Manuscripts to be published in SJISSR must not have been previously published elsewhere, must comply with academic standards, and must be original. Papers that have not been previously published but have been presented at scientific meetings may be published in SJISSR, provided that they are converted into full article format. However, an author may not have more than one article published within the same volume. The responsibility for the ideas, opinions, findings, and recommendations expressed in the articles rests solely with the author(s).

GENERAL RULES

• National and international research and publication ethics principles must be observed. Manuscripts submitted to SJISSR must not have been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
• The length of manuscripts, including tables and figures but excluding references, must be between 5,000 and 8,500 words. In exceptional cases, authors are advised to contact the editor.
• The publication rights of accepted articles belong to SJISSR. However, all articles published in SJISSR are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) and are published as open access. Under this license, content may be shared, copied, redistributed, and adapted, provided that appropriate credit is given, it is not used for commercial purposes, and derivative works are distributed under the same license. Authors agree to make their articles publicly accessible under this license.
• The manuscript file uploaded to the system must not contain author names.
• Submitted manuscripts are first evaluated by the editorial board in terms of technical and formal compliance. Manuscripts found suitable are sent to two reviewers within the framework of a double-blind peer review process. Based on the reviewers’ reports, the manuscript may be accepted, returned for revision, rejected, or sent to a third reviewer. The decision is communicated to the author.
• The journal’s publication languages are Turkish and English. For manuscripts written in Turkish, a Turkish Abstract and an English Abstract of no more than 250 words must be included. The title must be provided in both Turkish and English. At least three keywords must be indicated in both languages.
• English manuscripts and English abstracts must undergo language proofreading.

All manuscripts must be uploaded to the system together with a plagiarism report. Manuscripts with a similarity rate exceeding 20% will not be considered for peer review.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES (FORMAT)
Manuscripts must be prepared in Word format, with 1.5 line spacing, 6 pt space before and after paragraphs, using Times New Roman, 11-point font in the main text. Paragraphs should not be indented, and no extra space should be left between paragraphs.

Turkish and English abstracts must not exceed 250 words. The Abstract sections must be written in 10-point Times New Roman.

References must be written in 11-point Times New Roman, single-spaced, with a 1.5 cm hanging indent.

Text within tables must be in 9-point Times New Roman. Tables should be aligned to the left and set to the page width; figures should be centered. Table titles must appear above the table, and figure captions below the figure. Table titles must be 11-point, with the table number in bold, followed by a period (e.g., Table 1. Sample Presentation). The first letter of each word in the title should be capitalized.

The article title must be written in uppercase letters, 11-point, bold, and centered.

All section headings (including Introduction and Conclusion) must be numbered as 1.; 1.1.; 1.1.1.; 1.1.1.1. Headings must be bold with only the first letter of each word capitalized. Third-level and lower subheadings must be italicized.

Decimal separators must follow the language of the manuscript. For Turkish texts, “,05” should be used; for English texts, “.05.” Thousands separators should be written as “9.900” in Turkish and “9,900” in English. Equations must be centered in the text and numbered in parentheses.

STRUCTURE OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts must include the following sections:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Conceptual / Theoretical Framework
• Method
• Findings and Discussion
• Conclusion and Recommendations
• References

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES
Citations and references must be prepared in accordance with APA 7 guidelines. In-text citations must be provided in parentheses, and the reference list must be formatted accordingly.

SUBMISSION CHECKLIST
Authors must ensure that the following documents are uploaded to the system during submission. Submissions that do not comply with these requirements will be returned to the authors.

• Author information and conflict of interest declaration file
• Manuscript file (without author information)
• Similarity report
• Ethics Statement Form / Ethics Committee Approval Document
• Title page (including author information)

The manuscript must be prepared in accordance with the journal’s formatting guidelines. High-resolution copies of figures should be uploaded as supplementary files for publication. If the file size exceeds the system limit, documents may be uploaded separately as additional files.