PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES

Erdem, published by Presidency of Ataturk Culture Centre, is a peer-reviewed international journal that includes articles in the field of human and social sciences. It is published twice a year, in June and December.

The articles to be published are required to comply with scientific research criteria, to bring an innovation to the field and not to be published elsewhere. Papers presented at a scientific meeting may be accepted, provided that they are unpublished.

Paper Assessment

Articles submitted to the journal are reviewed by the Editorial Board for compliance with the journal's principles. Those found appropriate for the principles are sent to referees. Authors take into consideration the referees' suggestions and make necessary corrections. However, they have the right to object to points they disagree with.

Articles approved for publication are sent to the authors in PDF format after the page layout is completed. The author reads for the last time and marks necessary corrections on the text sends it back to the journal.

The responsibility for the opinions in the articles belongs to the authors.

Erdem Journal is prepared and published using public resources; it does not charge authors any fees and pays royalties to authors and reviewers in accordance with the provisions of the Atatürk Supreme Council for Culture, Language and History’s Copyright, Publication and Sales Regulations.

Publication Language

The primary publication language of the journal is Turkish.

However, scientific articles written in English and other Turkic dialects may also be included in each issue, not exceeding one-fifth of the journal. The articles to be sumbitted to the journal must be free from any defects related to the use of academic language.

WRITING RULES

Writing Rules and Page Layout

• Manuscripts should be written in MS Word or compatible programs. Times New Roman font should be used. Manuscripts should be written in 12-point font with 1.5 line spacing, and pages should be numbered. Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words. Special characters should not be used, and transcription symbols, if any, should be indicated in a way that allows editing.

• The author's name, surname, title, institution, email address, ROR ID, and ORCID number should be written in normal font in a footnote.

• The title of the article should be consistent with the content, written in bold, and should not exceed 10 words.

• At the beginning of the article, there should be a Turkish extended abstract consisting of 350 to 400 words, followed by an English abstract. Below the abstracts, written in 12-point font, there should be 5 to 8 keywords listed in descending order of generality.

• Headings should be written in bold. The use of subheadings in long articles is helpful for the reader. It is recommended that main headings be numbered 1., 2., and subheadings be numbered 1.1., 1.2., 2.1., 2.2. Subheadings should be written in bold and lowercase letters.

• The visual title should be written in bold and italics below the Photograph/Drawing/Figure/Table used in the article. This should be followed by a colon. For example: Photograph:

• Photos included in the article must be submitted in high resolution (600 dpi / 2000–3000 px) and in a format suitable for printing.

• References must be made to visual material used in the text. References should be indicated in parentheses (Photo / Drawing / Figure 1, etc.) and the number of the relevant visual should be provided. If references are made to multiple images, the relevant numbers should be indicated separately with a hyphen (Photo 1-2, etc.).

• Expressions that need to be emphasized in the text are shown “in quotation marks”; italics or bold characters are not used. Double emphasis, such as writing both “in quotation marks” and in italics or both bold and italics, is not used.

• Direct quotations are given in quotation marks. When quotations are longer than 4 lines, the block quotation method is used. Paragraph indents are made using the tab command; block quotations are written two tabs in. The font size is not changed in block quotations; they are written in 12 point font.

• In writing, the TDK Spelling Guide is followed except in special cases.

• If the articles are derived from a thesis, project, or presented as a paper, this must be stated on the first page of the article.

• For multi-authored works, authors must submit a statement of contribution and a conflict of interest declaration during the article submission process.

• When submitting an article, if the work has received support from any institution, organization, or fund, this support must be clearly stated. Additionally, if there are individuals, institutions, or organizations that deserve acknowledgment, the relevant information must be clearly included in the article file.

• If artificial intelligence-based tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly, etc.) were used during the article production process, the stages in which they were used must be clearly stated. This information must be provided during the article submission process. All responsibility for the use of Artificial Intelligence lies with the authors.

• For articles requiring Ethics Committee approval, such approval must be obtained and this approval (committee name, date, and number) must be stated on the first page of the article and in the methods section. For studies requiring Ethics Committee approval, please review the Journal's Ethical Principles and Publication Policy.

• The legal responsibility for articles published in the journal lies with the authors.

Citation Format

• Consistency in methodology is essential when writing footnotes and references. Titles of long works (books, journals, newspapers, etc.) are italicised, while titles of short works (articles, stories, poems, etc.) are written in quotation marks. Furthermore, it is recommended that footnotes be used only for additional information that cannot be included in the text:

• References within the text are written in parentheses as follows: the author's surname, the year of publication, and the page number (Köprülü 1932: 120).

If the author's name has already been mentioned in the sentence, it does not need to be repeated in parentheses: (1932: 120).

• In publications with multiple authors, the names are indicated in the text as follows: (Jameson and Habermas, Lyotard 1990).

• If a work has an editor, translator, preparer, or publisher, they must be indicated in the citation.

• When citing texts from electronic sources, those with specified authors, titles, and publication dates should be used. In addition, the access date should be indicated in parentheses in the citation information.

• The use of secondary sources should be avoided in accessible sources.

• Works that are not cited should definitely not be included in the References section.

• References should be listed at the end of the text in alphabetical order by the authors' surnames as follows. The publishers of the works should be clearly stated and the page ranges of the articles should be indicated.

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