ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PUBLICATION POLICY

1. The Turkish Journal of Administration is a national, peer-reviewed, scientific journal published twice a year, in print and online (www.tid.gov.tr), in June and December. Full texts of articles are indexed in the TUBITAK ULAKBIM Index, Group B of the Social and Human Sciences Database, and at www.idealonline.com.tr.
2. The journal places great importance on ensuring that manuscripts submitted to the journal comply with research and publication ethics. In this context, it adheres to the “Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing” and “International Standards for Editors and Authors” established by organizations such as COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 4.0 International Non-Commercial License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). In this context, authors should be aware of the ethical principles in the preparation and publication of scientific research. If a scientific article prepared without adhering to ethical principles contains an ethical violation such as “plagiarism”, and this is noticed by the reviewers or editor, it will not be considered for evaluation. If plagiarism or similar issues are in an article but are not noticed by the reviewers and editor, and the article is published in the journal, the author(s) will be held responsible for all future consequences. Scientific articles prepared on specific topics involving human and animal experiments will not be published in the journal if they do not have ethical committee approval. For studies requiring ethical committee approval, this approval must be obtained before the study begins.
3. The Turkish Journal of Administration (TID) unequivocally rejects any behaviours that violates scientific publication ethics. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published elsewhere or submitted for publication elsewhere. Unethical violations such as unauthorized use of other works, plagiarism, misleading or inaccurate citation, failure to properly cite data and sources, and publication of the same or substantially similar work in multiple journals are unacceptable. In this context, all manuscripts submitted to the journal are examined using similarity detection programs, and it is adopted as a fundamental publication principle that the similarity rate in the manuscripts, excluding the bibliography, should not exceed 15 %. Accordingly, all authors submitting articles to the journal are required to sign an ethical and originality commitment statement declaring that their study is original, prepared in accordance with ethical principles, and free from plagiarism. With this commitment, authors acknowledge that the study has been prepared in accordance with scientific ethical rules and accept responsibility for any ethical violations that may occur.
4. Submitted manuscripts will be uploaded to similarity detection programs such as Ithenticate, Turnitin, intihal.net, etc., for ethical review in terms of both content and format. Articles that do not comply with ethical guidelines will be rejected by the Editorial Board without initiating the peer review process.
5. Submitted manuscripts are evaluated by the Editor and Editorial Board according to their priority based on their compliance with the journal’s “Publication Principles and Style Guidelines” and public publishing standards. The Editorial Board may reject an article without sending it to reviewers if it does not conform to the journal’s purposes and publication scope, ethical principles, or author responsibilities. The Editorial Board has the authority to send manuscripts back to a reviewer for scientific evaluation or to the author for revisions, to make formatting corrections or abbreviations, and to refuse publication of manuscripts that do not comply with national or international publication or ethical guidelines. The Editorial Board reserves the right to make the final decision regarding the acceptance of the article, both in terms of content and format.
6. Our journal implements a double-blind Editorial Board and a double-blind peer review.
7. All articles submitted to the Turkish Journal of Administration are subjected to a preliminary technical review. Articles that do not conform to the journal’s guidelines may be rejected or requested to be revised at this stage.

Articles that pass the editorial board’s preliminary evaluation are sent to three reviewers for further review. During the reviewer selection process, attention is paid to the authors’ academic titles; and if the article is written in a foreign language, the language proficiency of the reviewers is also considered. Articles that receive positive evaluations from at least two reviewers are submitted to the Editorial Board for publication. If the reviewers request revisions, the article is returned to the author, who then makes the necessary corrections and submits the article to the Editorial Board. Authors consider the reviewers’ criticisms, suggestions, and requests for corrections; they have the right to object, stating their reasons, if they disagree with any points.

8. The fact that a manuscript has been accepted for peer review by the Editorial Board does not constitute a commitment to publication. Even if the peer review process yields a positive outcome, the final decision of the Editorial Board is still required. Manuscripts that cannot be published due to the large number of articles deemed suitable for publication by the Board are held back for publication in the next issue. Manuscripts that have been held back for more than 1 (one) year are returned as they have lost their relevance.
9. The author(s) reserve the right to withdraw their article, provided they notify the Editorial Board of the journal, until a final decision on publication has been made. All publication rights for published articles, both in print and digital formats, belong to the Turkish Journal of Administration; however, intellectual, academic and legal responsibility for matters such as language, style, content and ethics rests with the author(s).
10. In accordance with the principles of scientific ethics, members of the Editorial Board may not publish articles in the journal during their term of office.
11. Information, documents and evaluation results received from the Editorial Board, reviewers and authors are retained for a period of 5 (five) years following the publication date.
12. Although the journal’s language of publication is Turkish, articles written in foreign languages may also be published in accordance with the journal’s general guidelines. The title, keywords, and abstract must be provided in both Turkish and English for all articles. Translated articles must be submitted along with the original text from which they were translated. An Extended Abstract of 750–1,000 words must be included after the References section.
13.   When writing manuscripts in Turkish, authors should refer to the Turkish Language Institution’s Turkish dictionary or the website http://www.tdk.org.tr. Additionally, articles must be formatted in accordance with grammatical rules (spelling, punctuation, clarity, and comprehensibility, etc.) and the journal’s “Publication Principles and Style Guidelines. Manuscripts that do not comply with the style guidelines will be rejected by the Editorial Board without initiating the peer review process. However, they can be sent back to the author for the purpose of making the relevant changes and revising. The editor can make corrections regarding non-essential material errors in terms of the Publication Principles and Style Guidelines of the Turkish Journal of Administration and the integrity of the journal, and informs the author about these.
14. Author(s) must submit a hand-signed publication request form, a brief CV, and the plagiarism report with the article via email to tid@icisleri.gov.tr. When submitting their articles, authors must provide their current institution they work, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) numbers in their CVs. In the article submission stage, they must send the Letter of Commitment to the address tid@icisleri.gov.tr by electronic mail in a wet-signed manner by writing 'Read, Understood, Accepted' with handwriting in the blank space left.
15. Authors and reviewers of articles published in the journal are paid royalties and review fees in accordance with the provisions of the “Regulation on Royalties and Review Fees to Be Paid by Public Institutions and Organizations,” published in the Official Gazette dated January 23, 2007, and numbered 26412.
16. In order for the payment to be made; authors and referees reviewing articles must send the 'Accounting Petition, Copyright and Translated Work Assignment, and Expense Receipt' included in the annex of the Central Government Expenditure Documents Regulation, in a wet-signed manner to the address tid@icisleri.gov.tr by electronic mail.

STYLE GUIDELINES

1. Submitted manuscripts should be clear and comprehensible, and meet scientific standards in terms of language and expression.
2. Manuscripts submitted for publication must be no fewer than 2,000 words and no more than 8,000 words, including the abstract and references. Manuscripts falling outside these word limits will be evaluated by the Editor and the Editorial Board.
3. The top part of the first page of the article must include the type of article (research, review, case study, translated article, etc.), the title of the article, and the authors’ names. The “Keywords” section must contain a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 12 words. The title  of article must be short and concise, not exceeding 15 words.  
4. The author’s name must be written in 11-point Calibri font in the right-hand corner below the title of the article; and the author’s title, affiliation, email address and ORCID (Open Researcher Contributor ID, http://orcid.org) number must be indicated in a footnote using an asterisk (*) and 8-point Calibri font. Footnotes for other explanations must be numbered within the text and at the bottom of the page.
5.  The abstract of the article must not exceed 250 words; it must not contain equations, citations, non-standard abbreviations, etc. Abbreviations must be relevant to the subject area of the article and must be defined where they first appear. An Extended Abstract (750–1000 words) must be included after the references. The English Abstract must be formatted in accordance with the Turkish Abstract.
6. The title of the article must be in 13-point uppercase, main section headings in 11-point uppercase (bold and normal), and sub-section headings in 10-point italic (first letter capitalised, bold, and Calibri). The body text must be in 10-point Calibri font with 1.5 line spacing.
7. The titles of tables and figures must be in 10-point bold; the content of tables and figures must be in 10-point normal; the captions (sources) for tables and figures must be in 8-point normal; and footnotes must be in 8-point normal Calibri. The reference list must be in 10-point normal and in APA-7 format.
8. Article titles, section headings, and table and figure captions must be written in bold type; apart from these, bold type must not be used in the main text, footnotes or the reference list.
9. Documents must be formatted on A4 paper with margins of 2.5 cm at the top and bottom, 2.5 cm on the left, 2.0 cm on the right, and a binding margin. Page numbers must appear in the bottom right-hand corner of each page.
10. The article must begin with an ‘Introduction’ section at the top of the page and be divided into appropriate sections. The Introduction, Conclusion, References, and, if any, Acknowledgements and Appendices must not be numbered; sections must be numbered consecutively (1., 2., 3.) and written in capital letters. A single line space must be left above headings. Where necessary, sections may be subdivided into subsections. Subsections must be numbered as (1.1. – 1.2.).
11. Tables, graphs and figures must be numbered consecutively. They must be referred to in the text as “Table 1”, “Graph 1” and “Figure 1”. The number must be included in the title of each table and below the title of each graph or figure.
12. In-text citations must be formatted in accordance with the APA-7 citation system.
13. The References section must be prepared in accordance with the APA-7 citation system.