AUTHOR GUIDELINES
• IJPS accepts submissions written in one of the languages of English and Turkish. Turkish submissions should have an English abstract that includes 200-250 words
• IJPS accepts four types of submissions: research articles, reviews, book/report summaries, and letters to the Editor.

• Articles submitted to the journal for evaluation should be in MS Word format, not PDF.
• The cover page should be uploaded to the system in Word format separately from the main text and should include the title of the paper, author name(s), affiliation, ORCID ID, and e-mail
• The main text should start with the section “Introduction”. In this section, the importance of the research, summarized information about previous research on this subject, the main problem or hypothesis of the research, and the methodology of the research should be included and mentioned.
• Main headings after the introduction should be numbered and written in bold type in the normal sentence layout. Sub-headings following main headings should be properly numbered and written in bold and italic type.

SPELLING GUIDELINES

• Submissions to IJPS should follow the style guidelines described in the Chicago Manual of Style.
• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and “Türk Dil Kurumu Yazım Kılavuzu” should be consulted for spelling.
REFERENCES
• Citations should be numbered sequentially in the text using superscripted digits, by Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.) guidelines.
• The first citation of a reference should include full bibliographic information. For subsequent citations, a shortened bibliographic form such as the author’s name, title, and page number should be used.
• When consecutive citations refer to the same work, “Ibid.” should replace the bibliographical information in citations after the first, with the page number(s) added if the cited page(s) differ from those included in the immediately preceding citation. Examples of common citation types appear below:
a) Book with Single Author or Editor:
Joseph S. Nye, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, 1st ed. (New York: Public Affairs, 2004), 48-49.
b) Book with Multiple Authors:
Timothy Dunne, Milja Kurki ve Steve Smith, International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 26.
c) Book with Author Plus Editor or Translator
Barrington Moore, Diktatörlüğün ve Demokrasinin Toplumsal Kökenleri: Çağdaş Dünyanın Yaratılmasında Soylunun ve Köylünün Rolü, Çev. Şirin Tekeli ve Alaeddin Şenel, 1. Baskı. (Ankara: V Publishing, 1989).
d) Chapter in an Edited Book
Wolfgang Kersting, “Politika, Özgürlük ve Düzen: Kant’ın Politika Felsefesi”, Kant Felsefesinin Politik Evreni içinde, ed. Hakan Çörekçioğlu, 1. bs (İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2010), 60.
e) Journal Article
Christopher Layne, “The Unipolar Illusion: Why New Great Powers Will Rise”, International Security 17, no. 4 (1993): 8-9.