Style Guidelines

IJPS accepts submissions written one of the languages of English, Turkish or Russian. Turkish submission should have English abstract which includes 150-200 words, English ones should have Turkish abstract which includes 150-200 words and is placed after title, Russian ones should have both Turkish and English abstracts which both includes 150-200 words again after title. If and when necessary, English, Turkish and Russian abstracts can be provided by our Editors.

IJPS takes four different types of submissions: research articles, reviews, book/report summaries and letters to the Editor.

Articles and book summaries which were submitted to the Journal to be published should not exceed 30 pages including references with tables and figures. Article titles should be 14 pt. bold and written as flush left in accordance with the normal sentence layout. 150-200-word summaries should follow headings and abstracts in all languages and be written as mono spaced, 10 pt., in the Time New Roman type font and justified. At least five key words, which describe the article, should be included after abstracts.

Main text should be written with 1,5 line spacing by using 12 pt. Time New Roman type font and paragraphs should be prepared without 1,25 indent paragraph spacing. Footnotes should be written with 10 pt., the Time New Roman typefont and single spacing. After the main text, bibliography, which was written with 1,5 line spacing and 12 pt.-typefont, should be included.

Articles submitted to the journal for evaluation should not include author(s) and contact informations. These informations should be included in the manuscript, which is to be prepared additionally.

The cover page should be uploaded to the system in the Word format separately from the main text. After the title of the article is written with 14 pt. Time New Roman typefont in a justified page formation, under the title, name and surname of author(s), ORCID ID(s); under it, institution and department informations; under it, contact information should be written.

The main text should start with the section of “1. Introduction”. In this section, importance of the research, summarized information about previous researches on this subject, main problematique 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.

Book summaries and reviews in the IJPS are short reports of original researches focused on important methodological or empirical contributions. This includes but is not limited to new empirical findings, methodological advances, theoretical arguments, as well as comments and extensions of previous studies, which advance the field.

Letters sent to the IJPS and addressed to the Editor are written in a concise form, like articles, and are scientific texts and subject to the same standards as the articles. This kind of texts should not exceed 2-4 pages and 1500-3000 words.

Letters including comments on the articles published in the journal should focus on contributing to the scientific field and avoid unnecessary attacks and violations of personal rights.

All posts addressed to the journal should be uploaded in the Microsoft Word format (not PDF) and given the page number in the middle.