are carried out via Dergipark system.

• UEIP Journal is published from the web address of http://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ueip .

• The authors of the submissions made to the UEIP Journal guarantees that they do not publish their articles in Turkish or any other language in Turkey or abroad before and they do not submit their articles any other journal to be published or their article is not accepted for publication in another journal.

• Authors holds the copyright of their works and they give the first publication right to the UEIP Journal.

• All the legal and scientific responsibility related to the content of the published articles belongs to the author.

• UEIP Journal does not pay any royalty to the authors.

• UEIP Journal does not charge any fee (application fee, evaluation fee, publication fee, cost, etc.) and another benefit from the authors.

• The articles published in the UEIP Journal can be used by making references.

• UEIP Journal allows the use of the articles for the purposes of reading, downloading, copying, sharing and printing, as well as for any other legal purposes.

• UEIP Journal is committed to make publication according to the publication ethics and all the articles submitted to the journal are exposed to plagiarism check.

• Editor controls the properness of an article in terms of the Journal’s scope; the uploading of the article to the system in a correct way and in line with the article submission rules.

• UEIP Journal uses double blind referee review system. The positive opinions of two referees are sought for the acceptance of an article to be published. If one of the referees gives a positive opinion, while the other one indicates a negative opinion; the article is sent to a third referee for review. Editor completes the publication process by sending the positive opinions of two referees to the Publication Board of the Journal.

• The final decision of publication related to the articles with two positive referee opinions is given by the Publication Board of the Journal.

• Editor can send “Acceptance to Publication Document” to the authors of the accepted articles, if it is requested.

• The information such as name, title, e-mail can only be used for the indicated purposes of the Journal; these information cannot be used for any other purposes and cannot be shared with any other persons.

• UEIP Journal accepts the open access principles published by the Budapest Open Access Initiative. The Journal was signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

• UEIP Journal is committed to apply the highest publication ethics standards and follows the implementation manual prepared by the COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics.

• The works published in the UEIP Journal is archived with LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system.

• UEIP Journal is licensed with Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 4.0 International License.

• A DOI (Digital Object Identifier System) is assigned for all the articles published in the UEIP Journal.

• Questions, recommendations and comments can be conveyed via ueipdergisi@gmail.com .


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Recep Tayyip Erdogan University
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
Department of Economics
RIZE / TURKEY