International Journal of Social Political and Financial Researches Authorship Rules and Publication Policy
1. APA 7 should be used as the citation style in studies submitted to the International Journal of Social Political and Financial Research. See ANNEX-1 for APA 7 “Citation Guide”.
2. Studies sent to the International Journal of Social Political and Financial Research; It should cover areas such as finance, economics, business administration, political science and public administration, international relations, international trade, labor economics and industrial relations, finance and banking, health management, management and information systems, econometrics and financial econometrics.
3. Studies conducted in accordance with scientific research, publication ethics and writing rules must not have been published anywhere before. All responsibility in this regard belongs entirely to the author(s).
4. The journal does not request any fee from the authors, nor does it pay any royalty fees to the authors.
5. Only one article by an author is published in the same year (excluding special issues). Even if the author's second article sent to the journal in the same year is accepted, it will be queued for the issue to be published the following year.
6. Studies written in either Turkish or English are accepted for the journal.
7. The journal applies a double-blind peer review process:
- Manuscripts are initially evaluated by the editor.
- Suitable manuscripts are sent to at least two independent reviewers.
- Authors and reviewers remain anonymous to each other.
- Acceptance requires positive evaluations from at least two reviewers.
- In case of conflicting reviews, a third reviewer is assigned.
- Manuscripts may be accepted, revised, or rejected based on reviewer reports.
- The editor has the final decision authority.
8. Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication.
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Authors are required to sign an Author Publication Agreement.. See ANNEX-2 for the "Agreement Form”.
9. Articles to be sent to the journal should not exceed 25 pages, including abstract, bibliography, references and tables.
10. For articles submitted to the journal, authors are requested to send a similarity report using a plagiarism scanning program (Intihalnet (Will be uploaded via Dergipark system), iThenticate, Turnitin). Articles of authors who do not submit this report will not be published. The upper limit for similarity reports is set at 20%, excluding bibliography (This condition is not required for publications derived from postgraduate theses, and at this point, the authority is exercised by the journal editor). Articles that are more similar than this ratio are rejected by the editorship, even if the process is completed.
11. In publications presented at scientific meetings, published in abstracts, or derived from postgraduate theses, the author must indicate this on the article cover page. The responsibility for any shortcomings in this regard lies with the author(s) and the journal cannot be held responsible.
12. Studies submitted to the journal must be prepared in accordance with the template in Microsoft Word (doc.) format. For “Template” see ANNEX-3. The journal's writing template includes all general text formatting, page margins, paragraph formatting, table and figure formatting, and heading formats. Since no fee is requested from the authors for the works sent to the journal, the authors must prepare and submit their works in accordance with the writing guide and template. Studies that are not prepared in accordance with the template will not be sent to the referees and will be rejected by the editor.
13. As stated in the journal template, Turkish and English abstracts should be between 100-200 words. There should be 3-5 keywords and 2-4 JEL codes at the end of the abstracts.
14. If the studies submitted to the journal are supported by an institution, this information should be stated by the author in the footnote on the first page.
15. For studies that do not require ethics committee permission, the form in ANNEX-4 must be filled out and uploaded to the system. For studies that require ethics committee permission, the Ethics Committee Permission Document must be uploaded to the system by the authors.
16. Authors should upload the referee response file to the system if a correction is suggested after the referee evaluations. The referee response file can be found in ANNEX-5.
17. Authors should upload the author contribution/conflict of interest declaration form to the system while uploading their articles. The author contribution/conflict of interest declaration form is in ANNEX-6.