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Author guidelines

The text below is a translation of the archived guidelines page. This site accepts no submissions and the submission e-mail address was removed.

Publication principles

The journal was refereed and came out at least twice a year. Papers had to be previously unpublished.
Papers were written in Turkish or English.
Publication rights for a published paper belong to the journal, and no fee was paid to authors.
Opinions in a paper bind only its authors, who carry the legal responsibility for the text.
Papers that did not follow the style rules were returned without refereeing.
A paper needed positive opinions from two referees. If one was positive and the other negative, the editor asked a third referee.

After the title and the author name came a Turkish abstract of 50 to 150 words (aim, methods, content), the keywords, then an English title and a 50 to 150 word English abstract with English keywords. A JEL code was required as well (JEL classification).
The title was centred, with the author names and academic titles below it on the right. The institution and e-mail address went into a footnote on the first page.
Papers were set in Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing, justified; abstracts in 10 pt with single spacing.
Margins were 2.5 cm at top, left and right, with 0 pt before and 6 pt after paragraphs.
The main title was in capitals, other headings in sentence case.
Figures and tables were numbered in sequence, table captions above and figure captions below.
Sources were cited in the text by author surname, year and page, for example (Yılmaz, 2011, p. 13), and listed alphabetically at the end.