Guide For Author

Click here for sample Article Writing Template.


Cilk here for Conflict of Interest and Author Contributions Statement.


1- Journal of Kocatepe Islamic Sciences is a peer-reviewed and academic journal that is published twice in a year (in June and December). No fees are charged from the authors for the evaluation and publishing process of the articles. Article acceptance dates of the journal published in June and December are between 1 January and 1 March for the June issue and 1 July and 1 September for the December issue. Applications received after these dates will not be accepted. If the number of articles reaches a sufficient level, the process of accepting articles may be closed before these dates.

2- In studies requiring ethics committee approval, information about the permission (name of the board , date and number) should be included in the method section and also on the first page of the article. Ethics committee permission certificate must be uploaded to the system as an additional file. For the studies requiring ethics commitee approval, see Ethical Principles and Publication Policy.

3- Turkish, Arabic and English articles can be published in the journal. Just one study of an author can be published in an issue.

4- The articles submitted for publication are passed through the steps of editorial board review, pre-control process, peer-review process and publication process.

5- In case of three preliminary checks, the work which can not pass this process is returned to the author and not processed again in the same publication period.

6- The article that have passed the pre-control phase are taken into the evaluation process in which at least two judges are in the framework of the double-blind refereeing principle. See Peer-review Process.

7- The article can be written using the article template or existing text is imported into the template. Studies that do not use an article template will not be evaluated.

8- The citation system used in articles should be in accordance with the Isnad Citation Style 2nd version (with footnotes). Click here for the Isnad Citation Style. For Arabic Isnad Citation click here.

9- See Author Guidelines

10- See Article Writing Template

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