Setting Author Guidelines and Review Criteria

The Guidelines & review criteria tab of the journal keeps the author guidelines shown to authors and the criteria that reviewers score in one place. You save the changes on the tab with the Save button at the bottom of the tab. The article template on the same tab, however, is saved as soon as you upload it. The template steps are in Uploading the Article Template.

Author guidelines

1. Open the journal with Manage journal and go to the Guidelines & review criteria tab.
2. In the Reference style field, type the style the journal uses, for example APA 7 or ISNAD 2.
3. In the Similarity check tool field, type the similarity software the journal uses.
4. In the Abstract word limit field, type the maximum number of words in an abstract. The value must be between 50 and 2000.
5. Write the author guidelines in the Author guidelines (TR) and Author guidelines (EN) fields. You can use simple HTML such as paragraphs, lists and links.
6. Press Save.

The author guidelines appear in the submission wizard when the journal is selected, and in the Author guidelines section of the journal page. The reference style, the abstract limit and the similarity tool appear at the top of the same section. The data check for TR Dizin (Türkiye's national citation index) warns about articles whose abstract exceeds this limit.

Former titles of the journal

If the title or the ISSN of the journal has changed, add its former titles to the Former titles card.

1. Press Add a former title.
2. Fill in the Former title, ISSN and Last year fields.
3. Press Save.

The former titles appear in the About the journal section of the journal page.

Review criteria

The Review criteria card defines the criteria scored in the review form. If the journal has not defined any criteria, the card lists the default criteria used in the review form. If you add criteria, only your criteria are used.

1. Press Add criterion.
2. In the Code field, type a short code that starts with a lower-case letter, for example originality. The code consists of lower-case letters, digits and underscores.
3. In the Name (TR) field, type the Turkish name of the criterion. The Name (EN) field is optional.
4. In the Maximum score field, type a value between 2 and 10.
5. Press Save.

You change the order of the criteria by dragging the rows. The reviewer gives each criterion a score between 1 and the maximum score.

The criteria are copied to a review at the moment the reviewer accepts the invitation. A change you make later applies only to invitations accepted after it.

The minimum number of reviewers and the yearly reviewer list on the same card are described in Setting the Reviewer Minimum and Reviewer List.