Currently, in its 24th volume, Insight Turkey is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focusing on contemporary political, economic, and social issues. It covers a broad range of topics related to Turkish domestic politics and foreign policy, major developments throughout Turkey’s neighboring regions, and international politics. Indexed and abstracted by a number of major academic databases, Insight Turkey publishes papers written by various academic researchers, political analysts, and area experts from all over the world.
Insight Turkey publishes four types of written content:
Insight Turkey welcomes both solicited and unsolicited submissions. All manuscripts submitted to Insight Turkey undergo a rigorous process of assessment. Submissions are initially evaluated by the journal’s Editorial Board in terms of relevance, style, and scholarly qualities, with those that satisfy our minimum requirements are then sent forward to two external referees. The review process is conducted anonymously (double-blind peer review) and only the articles that the referees recommend for publication are then published.
Before submitting your manuscript make sure that:
Manuscripts can be sent via mail to [email protected]
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the style guidelines of Insight Turkey. Submissions must be written with the usage of clear and concise language. Since the journal’s readership comprises of specialists and non-specialists, authors should use a language appealing and accessible to all readers. Authors whose first language is not English are strongly recommended to have their manuscripts read and corrected by a proofreader before submission.
Particular attention is requested on the following points:
Spelling
American spelling should be used throughout. Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out, other numbers should be given as numerals. Dates should be in the form April 8, 1999; 1996-1999; the 1980s. Use percent instead of %.
Names
Use original spelling in languages that use Latin alphabet. For transliteration of all other languages (such as Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, etc.) into English, please seek advice from the Editors.
Endnotes
The notes should be numbered consecutively throughout the article, using a raised numeral in the text, to correspond to a list of notes placed at the end. In the list of notes, consistency is crucial for giving references. Words in titles should be written with capital initials. In endnotes ‘ibid.’ should not be used.
Some examples for citation are given below. All of the information shown must be included.
Books
Name and Surname of the Author, Book Title, Edition (if there is), (City: Publisher, Year), p. #.
Ex:Terence Walker, The Book Title, 3rd ed., (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), p. 100.
Terence Walker, et al., The Book Title, 3rd ed., (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), p. 100.
Terence Walker (ed.), The Book Title, 3rd ed., (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), pp. 100-102.
Terence Walker and Deborah Jones, The Book Title, 3rd ed., (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), p. 100.
Subsequent references should appear as: Walker, The Book Title, p. 100.
Walker, et al., The Book Title, p.100.
Book Chapters
Name and Surname of the Author, “Chapter Title,” in Name/s of Editor/s (ed/s.), Book Title, (City: Publisher, Year), p. #.
Subsequent references should appear as: Surname, “Chapter Title,” p. #.
E.g.: Harry Gould, “What Is at Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate,” in Vendulka Kubálková, Nicholas Onuf and Paul Kowert (eds.), International Relations in A Constructed World, (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 83.
Subsequent references should appear as: Gould, “What Is at Stake in the Agent-Structure Debate,” p. 83.
Articles in Journals
Name and Surname of the Author, “Article Title,” Journal Name, Vol. #, No. # (Month Year), p. #.
Subsequent references should appear as: Surname, “Article Title,” p. #.
E.g.: Isa Blumi, “Albanian Slide: The Roots to NATO’s Pending Lost Balkan Enterprise,” Insight Turkey, Vol. 21, No. 2 (February 2019 ), pp. 149-170.
Unpublished Theses
Name and Surname of the Author, “Thesis Title,” thesis type, University, Year, p. #.
E.g.: Keith E. Wrightson, “The Puritan Reformation of Manners, with Special Reference to the Counties of Lancashire and Essex 1640-1660,” unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge University, 1974, p. 36.
Articles/Pages on Web Sites
Name and Surname of the Author, “Article Title,” E-Journal/E-newspaper/Web site Name, Vol. #, No. #, (Month Day, Year), retrieved Month Day, Year, from URL.
URL should link directly to the referred text.
E.g.: James Crabtree, “The End of Emerging Markets?” Foreign Policy, (May 3, 2020), retrieved June 15, 2020, from https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/03/emerging-markets-coronavirus-pandemic-economic-fallout/.
Articles in Newspapers and Popular Magazines
Name and Surname of Author, “Article Title,” Newspaper/Magazine, Month Day, Year.
Subsequent references should appear as Surname, “Article Title.”
E.g.: Juan de Onis, “Opium Poppy Gone, Turkish Farmers Ask Why has U.S. Done This to Us?,” The New York Times, (August 9, 1973).
Subsequent references should appear as: “Opium Poppy Gone, Turkish Farmers Ask Why has U.S. Done This to Us?”
Translated Books
Name and Surname of the Author, Title of Book, translated by Name of Translator, (City: Publisher, Year), p. #.
E.g.: Edward W. Said, Şarkiyatçılık: Batı’nın Şark Anlayışları, translated by Berna Ülner, (İstanbul: Metis Yayıncılık, 1995), pp. 11-12.
Conference Papers
Name and Surname of the Author, “Title of Paper,” Conference Name, Conference Location, Date, (City: Publisher, Year), p. #.
Reports
“Title of Report,” Institution, (Month Day, Year), retrieved from URL, p. #.
E.g.: “Seta Security Radar Turkey’s Geopolitical Landscape In 2020,” SETA, (2020), retrieved from https://www.setav.org/en/seta-security-radar-turkeys-security-landscape-in-2020/,pp.28-29.
Social Media
Name and Surname of the Author, Twitter, time AM/PM, (date) retrieved from URL.
E.g.: Donald Trump, Twitter, 11.03 PM, (November 7, 2017) retrieved from https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/927672843504177152.
Youtube
“Title,” Channel Name, retrieved on Month Day, Year, from URL.
E.g.: “Euronews Talks with Slavoj Žižek,” Euronews Youtube, retrieved on June 1, 2017, from http://youtu.be/EzM8tqjmCU8.
For Book Reviews
Reviews should be preceded by full publication information, in the following form:
Book Title (and translation, if applicable) by Name and Surname of the Author, (City: Publisher, Year), # of pages, price, ISBN. The reviewer’s name and affiliation should be given in the end.
Quotations
Ex: He argues the brain does not process, store or retrieve information. “We don’t create representations of visual stimuli, store them in a short-term memory buffer, and then transfer the representation into a long-term memory device. We don’t retrieve information or images or words from memory registers. Computers do all of these things, but organisms do not.”1
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