Life Skills Journal of Psychology is a peer reviewed journal that involves both Turkish and English researchs in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, psychological counseling and guidance, social work, psychiatric nursing, child development, early childhood education and special education. Life Skills Journal of Psychology is being published twice a year, in June and December. However, in case of need, the journal publishes special issues as well. Life Skills Journal of Psychology is an open access journal. Life Skills Journal of Psychology receives submissions that are not previously published or sent for a submission. Life Skills Journal of Psychology does not pay a fee to the authors or reviewers for their submissions. Authors owns all of the copy rights of the articles. The first publication right belongs to the journal. Life Skills Journal of Psychology includes articles and all of the responsibilities of those articles belongs to the authors.
Life Skills Journal of Psychology accepts, such as research article, case report, review, conference paper, thesis paper, letter to the editor, book review, systematic reviews and meta analysis. The research that has been presented in an conference or convention but the whole text has not been published in the conference book, can be submitted, yet the name, place, and the date of the conference must be stated as a footnote in the first page. If the research is a masters or doctorate thesis, this detail must be expressed in a footnote in the first page. Life Skills Journal of Psychology evaluates articles for their scientific content and ethical rules with their ethics committee, and then sends to two different reviewers. Double blind peer review system is used in the journal when evaluating an article. Author does not know which judge is reviewing their article, and the judges also do not know whose article that they are evaluating. Editor is responsible for this confidentiality. The articles get published when both judges state positive feedbacks. In case of a negative feedback from one of the judges, the article gets sent to a third judge. The articles that are reviewed early and accepted are published under the title of preview. Life Skills Journal of Psychology requires articles to follow American Psychological Association (APA)6th edition when they use in text citation, table, and references. For a research to be evaluated, it must contain less than 15% of citation except the abstract and refences sections. Life Skills Journal of Psychology accepts articles from authors who edits their papers accordingly to the punctuation rules and then login to the system of dergipark. Then, the authors should submit their papers through the submissions section. The articles that do not follow the rules of the template will not be evaluated at all.
In the whole text, only the first letter of titles should be capitalized, and any title should not be numbered. The order of the article should be followed the introduction, theoretical framework, literature review, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, and references. The article should be in A4 size, single-spaced, Cambria and 12 pts. Subtitles should be 12 pts and bold. Margins for the top, bottom, and sides should be 3 cm. Paragraph spacing must be 6 pts for both before and after paragraph. Paragraphs should not be indented.
1. Turkish Title: The title of the article should be written in the most descriptive way, and it should be 14 pts and bold. It should not be written all capitalized.
2. Name and Surname of the author(s) should be placed after the Turkish Title. It should be 12 pts and bold. Also, at the bottom of the first page, authors' names, titles, company name, and e-mail address should be placed as a footnote. The size of the footnote should be 8 pts. When the name of the company is written, the whole name should be spelled out. Authors should avoid abbreviations.
3. Turkish Abstract: Title of the abstract should be 10 pts and bold. Also, the abstract itself should be 10 pts and justified text. Must be 225-250 words. This section should include the abstract of the research. The abstract should compromise where the research has been done, size of the sample, materials, statistical analyses, and results. The title of the Key Words should be 10 pts and bold, and the keywords themselves should be 10 pts. Keywords should have only first letter capitalized.All of the keywords should be italicized except the title. The list of keywords should include minimum 3 maximum 5 words. Also, when the keywords are listed, comma (,) should be used.
4. English Title: The title of the article should be written in the most descriptive way, and it should be 14 pts and bold. It should not be written all capitalized.
5. English Abstract: Title of the abstract should be 10 pts and bold. Also, the abstract itself should be 10 pts and justified text. Must be 225-250 words. This section should include the abstract of the research. The abstract should compromise where the research has been done, size of the sample, materials, statistical analyses, and results. The title of the Key Words should be 10 pts and bold, and the keywords themselves should be 10 pts. Keywords should have only first letter capitalized.All of the keywords should be italics except the title. The list of keywords should include minimum 3 maximum 5 words. Also, when the keywords are listed, comma (,) should be used.
6. Introduction: In this section, the researcher should mention the importance of the topic. The problem that will be discussed in the article should be explained clearly.
7. Theoretical Framework: Every variable should be explained separately in a theoretical framework.
8. Literature Review: the Previous literature of both domestic and international research should be included.
9. Methods: This section should include the type of research, sample, measurement tools and statistical analysis used. Subheadings should not be numbered. Names of the scale should be given in 12 pts and italic type.
10. Results: This section should compromise the results and tables. The titles of the tables should be capitalized the first letter only, 12 pts, and bold. In the tables, again only the first letters should be capitalized and 8 pts. When using a table, the authors should follow APA 6th edition style.
11. Discussion and Conclusion: In this section, the authors should evaluate their research and compare with previous research. Also, implications and future suggestions should also be placed in this section.
12. In-text Citations and References: APA style must be used. The references should be intended for 0.6 cm after the line.
Single-Author Book
Miklowitz, D. (2011). The bipolar disorder survival guide (Second Edition), The Guilford Pres.
Two Authors Book
Fraenkel, J.R. and Norman, E.W. (2008). How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education. 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston, p.362.
Book with Editor
In J.A. Smith. (2007). (Ed), Qualitative psychology: A practical guide to research methods. London: Sage.
A Chapter from a book with Editor
Young, J.E. (1982). Loneliness, depression and cognitive therapy: Theory and application. In L.A. Peplau & D. Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness: A sourcebook of current theory, research and therapy (p.379-406). New York: Wiley.
Masters or Doctorate Theses
Boyll, J.R. (1986). The effects of active exercise and passive muscle stimulation on self-concept, anxiety and depression. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Articles
Li, X., Stanton, B., & Feigelman, S. (2000). Impact of perceived parental monitoring on adolescent risk behavior over 4 years. Journal of Adolescent Health, 27(1), 49-56.
Assertations
Weissman, A.N., & Beck, A.T. (1978). Development and validation of the dysfunctional attitude sclale preliminary investigation. Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. p33, 27-31 March 1978. Toronto, Canada.
Websites
World Health Organization. (2004). The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-BREF [Questionnaire]. Retrieved May 7, 2008, from http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/research_tools/en/ english_whoqol.pdf
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