WRITING RULES

ABSTRACT WRITING RULES

Abstracts; It should be prepared in accordance with the rules of the full text, with a minimum of 250 and a maximum of 500 words, reflecting the purpose and scope, including methods and findings.

There should be a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords along with the abstract text.

PAPERS WRITING RULES

  1. Papers, A4 paper size and standard Word format, margins; top:2,5, bottom: 2,5, left: 2,5 and bottom: 2.5, it should be written with single line spacing and justified on both sides.
  2. Although there is no page limit in the papers, it is expected not to exceed 15 pages as the upper limit.
  3. Paper file without author information; It should consist of English title, English abstract, keywords under the abstracts, followed by introduction, main text, conclusion, bibliography and appendices.
    No headers, footers or page numbers should be included.
  4. Papers can be prepared in Turkish or English.
  5. An abstract of 200-400 words should be added at the beginning of the paper. If the written language is Turkish, an English abstract and an English Title must be added.
  6. After the abstract, a maximum of 5 keywords (Turkish and English) specifying the content of the paper should be added.
  7. Abstracts and keywords should be prepared in Times New Roman 10 font size, italicized, single-spaced and justified.
  8. The main text should be in Times New Roman, 12 pt, single line spacing, justified. Each paragraph spacing (6 pt after) should be left blank. The first lines of paragraphs should start 1.25 cm in.
  9. Turkish and English titles should be written above the Turkish and English abstracts in capital letters, centered, 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman, 12 points and bold.
  10. The main titles and sub-titles of the papers are 2., 2.1., 2.1.1. It should be numbered in decimal form, starting from the entry title (except for the References) and written in bold. Main headings should be written in capital letters, and only the first letter of subheadings should be capitalized. There should be 6 pt spaces before and after the headings.
  11. All figures, tables and graphics should be given a title and the titles should be numbered consecutively. The title should be placed above the table, figure or graphic, centered on the page, Times New Roman, 12 point, bold. After the table, figure or graphic text is given with the number, a single point should be placed and the name of the table, figure or graphic should be written.
  12. References should be given under tables, figures or graphics in 11 points.
  13. Footnotes (with explanations) should be numbered within the text, and should be written in Times New Roman 11 font size and placed behind the text under the heading “Notes” in order of numbers on a separate page.
  14. For works accepted for publication, authors are required to submit the copyright agreement to Holistence Academy within one week at the latest.
  15. Harvard referencing technique should be used to indicate citations in the text. According to this technique, references in the text are indicated by the surname of the author and the year of publication in parentheses. Examples related to the subject are given below, respectively.
  16. Similarity reports submitted together with the submitted papers should also be uploaded. Plagarism reports used with “iThenticate / Turnitin” plagiarism software scanning programs must be uploaded as an additional file. The acceptable similarity rate for the Plagarism report should be less than %20.

REFERENCES

Times New Roman, 12 font size, should be placed at the end of the study in alphabetical order, taking into account the surnames of the authors. There should be paragraph spacing (then 6 pt) between each source. If more than one work of the author/s is cited in the same year, these studies should be listed by giving symbols such as (a, b, c, ..) at the end of the publication year. The name of the journal and symposium/congress should be written in italics in articles and papers, and the name of the book and thesis should be written in italics in books and theses. The bibliography should be arranged as shown below.

For book reference

MERCER, P.A. and SMITH, G., (1993), Private Viewdata in the UK, London: Palgrave, Second Edition, ISBN: xxxx-xxxx

For articles in journals

EVANS, W.A., (1994), Approaches to Intelligent Information Retrieval, Information Processing and Management, 7 (2), 147-168.

For conference papers

SILVER, K., (1991), Electronic Mail: The New Way to Communicate, 9th International Online Information Meeting, 3-5 December 1990 London, Oxford: Learned Information, 323-330.

For theses

AGUTTER, A.J., (1995), The Linguistic Significance of Current British Slang, Thesis (PhD), Edinburgh University.

For maps

MASON, J., (1832), Map of The Countries Lying Between Spain and India, 1:8,000,000, London: Ordnance Survey.

For web pages

HOLLAND, M., (2002), Guide to Citing Internet Sources [online], Poole, Bournemouth University, http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/using/guide_to_citing_internet_sourc.html [Accessed 4 November 2002] .

POSTER PAPERS WRITING RULES

Poster size should be designed as 50 cm wide x 70 cm tall and vertical.

In the paper, first the title, the name of the author(s), the name of the university or institution, the e-mail address should be written and it should appear at the top of the poster.

the title of the paper should not be exceed twelve words.

Abstracts, introduction, materials and methods, findings and discussion, conclusions and recommendations, and references should be included in the papers.

The abstract should include the purpose of the research, the universe and the sample / study group, data collection tools, data analysis, findings and recommendations. Abstracts should be no more than 350 words. The abstract should be in 16 point font size. At least 3 keywords should be specified.

Papers should be written in Microsoft Word, in Times New Roman font, the main title should be 36 points, the rest of the text must be 24 points, references should be written in 16 points.

Headings should be centered, other parts of the text should be written justified.

References should be written in accordance with APA 6 rules. Examples of reference writing are given below.