PUBLISHING AND WRITING POLICY

Tevilat is an international, scientific, academic, peer-reviewed, and thematic journal published by the Faculty of Islamic Sciences at Selçuk University twice a year. It aims to publish studies that discuss one of the historical or current problems of the Islamic world from a scientific point of view and offer solutions for this issue and have scientific qualities on national and international scales.

PUBLISHING PRINCIBLES

• Tevilat, includes scientific articles in all fields of Islamic sciences and religious studies that are appropriate to its topic. It also publishes academic articles in education, history, philosophy, and literature related to these fields. The rate of irrelevant file topic articles cannot exceed half of all articles in the issue with the confirmation of the editorial board.
• Submitted articles are screened for plagiarism. The acceptable estimation report percentage for our journal is <=25%. For this reason, essays with more than a similarity will not be considered.

• Tevilat uses a double-blind review system with at least two reviewers. The evaluation processes of submitted articles are defined in clearness and the sensitive application of these processes is guaranteed. Submitted articles must not have been published in the past not be submitted or accepted to another journal to publish.
• The Articles sent to Tevilat are decided whether worthy of publishing or not by evaluation of editors in terms of form and content. The Articles that are approved for evaluation are sent to at least two reviewers. If one reviewer approves and the other one disapproves article can be sent to the third reviewer or, the editorial board can decide the final decision by examining reviewer reports. Reviewers report scientific and technical evaluations that are based on the principle of objectivity to the journal with the "Reviewer Evaluation Form". Authors should consider the editors' and reviewers' reports. The article in which its evaluation process has been completed cannot be revoked by the author.
• Whether the article can be published or not is decided with views that are suggested by reviewers "can be published", " can be published after corrections" and "cannot be published". In the situation of "Can be published after corrections" the article is sent to the author for revision. The editorial board decides to publish the revised version of the article. The article is resubmitted to the reviewers which want to see it again.
• No fees are charged from the authors, and no royalties are paid to the authors. The content of the articles is entirely the responsibility of the authors.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

As Tevilat adopts the principle that scientific research will be provided free of charge to humanity and will increase the global sharing of knowledge, it adopts an open access policy. In this context, all articles published in the journal are accessible at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tevilat/archive In addition, every article published in Tevilat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY NC).

WRITING PRINCIPLES

• Articles that will be sent to Tevilat should be sent to the editor by writing in Microsoft Word (translations with their original texts, images, schemas, and tables). It is recommended to send the articles by using Tevilat Journal Writing Template.
• It should include pieces of knowledge such as the name of the author, title, occupied institution, ORCID number and telephone number available to contact, and e-mail address at the beginning of the article that will be sent.

• Texts should not exceed 9000 words, including attachments such as images, figures, maps, etc.

• It should be body texts (including bibliography, picture, figure, map, etc. attachments) maximum of twenty-five (25) pages, written in Microsoft Office with the font Cambria and character size 10 point, single-spaced and justified.
• Margins should be; top 2,5, right 3, left 2,5 and bottom 2 cm. Paper size should be width 16,5 and height 24 cm.
• Paragraph spaces should be 3 nk after, 0 nk before. Start of the line should be set to 0.75 cm. Footnotes should be 9-point 'Cambria', single-spaced, justified, and 0.5 cm hanging.
• Photocopies of original texts or PDF format should be attached to translation, simplification and transcription manuscripts. In addition, the book cover should be added in the form of an image to the book reviews.
• If the text includes date of death should be in the form (d. 425/1033).
• Arabic texts should be written in the font “Traditional Arabic” or “Traditional Naskh”.

• Around 150-200 words of Turkish summary of the articles and an English translation of the summary should be submitted for the Turkish articles. Turkish and English summaries should be submitted for foreign language articles. There should be Keywords consisting of five-eight (5-8) both in Turkish and English.
• In terms of spelling and punctuation, the Spelling Guide of the Turkish Language Society (TDK) should be taken as a basis. The editor has the right to make changes regarding the spelling of the articles.
• The name of individuals and works should be written on the basis of the title of the article and spelling rules in the Encyclopedia of Islam of the Turkiye Diyanet Foundation.
• There should be a bibliography at the end of the article.
• Tevilat predicates footnotes and bibliography upon ISNAD reference system. For details ISNAD official website. (http://isnadsistemi.org)

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

• The ethical duties and responsibilities listed below have been prepared to take into account the guidelines and policies published as open access by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).


• For the authors, It is the author's responsibility to contribute to the academic fields of the submitted article. Studies should be original and research-based. Even if plagiarism is scanned by the journal, the results of plagiarism, which is an academic shame, will belong entirely to the author. Make sure that other authors contribute to the researchers whose names will be written in the article. It is against scientific ethics to present non-contribute authors as additional authors or to rank the authors according to non-scientific criteria such as title, age, and gender, regardless of the order of contribution. It is assumed that the authors who submit articles to the journal have read and accepted the publication and writing principles of the journal, and the authors are deemed to have committed to comply with the expectations from them in these principles. Citations and bibliography should be complete. Authors have to take into account the directive on scientific research and publication ethics, which is also regulated by the Council of Higher Education.

Authors whose articles are accepted for publication are required to sign the Tevilat Journal Conflict of Interest and Ethical Declaration Form. (Form 2)


• For the reviewers; Reviewers should act with the awareness that they are the most fundamental identification of the academic quality of the article to be published in the journal and should evaluate with a responsibility to increase academic quality. Reviewers should accept to review only articles for which they have the expertise to perform an appropriate review, can respect the confidentiality of blind review, and retain details of the article in all situations. After the article review process, no information about the revised article should be shared with others. Reviewers should only evaluate the truth of the content of articles and their appropriateness with academic criteria. Whether the opinions expressed in the article are different from the opinions of the reviewer or not, there should not affect the evaluation. Reviewer’s reports must be objective and measured. Insulting, condescending and accusatory expressions should absolutely be avoided. Reviewers should avoid superficial and vague statements in their evaluation reports. In evaluations with negative results, the missing and defective points on which the result is based should be indicated in a concrete way. Reviewers should evaluate the articles within their appointed time. If they are not going to evaluate, they must notify the journal within a reasonable time.

• For the editors, Editors should accept articles that will contribute to the relevant stated areas in the journal policy to the evaluation process. Editors should not have any conflict of interest/relationship with accepted or rejected articles. Editors have full responsibility and authority to accept or reject an article. It is the editors' responsibility to keep the names of reviewers and authors mutually confidential. Editors should make the necessary effort to screen for plagiarism of articles submitted for publication and in order to avoid academic dishonour.
It is the duty of the editors to complete the preliminary review, reviewing, editing and publishing processes of the articles submitted to the journal in a timely and healthy manner. Editors should prioritize academic concerns and criteria when accepting articles to the journal.