a) General Rules

1- YUVA's publication languages ​​are Turkish and English. If the Editors and Editorial Board deem it appropriate, articles in different languages ​​may be published.
2- Submitted articles must comply with the grammar rules. In Turkish studies, the current Turkish Language Association (TDK) Writing Guide should be taken as basis, and for articles in foreign languages, the grammar rules of that language should be taken as basis.
3- At the beginning of the article uploaded to the system, there should be a Turkish and English abstract and keywords consisting of 3-6 words under the abstracts. Submitted abstracts should not be less than 150 words and should not exceed 300 words. The main text, conclusion and bibliography sections must be included.
4- Articles sent to the journal must be scanned by the author in the iThenticate program; and the similarity report to be received must be uploaded to the system together with the submitted article without any filtering. YUVA, which has a multidisciplinary nature, should not exceed 20% with a similarity rate excluding sources. The evaluation of the reports belongs to the Editorial Board.
5- If the article is derived from any thesis, conference paper or other scientific study, it should be indicated in a footnote to the title of the article and the details of the derived study should be included (if the article is derived from a thesis, the title of the study should be included along with the name of the university, institute, department and advisor; if it is a paper presented at a congress or symposium but not published, the title of the article, presentation date, symposium/congress name).
6- In studies supported by a research institution/organization (BAP, TUBITAK, Ministry of Development etc.), the name of the institution/organization and the project in question, if any, the date and number should be indicated in a footnote.
7- In book reviews and critiques, the imprint of the book in question (printing date, number of editions, place of publication information) should be included.
8- Members who send/will send articles to our journal should also add the ORCID Number to their user ID information.
9- By sending their work to YUVA for publication, authors transfer their copyrights to YUVA Journal, which is affiliated with the Social Sciences University of Ankara. To do this, they must fill out the “Copyright Transfer Form” on the journal’s homepage with a wet signature and upload it to the system. The copyright of the published work belongs to the journal and cannot be transferred without reference.

10- The copyright of the images used by the authors in their work belongs to the author. The copyright and responsibility for the images used belong to the author.

11- The scientific, content, language and legal responsibility of the works published in YUVA belong to the author(s).

b) Writing Rules

Paper Size A4 Vertical
Top Margin 2.5 cm
Bottom Margin 2.5 cm
Left Margin 2.5 cm
Right Margin 2.5 cm
Font Type Times News Roman
Font Style Normal
Font Size (normal text) 12
Font Size (footnote text) 10
Table-graph 10
Paragraph Indent (First Line) 1 cm
Paragraph Spacing 6 pt before, then 0 pt (0 pt before and after in tables and graphs)
Line Spacing (1.5)
References Hanging and indent 0.63 cm, Alignment: Justify on both sides, Spacing 6 pt before, then 0 pt, line spacing 1.5 cm.

1- The article should be written in Microsoft Word environment in A4 paper format.
2- The paper layout should be adjusted to be 2.5 cm from left and right, 2.5 cm from top and bottom.

3- The entire article (author information, article name, abstract, introduction, titles, conclusion, bibliography) should be in “Times New Roman” font, written in 12-point font, and the studies should be submitted by adding the page number to the bottom right corner.

4- In articles where a special font is used, the author should add the special font file to the submission file.

5- The first title should be written in the language in which the text is written, in 13-point font, the second title/titles should be written in 12-point font, all in capital letters, centered and bold.

6- The main title and subtitles can be numbered up to four levels as 1., 1.1, 1.1.2,1.3, 1.4 if deemed necessary.

7- Tables, pictures and figures should not extend beyond the page, and the text inside should be in 10-point font and single-spaced. Figures and tables should be numbered and named according to their content.

8- The format used for referencing is determined as APA7 (American Psychological Association). In citations and the bibliography section, authors should follow the writing rules and format specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association published by the American Psychological Association. For detailed information, see: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx.

9- The rules in the Turkish Language Association Guide should be taken as basis for the use of abbreviations.

10- Footnotes are used only for mandatory explanations and are added with the “References > Add Footnote” command in the MS Word program. The references here should be arranged in parentheses with the author’s surname, the publication year of the work, and the page number. Example: (Yılmaz, 2017, p. 13). The work/works used in the footnote should also be added to the bibliography.

11- Quotations should be given in quotation marks; Quotations of less than five lines are placed between the lines, more than five lines