ARTICLE PUBLISHING RULES
Journal of Aksaray Communication, which is an academic and peer - reviewed journal, reviews about communication sciences, research articles, theoretical and theoretical articles, book presentation, etc. Journal is published two times a year, in January and July.

Articles sent to journal for publication should not have been published anywhere before or sent elsewhere for publication. The presentation of the article in the form of a paper at a congress, symposium or meeting is not an obstacle for publication.
Articles are published with the positive report of at least two referees.

The language of the journal is Turkish and English. In addition, the publication of articles written in any of the German, Russian, Arabic, Persian and French languages is subject to the decision of the editorial board.

The articles submitted to the journal for publication must be arranged in accordance with the journal rules, membership procedures should be done on the journal web page and submissions should be made from this membership page.

All legal responsibilities of the articles sent to the journal belong to the authors. The journal does not accept any responsibility.

All copyrights of the published articles belong to Journal of Aksaray Communication. Additionally, no royalties are paid to authors.

Articles submitted for publication must be prepared in accordance with academic writing rules.

All developments and results in the article process are reported to the author who sent the article online. Successful articles prepared in accordance with the principles of Scientific Research Methods can also be published with the decision of the editor.

The article sent to Journal of Aksaray Communication for publication is first reviewed by the editor, then submitted for the opinion of the editorial board and sent to the referees for review after the positive opinion of the editorial board. Articles that have passed peer-reviews and whose necessary deficiencies have been corrected by the author are placed in the order of publication and then published.
Since the review process of the articles is carried out according to the blind referee technique, any information about the authors or the title of the study that will reveal the author of the study will not be included in the articles to be uploaded. After the referee process of the relevant study is completed, information about the author or the study will be added. Thesis summary of the study, a presented paper etc. If there is, the editor should be informed by message.

Due to the fact that the related study has been passed by a jury in the publication of master's and doctoral thesis abstracts, it can be sent to the referee for evaluation after the review made by the editor in accordance with the scope of publication and the editorial boards. After positive evaluation, abstracts can be published.

During the submission of the article, a CV (word or pdf) should be prepared for the author or authors and uploaded to the additional files section.

WRITING RULES

1. Journal of Aksaray Communication, research on communication sciences, thoughts, practice-based research, etc. It is an academic national/international refereed journal with qualified articles. Articles submitted to the journal are pre-evaluated by the editorial board and published with the positive report of at least two referees determined by the board.

2. Journal of Aksaray Communication is published two times a year, in January and July.

3. Manuscripts must be original products that have not been published in a media or not yet in the publication stage. The presentation of the article in the form of a paper at a congress, symposium or meeting is not an obstacle for publication. Studies produced from master's and doctoral theses are included.

4. Our journal's writing style is Palatino Linotype. It is important that all studies to be sent to our journal are sent using the Article Template. The title of the article should be written at the beginning of the first page with only the first letters of the word capitalized, in bold and centered with Palatino Linotype writing style, 12 points. The name of the author should not be included in the article submission process. After the article is accepted, the name of the author should be written as a footnote (for example, Nezahat ALTUNTAŞ DUMAN), just below the title, aligned to the right, in 12 font size; If there is more than one author, their names should be written one under the other and the sequence numbers should follow each other. In addition, the academic title, post and e-mail address of the author or authors should be indicated at the bottom of the page in 9 font size as a footnote. (For example; Research Assistant Aksaray University Faculty of Communication, efenumancan@aksaray.edu.tr)

5. Manuscripts should be written only on one side of A4 size paper, with the abstract and main text in 12-point lettering and as a word document in Palatino Linotype font. Manuscripts to be sent to the journal should be written using MS Word Program, with 1 line spacing. There should be spaces of 2.5 cm each on the top, bottom, left and right sides of the page. There should be extra space (spacing/after/0.6nk) between paragraphs in the 0.6 spacing.

6. Authors must become a member by logging into the system at https://dergipark.org.tr/aid. They are required to submit their studies through the system on this page.

7. The title and post of the authors should be indicated in the footnote.

8. Manuscripts, including abstracts, should be a minimum of 3500 words and a maximum of 10,000 words.

9. The articles that have been decided to be published are presented as pdf on the journal web page.

10. The responsibility of the articles (primity in the publication, accuracy of the source, opinions put forward, etc.) within the specified principles belongs to the author.

11. All copyrights of the published articles belong to Journal of Aksaray Communication.
12. Articles should contain Turkish and English abstracts not exceeding 300 words, and keywords should be placed under the abstract.

13. It is appropriate for the study to follow the following order: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Title in Foreign Language, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Main Text, Conclusion and References.

14. The 6th edition of APA (American Psychological Association), which is the method of referencing the text, should be used for referencing. In both the citations and the bibliography part, the authors should follow the spelling rules and format specified in the American Psychological Association Publication Guide published by the American Psychological Association.



CITATIONS

1. Citations should be given in the main text by writing author surnames, dates and page numbers: (Aktan, 1996, p. 45) or (Kalender and Özodaşık, 1997, p. 63).

2. If there are more than two authors, the phrase “et al.” should be used after the surname of the first author: (Campbell et al., 1960, p. 28).

3. Citations to more than one publication at the same time all publications should be separated by semicolons: (Fiske, 1996, s. 72; Bostancı, 1995, s. 121; Bon, 1979, s. 3)

4. Only the references cited in the main text should be included in the bibliography and should be in alphabetical order according to the surname of the author.

5. If more than one sources of the same author is to be cited at the same time, it should be sorted from oldest to newest according to publication date. For studies made in the same year, the phrases "a, b, c..." should be used and they should be the same for references made in the text.

6. The way of specifying the studies in the bibliography should be as follows.

WEB PAGE (In-Text Display)

If author and detailed date are known:
(Slat, 2019)
(Slat ve Worp, 2019)

If the author and only the year are known:
(Slat, 2019)
(Slat ve Worp, 2019)



If the author is known but the detailed date or year is unknown:
(Slat, t.y.)
(Slat ve Worp, t.y.)

If the author is an institution/organization unknown and the detailed date is known:
(The Ocean Cleanup, 2019)

If the author is an institution/organization and only the year is known:
(The Ocean Cleanup, 2019)

If the author is an institution/organisation, but the detailed date or year is unknown:
(The Ocean Cleanup, t.y.)

If the author is unknown but the detailed date is known:
(“Whales Great Pacific”, 2019)

*The first three words of the article title can be given in quotation marks.

If the author is unknown but only the year is known:
(“Whales Great Pacific”, 2019)

*The first three words of the article title can be given in quotation marks.

If both author and date are unknown:
(“Whales Great Pacific”, t.y)
*The first three words of the article title can be given in quotation marks.





WEB PAGE (Represented in bibliography)
If author and detailed date are known:
Slat, B. (2019, Nisan 10). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Slat, B. ve Worp, C. (2019, Nisan 10). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

If the author and only the year are known:
Slat, B. (2019). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Slat, B. ve Worp, C. (2019). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

If the author is known but the detailed date or year is unknown:
Slat, B. (n.d.). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved August 15, 2020 from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
Slat, B., and Worp, C. (n.d.). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved August 15, 2020 from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
If the author is an institution/organization and the detailed date is known:
The Ocean Cleanup. (2019, April 10). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. Retrieved from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
If the author is an institution/organization and only the year is known:
The Ocean Cleanup. (2019). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. Retrieved from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
If the author is an institution/organization but the detailed date or year is unknown:
The Ocean Cleanup. (n.d.). Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. Retrieved August 15, 2020 from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
If the author is unknown but the detailed date is known:
Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. (2019, April 10). The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
If the author is unknown but only the year is known:
Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. (2019). The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
If both author and date are unknown:
Whales likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. (n.d.). The Ocean Cleanup. Retrieved August 15, 2020 from https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/


Book
Akar, E. (2011). Sosyal Medya Pazarlaması: Sosyal Web'te Pazarlama Stratejileri. Ankara: Efil Publications.
Aktan, E. (2017). Sosyal Medya ve Siyasal Katılım. Konya: Eğitim Publications.


Translation book

Briggs, A., & Burke, P. (2011). Medyanın Toplumsal Tarihi Gutenberg'den İnternet'e... (Ü. H. Yolsal, & E. Uzun, Çev.) İstanbul: Kırmızı Publications.







Edited Books
Eldeniz, L. (2010). İkinci Medya Çağında Etkileşimin Rolü ve Web 2.0. F. Aydoğan, & A. Akyüz in, İkinci Medya Çağında İnternet (p. 18-35). İstanbul: Publications.

Articles

Güçdemir, Y. (2003). Bilgisayar Ağları İnternetin Gelişimi ve Bilgi Kirlenmesi. İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi, 371-378.

Karaçor, S. (2009). Yeni iletişim teknolojileri, siyasal katılım, demokrasi. Yönetim ve Ekonomi: Celal Bayar Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 16(2), 121-131.

Khanzode, C. A., & Sarode, R. D. (2016). Evolution of The World Wide Web: From Web 1.0 To 6.0. International Journal of Digital Library Services, 6(2), 1-11.

Thesis

Işık, U. (2007). Medya Bağımlılığı Teorisi Doğrultusunda İnternet Kullanımının Etkileri ve İnternet Bağımlılığı. Konya: Selcuk University Institute of Social Sciences Unpublished Doctoral Thesis..

Proceedings
Nath, K., & Iswary, R. (2015). What Comes after Web 3.0? Web 4.0 and the Future. Proceedings of the International Conference and Communication System (I3CS’15) (s. 337-341). India: Shillong.

Internet
Wales, J. (2004, 07 28). Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds. (Slashdot.org, Interviewer) Retrieved on 08 29, 2021 from https://slashdot.org/story/04/07/28/1351230/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-responds
Oxford. (2021). New Media. Retrieved on 05 08, 2021 from https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/new-media?q=new+media

Mayfield, A. (2008, 08 01). What is Social Media? Retrieved on 06 24, 2021 from https://icrossing.co.uk/sites/default/files_uk/insight_pdf_files/What%20is%20Social%20Media_iCrossing_ebook.pdf

Ethical Principles

Journal of Aksaray Communication is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and observes the following principles of Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement which is based on the recommendations and guidelines for journal editors developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Council of Science Editors (CSE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). A selection of key points is included below but one should always refer to the documents listed above for full details.

DUTIES OF THE EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Publication decisions
The handling Editor-in-Chief of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, often working in conjunction with the relevant society (for society-owned or sponsored journals). The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The Editor-in-Chief may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers (or society officers) in making this decision.

Fair play
An Editor-in-Chief should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship or political philosophy.

Confidentiality
The Editor-in-Chief and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers or the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Editors should recuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board to review and consider instead) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication. If needed, other appropriate action should be taken, such as the publication of a retraction or expression of concern. It should be ensured that the peer-review process for sponsored supplements is the same as that used for the main journal. Items in sponsored supplements should be accepted solely on the basis of academic merit and interest to readers and not be influenced by commercial considerations. Non-peer reviewed sections of the journal should be clearly identified.

Involvement and cooperation in investigations
An Editor-in-Chief should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher (or society). Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies, and if the complaint is upheld, the publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant. Every reported act of unethical publishing behaviour must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS
Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the Editor-in-Chief in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its timely review will be impossible should immediately notify the Editor-in-Chief so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the Editor-in-Chief.

Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and conflict of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer's own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions connected to the papers.

DUTIES OF AUTHORS
Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable. Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective, and editorial 'opinion' works should be clearly identified as such.

Data access and retention
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that these have been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from 'passing off' another's paper as the author's own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. In general, an author should not submit a previously published paper for consideration in another journal.

Acknowledgement of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, for example in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. Examples of potential conflicts of interest which should be disclosed include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest stage possible.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal’s Editor-in-Chief or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.

Journal Policy

Journal of Aksaray Communication demands no fee for the submission, evaluation and publication processes of the articles. Journal of Aksaray Communication employs double-blind refereeing system.