Publication Policy

Every manuscript is screened before peer review. Submissions that fall outside the journal's scope or do not meet the basic requirements may be returned to the authors.

Language and Basic Eligibility

• JEMUR accepts manuscripts in Turkish and English.
• At least one listed author must be an active undergraduate or graduate student at the time of submission.
• Everyone named as an author must have made a genuine contribution and accept responsibility for the manuscript.
• Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere unless formally disclosed and approved by the editorial office.

Formatting and Citation Standards

• The main text must use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• The article title must use 14-point type; all section and subsection headings must use 12-point type.
• Use no more than three numbered heading levels: 1., 1.1., and 1.1.1.
• All paragraphs must use single line spacing; 1.5 spacing should not be used.
• The abstract must be written in the manuscript language, contain 250-300 words, and use 10-point type.
• Each manuscript must include at least 5 keywords, set in 10-point type.
• References, in-text citations, quotations, tables, figures, and headings must follow APA 7 consistently.
• Manuscripts with a similarity rate above 20% are not accepted.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

• AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
• Authors remain responsible for the argument, sources, analysis, wording, and accuracy of the manuscript.
• Generating all or a substantial part of the manuscript with an AI tool is not acceptable.
• Any limited use of AI for language checks, transcription, data organization, or similar technical support must be disclosed.
• The disclosure should name the tool, explain how it was used, and state how the output was checked.

Rights and Research Integrity

• All intellectual and creative rights in the submitted work belong to the author or authors.
• The authors are fully responsible for permissions, third-party material, image rights, interview consent, and ethical approval where applicable.
• For accepted manuscripts, authors must sign the JEMUR Copyright Transfer Form and grant the journal the publication, distribution, archiving, and indexing rights required for scholarly dissemination.
• Accurate citation, source transparency, and avoidance of plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, and misleading representation are mandatory.
• Human-subject, animal-subject, archival, fieldwork, or institutional approval requirements must be met and reported when relevant.

Research Ethics

JEMUR follows COPE Core Practices and the ethical requirements of TR Dizin. Ethics committee approval is required, in all disciplines including the social sciences, for research involving questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, observation, experiments, human or animal subjects, retrospective studies covered by data protection law, and case reports. Approval must be obtained before data collection begins, and the committee name, decision date and decision number must appear in the manuscript.

The full policy, including the responsibilities of authors, reviewers and editors, is set out on the Publication Ethics page.

Open Access License

JEMUR publishes accepted articles as open-access works under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows readers to share and adapt the published work provided that proper attribution is given to the author or authors and the original publication in JEMUR is cited.

Early Access

Accepted articles may be published online before the issue in which they will appear is complete. An article released in this way is final and citable: it has completed peer review, copy-editing and proofreading, and it carries its own DOI.

Early access articles do not yet have a volume, issue or page range, because the issue has not been assembled. They are listed in a separate Early Access section and are marked as such on the article page. Until the issue appears, the recommended citation form is Advance online publication.

When the issue is published, the article moves into it and receives its volume, issue and page numbers. The DOI does not change and existing links continue to work.

Publication Workflow

1. Submission: Authors provide the manuscript, author details, supplementary files, and signed copyright transfer form.
2. Editorial screening: The editorial team checks scope, language, formatting, similarity, ethics, authorship, and required documents.
3. Peer review: Manuscripts that pass screening are sent for peer review, and authors may be asked to revise their work.
4. Editorial decision: The editor issues a decision based on reviewer reports, revisions, and journal policy.
5. Production: Accepted manuscripts are prepared for publication, and their publication details are checked.
6. Publication: The final article is published open access under CC BY-NC 4.0 and added to the journal archive.

The editors may ask for further information or documents when authorship, ethics, originality, AI use, or permissions need to be verified.