Instructions for authors
Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to YEGAH. These instructions will provide we have everything required so your paper can keep going through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the YEGAH’s requirements.

Yegah Music Journal uses OJS to peer review manuscript submissions. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

About the Journal
Yegah Music Journal (Yegah) is a regional refereed journal which draws its contributions from a wide community of researchers. The main focus of the Yegah is firmly the analysis of Turkish music including Turkic world, eastern and Islamic civilization. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.

Publication Language
Please note that this journal publishes manuscripts in English and Turkish. Article Titles and Article Abstracts are both in English and Turkish. Extended abstract in English should be written for articles written in Turkish.

Yegah Music Journal accepts the following types of article: original research articles, reviews articles and book reviews.

It is the purpose of Yegah Music Journal to publish original articles representing a wide range of approaches to the study of music, including historical and archival studies, theory and analysis, anthropology of music, interdisciplinary explorations, critical and interpretive essays, and reports and reflections on Turkish music including Turkic world, eastern and Islamic civilization.

Peer Review and Ethics
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.

Peer review
YEGAH is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double-blind peer-reviewed by anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.

What is peer review, and what do you need to know as an author?
Step 1: Editor assessment
Peer review follows a number of stages, beginning with submitting your article to a journal. At this first stage, the journal editor will decide if it’s suitable for the journal, asking questions such as:

Has the author followed the journal’s guidelines?
Is this the right journal for this article?
Will the journal’s readers find it interesting and useful?
The editor might reject the article immediately, but otherwise, it will move to the next stage, and into peer review.
Step 2: Peer review
The editor will find and contact two or three other researchers or academics who are experts in your field. They will be asked to read your article and advise the editor whether to publish your paper in that journal.

So what are they looking for? This depends on the subject area, but they will be checking:
your work is original or new;
your study design and methodology are appropriate and described so that others could replicate what you’ve done;
you’ve presented your results clearly and appropriately;
your conclusions are reliable and significant;
the work is of a high enough standard to be published in the journal.

Ethics checklist
Before you submit, make sure:
You’ve read the journal’s instructions for authors, and checked and followed any instructions regarding data sets, ethics approval, or statements.
All authors have been named on the paper and the online submission form.
All material has been referenced in the text clearly and thoroughly.
Data has been carefully checked and any supplemental data required by the journal included.
Any relevant interests have been declared to the journal.
You’ve obtained (written) permission to reuse any figures, tables, and data sets.
You’ve only submitted the paper to one journal at a time.
You’ve notified all the co-authors that the paper has been submitted.

Preparing Your Paper
Title
(Trebuchet MS, 14 font size, bold, left-justified, only the first letter of the title is capital and the others are lower cases excluding special names) (Türkçe Yazım Klavuzu İçin Tıklayınız).

Author Affiliation Details
Names and institutional affiliations – including country – and addresses of all contributing authors are required.
Author’s Name and Surname1, Author’s Name and Surname2, left-justified (12 font size)
1Department, University, City, Country, full address, orcid, E-mail (8 font size)
2Department, University, City, Country, full address, orcid, E-mail (8 font size)

Abstract(11 font size): Abstract should be written with 8 font size, Trebuchet MS, justified, single line spacing. The objective, method, and findings are summarized in this section.

Keywords(11 font size)

this section should contain 5 words that are written in 10 font size and separated with commas, full italic and all lower case including names.

Heading 1 (11 font size, bold)

The introduction section should (1) present the scope and objective of the paper and state the problem, (2) briefly review the pertinent literature and (3) provide an overview of the main results of the work.

Heading 2
Heading 3
Methods
The methodology must be clearly stated and described in sufficient detail related to methods or with sufficient references.

Findings And Argument
The findings and arguments of the work should be explicitly described and illustrated. Supporting figures, tables and images of the results (no more than two figures and two tables) may be included in the extended abstract. All the tables, images and figures should be centered. Figures and images should be numbered (see Figure 1 for an example) and figure headers should be placed under the figure or image; as for the tables, they should also be numbered (see Table 1 for an example) and the table header should be placed at the top. References (if any) of the tables, figures, and images should be presented right under the tables, figures, and images in the form of author surname and publication date.

set your figure here.
Figure 1. Type your caption here

Table 1. Type your title here.
set your table here.
Conclusions
Conclusions should include (1) the principles and generalizations inferred from the results, (2) any exceptions to, or problems with these principles and generalizations, (3) theoretical and/or practical implications of the work, and (5) conclusions drawn and recommendations.

References
References should be listed in alphabetical order and presented in a format according to the Chicago Manual of Style: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

APA and Vancouver of reference styles are also welcome.

Bibliographic Information in Roman Script
Cited references, names, and affiliations must be published in Roman script.

Formatting and Templates
Papers may be submitted in Word format. Figures and tables should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s). PDF and Word templates are available for this journal.

Biographical note
Please supply a short biographical note for each author.

Figures
Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.

Submitting Your Paper
Yegah Music Journal uses Dergipark (OJS) to manage the peer-review process.

Publication Charges
There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

Copyright Options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission.

Content Access
Yegah is an open-access journal.
Queries
Should you have any queries, please contact with us.

Click on the link for the Spelling Rules. The file you will download is also a template prepared in accordance with the format of our journal. You can add your text. In order to download the Spelling Guide from here, you may need to be logged in with your Dergi Park subscription. If the download does not happen when you click with the left button, press the right button and download with the "Save link as" option. In addition, after you become a member, while sending the article, the "Writing Guide" of our journal will appear on the screen for you to download. You can also download it at that stage. We wish you good work.

Latest update: 23.06.2021 YMD Writing Guide