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Author Guidelines

This section provides the main guidelines to all authors who plan to submit their articles to the International Journal of Commerce and Finance for a possible publication. a) Pre-Submission Stage Articles should be prepared in compliance with the submission standards of International Journal of Commerce and Finance before making the final submission. Articles which are not compliant with the Journal standards do not qualify for further steps of the publication process.

    • Manuscript Standards
        • International Journal of Commerce and Finance applies manuscript standards to all articles submitted to the Journal. The standards regulate the length, structure, content and reference system of the articles.
        In order to see the detailed explanation of our standards, please visit
Manuscript Standards
      section.
    • Editing Services
        • International Journal of Commerce and Finance provides editing services to the authors in order to facilitate their submission process as well as to increase the content quality of the submissions.
        Editing Services include Translation Services from Turkish to English, Linguistic Editing of English Language and Table/Picture Design Services.
        Requests for Editing Services can be made by sending an e-mail to
Editing Services Center
    .
      Please note that Editing Services are outsourced services which do not bring any liability to the International Journal of Commerce and Finance for the works conducted by the outsourced editing service provider.
    • Originality Standards
        • Articles submitted to the International Journal of Commerce and Finance require complying with originality standards of the Journal. Originality standards are set to protect original works from Verbatim Copying, Improper Paraphrasing, and Self-Plagiarism.
        In order to see the detailed explanation of our standards, please visit
Originality Standards
      section.
b) Submission Stage
    • Submitting to the Journal
        • All authors who plan to submit an article should be registered authors of the Journal. Both submissions and respective status checks are possible only for registered authors.
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      section.
  • Editorial Approval
      • International Journal of Commerce and Finance applies a two staged review process. Submitted article is first reviewed by the Editor and if it is accepted for review process, are sent to two referees for double blind peer review.
c) Post-Submission Stage
  • Review Process
      • Following the Editorial approval, article is sent to two referees for double blind peer review. Reviewers provide a final rating to the Editor in order to make the publication decision. In order to be accepted, an article should get qualifying ratings from both reviewers.
    • Final Submission
        • Upon the successful completion of the review process, before making their final submission, Authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with the entire submission checklist.
        In order to see the details of submission checklist, please visit
Submission Checklist
      section.
 

Manuscript Standards

Language

The language of the journal is English.

Manuscript Organization and Submission

All correspondence will be sent to the first-named author unless otherwise specified. Manuscpript is to be submitted online via http://ijcf.ticaret.edu.tr/index.php/ijcf/about/submissions. Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word 2003 and upper versions.

1. The manuscripts should be in A4 paper standards: having 2.5 cm margins from right, left, bottom and top, Times New Roman font style in 12 font size and line spacing of 1.5.

2 The manuscripts should contain between 4500 and 8500 words and the page numbers must be at the bottom and in the middle.

3. The name(s) of author(s) should be given just beneath the title of the study aligned to the left. Also the affiliation, title, e-mail and phone of the author(s) must be indicated on the bottom of the page as a footnote marked with an asterisk (*).

4. Submitted manuscripts  must have before the introduction section, the abstract between 180 and 200 words, summarizing the scope, the purpose, the results of the study and the methodology used. Underneath the abstracts, 3 to 5 keywords that inform the reader about the content of the study should be specified in English.

5. The manuscripts should contain mainly these components: title, abstract and keywords; extended abstract, body text with sections, footnotes and references.

6. The 6th version of the APA (American Psychological Association) reference style should be used for in-text citation and references list.

7. Tables, graphs and figures can be given with a number and a defining title if and only if it is necessary to follow the idea of the article. the article. The title of table should be placed above the table; caption of figure should be placed beneath the figure. Features like demographic characteristics that can be given within the text should not be indicated as tables separately.

8. Authors are responsible for all statements made in their work submitted to the Journal for publication.

9. The author(s) can be asked to make some changes in their articles due to peer reviews.

10. A copy of the journal will be sent to each author of the accepted articles upon their request.

11. The manuscripts that were submitted to the journal will not be returned whether they are published or not.

12. All authors should upload the similarity report taken from Turnitin or Ithenticate programs to the system together with the study. Studies without a similarity report will be rejected.

13. All authors can use the manuscript template. Please click to reach


Author Bibliography

In a separate Microsoft Word document, author(s) should provide name(s) and surname(s), name(s) of the current institution(s), department name(s) and e mail address(es).
 

Originality Standards

Articles submitted to the International Journal of Commerce and Finance require complying with originality standards of the Journal. Originality standards are set to protect original works from Verbatim Copying, Improper Paraphrasing and Self-Plagiarism. Please read carefully the following explanations to get detailed information on the types of copyright breaching risks.
  • Verbatim Copying
      • Verbatim Copying means taking a third party’s work word by word and implement it to the article without acknowledgment, quotation marks and/or references.
      International Journal of Commerce and Finance do not tolerate any Verbatim Copying of significant passage or section of text of another person's work.
  • Improper Paraphrasing
      • Paraphrasing becomes improper when the text of another person’s work has been modified and included into the manuscript by changing the structure of some paragraphs / sentences of the original work without acknowledgment, quotation marks and/or references.
      Improper paraphrasing, which constitutes more than 10 % of the manuscript, is regarded as Verbatim Copying by the International Journal of Commerce and Finance.
  • Self-Plagiarism
      • In academic terms Plagiarism is basically defined to use another’s work without crediting the source. Verbatim Copying and Improper Paraphrasing are two types of plagiarism.
      In addition to Verbatim Copying and Improper Paraphrasing, International Journal of Commerce and Finance also do not tolerate Self-Plagiarism which is related with the usage of previously published work in the submission.
      Thus, Verbatim copying of an author’s own work and paraphrasing is not acceptable by the International Journal of Commerce and Finance.
      If some parts of the work submitted are previously published in any publication, it is required to acknowledge the earlier work.
 

Submission Process

Articles can be submitted to the International Journal of Commerce and Finance via the Submission Platform in the Journal Web Site. Submission Process is composed of two stages:
  1. Registration to Journal.
  2. Submission Transaction.
Registration to Journal In order to complete your registration to the International Journal of Commerce and Finance successfully, please take the following steps.
  • Open registration form by clicking on the REGISTER section in the menu.
  • Carefully fill in the Registration form (with co-authored articles, only the lead writer should register here as other writers will be registered in the mailing phase).
  • When you receive confirmation e-mail including your username and password, follow the instructions in the message.
  • Access the system with your username and password in order to submit your article.
  • Click the link under Start a New Submission on Active Submissions page.
Submission Transaction In order to submit your manuscript to the International Journal of Commerce and Finance successfully, please complete take following five steps.
  • Step 1 - Start
      • In this stage, Application Check List and Copyright Notice are checked. Please note that you need to download Copyright Transfer Form, fill it out and sign. It will be uploaded at Step 4. Optionally you can input comments for the Editor.
      Please click the button “Save and Continue” to proceed to the next section.
  • Step 2 - Uploading Submission
      • In this stage the article is uploaded to the system by following the instructions on the page. The article format should be Microsoft Word and should not be larger than 3 MB.
      Once the submission is uploaded, “Save and Continue” to proceed to the next section.
  • Step 3 - Entering the Submission's Metadata
      • In this stage the information related to the submission is entered into the system. There are some important points to be taken into consideration when providing the submission information. These points are the following:
      - If it is a co-authored article, click Add Author button for each author and fill in the required fields.
      - Enter Title and Abstract of Article.
      - Fill in the Indexing Information.
      Please note that all information provided should be in compliance with the Manuscript Standards of the International Journal of Commerce and Finance.
      Please click the button “Save and Continue” to proceed to the next section.
  • Step 4 - Uploading Supplementary Files
      • In this stage additional documents are uploaded to the system.
      First, you need to upload the Copyright Transfer Form into the system. The system will request from you to enter the “Supplementary File Metadata” information in order to complete the Copyright Transfer Forms submission process.
      After completing the inputting of “Supplementary File Metadata”, click “Save and Continue” to return to the main screen of Step 4.
      If there are additional documents to be submitted at this stage, the same above mentioned procedure should be applied for each supplementary document.
  • Step 5 - Confirming the Submission
      • In this stage you can see the list of files submitted to the Journal.
      You can click “Finish Submission” to complete you submission transaction.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. Originality Standards: This article has not been published elsewhere, nor has it been sent to a publisher for publication.
  2. Language: Manuscript is prepared in English language.
  3. File Format: The manuscript has been written in Microsoft Word format and does not exceed 3 MB size.
  4. Article Length: Article length is between 4.500 (min) and 8.500 (max) words including references, tables and appendices. Number of pages in the article is not more than 20.
  5. Article Title: The length of the Article Title is not more than 15 words.
  6. Abstract: The length of the abstract is not more than 180-200 words.
  7. Keywords: Maximum 5 keywords have been identified.
  8. Font Type, Size and Spacing: Times New Roman font with the size of 12 and 1.5 line spacing.
  9. Page Margins: Margin standards are applied as 2,5 cm on the top, 2,5 cm at the bottom, 2,5 cm from the right and left.
  10. Headings: First level headings and lower headings are bold. The sizes for first level headings and lower rank headings are 12 respectively.
  11. Tables and Figures: Tables and Figures contain Titles and Numbers.
    Figures are in tif, .jpeg, or .bmp formats with at least 300dpi resolution and minimum 10cm wide.
  12. References: References are prepared in APA style.
 

Copyright Notice

All manuscripts which are submitted to the International Journal of Commerce and Finance should not be published, accepted and submitted for publication elsewhere. If the manuscript is accepted for publication in this Journal, authors should grant the unlimited and all copyright privileges to International Journal of Commerce and Finance by signing the Copyright Transfer Form. In order to see or download the Copyright Transfer Form, please click here.

 

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