Writing Rules

Wheat Studies journal publishes peer-reviewed scientific articles and reviews in English every 6 months.

Plagiarism rates of the articles sent to our journal are determined with the iThenticate program. Articles with a similarity rate of 15% are returned to the author.

The work done in the article must have been carried out in the last 10 years.

As the first author, a maximum of two articles of an author are published.

ORCID Numbers of all authors in the article should be written.

The works are not published in the articles without the changes requested by the referees had been done.

All articles, should be written in 12-pt and "Arial" font type and text should be justified to both side. The pages’ margins should be 3 cm from left & right, 2.5 cm from head & bottom. The article should not exceed 15 pages.

Article title should be short, descriptive and not exceeded 20 words. All words in the title should be bold, centered and in Calibri 18-pt at the same font of the text with initial capital only except connectors and pre-position words.

Author Name(s) should start one row after the title and font size of name(s) in upper and lower case letters, surname(s) in capitals, should be adjusted to Arial 11-pt, without personal title. Names must be numbered with superscripts, at the next line the organization and e-mail(s) should be informed with referred number(s) in 9-pt.

Section and sub sections in the articles; should be formed as Introduction, Material and Methods, Research Findings, Results, Discussion and References. Research Findings and Discussion sections can be merged. In that case, the Conclusion section should be given. For the reviews, abstract, introduction and references section must be exist; author can give additionally suitable titles. All headings must be bold, and only the first letter must be uppercase in the section headings (lowercase in sub-headings), all sub-headings should be typed italic also. One line should be spaced between Headings and text. In the article all paragraph should be started 1 cm indent from the main text but headings placed without any indent.

In the reviews, there should be Abstract, Introduction and Bibliography sections, besides these, appropriate titles can be given by the author. Introduction 1 and other headings should be numbered as 2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 3, 3.1, 3.1.1 etc. All titles should be bold and only the main section titles should start with capital letters, and the subsection titles should be written in italics with lowercase letters. A blank line should be left between all titles and text. While starting the paragraphs, 1 cm indent space should be left on the left side of the texts, and the headings should not be indented.

Separating for the decimals, dot (.) for the thousands a space ( ) should be used (e.g. 3.45 kg; 2 365 485 da).

The abstracts in both English should be no longer than 300 words. Abstracts should start one row after the author name(s) and should be written in 10-pt. Before English abstract, article title also should be written in English with bold, centered. Additionally, minimum 3, maximum 5 keywords should be added after the abstracts in abstract’s language.

Figures and graphs in the article should be mentioned as “Figure”, titles of the tables should be located at the top and graphs at the bottom. Tables and Figures must be numbered consecutively and separately from each other. Titles of the tables and figures must be Arial 11 pt, contents must be 10-pt and only the first letter must be uppercase in the first word and lowercase at the rest. Vertical lines should not be used in tables unless required.

The bibliographic references should be given within the text and placed in parenthesis by author surname and the publication year referred as (Demir ve ark., 2011), (Jackson et al., 2013), (Ayyıldız, 2013) or Celik (2012). The bibliography should be written in Arial 9-pt and ordered alphabetically by authors’ surname and chronologically for two or more works by the same author.

Abbreviations and symbols should be explained where they are used in the text for the first time. Internationally accepted and commonly used abbreviations should be preferred. The units should be given according to the International System of Units (SI).

References should be prepared in APA style.

Edited Book: Misdorp, W. (2002). Tumors of the Mammary Gland. Meuten, D. J. (Ed). Tumors in Domesric Animal (4th ed.). 575-578, Iowa State Press, A Blackwell Publishing Company.
Trent, A., Ducharme, N., Fubini, S. ve Steiner, A. (2017). Surgery of the Calf Gastrointestinal System. Fubini, S. L., Ducharme, N. (Eds). Farm Animal Surgery. 2nd ed., 505-518, Elsevier Health Sciences, St. Louis.

Elektronic Book : Georgievski, V. I., Annenkov, B. N., Samokhin, V. T. (1982). Mineral nutrition of animals. 475, Butterworth-Heinemann, London, Boston. https://www.worldcat.org/title/mineral-nutrition-of-animals/oclc/881853591

Article from Printed Journal : 

Marino, L., Allen, K, (2017). The psychology of cows. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 4(4), 474-498. https://dx.doi.org/10.26451/abc.04.04.06.2017.

Elektronic Article: Fanatico, A. (2009). Raising dairy heifers on pasture. National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service. https://attra.ncat.org/product/raising-dairy-heifers-on-pasture/. Erişim Tarihi: 11.07.2020.

Godden, S. M., Hazel, A. (2011). Relationship between milking fraction and immunoglobulin G concentration in first milking colostrum from holstein cows. The Bovine Practitioner. DOI: 10.21423/bovine-vol45no1p64-69.

Article from Elektronic Journal:Güngör, A., Kara, D. (2020). Investigation of seasonal and cooking effects on the bioaccessibility of elements in most consumed fish in Turkey. Turk. J. Fish.& Aquat. Sci., 20(5), 375-386, DOI: 10.4194/1303-2712-v20_5_06.

Theses, Presentations, Posters:Conner, S. (2002). Characterization of guar meal for use in poultry ration. (PhD Thesis). Texas A&M Univ., College Station, Texas.

For the sources utilized in electronic addresses, the URL to which the Source can be accessed must be provided.

Articles should be sent via Sent Manuscript menu at the https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/bdbad website.

Filled and signed "Journal Manuscript Submission and Copyright Transfer Agreement" which can be obtained from the annex of our magazine or Dergipark website, should be sent with the manuscript after scanned.

Published journals and manuscripts can be reached at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/bdbad.