Yazarlar İçin Bilgiler

1. The manuscripts should be written with Times News Roman font, 1,5 space, and American spelling in one of the Word programs. 12 punto for the main text and 10 punto for the footnotes should be used.

2. Maximum two-level subtitle system should be used in the manuscripts. The first subtitle should be bold, the second should be bold and italic. The subtitles should not be numbered.

3. The quotations within the text should be given in double quotation marks; the quotations longer than 4 lines should be placed in a new paragraph with the entire quote indented ½ inch from the left margin and should have one-spacing. The quotation should be given within a single quotation mark. 

4. Words used from different languages other than the manuscripts’ language should be written in italic and translation to Turkish or English as appropriate should be given in parentheses at its first use. Concepts and terminology that Turkish versions are not very well known or used differently by different scholars, should include it’s original language versions within parentheses. The words that need to be highlighted within the quotations should be written in italic and should be stated in a footnote that the emphasis belongs to the author.

5. The words that need to be highlighted within the text should not be written in italic, bold, or underlined, but should be written within a single quotation mark. 

Reference Guidelines 

International Relations / Uluslararası İlişkiler uses in-text author-date system for manuscripts submitted to the journal. Prospective authors should refer to the following examples when preparing their manuscripts. For cases not covered below, please check http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html.

In Text Citation

• Sources are to be cited in the text in parentheses, with the author's last name, the date of publication of the work cited, and a page number if a specific page(s) is cited. There is no need for punctuation between the author and the date.

(Aydın 1999: 150-153)

(Aydın and Yazgan 2013: 24)

(BBC News Türkçe 2023)

• For works by two or three authors, all names should be included. If there are more than three authors, only the last name of the first author is used, followed by ‘et al.’

(Buzan, Wæver and de Wilde 1998)

(Brummer et al. 2022: 1040)

• If the last name of the author appears in the text, it is not necessary to repeat it in the parenthetical citation. For example;

Its theory and method were developed further by Alexander George (1969) and Stephen Walker (1983).

• Two or more references in a single parenthetical citation are separated by semicolons and are given in chronological order.

(George 1969; Walker 1983; Brummer et al. 2022)

• If a reference list contains two or more works published in the same year by the same author(s), the letters a, b, etc., must be used in both the text and the reference list.

(Mac Ginty 2022a: 45)

(Mac Ginty 2022b)

• Authors can use footnotes to provide additional or supplementary information about a passage in the text. However, the number of footnotes in the manuscript should be limited to minimum.

References

Full bibliographical information, arranged alphabetically, should be given in the references section (list of sources used) at the end of the text.

• The full surnames and shortened first names of the authors should be used in the references. The surname first and then the first letter of the first name separated with coma.

Wæver, O.

• If there is more than one author, only the name of the first author will be inverted. A comma must be placed before and after the surname of the first author. Please do not use "&" but "and" to link them.

Buzan, B., O. Wæver, and J. De Wilde. 1998. Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder, Lynne Rienner.

• Successive entries by the same author(s) are arranged chronologically by year of publication.

Wæver, O. 1995. Securitization and Desecuritization. In On Security, ed. R. D. Lipschutz. New York, Columbia University Press: 44–86.

Wæver, O. 2000. The EU as a Security Actor: Reflections from a Pessimistic Constructivist on Post-sovereign Security Orders. In International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration: Power, Security and Community, ed. M. Kelstrup and M. Williams. New York and London, Routledge: 250–294.

• Two or more works by the same author(s) published in the same year are distinguished by a, b, c, etc. after the date. These entries are listed alphabetically by title.

Mac Ginty, R. 2014a. Everyday Peace: Bottom-up and Local Agency in Conflict-affected Societies. Security Dialogue 45, 6: 548–564.

Mac Ginty, R. 2014b. Transitions and Hybrid Political Orders. In At the End of Military Intervention: Historical, Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Transition, Handover and Withdrawal, ed. R. Johnson and T. Clark, 253–270. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Below you can find the most common uses of the Author-Date reference style:

Books

Aydın, M., and Ç. Erhan. 2004. Turkish-American Relations: Past, Present and Future. New York and London, Routledge.

Özerdem, A., S. Akgül Açıkmeşe, and I. Liebenber. 2021. Routledge Handbook of Conflict Response and Leadership in Africa. New York and London, Routledge. 

Chapters in an edited book

Durmuş, T., and Ş. Ovalı. 2019. Greece’s Portrayal by the Turkish Print Media: A Comparative Study on Conjunctural Images. In Greece and Turkey in Conflict and Cooperation: From Europeanization to De-Europeanization, ed. A. Heraclides and G. A. Çakmak. London, Routledge: 210–223.

Journal Articles

Baysal, B. 2020. 20 Years of Securitization: Strengths, Limitations and A New Dual Framework. Uluslararası İlişkiler 17, 67: 3–20.

Altunışık, M. B., and L. G. Martin. 2023. Turkey and the Middle East and North Africa under the AKP: A Three Level Analysis of Foreign Policy Change. Uluslararası İlişkiler 20, 78: 79–96.

Conference papers and proceedings

Please note that conference proceedings can be treated as chapters in edited books.

Alemdar, Z., B. Demirtaş and B. Ö. Sarıgil. 2022. Türkiye’de Uluslararası İlişkiler ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği. Paper presented at the IX. Uluslararası İlişkiler Çalışmaları ve Eğitimi Kongresi, May 26-29, Mersin, Türkiye. 

Dissertation or theses

The word 'unpublished' is not required when giving details of the reference.

Canbolat, S. 2014. Understanding the New Middle Eastern Leaders: An Operational Code Approach. MA thesis, Bilkent University.

Newspaper or magazine articles

Göğüş, H. 2023. Dışişleri'nin 500. Yılına En Büyük Hediye. T24, April 29.

BBC News Türkçe. 2023. NATO Genel Sekreteri Stoltenberg: İsveç ve Türkiye Brüksel’de Üst Düzey Toplantı Yapacak. May 26.

Yetkin, M. 2023. ABD ve AB Erdoğan’a İsveç’e Derhal NATO Üyeliği Baskısı Yapıyor. Yetkin Report, June 9. https://yetkinreport.com/2023/06/09/abd-ve-ab-erdogana-isvece-derhal-nato-uyeligi-baskisi-yapiyor/

Triantaphyllou, D. 2023. The Ongoing Greek Electoral Cycle. UIK Panorama, June 16. https://www.uikpanorama.com/blog/2023/06/16/dt/

Electronic Sources

The first letter of the protocol (h in http) should not be capitalized. The capitalization of the remaining components varies, as some URLs are case sensitive, they should not be edited for style. Adding angle brackets (i.e., < >) at either end of the address should be avoided unless it is part of the address.

If there is no author for electronic resources, the owner of the site may stand in for the author. Descriptive phrases can be used for content on very informal sites where titles may be missing.

Global Academy. 2023. Public Perceptions on Turkish Foreign Policy. https://www.globacademy.org/en/service/public-perceptions-on-turkish-foreign-policy/ (accessed June 25, 2023).

Non-English sources

If an English translation of a title is added to the title of a non-English publication, it should follow the original title in brackets, without italics or quotation marks.

Ovalı, A. Ş. 2006. Ütopya ile pratik arasında: uluslararası ilişkilerde insan güvenliği kavramsallaştırması. Uluslararası İlişkiler 3 (10): 3-52.

No author

If a source does not have an author, 'Anonymous' is used in place of the author's name in a reference list. However, the use of ‘Anonymous’ should generally be avoided.