Authors must upload their manuscripts to the system in accordance with the journal’s article template. Manuscripts that do not comply with the template will be rejected by the editorial board without being sent for peer review.

Since the journal uses a double-blind peer review process, author information should not appear on the manuscript. This information will be added later by the editorial team upon acceptance. 👉 [Click here for the sample Author Information file.]

For manuscripts with multiple authors, the Contribution Statement and Conflict of Interest Statement provided in the link below must be uploaded to the system. 👉 [Click here for the declaration.]

Authors are expected to prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the guidelines below.

For detailed information about the journal’s policies—including editorial and ethical standards—please visit the Ethical Principles and Publication Policy page. Likewise, for detailed information about the journal, please visit the Aims and Scope page.

Formatting of manuscripts must comply with the guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual. Submissions must be made only through the journal's online submission and review system:

https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/etusentez. Submissions via other means or by non-authors will not be considered.

The Declaration of Contribution and Conflict Statement signed by all authors should be attached to the manuscripts to be sent to our journal via the Submit Manuscript link. Researchers submitting to the journal must prepare their work in accordance with internationally accepted ethical principles.

The responsibility for ensuring compliance with ethical and legal standards rests entirely with the authors. The editorial board reserves the right to request an ethics committee approval document, where applicable. Manuscripts found to violate publication ethics will not be reviewed. If the manuscript is derived from a thesis or another academic study, this must be indicated in a footnote on the first page of the article, just below the title.

Since manuscripts are forwarded to reviewers directly from the system without modification, author anonymity must be preserved. No identifying information should appear in the manuscript file or file name. Author information should only be entered in the Cover Page file.

Manuscripts must not exceed 10,000 words (approx. 20 pages), prepared in MS Word format, using Cambria, 11 pt.

References and appendices (if any) are excluded from the word count. Appendices must appear after the reference section.  Submissions that exceed the word limit will be reviewed at the discretion of the editorial board. The Turkish Language Association's current Spelling Guide must be used unless otherwise necessary. Page setup: A4, 1.15 line spacing, 4 cm top and bottom margins, 2.5 cm side margins. Paragraph indent: 1 cm. Paragraph spacing: 0 pt before, 6 pt after.

Studies should be titled in Turkish and English. Titles should consist of a maximum of 12 (twelve) words in 16-point font and all letters should be capitalized. All of the titles in the text should be written in bold with the first letter capitalized.

The Turkish and English abstracts of the manuscripts to be submitted for publication in the journal should not exceed 200 words. There should be at least 3 and at most 5 keywords and JEL codes under the abstract. Abstract and Abstract sections should be written in 11 font size and 1.15 line spacing.

Headings must be structured numerically with up to 4 levels:

First Level — Centered, Bold, Title Case; text begins on new line.

1.1 Second Level — Left-aligned, Bold, Title Case; text begins on new line.

1.1.1 Third Level — Left-aligned, Bold Italic, Title Case; text begins on new line.

1.1.1.1 Fourth Level — Bold, Title Case, ends with a colon; text continues on the same line.

Each must be numbered consecutively and not exceed page margins.

Sources should be cited below each item following in-text citation standards.

Table titles should be above; figure and graph titles below the item.

All figures and tables must be referenced and numbered in order in the main text.

If figures or visuals are adapted from other sources, they must be redesigned by the authors, not directly copied.

Images, graphics and photos should be submitted as separate files in TIFF or JPEG format and attached to the Word document. If an image has sub-units, the sub-units should be combined into a single image and the images should be labeled (a, b, c, etc.). The minimum resolution for each figure should be 300 DPI and figures should be clear and easy to read. Image descriptions should be listed at the end of the main document. Images/pictures should be referenced in the main text and numbered consecutively in the order in which they are mentioned.

Direct quotes under 5 lines should be shown in quotation marks or italicized. Quotes over 5 lines should be indented from the left, 11 pt, and enclosed in quotation marks. Footnotes should appear on the same page as the reference.

When citing, the most recent and up-to-date publications should be preferred along with the main sources. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references. Both in-text references and the bibliography section should be prepared according to the version of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7 published by the American Psychological Association, with the necessary revisions for the journal. In-text references should be cited with the author's last name and date of publication in parentheses.
Types of Articles
Research articles present new knowledge based on original research. Acceptance of research papers is usually based on the originality and significance of the research. The main text of a Research Article should be structured with the subheadings Introduction, Literature, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
Review Articles
Articles prepared by experts who have a background in the subject of the article and whose knowledge is reflected in the international literature in terms of the number of publications and citations are evaluated. Authors may also be invited by the journal. Reviews should provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge on a topic related to the subject of the journal and should include discussions and evaluations of related research. Subheadings of review articles can be planned by the authors. However, each review article should include an “Introduction” and a “Conclusion” section.

APA Citation System is applied in our journal.
- The table below shows the basic styles of in-text citations according to APA 7 Writing guide:

^a Define the abbreviation for the group author only once in the text, choosing either the parenthetical or narrative format. After that, use this abbreviation for all mentions of the group in the text.
- Direct quotations should be given with the page number (North, 1992: 13)
- If more than one source is cited in the text, they should be shown in the same parenthesis and a semicolon should be placed between them: (North, 1992; Ferrer et al., 2016).
- When citing a study published by the same author in the same year, the citations should be separated as a and b: (Kaya, 2020a) and (Kaya, 2020b)
- All references cited within a paragraph in the text should be given in the bibliography.
- The references in the bibliography should be given alphabetically according to the surname of the author.
- If the work given in the bibliography has a DOI number, the DOI number should be indicated in the reference. If the publication does not have a DOI number but has a URL that readers can be directed to (for example, if it comes from an online journal that is not part of a database), the URL of the article can be added at the end of the reference. If neither is available, it is treated as a printed journal article without this information.
- In the titles of the references in the bibliography, only the first letter of the title, the first letters of proper names and the first letters required after punctuation marks are capitalized. Since the names of the journals in which the studies are published are proper nouns, all first letters are capitalized. Source titles should not be written in all capital letters or the first letters of all words should not be capitalized.