Writing Rules
Authors who will send articles to Kafkas University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences Faculty (KAUJEASF) should pay attention to the journal writing rules, the general framework of which is determined below. Click to access the file containing the spelling rules and sample article draft.
1. The text of the article should be prepared in MS Word format with 11 point Times New Roman font and a maximum of 25 pages or 7000 words.
2. According to the page layout, the articles should be written in single line spacing and 3 cm margins should be left at the top, bottom and right, and 4 cm from the left.
3. The title of the article should be written in capital letters, with 14 font size and not more than 12 words, in bold and centered.
4. Author names, title, university, faculty and e-mail addresses, address line, ORCID ID should be listed just below the title.
5. Abstracts in Turkish and English should be prepared in a single line spacing, with a length of at least 75 and maximum 150 words, including the purpose, scope, method, findings and conclusion of the article.
6. Following the abstract, a minimum of three and a maximum of five keywords should be provided, which are directly related to the content of the article.
7. The JEL codes should be indicated under the keywords.
8. Under the keywords, the field of research (For example: Business, Economics, Public Administration) and under it the type should be specified. (For example: Research, Compilation).
9. Then, English title, author information, abstract, keywords, gel codes, scope and type should be specified.
10. The bibliography content should be written in 10 points.
11. The submitted work must not have been previously rejected in KAÜİİBFD, not peer-reviewed, not published anywhere, or not under review by another journal. Previously submitted papers can be sent by expanding and specifying this situation by giving footnotes to the article title.
12. In order for the presented studies to be accepted as research articles, it is necessary to carry out in-depth analysis, to explain the method (qualitative or quantitative) in detail, or to contribute to the literature.
13. The method (qualitative or quantitative) used in research articles should be explained in detail.
14. Research articles should contain new or original views on the subject.
15. Authors who submit a research article should pay attention to the content of the article, including findings, results, evaluations or discussions that will contribute to the literature on the subject of the study.
16. The content of review articles should be objective and concrete.
17. Articles derived from master's or doctoral thesis must be submitted in English. Footnotes should be given in the title of the article from which these studies are derived from the thesis.
18. Authors must have prepared the articles submitted for publication in the journal in accordance with the rules of research and publication ethics. Ethics committee approval must be obtained separately for studies (survey studies, laboratory experiments, field experiments, interviews, reviews, etc.)
19. Intellectual property and copyrights: For the use of scales, surveys, photographs belonging to others, permission from the owners must be obtained and this must be stated in the article.
20. In manuscript submissions, the Commitment must be filled in, signed and uploaded to the system together with the article. Click for the Commitment.
21. Since our journal is a peer-reviewed journal, there is a Peer Review System.
22. Articles submitted to our journal are first reviewed by the Editor. After compliance with the spelling rules, it is scanned in the iThenticate plagiarism program. If there are problematic “overly-quoted places” in the article, they are re-corrected by the authors and included in the referee process.
23. The "anonymous author anonymous referee" rule is applied in the refereeing process. Articles are sent to at least 2 referees who are experts in their fields. If the opinions of the two referees differ, the opinion of the third referee is taken. The final decision is made by the editor.
24. Manuscripts that are not sent in accordance with the spelling rules, whose ethics committee approval is not documented when necessary, and/or have a high similarity rate (with the exception of the bibliography, maximum 20%) can be rejected by the editor.
25. APA 6th Edition rules should be applied for in-text citation notation and bibliography writing.
KAUJEASF is the corporate journal of Kafkas University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal Publishing.
KAUJEASF has been included in Web of Science since 2022 and started to be indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI ), a Clarivate product.
2025 June issue article acceptance and evaluations are ongoing.