Scientific articles on Ancient History, Archeology and Ancient Languages and Cultures are published in Oannes Journal. Manuscripts submitted to Oannes Journal are evaluated by at least two blinded peer-review. Manuscripts that do not receive a positive report from both referees are not published. In case of a positive or negative report, the article is sent to a third referee. The first evaluation period of the referees is about 3 weeks. However, this period may be extended depending on the subject of the study. Oannes Journal accepts manuscripts only written in British English language. Manuscripts submitted to the journal should be between 4,000 and 10,000 words, including appendices, and the count in block citations should not exceed 10% of the total word count of the manuscripts. As a result of the preliminary examination, the works that do not comply with the Writing and Publication Principles of Oannes Journal are returned to be corrected by the author. Submission of the work to Oannes Journal is considered an application for publication. No royalties are paid for the articles. The author(s) of the manuscripts sent to the journal accept that they do not violate any copyright of a private, legal or third party. In addition, the authors are deemed to have accepted that the submitted work is not intended for any defamation, attrition or violating the privacy of any person's private life. The editorial board of Oannes Journal can make any changes it deems necessary to ensure that the Turkish and English titles of the articles are understood. Along with the title, authors should include an abstract stating the main thesis of the article and their original contribution to the field. Title and abstract should be in Turkish and English. Abstracts should be between 200 - 250 words and all articles should have an Extended Abstract in Turkish of at least 700 words. In addition, authors should include Turkish and English keywords of 5 words in order to index the articles. In the works sent to Oannes Journal, information such as the name of the author, his title, the institution where he works and the e-mail address where he can be reached should not be included. In addition, authors should remove the auto-added author information in the MS Office program. Authors are obliged to notify the editors of their ORCID ID numbers at the time of publication of the article. After the studies submitted to Oannes Journal are sent from the Dergipark page, the referee process can be followed from the same page. After this stage, it is necessary to wait for the reports from the referees to make the corrections. The author should upload the work that he has corrected upon the request of the referees to the page where the report of the referee requesting correction. Studies submitted to Oannes Journal must not have been previously published elsewhere or be under evaluation elsewhere at the same time. Similarity rates in manuscripts should not exceed 10%, excluding references, block quotes and footnotes.

WRITING RULES

1. Manuscripts should be written in Microsoft Word program and page dimensions should be arranged as follows.
Paper Size A4 Vertical
Top Margin 2 cm
Bottom Margin 2 cm
Left Margin 2 cm
Right Margin 2 cm
Paragraph Head 0,5 cm
Block Quote Left and Right 0,5 cm indented
Font Calibri Light
Font Style Normal
Text Size 11
English and Turkish Abstracts Text Size 11
Extended Abstract Text Size 9,5
Block Quote 9,5
Line gap 6 nk (After)
Line gap Single (1)

2. Details such as page numbers, headers and footers should not be included in the manuscripts.

3. Only the first letters of each word of the headings in the article should be capitalized, no other formatting should be included.

4. In terms of spelling and punctuation, the Spelling Guide of the Turkish Language Association should be taken as a basis, except for special cases necessitated by the article or subject.

REFERENCE GUIDE
Manuscripts submitted for OANNES Journal must be written according to APA7 edition citation and bibliography system. References in footnotes should be given in the References section at the end of the manuscripts, together with their clear and detailed tags. In references to the works of the same author published in the same year, a lowercase letter such as a / b / c should be written next to the publication date. While the publications with three or more authors are shown in the footnote, only the first two authors should be given and abbreviations should be used for other authors. However, the names of all authors should be included in the bibliography.

Examples of Citation:
Single Author: Author Surname, Year, p/pp. …)
(Sidwell, 2010, p. 206)
(Sidwell, 2010, pp. 206-210)

Double Author: (Author A Surname & Author B Surname, Year, p/pp. …)
(Ekman & Friesen, 2003, p. 78.)
(Ekman & Friesen, 2003, pp. 78-98)

More than Two Authors: (Author A Surname, Author B Surname, & Author C Surname, Year, p/pp. …)
(Ekman, Friesen & Hager, 1978, p. 61.)
(Ekman, Friesen & Hager, 1978, pp. 61-66)

Two Surnamed Authors:
(Santos-García & Velasco Rodríguez, 2020, p. 55)
(Santos-García & Velasco Rodríguez, 2020, pp. 55-58)

• Do not change the author's preferred capitalization. ( hooks, b. , van der Waal, P. N.)
• Do not use abbreviations when citing a group of authors.

Right: National Institute of Mental Health.
Incorrect: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Incorrect: NIMH.

Anonymous Authors:
For a missing author, do not use "Anonymous" as the author unless the work is actually signed as "Anonymous". If the work is signed "Anonymous", use "Anonymous" in the reference and in-text citation.

Reference:
Anonymous. (2017). Stories from my time as a spy. Bond Publishers.

Citation:
Parenthetical citation: (Anonymous, 2017)
Anonymous citation: Anonymous (2017)

Studies with Legal Authors
If a group/legal entity (such as associations, companies, government agencies and other working groups) is mentioned as an author, the name of this group should be given in a very clear and understandable way in the reference in the text. The group name may be abbreviated in some cases. If the group name is long, if the abbreviation is clear to everyone, or if there is already a known abbreviation for the name, both the full and abbreviated form may be used in the first use, and only the abbreviation may be used in subsequent uses. If the group name is short, or if the abbreviation is not universally understood, the full name is used in all references.

If the reference is at the end of a sentence:
First reference: (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [TÜBİTAK], 2013)
Second and subsequent references: (TÜBİTAK, 2013)

If the reference is made in a sentence;
First reference: Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK, 2013)
Second and subsequent references: TÜBİTAK (2013)

Authors with the Same Surname:
If there are two or more authors with the same surname in the bibliography, the first letter of the first author's name is used in all references, even if the years are different.

Yılmaz, A. (2009). Public policies and public library-emergent literacy relationship in the USA. Bilgi Dünyası, 10, 80-94. Retrieved from: http://www.bd.org.tr/
Yılmaz, B., Köse, E., & Korkut, Ş. (2008). A research on the reading habits of Hacettepe University and Bilkent University students. Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 23, 22-51. Retrieved from: http://www.tk.org.tr/

As mentioned in the studies of B. Yılmaz, Köse and Korkut (2008) and A. Yılmaz (2009).......

Examples of References:

If the book is:
Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.

If the article is:
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

If the conference paper is:
Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 116(47), 23499–23504.

If the translation is the book/e-book:
Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.
Svendsen, S., & Løber, L. (2020). The big picture/Academic writing: The one-hour guide (3rd digital ed.). Hans Reitzel Forlag. https://thebigpicture-academicwriting.digi.hansreitzel.dk/

Multi-volume sources:
Harris, K. R., Graham, S., & Urdan T. (Eds.). (2012). APA educational psychology handbook (Vols. 1–3). American Psychological Association.

The chapter in the edited book /e-book:
Aron, L., Botella, M. and Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and its development. In RF Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & FC Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Transforming human potential into domain-specific abilities (pp. 345-359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016

Dillard, JP (2020). Currents in persuasion studies. In MB Oliver, AA Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115-129). Routledge.

If the thesis:
Çelikbaş, E. (2016). 2005-2014 Parion Kazısı Metal (Bronz-Demir-Kurşun) Buluntuları. [Doctoral dissertation, Atatürk University].

See APA7 Edition guidelines for other considerations…