Articles submitted to the journal should be studies with the following characteristics:

*Research studies containing original scientific findings,

*Studies that convey application examples with a scientific approach,

*It should be in the form of review studies that comprehensively evaluate significant developments on a particular subject.

You can use a template file that follows the writing guidelines as a guide when you write your article. Please click the file below to view a template article.

  Example Article  (docx)

!!!Note: For authors whose native language is not Turkish, journal technical office will be supportive for the Turkish Title and Abstract.

1-Plagiarism Report:

 While your article is uploaded to the system, your plagarism report will be created via the "intihal.net" system. After your plagarism report created your article upload will be copmleted. Click for detailed information about "intihal.net".  If any manuscript is 25% plagiarized the article will be rejected and the author will be notified.

2-Copyright Form :

The copyright of the articles is taken by filling and signing the form presented on the journal website. Signed Copyright Form must be downloaded from here, signed, scanned and uploaded to the system as PDF. Publications of authors who do not submit this form cannot be published.

3-Ethics Committee Permission (If required)

An Ethics Committee Permission document must be submitted for the publication application of articles that require ethics committee approval. 

Please inform the Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing whether your study requires Ethics Committee Approval by filling out the Ethics Committee Declaration section within the Copyright Form.

The Turkish Journal of Remote Sensing has been checking the ethical committee approval status of articles submitted since 2020. In this context, if your study falls into a category that requires ethical committee approval, you must upload the permission document along with your article files. Studies submitted to the journal that require ethical committee approval but lack the necessary permission documents will not be considered for evaluation.

Writing rules;

You can use the following rules and sample file written in accordance with the spelling rules while writing your article.

Note: For authors whose native language is not Turkish, journal technical office will be supportive for the Turkish Abstract.

Abstract should be a single paragraph of about 250 words maximum. Also, it should be Cambria 9 font size, written justified and single line spaced.  Keywords should consist of at least 3 and a maximum of 5 words. Except for proper names and abbreviations, all words should be written in lower case.

“Introduction” part should be followed by “Material & Method”, “Results”, “Discussion" and  "Conclusion” parts.
The text should be written in a single column, using Cambria 10-point font. The indentation should be 4.6 cm. In addition, the first line of the paragraph should be written with 0.75 cm indented. Line spacing value should be used as 14 pt.
The article should be saved in MS Office Word as either .doc or docx. Text should be written as A4 size with 2 cm spacing at top, 1.6 cm bottom, 1.3 cm left and right side. 

The main sections of the manuscript are "introduction", "material & method", "results", "discussion" and "conclusion" they should be written in 10 font size, justify, bold.

The second level headings should be written with left aligned, 10 font size, first character capital, bold. 

Figures  and tables should be referenced in the main text as Figure X, Table X, and so on. They should be left and right aligned and numbered. Figure and table captions should be written 9 font size, cambria, first letter of first word capital. It should not be written as bold or italic. 

References, tables, figures to be used must be prepared in accordance with APA 7. Articles that do not comply with the rules of writing and APA are eliminated in the first stage by the editor. You should review your references and check their compliance with APA 7.  Some expamlpes of citations/references are given below;

References within the text;
(1) (Orhan, 2021). (Çoruhlu & Çelik, 2022). (Orhan et al., 2023; Zheng et al., 2025)
(2) Orhan (2021) stated…, As stated by Çelik et al. (2024)…

Articles
Surname, N., Surname, N., & Surname, N. (Year). Name of the article. Journal’s name, Vol(No), pp. XX-XX. (If there is doi)

Orhan, O. (2021). Land suitability determination for citrus cultivation using a GIS-based multi-criteria analysis in Mersin, Turkey. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 190, 106433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106433
Çoruhlu, Y. E., & Çelik, M. Ö. (2022). Protected area geographical management model from design to implementation for specially protected environment area. Land Use Policy, 122, 106357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106357

Books
Orhan, O., & Makineci, H. B. (2023). Agricultural land suitability analysis. Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies. Springer.

e-Books
Brück, M. (2009). Women in early British and Irish astronomy: Stars and satellites. Springer Nature. https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2473-2

Conference, symposium or paper presentation
Rutledge, L., LeMire, S., & Mowdood, A. (2015, March 25–28). Dare to perform: Using organizational competencies to manage job performance [Paper presentation]. Association of College & Research Libraries 2015 Annual Conference, Portland, OR, United States. http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2015/Rutledge_LeMire_Mowdood.pdf

Conference, symposium or paper proceedings published in a journal
Çoruhlu, Y. E., Çelik, M. Ö., Demir, O., & Yıldız, O. (2017). GIS applications in land management of protected areas. Proceedings Book of DOKAP Region International Tourism Symposium, Trabzon, Türkiye, 295-308.

Thesis
-Dissertation or Thesis from a Database
Orhan, O. (2018). Determining potential sinkhole areas using remote sensing and geographic information systems (Publication No. 565007) [Doctoral Thesis, Selçuk University]. YÖK National Thesis Center. 

-Dissertation or Thesis Published Online (Not in a Database)
Lui, T. T. F. (2013). Experiences in the bubble: Assimilation and acculturative stress of Chinese heritage students in Silicon Valley [Master's thesis, Stanford University]. Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education Master's Monographs Digital Collection. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10325276

Legislation
Official Gazette. (1983). Law 2942 Expropriation (Number: 18215). 

Internet address
TUIK. (2024). Retrieved September 12, 2024, from https://www.tuik.gov.tr/  

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Contact:

Assoc. Prof. Dr.  Osman ORHAN
Telephone: +90-5059875275 (Editor)

Address: Mersin Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi (F-Blok) Harita Müh. Bölümü.
33343, Yenişehir/Mersin, Turkey
e-mail:  osmanorhan@mersin.edu.tr / tr.remotesensing@gmail.com / osmanorhan44@gmail.com