For Authors

Dear Author,

You can easily arrange your work to be sent to our journal by preparing it in accordance with the Layout stated. In addition, you can submit your work to our journal by following the Journal Writing Rules and making the arrangements.

1. Elegest Elegeş is an internationally refereed journal and is published twice a year, in March and September. In addition, special issues and/or additional issues may be published in addition to routine issues, in accordance with the decision of the Editorial Board.
2. In Elegest Elegeş, published articles can be shared, copied, reproduced and distributed non-commercially, provided that they are published under license conditions, but their content cannot be changed. Any legal responsibility that may arise from the articles belongs to the authors.
3. Articles submitted for publication must be original works that have not been published or sent for publication in any way before. Authors must fill out the "Copyright Transfer Form" form in their signed petition stating that their article is an original work that has not been published or sent for publication in any way before. The works of authors who do not include the Copyright Agreement in their article application will not be included in the evaluation process.
4. Our journal publishes articles written in any of the languages ​​Turkish, English, German, French and Russian. Articles must have both Turkish and English titles. After the titles, there must be Turkish and English abstracts of maximum 150 words; minimum 3 and maximum 5 "key concepts". Article titles must not exceed 20 words, and the total length of the articles must not exceed 30 pages, including tables, figures and references.
5. The identity information of the author(s) should not be directly or indirectly mentioned anywhere in the articles submitted to the journal. Information such as whether the study was produced from a thesis, supported by a project, or presented at a congress will be added by the editorial office after the referee process is completed - if the article is accepted. This information can be included in the "Acknowledgements" section or "Note to the Editor" section during the article submission.
6. Articles sent for evaluation will be sent to 3 referees for evaluation after checking the conformity and similarity of the writing rules during the pre-control process. A positive opinion from at least 2 referees is required for the articles to be accepted for publication.
7. In terms of spelling and punctuation, the Turkish Language Association spelling guide should be taken as basis, except in cases where the article or subject is mandatory.
8. References to sources should be made within the text in parentheses according to the APA 7 referencing system. Explanations regarding certain issues to be explained in the text can be stated as footnotes at the bottom of the page, and such footnotes should follow each other numerically. Details such as page numbers, headers and footers should not be included in the text.
9. Tables, figures and equations in articles should be numbered sequentially, and the sources of the tables and figures should be written immediately below the table.
10. The sources used should be given under the heading "References", aligned left, following the conclusion.
11. Submitted articles must be written in Microsoft WORD 2010 or higher and edited according to the rules below.
12. Our journal has adopted the APA (American Psychological Association) 7th Edition referencing system. Articles to be submitted must be arranged in accordance with the APA 7th Edition basic referencing rules. Articles that use a reference system other than APA or are not arranged in full accordance with the APA system will be returned to the author without being evaluated.
If you use reference programs such as Mendeley, Endnote, Zotero while writing your article and select the referencing system as APA 7, all the rules below will be fulfilled completely and without errors.