Writing Rules

PUBLICATION PRINCIPLES

Digitalization and Sustainability is published three times a year, in January, May and September.

The publication languages ​​of the journal are English and Turkish.

Candidate articles must be between 3500-9000 words, excluding the abstract, references and extended summary. Articles shorter or longer than the specified range will not be evaluated.
Candidate articles sent to the journal must be original, not previously published elsewhere and not in the publication process.
Candidate articles are first reviewed by the editors in terms of compliance with the writing rules and then directed to at least two referees. Articles that both referees report positively are ready for publication, while the article is rejected if both referees report negatively. If one of the referees gives a positive and the other gives a negative report, the article is sent to a third referee. The decision on whether the article will be published or not is made based on the report from the third referee.
All candidate articles must have an English and Turkish title, a Turkish ABSTRACT consisting of 150-200 words and an English ABSTRACT. A sufficient number of keywords (minimum 3 and maximum 5) defining the article should be determined under the abstract. If the article is written in another language, Turkish translations of the title and abstract should be provided. Turkish and English abstracts should cover the purpose, method and results of the study.

An extended English abstract should be included at the end of the candidate articles. There should be no subheadings in the Extended Summary section. The Extended Summary section should provide information to the readers about the entire research (the purpose, method, findings and results of the research, etc.). The Extended Summary section should start on a new page and should consist of 750-1000 words. This section should be written carefully in terms of grammar, expression and scope. It should not be forgotten that this section will represent the international dimension of the journal, the article and the journal. It should be written in 11 point font, spacing: first 0nk, then 0nk, as in the main text, including the title.

A maximum of 3 years must have passed since the presentation date of the papers presented in scientific meetings such as symposiums, congresses and conventions in order to be published in the journal.
In order for an author whose article has been published to be able to publish an article in the journal again, it is expected that at least one year (at least 3 issues) has passed since the published article.
Research articles must be submitted with a similarity report before being uploaded to the journal. The similarity rate of the articles must be at most 20%. (The report must be obtained by excluding only the “CITINGS and BIBLIOGRAPHY”).
A total of 5 (five) documents must be uploaded when the articles are uploaded to the system:
Article file (Microsoft Word format)
Ethics committee report/Declaration form stating that ethics committee permission is not required
Similarity report (Maximum 20%)
Copyright transfer form
Author information form (Form containing information about the article and author(s))
The ethics committee report is mandatory for all candidate articles whose publication process starts in 2020 and later. The ethics committee report must be uploaded to the system when the candidate article is uploaded to the system. For candidate articles that do not require ethics committee approval, the author declaration form stating that ethics committee approval is not required must be signed by the responsible author and uploaded to the system in a scanned form.

WRITING RULES

Candidate articles must be prepared in current versions of Microsoft Word. Images and graphics used in the text must be able to be opened on computers with Windows operating systems.
All texts in candidate articles must be written in “Garamond” font. The title of the candidate article must be capitalized, bold, centered and 11 points. The value between paragraphs in candidate articles must be 0pt and 0pt.
The ABSTRACT and ABSTRACT sections of candidate articles must be written in “Garamond” font, including the title, 10 points and single-spaced. In addition, the abstract and abstract must be in single paragraph form.

There must be a line space between paragraphs and between the end of the paragraph and the headings.
The main text must be written in “Garamond” font, 11 points including headings and 1.5 spacing between lines. The text should include an introduction, research text, findings, comments, results and recommendations within a certain plan. The headings in the article should be structured according to the APA 7 heading system without being numbered. There should be a single line space before the headings in candidate articles. Detailed information is available in the file called article template in the system. The following examples can be examined for heading levels:

First Level Heading (Centered, Bold, First Letters of Words Capitalized)

Second Level Heading (Left Aligned, Bold, First Letters of Words Capitalized)

Third Level Heading (Left Aligned, Bold, Italic, First Letters of Words Capitalized)

Fourth Level Heading. (Indented, Bold, First Letters of Words Capitalized, Ending with a Period).

Fifth Level Heading. (Indented, Bold, Italic, First Letters of Words Capitalized, Ending with a Period).

Footnotes in candidate articles should be

If it is given under yfa, it should be written in 9 points and single-spaced.
The formatting of the article template file should be applied for the page layout values.
Tables or figures can be used in candidate articles. It is recommended that the table be presented briefly before the tables. There should be no vertical lines in the tables, and the tables should consist of only 3 horizontal lines. Tables should be numbered with the Add Caption option in the References tab of Microsoft Word. The number and name of the table should be given above the table, in a single line, with the first letter of each word except for conjunctions capitalized, and centered. The table and its number should be bold. For example, Table 1. Table Title. Table titles and the text size inside should be set to 10 points. The text inside the table should be left-justified. Necessary additional information and explanations should be given with the title Note. immediately below the table.
Figures (graphs, charts, maps, drawings, photographs, etc.) can be used in candidate articles. Figures should be numbered with the Add Caption option in the References tab of Microsoft Word. The number and title of the figure should be given below the figure, in a single line, with the first letter of each word, except for conjunctions, capitalized and centered. The figure and its number should be bold. For example, Figure 1. Figure Title. The title and necessary additional information and explanations should be given immediately below the figure.

The names of the authors should not appear in the candidate articles.
The 7th edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual will be taken as basis for referencing. In this context;
Footnotes in articles sent to the journal should be made according to the system called the Harvard (Conjunction) System; that is, the system in which the author's surname (institution and report name, etc.), date and page numbers are given (Ex. Korkmaz, 2004: 15).
Authors should give information that is not directly related to the subject but that they believe should be included in the work, by giving the sequence number to the upper right corner of the relevant word in the text, and by giving the same number as a footnote at the bottom of the page, in 9 point size, 1 line spacing.
In cases where there are many indicators other than normal text such as Tables, Figures and Graphs, the titles for Tables, Figures and Graphs should be; It should be written as APPENDIX Table 1, APPENDIX Graph 3 and APPENDIX Figure 7, APPENDIXES should be given after REFERENCES at the end of the text. References to these indicators in the text must be made as APPENDIX Table 1, APPENDIX Graph 3 or Appendix Figure 7. If a citation is made for a table, figure, graph or picture, the source must be indicated. The titles of the said appendixes should be in 11-point size, the first letters of the words should be in capital and bold letters.

All sources used in the articles sent to the journal are given at the end of the publication under the title “References”, alphabetically according to the author’s surname, in accordance with APA 7 rules. The references should be written in “Garamond” font, 11-point size and single-spaced.
Some examples of reference indications are given below:

Article

Gür, R., & Eriçok, B. (2020). The relationship among academic success scores of graded foreign language courses. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 16(2), 809-821. https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.759309

Book

Şişman, M. (2020). The quest for excellence in education. Pegem Academy Publishing.

Chapter in Book

Eriçok, B. (2020). Multicultural education. In G. Arastaman (Ed.), Comparative and International Education (pp. 159-170). Pegem Academy Publishing.

Lillie, E. (2003). Convergence and divergence differing approaches to quality and accreditation in Europe. In H. Eggins (Ed.), Globalization and reform in higher education (pp. 99–116). Mc Graw Hill.

Translation Book

Wissema, J. G. (2014). Towards third generation universities. Managing a university in a transitional period (N. Devrim, T. Belge, Trans.). Özyeğin University Publications.

Thesis

The source indication for doctoral and master's theses is handled under two headings as published and unpublished theses. Unpublished theses are generally theses obtained directly from the institution itself in printed form. In the source indication of unpublished doctoral and master's theses, the university name is indicated as the source. Example:

Eriçok, B. (2020). Evaluation of the internationalization of higher education in Turkey [Unpublished doctoral thesis]. Hacettepe University.

Published theses are theses accessed from any database (e.g. ProQuest, National Thesis Center, etc.), university archives or personal web pages. In published doctoral and master's theses, the university name is indicated in square brackets immediately after the title of the thesis. Example:

Atagi, R. (1996). Japan's internationalization policy in education. [Doctoral dissertation, The University of Michigan]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global

Eriçok, B. (2020). Evaluation of the internationalization of higher education in Turkey [Doctoral dissertation, Hacettepe University]. National Thesis Center.

Conference Presentations

Eranıl, A. K., Eriçok, B. & Özcan, M. (2017, October 19-21). Teacher name

Investigating the effects of individual characteristics of students on youth leadership [Oral presentation]. 8th International Forum on Education Management, Ankara.

Web Page

Goldstein, D. (2021). In Britain, young children don’t wear masks in school. The New York Times. https://nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/students-masks-classrooms-britain.html

NOTE:
* Authors must create citations and references using the zotero system.

* Authors must provide the majority of their citations from WoS, sciencedirect, emerald, springer platforms.