Writing Rules

Manuscripts are accepted in the Turkish, English and French languages.

For special issue proposals, the editors of the journal should be directly contacted via e-mail.

Manuscripts including the bibliography and appendices should be between 6,000-8,000 words for research and review articles, and 2,500 words for book reviews and editorial letters.

Manuscripts should be prepared with 12-point Times New Roman characters and 1.0 line spacing.

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal via the DergiPark system: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/marmarasbd

The name of the author(s) should be written right below the title of the manuscript (right aligned). The name, institution, e-mail address and ORCID of the author(s) should be indicated with a separate footnote to be inserted at the bottom of the first page.

Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title, author(s), abstract, keywords, main text and bibliography.

Manuscripts should include an English (or French) abstract in addition to a Turkish abstract (200-250 words) that summarize the objective, scope, main findings and methodology.

Manuscripts should include at least five keywords both in English (or French) and Turkish.

Articles that are written in the Turkish language should additionally include an "executive summary" (800-1,000 words) in the English language which indicate the objective, scope, methodology and main findings of the research. The executive summary should be placed at the very end of the manuscript.

The 7th version of the APA (American Psychological Association) source style must be used for in-text quoting and citation. For detailed information about the APA 7 style: https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf.

Manuscripts should be divided into clearly defined and numbered sections.

DOI (if applicable) should be added for all references that are cited in the bibliography.

If necessary, author(s) should submit a statement obtained from the research ethics committee or institutional review board indicating their approval of the research.