Writing Rules

The text and references in the CENK Journal should follow the APA Citation System.

General Rules

  1. Article elements should be arranged as follows:
  • Title in English
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Title in Turkish
  • Öz
  • Anahtar Kelimeler
  • Body Text
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  1. All Titles in the manuscript should be in Initial Capitalization and 11 point font size.
  2. The manuscript page should be in A4 format.
  3. Margins should be 3 cm on all sides.
  4. If an end-of-page explanation is to be made for the title of the article, the * sign should be used.
  5. No Header and Footer should be entered.
  6. Page numbers should not be added.
  7. Arabic words and texts in the article should be written in Times New Roman font.

Article Title

  1. The title of the article should be arranged according to the APA Citation System; it should be set as 0 pt from the top, 6 pt from the bottom and without indentation; it should be center aligned. It should be in Gotham Narrow Book Bold font in 11 point size.
  2. Titles should be arranged according to APA Citation System; set at 0 pt from the top and bottom, without indentation; justified. Titles should be in Gotham Narrow Book Bold font, 11 point size.
  3. Titles should be as short as possible, but should reflect the subject matter; double quotation marks (“-”) or slashes (/) should not be used. A colon (:) may be used if deemed necessary.
  4. Titles (except Abstract, Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion, and References) should be written in decimal system order as “1. 2. 3.; 1.1., 1.2.; 1.2.1.” with a number followed by a period. A space should be left between the title number and the first letter of the title.
  5. Only the first letters of the words in the titles should be capitalized. Italics should not be used.

Abstract

  1. It should be between 200-250 words.
  2. The Abstract should be typed in Gotham Narrow Book font in 9-point size, justified, single-spaced and unindented.
  3. The Abstract and Abstract sections of the article should include the following points:
  • Presenting the general picture of the study or the background of the problem;
  • A clear statement of the problem/objective;
  • What is the gap in the literature and how will your work contribute to filling this gap and solving the problem?
  • What are the details of the path followed while doing this;
  • What is the conclusion reached in the study.

Keywords

  1. It should be written in Gotham Narrow Book font in 9 point size, justified, single-spaced and unindented. It should consist of at least 5 and at most 8 words.
  2. Keywords help the electronic scanning and indexing of the publication and are of great importance in finding the publication by researchers. For this reason, terms that accurately reflect the relevant article should be selected and ordered from general to specific.
  3. The first concept must be the name of the discipline. The second concept should be the name of the subject, sect, person or work that reflects the research. Then, concepts that fully reflect the content of the article should be added.
  4. If the study is focused on a person or work, the name of the relevant work and author must be written as keywords.
  5. Words that do not have a conceptual meaning other than the lexical meaning when used alone should not be preferred as concepts.
  6. Each word should begin with a capital letter and a comma should be placed after each word.

Öz

  1. It should be between 200-250 words.
  2. The Abstract should be typed in Gotham Narrow Book font in 9-point size, justified, single-spaced and unindented.
  3. The Abstract and Abstract sections of the article should include the following points:
  • Presenting the general picture of the study or the background of the problem;
  • A clear statement of the problem/objective;
  • What is the gap in the literature and how will your work contribute to filling this gap and solving the problem?
  • What are the details of the path followed while doing this;
  • What is the conclusion reached in the study.

Anahtar Kelimeler

  1. It should be written in Gotham Narrow Book font in 9 point size, justified, single-spaced and unindented. It should consist of at least 5 and at most 8 words.
  2. Keywords help the electronic scanning and indexing of the publication and are of great importance in finding the publication by researchers. For this reason, terms that accurately reflect the relevant article should be selected and ordered from general to specific.
  3. The first concept must be the name of the discipline. The second concept should be the name of the subject, sect, person or work that reflects the research. Then, concepts that fully reflect the content of the article should be added.
  4. If the study is focused on a person or work, the name of the relevant work and author must be written as keywords.
  5. Words that do not have a conceptual meaning other than the lexical meaning when used alone should not be preferred as concepts.
  6. Each word should begin with a capital letter and a comma should be placed after each word.

Introduction

The body text must include Introduction and Conclusion sections.

In order to achieve certain academic standards and integrity in the studies to be published in our journal, we expect the texts to be organized by following the steps below. This organization should be applied separately in the ABSTRACT and ABSTRACT sections as well as in the whole article.

  1. Presenting the general picture of the study or the background of the problem;
  2. A clear statement of the problem/purpose;
  3. Studies on the subject existing in the literature;
  4. What is the gap in the literature and how will your study contribute to filling this gap and solving the problem?
  5. Details of the path to be followed in doing this;
  6. Conclusions and recommendations.

Step 1: This part, which will constitute the sentence or paragraph that is the beginning of the article, is the part where the general picture in which the problem to be addressed is introduced to the reader. While this step is limited to a sentence when writing the abstract, it can be extended to a paragraph when writing the introduction. While over-extending this section may overshadow the focus of the article, the use of short but effective expressions is an important start to convince the reader of the importance of the subject.

Step 2: A clear statement of the problem to be addressed and why it is important to address this problem. In other words, a SPECIFIC PROBLEM within the general picture presented in the previous step and why the solution of this problem is important. Again, similar to the previous step, this step should be limited to one sentence in writing short texts such as the Abstract.

Step 3: Summarize how the problem has been addressed in the literature.

  • Has this problem been addressed directly?
  • What are the most influential studies and the most recent studies in the field and what do they say?
  • If this problem has not been directly addressed, what are the studies that can be seen closest?
  • The questions should be answered and this LITERATURE should be cited as appropriate.

Step 4:

  • How will your work contribute to the literature mentioned above?
  • Which gap in the literature will it fill?
  • What will it do that has not been done?
  • This is the part where you convince the reader of the originality and importance of your study.

Step 5: Present in detail how your contribution to the literature will be made. While the previous steps are an introduction to the article, this step constitutes the main body of the article. When we think of an entire article, the first 4 steps are included in the introduction of the article, while the body of the article will be written by opening new headings after this step.

In this section, the theories, methods, materials and methods to be used to reach the targeted result should be explained in detail step by step and examples should be presented. In other words, in the body part, the theoretical basis of the article should be examined in detail under one heading, which methods and materials will be used. (Then, if necessary and important for the subject, information about the historical background of the subject can be given under a new heading). After this, new headings should be opened and examples of the application of the theory and method to the materials at hand should be presented. At least two examples should be presented. Three or more examples will strengthen the argument of the paper.

Body Text

should be typed in Gotham Narrow Book font, 10.5 point size, justified, 1.15 line spacing. Spacing should be 0 pt at the top and 6 pt at the bottom.

Direct Citation

All direct quotations must follow the APA Citation System. If the direct quotation is a paragraph or if the author of the article wants to use the direct quotation as a separate paragraph, it should be written in Gotham Narrow Book font in 10-point font size, aligned justified, and single-spaced. The beginning of the paragraph should be unindented, the whole paragraph should be indented 2 cm from the left and right; spaces should be set as 0 nk at the top and 6 nk at the bottom.

Footnotes

  1. Footnotes should be typed in Gotham Narrow Book font in 8 point size, justified, single-spaced. Spacing should be set to 0 nk at the top and bottom.
  2. The footnote style should conform to the APA Citation System.
  3. Arabic words in footnotes and bibliography should be in 8-point font and Times New Roman font.
  4. Only end-of-page reference system should be used.
  5. Footnote numbers should be in header size, 8-point font and Gotham Narrow Book font.

Tables, Figures and Images

  1. It should be organized in accordance with the APA Citation System.
  2. Tables, Figures and Figures should be written in Gotham Narrow Book font in 10-point size and aligned justified.
  3. Table, Figure and Image captions and references, if any, should be typed in Gotham Narrow Book font in 8-point size, aligned on both sides, 1.15 times spacing, 0 pt from top and bottom.
  4. Table, Figure and Image captions should be numbered as ‘Table 1.’, ‘Figure 1.’, ‘Figure 1.’, ‘Image 1.’ etc. and only the numbering, i.e. ‘Table 1.’ etc., should be written in bold.
  5. Tables should not extend beyond the writing area (page margins should not be violated), and spacing should be set to 0 nk from the top and 6 nk from the bottom. Tables smaller than the page margins should be left-aligned.

Abbreviations

  1. It should be done as specified in the APA Citation System; if the abbreviation is not specified in the ISNAD Citation System, the author's preference should be stated in the description section when submitting the article.
  2. No abbreviation should be made in the names of any works other than encyclopedias and classical works cited.

The concluding section has to be.

Step 6: This is the conclusion section of the article. The conclusion of the study or the proposed solution is clearly stated. The conclusion should not be a summary of the study.

Bibliography

  1. References should start on the page after the conclusion.
  2. References should be written in Gotham Narrow Book font in 9-point size, aligned justified, single-spaced.
  3. The first line for each reference should be indented from the left, and the following lines should be indented 1.25 cm from the left. Spaces for each source should be 0 pt at the top and 6 pt at the bottom.
  4. If more than one work of an author is included in the bibliography, the author's name should be written again for each work.
  5. References should be organized according to APA Citation System.
  6. DOI numbers, if any, should be added to the articles in the bibliography in accordance with the APA Citation System.
  7. The suffix ‘el’ should not be used in the surname of the author of the work cited in the bibliography and footnotes.
  8. In the writing of Arabic source names, as a general rule, only the first letter of the first word is capitalized. However, if there is a proper name (name of a person, country, city or another book) in the book title, it is also capitalized. Titles of works are formatted in italics.
  9. References to journals should not include day and month.
  10. In references to journals, volumes and numbers should not have Roman numerals.
  11. In the bibliography, there should be no spaces before and after the apostrophe (-) between the names of two authors, translators, editors, reviewers, etc.