• The submitted manuscripts should not be published elsewhere or should not be in the evaluation stage for publication. All responsibility for the published articles belongs to the author(s).
• Articles are expected not to exceed 8000 words. A 6000-8000 word article (including notes and references) is a good goal. Shorter commentaries, and book reviews of 2000-3000 words are also accepted.
• Authors should keep a copy of the manuscript they submitted.
• If the articles are submitted at a conference, the name, date and place of the conference should be indicated. Similarly, if the manuscripts are derived from a dissertation or a previously published report, this should be indicated in a footnote at the first page of the manuscript.
• Manuscripts submitted to the journal first undergo an editorial preliminary evaluation. The articles that the editor/s/s find academically acceptable are sent to two blind referees as soon as possible. The publication of the manuscript depends on the evaluations to be received from the referees. A new referee is immediately determined to replace the referee who does not send the report about the article to the journal within one month. The editor may send the manuscript to a third referee if deemed necessary.
• Referee evaluations should normally be expected to last two to three months. Authors may be asked to improve or revise their manuscripts in accordance with the opinions of the referees.
• The final decision on publication belongs to the editor.
• Information about whether their manuscripts are accepted or not is sent to the authors via e-mail and/or DergiPark system together with the referee reports.
• Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal writing rules will be rejected editorially.
• Before the text of articles and abstracts, only the title of the article should be placed.
• In the article uploaded to the system, identity and contact information about the author(s) should never be included. In addition, the digital traces of the author(s) in the text must be deleted.
• An abstract of 200-250 words both in English and Turkish should be submitted with the manuscripts. The titles “Öz” in Turkish, and “Abstract” should be added at the beginning of the abstract. 11 pt and single spacing should be preferred. Abstracts should be submitted on two separate pages.
• At the beginning of the abstracts in Turkish and English, the statement indicating the type of the article should be included.
• On both abstract pages, under the statement indicating the type of article, the Turkish or the English titles should be written and centered in 18 pt, italics and bold.
• Key Words should be added under both abstracts. Keywords should be 11 pt; If the words in keywords are not proper nouns, they must begin with a lowercase letter, except for the first word. The Keywords title must be bold.
• Manuscripts should be in Helvetica font. Body text should be written in 12 pt and 1.5 spacing. The border margins of the manuscripts should be 2.5 cm.
• Footnotes should be 10 pt and single spacing, and no line breaks should be made.
• There should be no indentation in the first paragraph after the headings, the sentence should start from the heading line; all other paragraph indents should be arranged as 1 cm.
• In the whole text, the space between the paragraphs should be arranged as 6 pt before and 6 pt after. Only headings and longer citations should be 8 pt line spacing before and after and there should be no spacing.
• The title of the article should be rewritten on the first page following the both abstract pages. Here the title should be 16 pt, bold, left-justified and italic. The first letter of each word of the title must be capitalized.
• Headings in the text should not be indented; likewise, there should be no indentation in the first sentence following the title.
• Headings in the body of the text should be 14 pt, bold and left-justified. Subheadings should be 12 pt, bold, left-justified and italic.
• "percent" should be written instead of %.
• Proper nouns with abbreviations should be written clearly when they are first used, and the abbreviation should be indicated in parentheses. Ex. United States (US)
• In translations from other languages, original word must be added in italics in parentheses.
• Numbers less than 10 should be written in writing, and large numbers should be written in numerals.
• If the photo is used, it should be centered and the description should be included underneath.
• Pictures should be headed as Photos; graphics as Figures, tables as Tables and should not be italicized. Titles such as Table 1, Photo 1 should be 10 pt.

CITATION FORMAT
Before submitting their work, the authors should be sure whether all of the sources cited in the text were included in the bibliography and vice versa.

Reference in text
• All references are indicated in appropriate places and in parentheses in the main text with the name of the author, the year of publication and, if necessary, the page numbers.
• Book and journal names (Turkish or English) should always be written in italics within the body text and should not be enclosed in quotation marks; the titles of articles, essays, or reviews should be given in quotation marks and not italicized.
• Abbreviations such as "ibid", "op.cit.", "op.g.e.", etc. are not used. Notes and references should be separated.
• Notes should be numbered in the text and given as footnotes. The references in the notes are also indicated according to the rules applicable to the text.
• If the author's name is not mentioned in the text and the book is referenced: (Williams, 1988)
• If the author's name is not mentioned in the text and there is a certain page: (Williams, 1988: 26)
• If the author's name is mentioned in the text and he has more than one work in the bibliography: (1988: 26)
• In the case of certain pages that do not follow each other: (Williams, 1988: 22-6, 45-8)
• If there are two authors: (Lash and Urry, 1988)
• If there are more than two authors: (Bennett et al., 1986)
• For excerpts from magazines, newspapers and websites, if there is no author's name, the name of the website, newspaper or magazine should be written: (Hürriyet, 2018)
• Citation to Internet source: (hurriyet.com.tr, 2019) (If there are multiple citations for the same year of the same internet source: hurriyet.com.tr, 2019a)
• If there are references to more than one work of the same author published in the same year, they are distinguished by adding letters a, b, c, etc. to the year of publication: (Foucault, 1979a)
• If there are references to more than one source in the same mention, they should be indicated in the same parenthesis, separated by a semicolon: (Bourdieu, 1984; DiMaggio, 1987; Lamont, 1988)
• Even if the author is not quoting directly, he or she should provide a page number along with the year of publication where necessary.
• Double quotes should be used for quotations within the text and single quotations should be used for quotations within the quotation.
• Long quotations in the text – block quotations exceeding 40 words – should be 12 pt, 1 line spacing; it should be indented by 1 cm from the right and left.
• TV, newspaper, magazine, book, movie names in the text should be in italics.
• Single quotation marks should not be used in the text for other reasons.
• Links in the bibliography and footnote should be unlinked.
• When an author's name is mentioned for the first time in the text, the full name of the author should be given. Ex. "[...] According to Metthew Arnold (2020) [...]. Hence Arnold (2020) [...]"
• The first print dates of the cited reprinted texts should be included in square brackets. Ex. Kant ([1781] 2004)
• When referring directly to a source in any language other than the language in which the article was written, with quotation marks, if the relevant source is not a translation, it should be indicated in the footnote that the translation belongs to the author of the article. If the relevant source translation is text, the name of the translator must be included in the bibliography.

Bibliography
• In the bibliography, all references should be written in alphabetical order. Web sources or newspaper sources, etc. should not be written collectively under a separate heading, but should be placed in the bibliography in alphabetical order.
• Bibliography format: body text should be set to left-justified, hanging 1 cm, 1.5 line spacing, and 12 pts.
• Article
Lawrence, Grossberg (1995). “Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1(12): 72-81.
• An article from an edited book
Turow, Joseph (1991). “A Mass Communication Perspective on Entertainment Industries.” Mass Media and Society. James Curan and Michael Gurevitch (eds.) in London: Edward Arnold. 160-167.
• An article from one author’s book of their selected writings
Thomas, Lewis (1974). “The Long Habit.” Lives of a Cell: Notes of Biology Watcher in New York: Viking. 47-52.
• Book
Lewis, Justin (1991). The Ideological Octopus: An Exploration of Television and Its Audience. London and New York: Routledge.
• Translated Book
Larrain, Jorge (1993). İdeoloji ve Kültürel Kimlik. Trans., Neşe Nur Domaniç. İstanbul:Sarmal.
• Edited book
Balio, Tino (ed.) (1990). Hollywood in the Age of Television. Boston: Unwin Hyman
• Book by two authors
Gessell, Arnold and Francis L. IIg (1949). Child Development: An Introduction to the Study of Human Growth. New York: Harper and Row.
• Book with three or more authors
Spiller, Robert, et. al (1960). Literary History of the United States. New York: MacMillan.
• Institution name as author
Türk İşbirliği ve Kalkınma Ajansı (1996). Kafkasya ve Orta Asya: Bağımsızlıktan Sonra Geçmiş ve Gelecek. Ankara: Türk İşbirliği ve Kalkınma Ajansı Yayınları.
• Article with author from a website
Swedlow, Tracy (2000). “Interactive Enhanced Television: A Historical and Critical Perspective.” www.itvt.org. Access date: 10.05.2004.
• Website
Office of Communications. www.ofcom.org.uk. Access date: 10.05.2004.
Marxist Internet Archive (2010). “Manifesto of Communist Party.”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf. Access date: 01.10.2018.
• Newspapers, magazines
Cumhuriyet (1956). “DP, Basın Hakkındaki Kararı Tatbika Koydu”. 30 Mayıs 1956.