Submissions

Author Guidelines

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1. Submitting a manuscript

• Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies accepts the manuscripts written in English and Turkish.
• Nesir publishes the original articles, review articles, short articles, letters to the editor, book reviews, interviews and translations.
• The submitted book reviews and interviews must contribute to the field, literary studies.
• For interviews and book reviews, the authors should select recent topics and books within the scope of interdisciplinary literary studies.
• A book review must be beyond a summary, and must discuss reviewed book’s theoretical and/or practical contribution to the field.
• Nesiraccepts original and as yet published manuscripts, and submitted manuscripts should not be under review for another publication.
• The manuscript and folder must not include any information about author’s identity, personal information and affiliations must be written on the cover page.

2. Preparing and submitting the Article

The authors may send two separate MS Word documents: Cover page and manuscript document. Cover page must include title (in English and Turkish), author(s) name, surname, and affliation (university, faculty together with city and country), e-mails, correspondance address, work phone and mobile phone numbers, all authors’ ORC-ID numbers. Manuscript document must contain main text, title (in English and Turkish), keywords (both in English and Turkish), article’s main chapters, acknowledgements (if any) and bibliography, financial support (if any), visual works, images and tables (if any).

• Title
  • Each article must have a short, concise and comprehensive title in English and Turkish.
  • Titles should not be more than ten words.
  • Titles (in English and Turkish) should be written in bold and their font size should be 14 . The main chapters should be centered, and subheadings should be left-alingned.
  • Between the title and text, authors should leave one line.
  • Subheadings must be numbered in accordence with their degress. (eg. 1.1., 1.1.1.)
  • All titles must be hierarchically and serially numbered.
• Abstracts
  • All articles must include brief and concise English and Turkish abstracts.
  • Abstracts should be between 100 to 200 words, and they should reflect article’s aim, methods and significant findings.
  • Abstracts’ font size must be 10 and they must have one line spacing.
• Keywords
  • Each article should have at least 4 and at most 7 keywords.
  • Articles’ keywords must be written in English and Turkish. Apart from the first keyword’s capital letter, all keywords must be written in lower case. Authors should array keywords according to their importance. There should not be a dot in the end of the keywords section.
  • Authors should carefully select their keywords to expedite readers’ survey of relevant articles.
• Main Text
  • An article, including footnotes, tables, figures and appendices, should be between 3000 to 15000 words but abstracts and bibliography are not included in the word count.
  • Manuscripts’ font size must be 12 and line spacing must be 1,5.
  • Page margins must be 1,75 (upper and lower margins) and 1,25 (left and right margins.)
  • We recommend non-natives submitting articles in English to take professional editing help before submission.
  • Due to peer-review principles, main text must not include authors’ any personal identity information.
  • Articles’ electronic copies should not exceed 3 MB.
• Preparing the Tables and Visuals
  • Authors must locate tables, figures and visuals into their original places. In text, authors should refer to the tables, figures and visuals in brackets.
  • Authors must number tables and figures, and must give a brief description and reference.
  • Authors must entitle tables as follows: “Table 1. Title of the Table.” The title must be written before the table.
  • The title of the visual be must written under the visual work. Authors must entitle them as follows: “Visual 1. Title of the Visual.”
  • The visual works can be either black&white, colored or grayscale.
  • The visuals must be sent in 300 dpi jpeg format, and they must be attached to the e-mails.
• Citations
  • We recommend authors to limit their block quotations.
  • Authors must put their less than three-lines quotes in quotation marks.
  • Quotations more than three-lines must be separated from the text by leaving one line blank space, and leave one cm on the left and right margins.
  • Block quotations’ font size must be 10.
  • Authors must not put block quotations in quotes.
  • After block quotations, authors must leave one line blank space.
• Lines and Paragraphs
  • Lines and paragraphs should begin from left side of the page.
  • New paragraphs must be one tab and space indented. Authors should not leave space between paragraphs.
• Symbols, Abbreviations ve Shapes
  • Authors must locate the symbols, abbreviations and shapes according to the International System of Units (SI Units).
  • In the first usage of an abbreviation, the full name must be given in brackets.
• Mathematical Sentences
  • Authors must use mathematical symbols and formulas of MS Word document, and should not use another program or application.
  • Authors should be careful to correctly define all symbols and avoid vaguness.
  • The differences between number one (1) and letter I, and differences between number zero (0) and letter O must be clear.
  • The equation numbers must be in brackets and must be consecutively arranged.
  • All equation numbers must be at the right side of equations and must be specified in the text.
• Acknowledgements Section
  • Authors may write their acknowledgements and personal notes in the end of the text as a separate section.
  • According to blind peer-review principles, information about the author(s)’s identities and instutions is not allowed.
  • In the acknowledgement section, if there is information about authors and their institutions, a section might be added to the end of the text. In such circumstances, authors can send their acknowledgements and personal notes after acception.
• Footnotes and Bibliography
  • Authors must write in accordance with Chicago 17th Edition Citation Style’s writing, footnote and bibliography rules.
  • Footnotes must be numbered throughout the manuscript.
  • Footnotes must be put after the punctuation mark.
  • Line spacing must be 1 and font size must be 10 in the footnotes.

3. Book Review

• • • Book reviews must be between 1000 to 3000 words.
    • Authors do not need to write an abstract for book reviews.
    • Authors must use Times New Roman, and font size must be 12, line spacing must be 1,5.
    • Page numbers must be at the bottom of the page and left-aligned.
    • Book review’s title must be same with the reviewed book.
    • The reviewed books’ cover photos should be sent via e-mail in jpeg format (300 dpi).
    • In the begining of the book review, information about the book must be written as follows:

Book Title

Author’s name and surname

City: Publishing House

XX Pages

ISBN 0-111-1111-1111

4. Plagiarism and Check for Ethical Principles

At first, before sending manuscripts to the referees, the editorial board evaluates the articles in terms of ethical rules. iThenticate checks the plagiarism, and we share the report with referees and authors for their consideration via e-mail. The percentage of similarity must be less than 15%. Editorial board resends the manuscripts, having similarity between 15%-30%, to the authors, and asks them to edit the content. Editorial board rejects the articles having more than 30% similarity.

Authors are responsible of their articles’ contents. Asking permissions for published texts, tables, visuals and so on, is the responsibility of the author.

5. Review Process

At first, the editorial board reviews the submitted manuscripts in terms of form, citation style, and topic. Editorial board sends the articles, which are convenient for publishing, to at least two reviewers to evaluate manuscripts’ convenience to scientific standards. Our journal follows blind peer-review principles, so referees do not see the authors’ names and institutions, they may only see manuscripts’ record no. Editorial board evaluates the book review, translations, and letters to editors, no other review process takes place.

Editorial board may directly reject a manuscript without initiating blind peer-review process, in such circumstances editorial board declares reasons and justification to the author.

Editorial board and referees evaluate the manuscripts approxiamately in 60 days. This period extends if referees or editorial board asks editing and corrections from authors. Editorial board selects the reviewers or referees.

Due to blind review principles, the authors and referees names remain unknown. Referees evaluate manuscripts in terms of their methods, originality and ethical convenience, and decide whether is it publishable or not. Acceptions and rejections of the manuscripts is based on the referees’ decisions and recommendations. If both referees regards a manuscript as publishable, the article will be published in the following issue. If referees do not establish a consensus, or if one referee accepts and other referee rejects the manuscript, editorial board assigns a third referee. Third referee’s report may determine the decision. If two referees’ decisions are negative, the editor informs the editorial board.

If referees and editorial board ask for corrections and editings in order to publish the articles, authors must send them in 15 days via e-mail. Authors must consider the reviews and corrections given by referees and editorial board. We recommend authors to briefly explain their corrections in their e-mail.

6. Submission Process

Articles can be submitted to the Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies via the Submission Platform in the Journal Web Site. Submission Process is composed of two stages:

a) Registration to Journal:

In order to complete your registration to the Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies successfully, please take the following steps.

• Open registration form by clicking on the REGISTER section in the menu.
• Carefully fill in the Registration form (with co-authored articles, only the lead writer should register here as other writers will be registered in the mailing phase).
• When you receive confirmation e-mail including your username and password, follow the instructions in the message.
• Access the system with your username and password in order to submit your article.
• Click the link under Start a New Submission on Active Submissions page.

b) Submission Transaction:

In order to submit your manuscript to the Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies successfully, please complete take following five steps.

Step 1 - Start

• In this stage, Application Check List are checked.
• Please click the button “Save and Continue” to proceed to the next section.

Step 2 - Uploading Submission

• In this stage the article is uploaded to the system by following the instructions on the page. The article format should be Microsoft Word and should not be larger than 3 MB.
• Once the submission is uploaded, “Save and Continue” to proceed to the next section.

Step 3 - Entering the Submission's Metadata

In this stage the information related to the submission is entered into the system. There are some important points to be taken into consideration when providing the submission information. These points are the following:

• If it is a co-authored article, click Add Author button for each author and fill in the required fields.
• Enter Title and Abstract of Article.
• Fill in the Indexing Information.

Please note that all information provided should be in compliance with the Manuscript Standards of the Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies.

Please click the button “Save and Continue” to proceed to the next section.

Step 4 - Uploading Supplementary Files

• In this stage additional documents are uploaded to the system.
• After completing the inputting of “Supplementary File Metadata”, click “Save and Continue” to return to the main screen of Step 4.
• If there are additional documents to be submitted at this stage, the same above mentioned procedure should be applied for each supplementary document.

Step 5 - Confirming the Submission

In this stage you can see the list of files submitted to the Journal.

You can click “Finish Submission” to complete you submission transaction.

6. Copyright and License

Submitting a manuscript to Nesir means that submitted manuscript was not published before, is not under the review for another journal and all authors confirm that it can be published in Nesir.

Nesir licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). All published articles can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection under the Open Access policy. The license permits anyone to copy, redistribute, rearrange, transmit and adapt the work, provided the original work and source are properly cited.

Our journal do not make any payment to authors for their contributions to Nesir.

Copyrights are reserved by the authors under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) license. The authors grant the right to use the publication to any third party as long as the original authors and citation details should be identified.

7. Fees

Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies is an open-access journal, and it does not ask any fees for submission of manuscripts, evaluation process, and publishing. It also does not ask fees for reviews and DOI number. All process of submission, evaluation and publishing is free.