Author guidelines

Important information: Submissions that do not meet the author guidelines may be rejected according to the journal's review process.

Guidelines

☑ Submissions must be previously unpublished and must not be under review by any other journal (otherwise, a statement is included in "Comments to Editors").

☑ Manuscripts can only be submitted via upload on the journal platform.

☑ Authors must register an individual journal account.

☑ Authors (including co-authors) of articles accepted for publication must register with ORCID and authenticate their ID on the journal's platform. Detailed information about ORCID and the display of ORCID iDs in the journal can be found here. ORCID authentication is done via a direct link sent to all authors by the journal.

☑ The maximum length of research articles is 10,000 words, including footnotes and the bibliography. Abstracts must not exceed 200 words. Book reviews and conference reports should be no longer than 1,500 words.

☑ Articles submitted as part of a special issue must be identified as such in the comments to the editor during the submission process.

☑ All article and author metadata must be entered during the submission process. See mandatory metadata below.

☑ The Journal of Alevi Studies currently accepts submissions in English, German, and Turkish. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are written in clear, accurate, and grammatically correct language. Manuscripts should be carefully proofread prior to submission. If the language quality of a manuscript does not meet the standards required for peer review and publication, authors may be asked to arrange for professional language editing, preferably by a native speaker of the language in which the manuscript is written. Any costs associated with such editing are the responsibility of the author.

☑ AI tools may be used for editorial assistance in accordance with the journal's ethical guidelines but must not replace the authors' own original scholarly contribution. Authors remain fully responsible for the content, originality, and integrity of their manuscripts.

☑ A statement of individual author contributions must be included in the submitted manuscript. This follows the ethical guidelines of the journal with respect to author transparency.

☑ A statement on the availability of research data, where applicable, must be included in the submitted manuscript. Where research data are available, authors are encouraged to deposit them in a publicly accessible repository and provide a persistent identifier (e.g., DOI). See the journal’s ethical guidelines for further information.

☑ Funding of the research and/or publication and possible conflicts of interest must be disclosed in a statement in the submitted manuscript. This follows the ethical guidelines of the journal.

☑ The authors are committed to good scientific practice and the ethical guidelines of the journal.

☑ It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their publications.

☑ Image rights must be obtained for all illustrations within submitted articles. The author(s) assume sole responsibility in the event of any violation of image rights. For article production, all illustrations must be submitted separately.

☑ All published articles in this journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The authors accept a potential publication under the CC BY 4.0 license when submitting their article.

Formatting

The journal's formatting guidelines are mandatory for all articles. Only submissions matching these guidelines can be considered for potential review.

Metadata query

The following metadata must be provided during the article submission process.

Article metadata

mandatory

• Title
  Titles cannot contain italicized, superscript or subscript components.
• Subtitles
  Subtitles cannot contain italicized, superscript or subscript components.
• Keywords (3-5)
  Careful selection significantly increases the findability of articles.
• Abstract
  Abstracts must be concise and not exceed a maximum length of 200 words.
• References
  References must be entered without any line breaks within a reference, but with a blank line between two references. References must follow the Chicago Author-Date citation style.
  voluntary
• Type
  Type of the submission. The type is usually "text", but may be "record", "image", or any of the Dublin Core types.
• Rights
  All rights to this submission, including intellectual property rights, copyrights, and proprietary rights, must be indicated.
• Source
  The source can be an ID such as the DOI of another work that was the basis of this submission.
• Discipline
  Disciplines are types of studies or areas of expertise as described by university departments or professional societies.
• Support
  Supporting institutions may indicate here the source of research funding or other types of support for research.

 

Author metadata

mandatory

• Full name
  The name will be displayed on the journal's website as well as in the article PDF and HTML file. Please do not enter an academic degree here.
• Affiliation
  The affiliation is displayed on the journal's website as well as in the article PDFs and HTMLs.
• Country
  The country is not displayed for readers of the journal.
• E-mail address
  The email address will be used for all correspondence during the review process. Only the email address of the corresponding author is visible to readers of the journal.
• Main contact
  Indication of corresponding author.
• ORCID
  ORCID authentication is done via a direct link sent via email to the author(s)