1. Writing Format & Rules
• Articles to be sent to the journal should be between 6000-10000 words, including footnotes and references.
• Book reviews to be sent to the journal should be between 1500-3000 words, including footnotes and references.
• Papers should be sent with Turkish and English abstracts of 150-250 words. There should be 5 keywords under the abstracts.
• Only the headline should be placed over the articles and abstracts.
• Authors must enter their title and institution information, e-mail address and ORCID numbers in the relevant places in the Dergipark system.
• Authors should not write any information about their names and institutions anywhere in the text, including sub-texts such as footnotes.
• If reference is made to the author (s) 'own works in the bibliography, instead of the name of the author (s), only the phrase "Author" should be written and the year should be specified, no other information about the author (s)' works (article title, book title, etc.) should be included.
• Manuscripts sent to the journal are accepted with the iThenticate or Turnitin report. As a result of the report, a similarity of maximum 15% is accepted. The journal secretariat can also take the similarity report. In case the rate exceeds 20%, the article can be sent back to the author along with the report.
• In articles produced from theses, 50% similarity is accepted at most. The author must state in the footnote that the article was produced from the thesis. If the similarity rate exceeds 50%, the article is sent to the author with the report.
• During the preliminary evaluation of the articles, it is checked whether they comply with the determined journal writing rules. Articles that do not comply with the writing, reference and bibliography rules are sent back to the authors, and they are requested to be sent to the Journal after the article would be prepared according to the writing rules.
• Manuscripts should be written in Microsoft Word format (doc or docx extension), Times New Roman font, 12 font size and 1.5 line spacing. Footnotes should be written in 9 font size and single line spacing.
• Footnotes should be indicated in numbers and placed at the end of the page.
• Headings/Titles:    
     • The main title of the article should be written in capital letters and bold.
     • Only the first letters of the subtitles should be written in capital and the entire subtitle should be written bold.
     • Headings within the section should be italicized with only the first letters capitalized.
• All titles should be left-justified and not numbered.
• Paragraphs should be adjacent to each other and 1 tab indented.
• Quotations should be in double-quotes if they are short, in blocks if they are 40 words or more, and should be inside 1 tab on the right and left. The font, font size and line spacing used in the main text are valid in quotations. In block citations, the line spacing should be 1.
• Single-digit numbers should be indicated by letters, larger numbers by numbers.
• The reading of the word in the appendices made to the abbreviations made with lowercase letters, and the reading of the last letter of the abbreviation should be taken as basis in the appendices made with capital letters.
• Dates should be indicated in numbers and an apostrophe should be used for the appendixes. (E.g. 1990s, in 2003)
• Images such as graphics, photographs, tables etc. used in the articles should be placed in appropriate places in the text. Such visuals should be listed as Table1, Table2 and Figure1, Figure2.
• In the articles, the explanation note should be given in the form of a footnote, not an endnote.

• After receiving approval from the referee process, the article should be prepared in accordance with the template.

2. Referencing

All the references should be given according to https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/iuchkd/page/5573