LANGUAGE

The language of the journal is both Turkish and American English.

All correspondence will be sent to the first-named author unless otherwise specified. Manuscpript is to be submitted online via https://dergipark.org.tr/iuifd and it must be accompanied by a cover letter indicating that the paper is intended for publication and specifying for which section of the Journal it is being submitted (i.e., original article, review article, letter to the editor). In addition, a copyright transfer form that has to be signed by all authors must be submitted.

1. The manuscripts should be in A4 paper standards: having 2.5 cm margins from right, left, bottom and top, Times New Roman font style in 10 font size and line spacing of 1.5.

2. The manuscripts should contain between 4500 and 8500 words and the page numbers must be at the bottom and in the middle.

3. The name(s) of author(s) should be given just beneath the title of the study aligned to the right. Also the affiliation, title, e-mail and phone of the author(s) must be indicated on the bottom of the page as a footnote marked with an asterisk (*).

4. Before the introduction part, there should be an abstract between 180 and 200 words in Turkish and English  and an extended abstract only in English between 600-800 words, summarizing the scope, the purpose, the results of the study and the methodology used. Underneath the abstracts, three keywords that inform the reader about the content of the study should be specified in Turkish and in English.

5. The manuscripts should contain mainly these components: title, abstract and keywords; extended abstract, sections, footnotes and references.

6. Research article sections are ordered as follows: “Introduction”, “Aim and Methodology”, “Findings”, “Discussion and Conclusion”, “Endnotes” and “References” and “Tables and Figures”. For review and commentary articles, the article should start with the “Introduction” section where the purpose and the method is mentioned, go on with the other sections; and it should be finished with “Discussion and Conclusion” section followed by “Endnotes”, “References” and “Tables and Figures”. 

7. Tables, graphs and figures can be given with a number and a defining title if and only if it is necessary to follow the idea of the article. Otherwise features like demographic characteristics can be given within the text.  

8. All the manuscripts submitted for publication should have a cover page. On this cover page, the fully descriptive title of the manuscript and  affiliation, title, e-mail address, postal address, phone and fax number of the author(s) should be indicated. 

9. A document of consent for the publication of the author’s article should be signed and sent with the article. The document should be written as the example in below:

To Istanbul University Presidency,

University Editorial Commission Presidency,

I permit my article titled “…………………” included in number …. of Faculty of Communication

Journal which will be published by Istanbul University Presidency to be published according to

the Intercollegiate Publishing Statute rules.

Title, First Name/Last Name

Signature

10. Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work submitted to the Journal for publication.

11. The author(s) can be asked to make some changes in their articles due to peer reviews.

12. A copy of the journal will be sent to each author of the accepted articles upon their request.

13. The studies that were sent to the journal will not be returned whether they are published or not. 

14. Publication rights belong to Istanbul University Faculty of Communication and they cannot be published anywhere else. The authors will not be paid for the rights of their article.