Writing Guidelines
1. Manuscripts should be prepared using Windows Word, in Times or Times New Roman font, 12-point size, with 1.5 line spacing.

2. The length of the manuscripts should not exceed eight thousand words.

3. Titles should be written in bold, left-aligned, and with the first letter of each word capitalized.

4. Author names should be written in bold, right-aligned, and placed below the title. The author’s surname should be in uppercase letters. The author’s title, department, institution, and e-mail address should be provided as a footnote at the end of the author’s name. As of 2019, all authors are required to have an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) number, which must be included in the author information footnote. (These details are requested from the author after the peer review process is completed. The initial version of the manuscript submitted via DergiPark should not contain any personal information and should be uploaded as a Word document.)

5. For original articles in Turkish, a summary of no more than 150 words should be provided under the heading “Öz.” All articles must also include an English summary under the heading “Abstract.” The Turkish and English titles of the article should be given first, followed by the Turkish summary and 3 to 5 keywords. Below these, the English abstract and keywords should be included. Summaries and keywords must comply with international standards.

6. Footnotes should be used only to provide additional information, not for citation purposes. Footnotes should be numbered at the bottom of the page, written in 10-point font with single line spacing.

7. Direct quotations exceeding 40 words in the text should be presented as “block quotations” in a separate paragraph from the main text. Block quotations should be indented 1.25 cm from both the left and right margins, written in 11-point font, and the source should be cited in parentheses at the end of the quotation.

8. If figures, tables, images, etc. are to be used in the text, they should be inserted in the relevant place with one line space above and below. Visuals should be prepared digitally whenever possible; if scanned, they must be at least 600 dpi resolution and inserted into the text in “tiff” or “jpg” format. Images should be numbered consecutively. Each image should have a brief caption with its number, centered below the image.

9. For in-text citations and references, the rules specified in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020) should be followed (except for the citation of ancient sources).

10. Examples of in-text citation and bibliography in accordance with APA, as well as examples for citing ancient sources, are provided below.

11. Appendices should be placed after the references section, each on a separate page.



Referencing According to APA Style
In-Text Citations
• If the author’s name is not mentioned in the text, the author’s surname, the publication year, and the page number are given in parentheses, separated by commas, after the quotation.
(Moran, 1983, p. 34)
• If the author’s name is mentioned in the text, the publication year is given in parentheses after the author’s surname, and the page number is provided at the end of the quotation.
Moran (1983) ... (p. 34)
• When referring to a single page, use “p.”; when referring to multiple pages, use “pp.”
• For direct quotations from printed sources, a specific page number must be referenced in every instance.
• When citing works with two authors, both authors’ surnames are included.
(Madran & Sönmez, 2019, pp. 17-18)
• When citing works with three or more authors, only the first author’s surname is given, followed by “et al.”
(Koçak et al., 2012)
• For institutional authors, the full name of the institution should be given in the first citation, followed by the abbreviation in brackets. In subsequent citations, only the abbreviation is used.
First citation: (Ministry of National Education [MoNE], 2020)
Subsequent citations: (MoNE, 2020)
• If citing two or more works by the same author published in the same year, add lowercase letters are added following the year in alphabetical order.
(Moran, 2000a)
(Moran, 2000b)


References Section

Book

Işık, E. (1998). Beden ve toplum kuramı. Bağlam Yayınları.

Translated Book

Ariès, P. (2015). Batı’da ölümün tarihi (I. Gürbüz, Trans.). Everest Yayınları.

Book Chapter

Uysal, Ş. (1971). Metodoloji açısından Türkiye’de yapılan sosyolojik araştırmalar ve bir örnek köy araştırması. In N. H. Fişek (Ed.), Türkiye’de sosyal araştırmaların gelişimi içinde (pp. 139-151). Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları.

Journal Article

Karaca, M. (2022). An introductory inquiry on museums’ educational role in the late Ottoman Empire (1839-1915). MSFAU Journal of Social Sciences, (25), 68-77. https://doi.org/10.56074/msgsusbd.1123733

For journals without volume information, the issue number should be given in parentheses and should not be italicized.

Online Source

Çevikalp, M. (2012, June 10). Kars’ın saklı yüzü: Malakanlar. Aksiyon. http://www.aksiyon.com.tr/aksiyon/newsDetail_openPrintPage.action?newsId=32989

Thesis

Cihan, M. (2001). Spinoza felsefesinde varlık ve bilgi problemi (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Atatürk University.

References should be formatted using a hanging indent.

For further details on APA style, please consult https://apastyle.apa.org/.