Writing Rules

Practical Guide


  • Researchers have to submit their articles via Dergipark platform.
  • When uploading, you must to upload two types of files: (1) “title page file”; (2) "anonymous main text file"
  • (1) The “title page file” must includes following information:
    • abstract, the author's/authors’ name and surname, institution, department, city, country, e-mail address/addresses, keywords, JEL codes and the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s).
  • (2) The "anonymous main text file" must includes only following elements:
    • paper body and abstract (100-200 words)
  • Make sure that the abstract section is between 100 and 200 words. Please provide 4 to 6 keywords for indexing purposes.
  • At least one JEL code must be provided.
  • The journal undertakes blind peer review. Requirements for review;
    • You should submit a “title page file” (Please check “Title Page” section below for further details) consisting of the abstract, the author's/authors’ name and surname, institution, department, city, country, e-mail address/addresses and the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s).
    • An “anonymous main text file” including abstract section, figures and tables, but without the author(s) information.
    • Please make sure the main text file and title page file are uploaded separately.
    • When uploading your "anonymous main text" file on DergiPark, you must submit your "anonymous main text" file to the “full text file” section of the "File Upload" step. Once you click on the 'Upload Supplementary File' button, you can submit your “Title Page” file.
  • Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
  • The journal undertakes the APA style. In-text references are like: (Samuelson, 1990), (Lee, 1991; Hamlin & Jerruti, 1974; Allison et al., 2007, 2014a, 2014b).
  • Upload the article file in Word format prepared in accordance with the template (you can find the template file on the journal’s Dergipark page). Optionally; figures, tables and charts may be submitted in a separate Excel file.

Industrial Policy follows Springer submission guidelines as below:


Only manuscripts that have not been published before can be submitted. The Editor will assume that all co-authors have agreed to the submission. Further, any funding agency or the institution that the authors are affiliated with or where they have partly or wholly carried out the research included in the paper will be assumed to have no objection to the publication of the paper. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation; all such responsibility will lie with the authors.

Manuscript contents
The manuscript outline should comply with the following order: (i) “Title page” including the abstract and author information (ii) An “anonymous main text” file including paper body, table/s and figure/s (iii) references
The journal undertakes blind peer review. Requirements for review;
• An “anonymous main text file, including figures and tables, but without the author(s) information,
• You must submit a “title page” file including the abstract and author information (author's name and surname, institution, department, city, country and e-mail address).
You have to send the main text and title page files separately via journal’s Dergipark platform.
Please read the full Author Guidelines before submitting your article, including the copyright section. Thank you for your interest in Industrial Policy.

Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Online Submission
Industrial Policy Journal is published through DergiPark, an online journal platform that supports open access. Articles are accepted through this platform. Once functioning, please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen. You can send your files online submission this link.
Link: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/3571/submission/step/manuscript/new
Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files. Failing to submit these source files might cause unnecessary delays in the review and production process.

Title Page
• The title page should include:
• The name(s) of the author(s)
• The title of the paper
• The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
• If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published)
• For authors who are (temporarily) unaffiliated with an official institution, we will only present their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested. However, their emails should still be provided in the title page.
• A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author and other authors
• If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)

Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 100 to 200 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Declarations
All manuscripts must contain the following sections under the heading 'Declarations'. If any of the sections are not relevant to your manuscript, please include the heading and write 'Not applicable' for that section.
• Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
• Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
• Availability of data and material (data transparency)
• Code availability (software application or custom code)
• Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are mandatory)
• Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
• Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
• Ethics approval (include appropriate approvals or waivers)
• Consent to participate (include appropriate statements)
• Consent for publication (include appropriate statements)
• Availability of data and material (data transparency)
• Code availability (software application or custom code)
• Authors' contributions (optional: please review the submission guidelines from the journal whether statements are mandatory)
Please see the relevant sections in the submission guidelines for further information as well as various examples of wording. Please revise/customize the sample statements according to your own needs.


Classification Codes
An appropriate number of JEL codes should be provided. This classification system is prepared and published by the Journal of Economic Literature, see
https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/jelCodes.php?view=jel


Body of the Article
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.
• Use 10-point Times Roman for text.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
• Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).


Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

Reference Citations
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:
• Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Samuelson, 1990).
• This result was later contradicted by Romer and Heshmati (1996).
• This effect has been widely studied (Lee, 1991; Hamlin & Jerruti, 1974; Allison et al., 2007, 2014a, 2014b).

Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work. Order multi-author publications of the same first author alphabetically with respect to second, third, etc. author. Publications of exactly the same author(s) must be ordered chronologically.

• Journal article
Jerrentrup, A., Mueller, T., Glowalla, U., Herder, M., Henrichs, N., Neubauer, A., & Schaefer, J. R. (2018). Teaching medicine with the help of “Dr. House.” PLoS ONE, 13(3).
Stegmeir, M. (2016). Climate change: New discipline practices promote college access. The Journal of College Admission, (231), 44–47. https://www.nxtbook.com/ygsreprints/NACAC/nacac_jca_spring2016/#/46

• Article by DOI
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
• Book
Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000
• Book Chapter
Kuhn, T. S. (1971). The priority of paradigms. In The structure of scientific revolutions (3rd ed.) (pp. 43-52). The University of Chicago Press.
• Online document
Cartwright, J. (2007). Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
• Dissertation
Kabir, J. M. (2016). Factors influencing customer satisfaction at a fast food hamburger chain: The relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty (Publication No. 10169573) [Doctoral dissertation, Wilmington University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Tables and Figures
• All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

Artwork and Illustrations Guidelines
Electronic Figure Submission
• Supply all figures electronically.
• Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
• For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MSOffice files are also acceptable.
• Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
• Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.

Line Art
• Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.
• Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size.
• All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
• Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
• Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.

Halftone Art
• Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.
• If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
• Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Combination Art
• Definition: a combination of halftone and line art, e.g., halftones containing line drawing, extensive lettering, color diagrams, etc.
• Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.

Color Art
• Color art is free of charge for online publication.
• If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main information will still be visible. Many colors are not distinguishable from one another when converted to black and white. A simple way to check this is to make a xerographic copy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different colors are still apparent.
• If the figures will be printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
• Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).

Figure Lettering
• To add lettering, it is best to use Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts).
• Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about 2–3 mm (8–12 pt).
• Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt type on an axis and 20-pt type for the axis label.
• Avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
• Do not include titles or captions within your illustrations.

• All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
• If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures,"A1, A2, A3, etc." Figures in online appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material) should, however, be numbered separately.

Figure Captions
• Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
• Figure captions begin with the term Figure. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
• No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
• Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
• Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption.
Figure Placement and Size
• Figures should be submitted separately from the text, if possible.
• When preparing your figures, size figures to fit in the column width.

Permissions

If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free and that INDPOL will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other sources should be used.
• Aspect ratio: 16:9 or 4:3
• Maximum file size: 25 GB
• Minimum video duration: 1 sec
• Supported file formats: avi, wmv, mp4, mov, m2p, mp2, mpg, mpeg, flv, mxf, mts, m4v, 3gp

Text and Presentations

• Submit your material in PDF and Word format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term viability. • A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.

Spreadsheets
• Spreadsheets should be submitted as .csv or .xlsx files (MS Excel). Spreadsheets should preferably be submitted in xlsx format.

Specialized Formats

• Specialized format such as .pdb (chemical), .wrl (VRML), .nb (Mathematica notebook), and .tex can also be supplied.

Collecting Multiple Files

• It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file. More than one file should preferably be collected in the zip file.

Numbering
• If supplying any supplementary material, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables.
• Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”.
• Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”.

Captions

• For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.
Processing of supplementary files
• Electronic supplementary material will be published as received from the author without any conversion, editing, or reformatting.

Accessibility
In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your supplementary files, please make sure that
• The manuscript contains a descriptive caption for each supplementary material
• Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)

English Language Editing
For editors and reviewers to accurately assess the work presented in your manuscript you need to ensure the English language is of sufficient quality to be understood. If you need help with writing in English you should consider:
• Asking a colleague who is a native English speaker to review your manuscript for clarity.
• Visiting the English language tutorial which covers the common mistakes when writing in English.
• Using a professional language editing service where editors will improve the English to ensure that your meaning is clear and identify problems that require your review. Two such services are provided by our affiliates Nature Research Editing Service and American Journal Experts. Springer authors are entitled to a 10% discount on their first submission to either of these services, simply follow the links below.
English language tutorial
Nature Research Editing Service
American Journal Experts
Please note that the use of a language editing service is not a requirement for publication in this journal and does not imply or guarantee that the article will be selected for peer review or accepted.
If your manuscript is accepted it will be checked by our copyeditors for spelling and formal style before publication.