Issue: 46

Journal of Oriental Studies aims to contribute to the scientific knowledge in the field of Eastern languages and literatures by publishing original research articles, reviews, scientific criticism, book review and translation articles.

The journal considers manuscripts on all aspects of Eastern languages and literatures. Subject areas of interest include language and literature, history, history of literature, language education-training and teaching, art and culture concerning Eastern languages and literatures. The target audience of the journal is academics, researchers, professionals, students and related professional, academic institutions and organizations. The publication languages of the journal are Turkish, English, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Arabic, Korean and Urdu.

Author Guidelines

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Publication Rules

1. Journal of Oriental Studies is prepeared by Istanbul University, Faculity of Letters, the Oriental Research Center. The first number was issued in Ankara in 1956. Since 2007 it is published as a peer-reviewed journal in January and December twice a year.

2. Journal of Oriental Studies accepts articels in the fields of Orientalism, edition critiques of hand writing manuscripts, scientific critiques, book reviews and translations of the articles.

3. The offical language of the journal is Turkish. If the publication commitee agrees, the articles in Western languages such as English, French, German not exceeding one-third of the existing

articles and the articles in Eastern languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu not exceeding 25 pages can be published. Submission of an article, or other item, implies that it has not been published elsewhere.

4. The articles that are accepted by journal publication commitee are sent to the referees among three diffrent universities. At least two referees must agree to publish the article. If the referees decide to revise the article, then the authors should send mostly in 15 days. Wheter published or not, the writings that submitted to our journal don’t return to the authors.

5. The author agrees that he has transfered the copyright of his published article to Istanbul University, Dean of Faculty of Letters and he must sign one copy of the “publising permit” document and three copies of” the copyright and deed of assignment” document and send us.

6. Images such as the photographs, maps, diagrams, archieve documents should be submitted as avaliable for publishing.

7. For translation writings the original copy of the article in the foreign language should be submitted. The full bibliographical information (name of the journal, the author of the article, publication place, publication year, volume, number, and pages) of the article must be given.

8. Writers’ institutional affilications, contact informations especially gsm numbers, e-mail addresses must be provided.

9. WORD and PDF files ofthe articles will be uploaded to the web address below: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/iusarkiyat

10. The responsibility of the opinions in the articles and writings published belongs to the authors.

Manuscript Rules

1. The articles written in Turkish of Turkey, except special uses, ought to be befitted to Spelling Dictionary by Turkish Language Association in terms of spelling rules. The writings must be expressed clearly in terms of scientific dimensions.

2. Title: It should describe the article and reflect the basic concepts, discussions and the main argument of the article. Turkish title should be written in bold, 11 point size, Times New Roman;

English title should be 10 point size, bold, Times New Roman. Arabic, Persian and Urdu title should be in bold, 11 point size, Traditional Arabic, in the middle under the English title. It should

not exceed 12 words.

3. Author’s name and address: The name and surname of author under two lines of title, in the right side, right justified. An Asteriks symbol should be added at the end of the author’s surname as a footpoint, and include the author’s academic title, and e-mail address (9 points, justified) . [Prof. Dr., Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Arabic Language and Literature Chair, ORCID:…….., (……@......)].

4. Abstract: It must contain a short summary of the main parts (entry, evidence, method, argument, result and proposal) of the article. It should provide the reader to modify the content of the article in a short time and to decide if he needs to read the whole article or not. The given information should not exceed one sentence. The evidences and the resolution part may consist of more than one sentence. The sentences must be clear and understandable and must be written in the past tense. In the abstract, there should not be any tables, illustrations, quotations and references.

Turkish abstract should be at the beginning of the article text following the title, between 200-250 words, 10 point size, right and left 10 mm spaced and justified. English abstract should follow

Turkish abstract. If the article is written in a different language from these two languages, the third abstract should be prepared in the relevant language by the same rules.

5. Keywords: should be given following the abstract written in Turkish, English and in the relevant language if any. Keywords should be up to 5 words and should provide access to the article.

6. Article Text: Articles should be submitted as Microsoft Word, Word 98 or higher versions documents. The text should be written in Times New Roman, 11 point size, at 1 line spacing. The

articles in Arabic, Persian and Urdu should be written in Traditional Arabic, 11 point size, at 1 line spacing . The page size should be 165X240, 20 mm space from the right and left page sides, 30 mm from the bottom, 35 mm from the top of the page. The paragraph indentation should be 5 mm.

7. Titles in the article: Subtitles should be 11 point size and letter/number system should be based on. The first letter of the each Word in the title should be capital.

8. Informative Abstract: It has the same characteristics with abstract basically, but it is different from the abstract in terms of the length and details. It gives more detailed information than the abstract. The length of the summary should be %10-15 of the article. Tables and diagrams can take place in the summary. It should be at the end of the article and should contain the aim, argument, method, evidence and result of the article as it is in the abstract. The given information should be more detailed in comparision with the abstract. Any evidence and result that does not take place in the article also should not take place in the summary. In the summary, there should not be any references to the article text.

9. Photograph, illustrations and tables: The photographs, illustrations and tables that take place in the text should not exceed the signified page sizes and be in the suitable dpi resolution for publishing. Each photograph,illustration and table should have a number and reference. If it is more than one, numbers should be given.

10. First page header in the article: İ.Ü. ŞARKİYAT MECMUASI SAYI…(201..-1/2) The pages of the artical in the journal should be written.

11. Left header in the article: The name of the article should be written.

12. Right Header in the article: Author’s name/ ŞARKİYAT MECMUASI SAYI…(201..-1/2) the pages of the artical in the journal should be written.

13. Footnotes/ Quotations and References: Footnotes should be given automatically in the MS Word program at the foot of each relevant page as 9 point size and justified. Bibliographical references should be given in full at the first mention in the notes and in the second mention a.g.e. (mentioned work) and a.g.m (mentioned article) abbreviations should be used thereafter page number/numbers should be written. The footnotes must be arranged in the examples mentioned below: In the books: Names of the author/authors, the Book’s name, translator/investigator’s name if any, volume (vol.), publication city: publication place, publication year, page numbers (p.)

In the articles: Name of the author, “title of article” (using quotation marks), name of the journal, Volume (Vol.), Number (No.), city of publication: place of publication, year of publication and page number (p.). If there is no publication place and year, abbrevitations “t.y.” (without date), “y.y.” (without place) should be used. After the web pages, the access date must be added in parantheses.nFootnotes should be typed in the form of the following examples:

Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

Journal of Oriental Studies is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and pays regard to Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), to access the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) on https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparencyand-best-practice-scholarly-publishing

All parties involved in the publishing process (Editors, Reviewers, Authors and Publisher) are expected to agree on the following ethical principles.

All submissions must be original, unpublished (including as full text in conference proceedings), and not under the review of any other publication synchronously. Each manuscript is reviewed by one of the editors and at least two referees under double-blind peer review process. Plagiarism, duplication, fraud authorship/denied authorship, research/data fabrication, salami slicing/salami publication, breaching of copyrights, prevailing conflict of interest are unethical behaviors.

All manuscripts not in accordance with the accepted ethical standards will be removed from the publication. This also contains any possible malpractice discovered after the publication. In accordance with the code of conduct we will report any cases of suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing.

Research Ethics

Journal of Oriental Studies adheres to the highest standards in research ethics and follows the principles of international research ethics as defined below. The authors are responsible for the compliance of the manuscripts with the ethical rules.

Principles of integrity, quality and transparency should be sustained in designing the research, reviewing the design and conducting the research.
The research team and participants should be fully informed about the aim, methods, possible uses and requirements of the research and risks of participation in research.
The confidentiality of the information provided by the research participants and the confidentiality of the respondents should be ensured. The research should be designed to protect the autonomy and dignity of the participants.
Research participants should participate in the research voluntarily, not under any coercion.
Any possible harm to participants must be avoided. The research should be planned in such a way that the participants are not at risk.
The independence of research must be clear; and any conflict of interest must be disclosed.
In experimental studies with human subjects, written informed consent of the participants who decide to participate in the research must be obtained. In the case of children and those under wardship or with confirmed insanity, legal custodian’s assent must be obtained.
If the study is to be carried out in any institution or organization, approval must be obtained from this institution or organization.
In studies with human subject, it must be noted in the method’s section of the manuscript that the informed consent of the participants and ethics committee approval from the institution where the study has been conducted have been obtained.

Author Responsibilities
It is authors’ responsibility to ensure that the article is in accordance with scientific and ethical standards and rules. And authors must ensure that submitted work is original. They must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere or is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere, in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions must be followed. Copyright material (e.g. tables, figures or extensive quotations) must be reproduced only with appropriate permission and acknowledgement. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources must be appropriately credited and referenced.

All the authors of a submitted manuscript must have direct scientific and academic contribution to the manuscript. The author(s) of the original research articles is defined as a person who is significantly involved in “conceptualization and design of the study”, “collecting the data”, “analyzing the data”, “writing the manuscript”, “reviewing the manuscript with a critical perspective” and “planning/ conducting the study of the manuscript and/or revising it”. Fund raising, data collection or supervision of the research group are not sufficient roles to be accepted as an author. The author(s) must meet all these criteria described above. The order of names in the author list of an article must be a codecision and it must be indicated in the Copyright Agreement Form. The individuals who do not meet the authorship criteria but contributed to the study must take place in the acknowledgement section. Individuals providing technical support, assisting writing, providing a general support, providing material or financial support are examples to be indicated in acknowledgement section.

All authors must disclose all issues concerning financial relationship, conflict of interest, and competing interest that may potentially influence the results of the research or scientific judgment.

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published paper, it is the author’s obligation to promptly cooperate with the Editor to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

Price Policy

All expenses of the journal are covered by the Istanbul University. Processing and publication are free of charge with the journal. There is no article processing charges or submission fees for any submitted or accepted articles.