WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN YOUR ARTICLE?
Van İlahiyat Dergisi – Van Journal of Divinity is
a peer-reviewed Journal published twice a year as June and December.
Van İlahiyat Dergisi – Van Journal of Divinity does not charge any article submission, processing charges, and printing charge from the authors.
We
consider for publication in jour ournal published articles which:
Report
original science, and add significantly to research already publishedare of
interest to the community
are
scientifically rigorous
have
sound motivation and purpose
have
not been published previously in the peer-reviewed literature, including in
another language
are
not under consideration for publication in any other peer-reviewed journal or
book available through a library or by purchase.
It
is particularly important for authors to consider whether they have enough new
results before starting to plan and write a paper for submission. Reporting
incremental steps forward from previous work is not good enough.
Articles
based on theses for higher degrees may be submitted, although authors should
take care that such articles are prepared in the format of a research paper,
which is more concise than is appropriate for a thesis.
Articles
reporting work that was originally presented at a conference may be submitted,
provided these articles do not appear in substantially the same form in a
peer-reviewed, published conference proceeding. Again, authors should take care
to ensure the format of a research paper is used. The article length should
also be appropriate to the content. In case of doubt, please enquire with the
journal.
All
articles are judged solely on their scientific merits. Unbiased consideration
is given to all manuscripts offered for publication regardless of whether or
not the authors request publication on an open access basis and regardless of
the race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, political
philosophy, sexual orientation, age or reputation of the authors.
We
treat all submitted articles as confidential until they are published and they
will only be shared with those referees, Board members, Editors and Vanid staff who are directly involved
in the peer review of the article.
How
to prepare your article
Before
submission please check the individual journal homepage for information on the
journal’s subject scope, available article types, specific manuscript length
limits and details of any variations to the peer review process that might
apply.
General
Vanid aims to be flexible
and to make submission as easy as possible for authors. We only require a PDF
file of the new article (and any suitable supplementary data files) on
submission. Authors are asked to submit at revision stage the source files used
to create their PDF (to assist with accurate typesetting), the text of which
can be in either Microsoft Word or TeX/LaTeX. Our online submission form also
allows authors to collect and directly upload their article from the arXiv and
to upload other compressed or archived files.
Authors
can format their papers in the way that they choose. It is not necessary to try
to produce pages that look like published journal pages, as the detailed design
(typesetting) work will be undertaken by Vanid
as part of the production process. However we do ask that authors consider the
readability for referees when formatting their manuscripts. For example, please
use a reasonable font size (at least 10 point) and line spacing. There is no
need for authors to include line numbers in their manuscript as these will
automatically be added on submission. Figures and tables should be embedded at
the appropriate point within the text, rather than placed at the end of the
manuscript. Papers must be written in Turkish or English.
Length
of submissions
Most
journals have guidelines for the maximum recommended length for each different
type of article, as detailed in the scope statement available from that
journal’s homepage. It is important that you check these guidelines when
preparing your submission. Articles which are longer than the length limit may
still be considered for publication provided that the length is clearly
justified by the scientific content.
Article
structure
Your
article should normally consist of the following sections and should follow the
Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion system:
a
title page with the title of the article, name(s) of author(s) and address(es)
of establishment(s) where the work was carried out
an
abstract
an
introduction
a
methods section
a
results section
a
discussion section
a
conclusion section
an
acknowledgments section
a
list of references
The
following sections give a brief overview of the main elements of an article.
Please read these first. You can find more detail in our LaTeX and Word
guidelines which are presented in the style of a typical article, and offer
suggestions on how to format a manuscript.
Title
page
Title
of article
The
title should be concise, informative and meaningful to the whole readership of
the journal. Please avoid the use of long systemic names and non-standard
abbreviations, acronyms or symbols.
Authors
and addresses
Author
lists should be finalised prior to submission (for more information on this
please consult our Ethical Policy for Journals). For articles with several
authors, please list the names of all the authors first, followed by the full
postal addresses, using superscript numeric identifiers to link an author with
an address where necessary.
ORCID
We
encourage you (and your co-authors) to register for an ORCID identifier and
connect it to your account in our submission and peer-review system. This
uniquely identifies you and connects you to your publication. This will help
ensure you get credit for your work, improve its discoverability, and help us
streamline the publishing process.
ORCID
identifiers supplied in this way will be included in published manuscripts, and
the publication lists in your ORCID record will then be automatically updated
via Crossref. (You will need to grant permission to Crossref the first time;
this will be requested via your ORCID inbox.)
Abstract
Your
abstract should give readers concise information about the content of your
article. It should be informative, accessible and not only indicate the general
scope of the article but also state the main results obtained and conclusions
drawn. The abstract should be complete in itself - no table numbers, figure
numbers, references or equations should be referred to. It should be suitable
for direct inclusion in abstracting services and should not normally be more
than 150 words.
Main
text
It
is helpful for readers if your article is concise, but clarity is essential.
Short sentences and paragraphs make reading easier. You should aim for
consistency within your article in matters such as hyphenation and spelling.
All
acronyms and abbreviations should be clearly explained when they first appear
in the text, and all units used should be consistent throughout the article.
Article
structure
Introduction:
This should be concise and describe the nature of the problem under
investigation and its background. It should also set your work in the context
of previous research, citing relevant references. Introductions should expand
on highly specialised terms and abbreviations used in the article to make it
accessible for readers.
Methods:
This section should provide sufficient details of the experiment, simulation,
statistical test or analysis carried out to generate the results so that the
method can be repeated by another researcher.
Results:
The results section should detail the main findings and outcomes of your study.
You should use tables only to improve conciseness or where the information
cannot be given satisfactorily in other ways such as histograms or graphs.
Tables should be numbered serially and referred to in the text by number (table
1, etc.). Each table should have an explanatory caption which should be as
concise as possible.
Discussion:
This should discuss the significance of the results and compare them with
previous work using relevant references.
Conclusion:
This section should be used to highlight the novelty and significance of the
work, and any plans for future relevant work.
Acknowledgments
All
authors and co-authors are required to disclose any potential conflict of
interest when submitting their article. This information should be included in
an acknowledgments section at the end of the manuscript. All sources of
financial support for the project must also be disclosed in the acknowledgments
section.The name of the funding agency and the grant number should be given,
for example: 'This work was partially funded by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) through a National Cancer Institute grant R21CA141833.'
When
completing the online submission form, we also ask you to select funders (from
the FundRef Registry) and provide grant numbers in order to help you to meet
your funder requirements. For more information about FundRef, please see:
crossref.org/fundref.
References
It
is vitally important that you fully acknowledge all relevant work. You should
also consult our Ethical Policy for Journals for general guidance on compiling
your reference list.
A
reference should give your reader enough information to locate the article
concerned and should consist of:
author
name(s) and initials
year
of publication
title
of the journal or book
the
volume number
for
books: town of publication and the name of the publisher
and
finally the article number or page numbers.
Where
there are up to ten authors, all authors’ names should be given in the
reference list. Where there are more than ten authors, only the first name
should appear, followed by et al.
You
should take particular care to ensure that the information is correct so that
links to referenced articles can be made successfully. Material which is really
a footnote to the text should not be included in the reference list, which
should contain only references to bibliographic data. Copies of cited
publications not yet available publicly should be submitted for the benefit of
the referees. Unpublished results and lectures should be cited for exceptional
reasons only. Before submitting your article, please ensure you have done a
literature search to check for any relevant references you may have missed.
Reference
systems
Van
İlahiyat Dergisi – Van Journal of Divinity requires writers to use the
Isnad Citation Style: http://www.isnadsistemi.org
First citation: author(s) first name and last name,
title, (if applicable) first and last name of translator or editor, place of
publication, publisher, date of publication, page number.
Subsequent citations: author’s last name, the short title,
and the page number should be indicated in all subsequent citations. Footnote
citations should conform to the following examples.
References: References should be placed at the end of
the text in alphabetical order. If a source has more than one author, the
surname, and name of the first author should be written, and the other authors
should be indicated by et.al. The titles of books and journals should be
italicized; article titles and book chapters should be placed in quotation
marks. Translator’s and editor’s names (if there are any) should follow the
title of the work:
BOOK
a) One Author:
1. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A
Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006), 99–100.
2. Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma, 3.
Bibliography:
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A
Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.
b) Two Authors
1. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An
Intimate History 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 52.
2. Ward and Burns, War, 59–61.
Bibliography:
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. The War: An
Intimate History 1941–1945. New York: Knopf, 2007.
c) Three or More Authors
For three or more authors, list all of the authors in
the bibliography; in the note, list only the first author, followed by et al.
(“and others”):
1. Mitchell L. Eisen, Jodi A. Quas, and Gail S.
Goodman, eds., Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic
Interview (Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Assoicates, 2002), 65.
2. Eisen and et al., Memory and Suggestibility in
the Forensic Interview, 67.
Bibliography:
Eisen, Mitchell L., Jodi A. Quas, and Gail S. Goodman,
eds. Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic Interview. Mahwah, NJ: L.
Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
d) Translation
1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of
Cholera, trans. Edith Grossman (London: Cape, 1988), 242–55.
2. Marquez, Cholera, 33.
Bibliography:
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Love in the Time of
Cholera. Translated by Edith Grossman. London: Cape, 1988.
e) Chapter or Other Part of a Book
1. John D. Kelly, “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax
Americana, and the Moral Economy of War,” in Anthropology and Global
Counterinsurgency, ed. John D. Kelly et al (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2010), 77.
2. Kelly, “Seeing Red,” 81–82.
Bibliography:
Kelly, John D. “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax
Americana, and the Moral Economy of War.” In Anthropology and Global
Counterinsurgency, edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T.
Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton, 67–83. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
ARTICLE
a)Printed
1. Joshua I. Weinstein, “The Market in Plato’s
Republic,” Classical Philology 104 (2009): 440.
2. Weinstein, “Plato’s Republic,” 452–53.
Bibliography:
Weinstein, Joshua I. “The Market in Plato’s
Republic.” Classical Philology 104 (2009): 439–58.
b) Online
1. Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, “Origins of
Homophily in an Evolving Social Network”, American Journal of
Sociology 115 (2009): 411, accessed February 28, 2010, doi:10.1086/599247.
2. Kossinets and Watts, “Origins of Homophily,” 439.
Bibliography:
Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. “Origins of
Homophily in an Evolving Social Network.” American Journal of
Sociology 115 (2009): 405–50. Accessed February 28, 2010.
doi:10.1086/599247.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
For encylopedia entries, the author’s name and surname
are written first. These are followed by the title of the entry in quotation
marks, the full name of the encyclopedia, , the place and date of publication,
its volume number and page numbers:
1. As’ad Abukhalil, “Maronites,” in Encyclopedia
of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, ed. Philip Mattar, 2nd ed., vol. 3
(New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004), 1491-92.
2. Abukhalil, “Maronites,” 1492.
Bibliography:
Abukhalil, As’ad. “Maronites.” In Encycloedia or
the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Philip Mattar. 2nd ed. Vol.
3. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1491-92.
DISSERTATION
For theses and dissertations, the following order
should be followed: name of the author and surname, full title of thesis in
italics, thesis type, the name of the university and date.
1. Mihwa Choi, “Contesting Imaginaires in Death
Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty” (PhD diss., University of Chicago,
2008), 55.
2. Choi, “Contesting Imaginaires,” 59.
Bibliography:
Choi, Mihwa. “Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals
during the Northern Song Dynasty.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008.
The
Isnad Citation Style: http://www.isnadsistemi.org
Figures
Carefully
chosen and well-prepared figures, such as diagrams and photographs, can greatly
enhance your article. We encourage you to prepare figures that are clear, easy
to read and of the best possible quality. Characters should appear as they
would be set in the main body of the article. We will normally use figures as
submitted; it is, therefore, your responsibility to ensure that they are
legible and technically correct.
How
to submit a new article
Please
submit all new articles via the 'Submit an article' link on the journal
homepage. Please ensure that you enter all the required information about your
article and all its authors before uploading your files. You are required to
select some keywords for your article. Please note that, if your article is
accepted for publication, we will display these keywords on the published
article. Authors may propose preferred (and non-preferred) referees on
submission. The suggested referees should have suitable subject expertise and
not have any conflicts of interest (please see the Peer Review policy for
further information on conflict of interest). These suggestions will be
considered; however, the editorial staff and/or the Editorial Board will make
the final decision regarding referee selection.
If
you are a new author, you will need to set up an author account before
submitting your first article. Using the Author Centre, you will be able to
track the progress of your article, respond to the referee reports, and submit
your revised version.
When
submitting a new article, we only require you to upload a single PDF file and
any relevant supplementary data at this stage. The PDF should contain your
complete manuscript, including any embedded figures and tables. You may upload
your article from the arXiv directly by entering the arXiv e-print number.
Please also submit any permissions that you have already obtained at this
stage.
If
you experience any problems submitting your article online, please contact the
journal team for assistance: vanyyuifd@yyu.edu.tr
How
to prepare your revised article
It
is common for our referees to request that authors make revisions to their
articles. If you are asked to submit a revised version of your article, in
addition to article files, we require a list of changes made and a
point-by-point response (even if you disagree) to each referee comment before
we consider the revision. We recommend that authors copy each referee comment
into a separate document and add a response below each comment (and refer to
the manuscript line numbers when referring to changes in the main text) to
assist our staff and referees with checking revisions as quickly as possible.
If the referee(s) and Editorial Board are not satisfied with the changes to
your manuscript, it may still be rejected at this stage. Please make sure that
you send your revised article to us and not simply the original version again.
By observing these guidelines you will be assisting the referees, who give up
their time to review manuscripts.
How
to submit a revised article
Please
submit all revised submissions via the link in the e-mail you received
informing you of the decision and asking you to make the revisions.
When
submitting a revised article, we require you to upload the revised PDF file
(deleting the original version) and your latest set of source files used to
create the revised PDF. In addition, you will need to submit your
point-by-point response to the referees. You will subsequently be asked to
complete and submit the online assignment of copyright form if you have not
done so already.
If
you experience any problems submitting your article online, please contact the
journal team for assistance: vanyyuifd@yyu.edu.tr
What
we do with articles after acceptance
After
acceptance your article will be copy-edited and typeset, using the source files
that you have provided, and a proof will be produced.
Proofs
We
will contact you by e-mail when the PDF proof of your article is ready for you
to check.
You
should check your proof carefully and return corrections using the web page
provided. This is the most efficient way to send them to us. Please supply an
annotated PDF file using the strikethrough, replacement text and insert text
functions. For other changes, please add a sticky note. Please ensure all
changes are visible via the ‘Comments’ list in the annotated PDF so that your
corrections are not missed.
Please
do not resupply a new source file because it is difficult to identify
corrections and some could be missed.
The
ultimate responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of the published article
rests with you. If proofs reach you during an absence of which we have not been
informed, or if the proofs are not returned sufficiently quickly, we may
publish the article without your corrections.
When
checking your proofs you should take particular care checking mathematics,
tables, and references. Only essential corrections should be made. You should
provide new files if figures need correction. We recommend that you check the
accuracy of your original diagrams very carefully before submission; we cannot
accept responsibility for any errors in original diagrams.
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