Author Guidelines

1. Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences is an international refereed peer-reviewed journal published annually in June and December. The official languages of the journal are Turkish and English. The Journal also publishes academic activities, interviews, reviews of books and papers and critical papers besides academic papers as long as they are between 600 and 1000 words. Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences also publishes translations. All translations should include the name of the original paper, its writer, its date, its place of publication, information about the journal in which it is published and the consent of the original publisher if it is still under copyright protection.

2. Each paper sent for publication is evaluated by at least two referees. All papers should contain a 150 word abstract both in Turkish and English. They should contain keywords in Turkish and English. References and bibliography should be given at the end of the paper in Chicago Style. Since there is a blind review process, papers must be sent online without name of the author, by Manuscript Tracking System.

3. Papers should not exceed 5000 words, with a one and half space interlining, with margins left, right and up 4.5 cm, down 3,5 cm. In papers, it should be made use of Times New Roman 11 points. Any picture or graphics in the paper should be sent separately as a jpg file and should be maximum 10x20 cm in size.

4. Publication of research that involves human subjects (i.e., surveys and interviews): Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences adopts the "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" of the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) in order to create ethical assurance in scientific periodicals. In this context, the following points should be followed in the manuscripts submitted to the journal: 1) For research conducted in all branches of science that requires ethics committee approval (ethics committee approval should be obtained, and this approval should be stated and documented in the article. b) In research that requires ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date, and number) is in the method section, and also on one of the first/last pages of the article; In case of reports, information about signing the informed consent/consent form should be included in the article.

5. The Editorial Board is fully authorized about whether to publish or not to publish the paper. The author is fully responsible for the ideas in the paper. All rights of the published papers belong to the author. The paper should be cited for any citations from the paper.

For the Chicago Manual of Style, see https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html.