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Author Guidelines

Uygulamalı Felsefe Dergisi (Journal of Applied Philosophy) accepts original scholarly works prepared in Turkish, English, German, French, and Italian. The journal publishes original research articles, book reviews, and translations following evaluation by the editorial board.

Submissions to the journal must not have been previously published and must not be under consideration by another journal at the same time. Research articles are subject to a double-blind peer review process after preliminary evaluation by the editorial board. Book reviews and translations may be accepted for publication following evaluation by the editorial board.

Submissions must be compatible with the journal’s aim and scope, prepared in accordance with the principles of academic writing, and offer an original contribution. Authors must cite all sources completely and accurately, clearly indicate direct quotations, and obtain the necessary permissions for copyrighted images, tables, translations, archival documents, or similar materials.

Research articles must be prepared in a way that does not reveal the identity of the author during the peer review process. The main manuscript file must not include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, email address, acknowledgements, project information, or any statement that may directly identify the author. Author information must be entered completely into the relevant fields of the OJS submission system.

Authors are advised to use the current manuscript template of the journal during submission. Titles, abstracts, keywords, main text, footnotes, and references must be prepared in accordance with academic writing standards. Citation and referencing practices must comply with the guidelines determined by the journal.

If artificial intelligence tools have been used at any stage of the work, including text generation, translation, language editing, summarization, literature search, code support, data organization, image generation, table preparation, or similar tasks, this use must be clearly disclosed during submission. Artificial intelligence tools may not be listed as authors. Authors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, and academic responsibility of the work.

For studies requiring ethics committee approval, the relevant approval document must be uploaded to the system during submission. Required forms concerning conflict of interest, funding, copyright, licensing, and artificial intelligence use must be completed and added to the submission files.

Submissions must be prepared only in Word format and uploaded to the system in this format. Before completing the submission, authors must ensure that all metadata, author information, files, and required documents have been entered correctly and completely.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following conditions:

  1. This submission has been prepared in accordance with the writing and submission rules stated in the journal’s Author Guidelines.
  2. This work has not been previously published and is not under consideration by another journal at the same time.
  3. The submission file has been prepared in Word format.
  4. In manuscripts submitted as research articles, no information or statement that may reveal the author’s identity in a way that could affect the peer review process has been included.
  5. The file submitted as a research article does not contain the author’s name, institutional affiliation, email address, acknowledgements, project information, or any statement that may directly identify the author.
  6. Information that may reveal the author’s identity has been removed from the document properties of the file submitted as a research article.
  7. All citations used in the text have been shown completely and consistently in the footnotes and bibliography.
  8. For manuscripts submitted as research articles, a Turkish title, English title, Turkish abstract, English abstract, Turkish keywords, and English keywords have been prepared.
  9. For translation texts, the bibliographic information of the original text and the necessary explanatory information have been provided. For book reviews, the full bibliographic information of the reviewed work has been provided.
  10. The necessary permissions have been obtained for all texts, images, tables, translations, archival documents, and similar materials whose publication requires permission.
  11. For research requiring ethics committee approval, the relevant approval document has been uploaded to the system.
  12. The required forms concerning conflict of interest, funding disclosure, copyright, licensing, and author declaration have been completed and uploaded to the system.
  13. If artificial intelligence tools have been used, this use has been clearly declared. If they have not been used, the relevant declaration form has been completed accordingly.
  14. The author information, title, abstract, keywords, bibliography, and other metadata entered during submission are accurate and complete.

Research Articles

This section publishes previously unpublished original research articles that fall within the journal’s focus and scope. Submissions to this section undergo an initial editorial review and are then sent for double-blind peer review. Evaluation is based on originality, academic quality, conceptual clarity, and relevance to the journal’s scope.

 

Translations

This section may publish translations of major philosophical texts not previously translated into Turkish, as well as translations of textual fragments that may contribute to the clarification of philosophers’ ideas. Translations are accepted following editorial evaluation. In the evaluation process, the academic value of the source text, the accuracy of the translation, and the adequacy of the accompanying introductory note are taken into account.

Book Reviews

This section publishes book reviews on recently published works in philosophy or on works of particular importance to the field. Book reviews are accepted following editorial evaluation. The evaluation takes into account the relevance of the work to the field, the clarity of the review, its critical adequacy, and the use of academic language.

 

Copyright Notice

Provisions concerning copyright, publication license, and author declaration are obtained through the Uygulamalı Felsefe Dergisi (Journal of Applied Philosophy) Copyright, Publication License and Author Declaration Form, which must be completed and uploaded to the system during submission.

Copyright in published works remains with the authors. Authors grant Uygulamalı Felsefe Dergisi (Journal of Applied Philosophy) the right of first publication if their work is accepted for publication.

Unless otherwise stated, works published in the journal are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions for any texts, images, tables, translations, archival documents, or similar materials used in their work that require permission.

In order for the submission to be completed, the relevant copyright, publication license and author declaration form must be completed and uploaded to the system.

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