Congress Book
The congress book of the 3rd International Congress on Turkic and World Women's Studies has been published.
Writing Rules
WRITING RULES
Articles submitted to the journal must comply with the following writing rules in order to be considered for review:
1-Texts submitted to the journal must be written in Microsoft Word, using Times New Roman font, 11 point size, and single line spacing.
2-The title must be written in capital letters and bold, and should not exceed 12 words. All headings within the text after the Introduction section (except for Abstract, Introduction, and Conclusion) should be numbered. If applicable, headings should be in bold with only the first letter capitalised.
3-The Turkish Language Institution's Spelling Guide should be followed in the work, and Turkish words should be used instead of foreign words whenever possible.
4-The author's name(s) should be attached to a separate page, not in the article, or should be included in the relevant section template during the submission process for editing by the editorial team. This additional and attached page should include the title of the text and the author's contact information (correspondence address, email, telephone) in addition to the author's name(s).
5-An abstract of 150-300 words, written in Turkish and English, should precede the main text. The abstract should state the scope and purpose of the research, describe the methods used, and briefly summarise the results achieved. Immediately below the abstract, there should be at least four and at most five keywords, with the first letter of each keyword capitalised and a full stop (.) at the end of the last keyword. The abstract and keywords should be written in 10-point font and single-spaced. The English equivalents of concepts used in the English abstract of articles should be based on the Encyclopedia of Islam itself and its sources.
6-Only italics should be used when writing foreign words. If the foreign language equivalent of a word used in Turkish is also provided for clarification, this equivalent should be written in italics within parentheses. If the source referenced in the text is in a foreign language, its Turkish equivalent must be provided after the title of the work, within parentheses, in italics and without quotation marks.
7-The main text should be written in 11-point font with single line spacing.
8-If the work has been supported by an institution/organisation or prepared from a doctoral/master's thesis, this should be stated as a footnote at the bottom of the first page of the article. Furthermore, if there are individuals, institutions or organisations to be thanked, the relevant information should be clearly stated in the article file.
9-For studies with multiple authors, authors must submit a statement of contribution and a conflict of interest declaration during the article submission process. For studies derived from postgraduate theses, the author with the highest contribution must be a student.
10-If artificial intelligence-based tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly, etc.) were used in the article production process, the stages in which they were used must be clearly stated. This information must be provided during the article submission process. All responsibility for the use of Artificial Intelligence lies with the authors.
11-In our journal, approval from the relevant committee is required for all studies requiring ethical committee approval. Surveys, experiments, observations, clinical and animal studies, and research involving personal data are subject to ethical committee approval. This approval must be clearly stated in the article text. Studies without ethical approval will not be considered for review. Scientific research involving humans and animals must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and ARRIVE guidelines and must be approved by the relevant ethics committee. Studies without ethics committee approval will not be considered for review in our journal.
Publication Title and Headings
Double quotation marks (“...”) or slashes (/) should not be used in the title. If double quotation marks (“...”) are used, when referring to this work in another work, the double quotation marks will appear twice in the same title, which is not appropriate. Single quotation marks (‘ ...’) may be used if necessary. A colon (:) may be used before a subheading if deemed necessary. Furthermore, the Turkish title and English title must be fully consistent in meaning.
Main and subheadings should be created using the decimal system, with numbers followed by a full stop. A space should be left between the heading number and the first letter of the heading.
Example Heading: Works by Ottoman Scholars on Abu Hanifa's Treatises on Aqidah
Incorrect Use of Numbering: 1.1. Sociology - Correct Use: 1.1. Sociology
Note: Introduction and Conclusion headings are not numbered, but subsequent headings are numbered.
Example:
Works on the Life of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi and Analysis of These Works
1. Hoca Ahmet Yesevi and His Life
2. Studies on the Works of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi
2.1. The Teachings of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi
2.2. The Influence of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi on Anatolian Wisdom
Conclusion
Sources
Writing Author and Institution Information
The author's first and last names should be written in bold with only the first letter capitalised; italics should not be used. If the author's institution is a university, the university name, faculty, and department should be written, and the city and country where the institution is located should also be specified. The author's active email address should also be provided. Author information is used to identify and track the impact of the work in the categories of ‘author, university, department, city, and country’. In addition, the author's International Unique Researcher Number (ORCID) should be added to the personal information field. The ORCID number can be obtained free of charge from the ORCID website.
Example:
Prof. Dr., Erciyes University, Faculty of Theology, Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences, Department of History of Religions, Kayseri, Turkey / e-mail: munal@erciyes.edu.tr / ORCID ID: 0000-0001-2345-6789
Writing the Abstract and Summary
Academic publications such as articles and papers should include a Turkish Abstract and an English Abstract at the beginning, summarising the subject under examination in a concise and understandable manner, consisting of a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 300 words. The Abstract section should outline the fundamental methodological framework of the research, including its subject, scope, significance, purpose, and methodology; it should not mention the conclusions reached or the sources used [*If only the abstract will be published and no extended abstract, the main conclusions should also be included]. The Abstract should be written as a single paragraph. The spelling of proper names (religion, sect, person, speech, etc.), book titles and concepts in the abstract text should comply with the usage of the TDK Dictionary. For proper nouns, book titles, and concepts in the English (abstract) text, the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam should be consulted, and the Transcription/Translation Alphabet should be used.
Selection of Keywords
Immediately after the Summary and Abstract sections, there should be a list of ‘Keywords’ consisting of at least three and at most five concepts. Keywords assist in the electronic searching and indexing of the publication. They are also of great importance in ensuring that the publication can be easily found by researchers. For this reason, the following points should be adhered to:
a) Concepts that accurately reflect the relevant article should be selected.
b) They should be listed from general to specific.
c) The first concept must be the name of the relevant scientific field.
d) The second concept should be determined as the subject, country, city, person's name or work title reflecting the research.
e) Concepts that fully reflect the content of the article should then be added.
f) If the work is focused on a person or work, the relevant work and author name must be written as keywords.
g) Words that do not have a conceptual meaning beyond their literal meaning when used alone should not be preferred as concepts.
h) Keywords must always begin with a capital letter, regardless of whether they are proper nouns or not.
Example:
Keywords: History of Sufism, Hacı Ahmet Yesevi, Wisdom, Yesevilik, Order
Writing Work Titles
Words forming the titles of works such as books, journals, encyclopaedias, theses and newspapers published/prepared in Turkish are written with a capital letter. Work titles are formatted in italics. This includes titles that appear in headings, abstracts, keywords, text, footnotes, bibliographies, etc.
Velayetname, Turkish Culture and Hacı Bektaş Veli Research Journal, Bektashi Studies
Article and book chapter titles, as well as dictionary and encyclopaedia entries, are written in double quotation marks (‘’).
Title names of works published in languages other than Turkish, Arabic, and Persian are written exactly as they appear on the cover or title page of the work, using lowercase letters; they are not written entirely in uppercase letters.
Providing Footnotes
An oblique slash (/) should be used between the volume and issue numbers of articles without a space: Turkish World Women's Studies Journal 20/2 (December 2018), 45 Footnotes In works with a large number of pages, such as theses and books, footnotes are numbered separately, starting with one (1) in each section.
Writing Poetry Lines
Poetry lines are written in italics wherever they appear.
Writing Numbers
Times, monetary amounts, measurements, and statistical data are written in numbers:
at 17:30 | 1,500,000 lira | 150 kilometres | 15 metres of fabric | 1,250,000 people
When writing percentages and per mille, no space is left between the number and the symbol: 25% | 50‰
Numbers can be written in words:
for a thousand years | fourteen days | the fifth day of the week | once every three months | a hundred questions
To make numbers with four or more digits easier to read, the words thousand, million, billion and trillion are written in full:
1 billion 500 million people | 3 thousand 255 pens | 8 trillion 412 billion, etc.
Numbers consisting of more than one word are written separately:
two hundred | three hundred and sixty-five | one thousand two hundred and fifty-one
Fractional numbers are indicated in words, not numerals:
two each | nine each | one hundred each.
Writing Dates and Centuries
Dates are written in full:
Incorrect usage: 1810-11 | 1914-15 - Correct usage: 1810-1811 | 1914-1915
Centuries should be written with numbers, and the word ‘century’ that follows should begin with a lowercase letter:
Incorrect usage: 6/12th Century | 19th Century - Correct usage: 6th/12th century | 19th century
Citing and Quoting
Citation/Indirect Quotation: If a reference is made to a thought, discussion or observation in a source, and the referenced opinion is expressed in the researcher's own words, a footnote symbol (1) should be placed at the end of the sentence. If the citation refers to a specific page or range of pages in the work, the page number should be provided. If the citation refers to the entire work, i.e. if the citation is of such a nature that it requires the reader to examine the entire work, the footnote should state ‘See this topic’, ‘See regarding this view’, ‘See regarding this discussion’ or simply ‘see’ followed by the source.
Quotation/Excerpt: If the relevant section is taken verbatim from the source, without changing any punctuation, the quoted section is enclosed in double quotation marks and the source is indicated by adding a footnote number at the end. Quotations within the directly quoted text are written using single quotation marks. If the directly quoted section is longer than three lines (more than forty words), it is presented as a separate paragraph. To distinguish long quotations from the main text, it is preferable to use a font size one size smaller than the normal text size and to indent the entire paragraph from the left margin. In the directly quoted text, some words, sentences, and paragraphs may be omitted, provided that the meaning is not altered. Three dots (...) should be used in place of the omitted sections.
It is not correct to write a section quoted verbatim from a source without placing it in double quotation marks and simply citing the source at the end. Failure to comply with these rules may result in the author being accused of a breach of publication ethics (plagiarism).
‘Quotations must be made in a way that is clearly identifiable. In scientific works, the source of the quotation and the name of the author of the work used must be indicated, as well as the specific location from which the quotation was taken.’ ‘A person who quotes from a work without citing the source shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of six months to two years or a judicial fine.’ ‘A person who cites insufficient, incorrect or misleading sources in relation to a work shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of up to six months.’ ‘An act warranting dismissal from university teaching is to present the original ideas, methods, data or works of others, in whole or in part, as one's own work without citing them in accordance with scientific rules.’
Creating Tables and Figures
The words ‘Table’ or ‘Figure’ should be used to label tables and figures. Graphs, charts, drawings, maps, photographs and images are considered figures.
Sequential numbers should be used for labelling, followed by a colon and an explanatory statement. The headings used should be in the same font size as the footnotes and should not be indented. The first letter of each word in table and figure headings should be capitalised.
Example:
Table 1: Poets of Alevi and Bektaşi Culture
Figures should be given titles beginning with the word ‘Figure’ and numbered sequentially. Titles should not begin with ‘Image,’ ‘Graph,’ ‘Drawing,’ etc. Figures should not have borders.
Figure 1: Semah in Alevism NOTE: Table captions should appear above the table, while figure captions should appear below the image.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- ‘Sources’ should continue to be used instead of ‘Bibliography’.
- Where possible, Turkish equivalents should be used for foreign words. In this regard, the TDK Dictionary will continue to be used as a basis for word spelling in our journal. For foreign language equivalents of Islamic concepts or words, the latest edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam is used as a guide.
SOURCE AND REFERENCE CITATION
As of our October 2025 issue, our journal uses the APA 7 citation system, and articles published/to be published in our journal are evaluated according to this rule.
For detailed information, please refer to the https://apastyle.apa.org/page.
