Writing Rules
International Journal of Social Political and Financial Researches Authorship Rules and Publication Policy
1. APA 7 should be used as the citation style in studies submitted to the International Journal of Social Political and Financial Research. See ANNEX-1 for APA 7 “Citation Guide”.
2. Studies sent to the International Journal of Social Political and Financial Research; It should cover areas such as finance, economics, business administration, political science and public administration, international relations, international trade, labor economics and industrial relations, finance and banking, health management, management and information systems, econometrics and financial econometrics.
3. Studies conducted in accordance with scientific research, publication ethics and writing rules must not have been published anywhere before. All responsibility in this regard belongs entirely to the author(s).
4. The journal does not request any fee from the authors, nor does it pay any royalty fees to the authors.
5. Only one article by an author is published in the same year (excluding special issues). Even if the author's second article sent to the journal in the same year is accepted, it will be queued for the issue to be published the following year.
6. Studies written in either Turkish or English are accepted for the journal.
7. Blind refereeing is essential in accordance with the quality and ethical principles of scientific studies to be published in the journal. The study, which is approved by the editor, is sent to at least two referees for evaluation. For the study to be accepted, both referees who evaluate the study must express a positive opinion. If one of the referees expresses a negative opinion, the study is sent to a third referee. If the third referee expresses a positive opinion, the study is accepted. Otherwise, the work will be rejected. Referees' correction requests must be fully met by the authors and delivered to the editor. However, due to the nature of science, authors may object to referees' correction requests. In this case, the authors have to show counter-evidence.
7. The copyright and publishing rights of the published works belong to the journal. For this reason, when submitting studies to the journal, a copyright transfer form is also requested from the authors. The Copyright Transfer Form must be signed by all authors. See ANNEX-2 for the “Copyright Transfer Form”.
8. Articles to be sent to the journal should not exceed 25 pages, including abstract, bibliography, references and tables.
9. For articles submitted to the journal, authors are requested to send a similarity report using a plagiarism scanning program (iThenticate, Turnitin). Articles of authors who do not submit this report will not be published. The upper limit for similarity reports is set at 20%, excluding bibliography (This condition is not required for publications derived from postgraduate theses, and at this point, the authority is exercised by the journal editor). Articles that are more similar than this ratio are rejected by the editorship, even if the process is completed.
10. In publications presented at scientific meetings, published in abstracts, or derived from postgraduate theses, the author must indicate this on the article cover page. The responsibility for any shortcomings in this regard lies with the author(s) and the journal cannot be held responsible.
11. Studies submitted to the journal must be prepared in accordance with the template in Microsoft Word (doc.) format. For “Template” see ANNEX-3. The journal's writing template includes all general text formatting, page margins, paragraph formatting, table and figure formatting, and heading formats. Since no fee is requested from the authors for the works sent to the journal, the authors must prepare and submit their works in accordance with the writing guide and template. Studies that are not prepared in accordance with the template will not be sent to the referees and will be rejected by the editor.
12. As stated in the journal template, Turkish and English abstracts should be between 100-200 words. There should be 3-5 keywords and 2-4 JEL codes at the end of the abstracts.
13. If the studies submitted to the journal are supported by an institution, this information should be stated by the author in the footnote on the first page.
14. For studies that do not require ethics committee permission, the form in ANNEX-4 must be filled out and uploaded to the system. For studies that require ethics committee permission, the Ethics Committee Permission Document must be uploaded to the system by the authors.
15. Authors should upload the referee response file to the system if a correction is suggested after the referee evaluations. The referee response file can be found in ANNEX-5.
16. Authors should upload the author contribution/conflict of interest declaration form to the system while uploading their articles. The author contribution/conflict of interest declaration form is in ANNEX-6.