Our national peer-reviewed academic journal, 'Journal of Social Policy Studies' accepts academic papers (research and literature review articles, translations and book reviews) in Turkish and English relating the fields below:

• Social inclusion
• Social adaptation
• Social policy
• Disability studies
• Family studies
• Children studies
• Women Studies
• Poverty studies
• Employment studies
• Human development studies

The journal is peer reviewed. Papers sent to the journal have to be evaluated by an editor who decides whether it is within academic scope and related to journal's publication policy and rules.

After the editing process, the paper is sent to two reviewers consecutively in related field. If one of the reviewers REJECT the paper, it will be sent to another reviewer. If the third reviewer REJECTs it as well, the paper is not published. 

PUBLISHING PRINCIPLES OF JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES

• Journal of Social Policy Studies is published once every six months by Ministry of Family and Social Policies. It consists of academic papers (research and literature review articles, translations and book reviews) in Turkish and English.
• The journal is peer-reviewed. A paper that is sent to the journal can get published after the evaulation of editorial board and two competent academicians or experts. The papers that are sent to the journal must be original, not published and not sent to another journal for publishing. 
• Although, the journal has been using anti-plagiarism programmes such as iThenticate since 32nd issue, any responsibility including plagiarism is belong to the writers. Publishing rights for accepted papers and copyright of the published papers are belong to the journal. Writers are deemed to have accepted accept these terms of conditions when they send their work. All rights reserved. Any portion of the journal issues thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever except for the use of referenced brief quotations. 
• Papers should be written using Microsoft Office Word program and send via e-mail. They must consist of between 3500-7000 words. This contains footnotes, endnotes, references and appendix. The paper must be wriitten with Times New Roman 12 size with 1,5 cm row space. 
• Papers must have an abstract with a word count between 100-150 both in English and Turkish (if the paper is in English, then the English abstract should written first, if it is in Turkish, then vice versa). Also, there should be five keywords in both language. 
• On the first page of the paper, apaper's full name and name of the author/s must be written. The name of the institution they belong to should be added also. The e-mail address of the author/s can be specified. If the paper is part of a project or a thesis, and/or presented in a seminar that should be indicated.
• All papers must be sent through dergipark system after user log in.

REFERENCES

APA 6th Edition is used for references. Paragraphs must be indented. For more information please click on “APA Yazım Kılavuzu” on our website. Non-Turkish speaker writers can use Owl Purdue. They can also send emails to spcdergisi@aile.gov.tr for more information in English.