AUTHOR GUIDE AND WRITING STANDARTS

AUTHOR GUIDE
Bursa Uludağ Journal of Economy and Society is published twice a year (December and June). The journal includes research articles, book presentations, critics and case studies. These articles should not have been published elsewhere or sent for publication previously. Articles can be written in Turkish and English. When the articles are accepted Bursa Uludağ Journal of Economy and Society will have all publishing rights.
The initial evaluation of the manuscripts submitted to the journal is made by the editorial board in terms of its suitability for the journal writing standards. Eligible studies will be scanned with internationally accepted academic plagiarism detector (excluding individual citations, bibliographies and footnotes cited in accordance with academic rules). Studies with more than 15% similarity will be sent back to the author/authors together with the scan result report.
After this phase, the study will be sent to 2 referees. In the direction of the report from the referees, it will be decided whether the article will be published, corrected in the report frame, rejected or sent to third referee, and the author / authors will be notified about the situation as soon as possible.
Corrections requested from the author/authors should be made within 1 month at the latest and sent to the editorial board.

Article submission
Articles in doc. and pdf. format file should be sent to iibfeditor@uludag.edu.tr. Please be sure to notify the author/authors' mobile phone numbers so that the editor can communicate with the author in case of necessity. This information will never be used when the article is published.

Copyright
The copyright of all articles and materials accepted for publication belong to Bursa Uludağ University, Faculty of the Economics and Administrative Sciences.

Privacy
Names and addresses in this magazine will only be used for the purpose of the journal, which is stated above. It will not be used for another purpose or another part.

WRITING STANDARTS
Expression & Literary Style
Articles can be written in Turkish and English. Sentences should be written in accordance with the grammer and orthographic rules. For grammer and ortographic rules in Turkish articles, Turkish Language Association’s Güncel Türkçe Sözlük and/or Büyük Türkçe Sözlük and Türkçe Yazım ve İmla Kılavuzu should be used (http://www.tdk.gov.tr/). For grammer and ortographic rules in English articles, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (http://www.ldoceonline.com/), Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/), Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/) can be used.

Titles
An appropriate article title should be chosen for the study topic.
Section titles in the article should be numbered with normal numbers. (1, 2, 3 … etc.)
The number of subtitles in a section should be four at most.
The numbering of titles should be as follows:
1. Section title
1.1. First degree subheadline
1.2. First degree subheadline
Headings should be left-aligned.

Author and contact information
Name and surname of the author/authors should be indicated after the article title. Asterisked footnotes should be created after the author/authors’ name and surname and the institution/university information and e-mail address, ORCID to which the author/authors are affiliated should be shown. In more than one authoritative article, one of the authors must be specified as the corresponding author.

Abstract
An abstract which does not exceed 200 words should be written both in Turkish and English.

Keywords
After the Turkish and English abstracts, the keywords consisting of 3-5 words should be given to correct the interest of the study.

Summary
Turkish summary for articles in English and English summary for articles in Turkish which does not exceed 750 words should be written.

Text
Authors can prepare their article by downloading the “Şablon/Templete” which was prepared according to spelling rules and format of the Bursa Uludağ Journal of Economy and Society via our website.
The article should not exceed 8000 words. Text should be written in "Palatino Linotype".
The “introduction” should not be numbered. If an abbreviation is used in the text, these abbreviations should be shown in parentheses when used for the first time. For example: Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı (DPT). Footnotes in the text should be used to provide additional information and should be numbered with normal numbers.

Tables, figures and graphics
All tables, figures and graphics should be numbered with normal numbers. (Figure 1, Table 1)
The headings of tables should be placed on top of them; the headings of figures and graphics should be placed below. If the tables, figures and graphics used in the article do not belong to the author himself, the source should be given at the bottom of the tables, figures and graphics. Footnotes for tables and figures should be written with *(star) symbol.

Formulas and equations
Formulas should be written left aligned and numbered. The equations should be numbered as (1), (2), (3)…

Science field code (JEL code)
If the scientific code/jel code information related to the study field can be entered, the author / writers should write 3 scientific field codes (http://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/).

Acknowledgement
If there are institutions and persons supporting the work, a thank-you note can be written. Acknowledgements can be given as a footnote on the first page of the article or under a separate title before the “references”.

Citations
The author must comply with the APA (American Psychological Association) publication guidelines in citation of the sources he uses (www.apastyle.org).

Bibliography
The bibliography should include all of the references cited in the text. The bibliography must be sorted alphabetically by author surname. If more than one studies belonging to one author are found, the studies of the author should be ordered chronologically from the most recent to the earliest one.
The bibliography should be in APA 7 format. Authors using citation plug-ins from reference management softwares (Mendeley etc.) only need to select APA 7 when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the APA7.

Periodicals:
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

Books:
Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000

Study-Work Reports:
Givord, P. (2020, April). How a student’s month of birth is linked to performance at school: New evidence from PISA (OECD Education Working Papers No. 221). https://doi.org/10.1787/19939019

Book Chapters:
Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.

Corporate Resources:
National Cancer Institute. (2019). Taking time: Support for people with cancer (NIH Publication No. 18-2059). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health. https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/takingtime.pdf

Thesises:
Miranda, C. (2019). Exploring the lived experiences of foster youth who obtained graduate level degrees: Self-efficacy, resilience, and the impact on identity development (Publication No. 27542827) [Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University]. PQDT Open. https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/2309521814.html?FMT=AI