1. DELIVERY OF ARTICLES

Articles written in either Turkish or English can be published in the journal. Depending on the language of the article, a summary in the second language is also required. For articles written in Turkish, an extended abstract in English of up to one page (approximately 500 words) is mandatory. For articles written in English, a 250-word Turkish abstract is optional. An extended abstract in English is mandatory to ensure that the work reaches a broader audience. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the journal’s submission format, and necessary revisions may be requested from the authors.

2. PREPARATION OF ARTICLES

It is requested ethical principles and publication policy agreement, similarity report, cover page (with author information), and manuscript (without author information) as four separate files. Authors must follow these instructions carefully to avoid delays in submission, blind peer-review and publication processes.

For research across all scientific disciplines that require ethical committee consent, the researchers must have obtained this approval, and it should be explicitly indicated and documented within the article. The relevant documentation should be attached. In studies that require ethical committee permission, details pertaining to the approval (i.e., committee name, date, and reference number) should be delineated in the methods section. Additionally, this information should appear on either the first or last pages of the manuscript. For case presentations, the article should also incorporate a statement confirming that informed voluntary consent forms have been duly signed by the participants.

At the conclusion of the article, declarations including the Researchers’ Contribution Ratio, any Acknowledgments and Support, and Conflict of Interest should be presented.”

2.1 Copyright and Author Agreement
The Copyright and Author Agreement form must be completed to include the names and signatures of all authors and uploaded to the DergiPark system. The format of the agreement and copyright form can be downloaded from the relevant link below, and a scanned copy with wet signatures is acceptable.

Please click here for Copyright and Author Agreement: https://jcode.itu.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-and-Author-Agreement.docx

2.2 Similarity Check Report
According to the new regulation of DergiPark, the similarity report must be received (via Turnitin or iThenticate).

2.3 Cover Page (including author information)
The cover page should be prepared as a separate Word document and should state that the manuscript has been written and approved by all authors, and that it is an original, unpublished work not even under review. It should contain the names and signatures of all authors. A scanned copy of the cover page is acceptable. The cover page should contain a brief and informative title; all authors’ names, ORCID numbers, institutions/organizations (department, faculty, university, city, and country) and e-mail addresses, and the name and the phone number of the corresponding author. If the manuscript sent has been presented at any meeting before, the name, date, and city of the meeting should be specified. Authors may also include acknowledgments in this section.

Please click here for the template of the cover page: https://jcode.itu.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cover-page-sample_ENG_updated.docx

2.4 Blinded Manuscript (without author information)
The manuscript should be prepared in a single Word document, including both English and Turkish abstracts, keywords, the main article, quotations (if any), and the reference list. The article should contain a maximum of 5 keywords, listed in alphabetical order and separated by commas. Keywords should be carefully selected to facilitate readers’ searches. The Turkish abstract should not exceed 250 words, and the extended English abstract should not exceed one page (approximately 500 words). The short Turkish abstract should include the aim, method, and main findings of the article. The extended English abstract should briefly address the definition of the research problem, research question, hypothesis, aim, scope, methodology, tools and materials used, research findings, and contribution to the literature. No information revealing the identity of the authors should be included in the abstracts or the main text.

The main text should be written in Calibri Light, 11-point font size, with 1.15 line spacing. The Turkish and English abstracts should be in Calibri Light, 9-point font size, with single line spacing. The main text should use 11-point Calibri Light and 1.15 line spacing. In Turkish manuscript writing, English equivalents of the main and subheadings should be given in parentheses next to them. Except for the abstract section, there should be a one-line space (1.15 line spacing) between paragraphs. The main title of the article should be 20-point, left-aligned, bold, and written with capitalized initial letters. All headings in the text should be numbered sequentially and hierarchically (e.g., 1., 1.1., 1.1.1), excluding the references and acknowledgments sections. All headings other than the main title should be written in 12-point Calibri. Primary headings should be written in all uppercase letters and bold. In secondary headings, only the first letters should be capitalized. No line space should be added after secondary headings. Fourth-level and lower-level headings should not be numbered. Headings should not appear as the last line of a page. If two lines of text cannot follow a heading, the heading should be moved to the next page. The first line of a paragraph cannot appear as the last line of a page, nor can the last line of a paragraph appear as the first line of a page. The size of tables and figures must be legible and in high resolution (300 dpi). Tables should be prepared in an editable text format, not as images. If the size of a table or figure exceeds the paragraph width of 11 cm, it should be aligned to both margins. Tables and figures must be numbered and referred to within the text. Each figure, table, and image should be labeled and numbered independently of the heading and subheading numbers in the section where they appear, using Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Table 1, Table 2, and so on. They should be bold within the text. Figure and table captions should be written in 10-point Calibri Light font, and in Turkish articles, the English translations should be provided in parentheses. One line space should be left before and after bullet-pointed explanations in the text. All pages should be numbered consecutively.

The manuscript length, including references but excluding tables, figures, and images, should not exceed 5000 words. The text should not contain any information that reveals the authors’ identities. Figures and tables should not include any author names or institutional affiliations. To maintain anonymity during the double-blind peer review process, citations of the authors’ own work within the text should be formatted as (Author, Year) without specifying the authors’ last names. During the revision stage, authors can update these references accordingly. Symbols, abbreviations, and conventions within the text should comply with the recommended International System of Units (SI). Abbreviations should be defined in parentheses when first mentioned in the text, following internationally accepted standards. In-text citations should follow the APA 7 reference style, with the author’s name and publication year provided in parentheses (Author, Year). The proofing language should be English (United States).

Please click here for the template of the manuscript: https://jcode.itu.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Word-Template-EN-v3.docx

3. REFERENCES

It is encouraged to use APA 7th Edition as a formatting guideline of references. The style is exemplified below. In-text citations should include the author’s last name, publication year, and page number in parentheses (Author’s Last Name, Year, p.). The reference list should be arranged alphabetically by the authors’ last names and in chronological order for multiple works by the same author, and provided at the end of the main text in accordance with the examples below. If more than one work by the same author published in the same year is cited, they should be labeled as 2018a, 2018b, 2018c, etc. The capitalization and formatting rules of the APA Reference Style should be followed. References must be provided in English. For more detailed information on APA 7 Reference Style, please visit the following websites:
http://www.apastyle.org/
https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/nsb/page/9435

Books
Author, A. (Year). Title of the book, City of publication, Publisher.
Ewert, E.W., Mitten, D.S., & Overholt, J.R. (2014). Natural environments and human health. CAB International. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781845939199.0000
Foxall, G. R. (2018). Context and cognition in consumer psychology: How perception and emotion guide action. Routledge.
Schmidt, N. A., & Brown, J. M. (2017). Evidence-based practice for nurses: Appraisal and application of research (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC.

For a chapter in a book; Author, A. (Year). “Publication name”, Ed: Editor Surname, A., Name of the Book in which it was published, City of publication, Publisher, p: xx-xx.

Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016

Journals
Author, A. A., Author, B. (Year). Article title. Title of the Journal, volume (issue), p: xx-xx. DOI

Article with Article Number: Author, A. A., Author, B. (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, volume(issue), article number, #–#. DOI

Arxiv Numbered Journal Article: Author, A. A., Author, B. (Year). Title of the article. Arxiv number

Ashing‐Giwa, K. T., Padilla, G., Tejero, J., Kraemer, J., Wright, K., Coscarelli, A., Clayton, S., Williams, I., & Hills, D. (2004). Understanding the breast cancer experience of women: A qualitative study of African American, Asian American, Latina, and Caucasian cancer survivors. Psycho‐Oncology, 13(6), 408-428. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.750
Washington, E. T. (2014). An overview of cyberbully in higher education. Adult Learning, 26(1), 21–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1045159514558412
Moody, M. S. (2019). If instructional coaching really works, why isn’t it working? Educational Leadership, 77(3), 30–35.
Dayton, K. J. (2019). Tangled arms: Modernizing and unifying the arm-of-the-state doctrine. The University of Chicago Law Review, 86(6), 1497–1737. https://bit.ly/2SkWwcy

Conference papers
Conference and Poster Presentations: Author, A. A., Author, B. (Year, Conference Dates). Title of the presentation [Presentation type]. Name of the Conference, City, Country. URL

Davidson, R. J. (2019, August 8–11). Well-being is a skill [Conference session]. APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, IL, United States. https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/a5ea5d51/files/uploaded/APA2019_Program_190708.pdf

Conference Proceedings: Author, A. A., Author, B. (Year). Title of the paper. In Editor(s), Title of the publication (Name of the conference) (pp. #-#). Publisher. DOI or URL

Bedenel, A.-L., Jourdan, L., & Biernacki, C. (2019). Probability estimation by an adapted genetic algorithm in web insurance. In R. Battiti, M. Brunato, I. Kotsireas, & P. Pardalos (Eds.), Lecture notes in computer science: Vol. 11353. Learning and intelligent optimization (pp. 225–240). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05348-2_21

Morgan, R., Meldrum, K., Bryan, S., Mathiesen, B., Yakob, N., Esa, N., & Ziden, A. A. (2017). Embedding digital literacies in curricula: Australian and Malaysian experiences. In G. B. Teh & S. C. Choy (Eds.), Empowering 21st century learners through holistic and enterprising learning: Selected papers from Tunku Abdul Rahman University College International Conference 2016 (pp. 11-19). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4241-6_2

Thesis
Published Thesis: Author, A. (Year). Title of the thesis. (Thesis Identification Number) [Doctoral dissertation / Master’s thesis, Name of University]. Name of Database.

Horvath-Plyman, M. (2018). Social media and the college student journey: An examination of how social media use impacts social capital and affects college choice, access, and transition (Publication No. 10937367) [Doctoral dissertation, New York University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Unpublished Thesis: Author, A. (Year). Title of the thesis. [Unpublished doctoral dissertation / master’s thesis]. Name of University.

Harris, L. (2014). Instructional leadership perceptions and practices of elementary school leaders [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Virginia.

Report
Group Author: Organization Name. (Year). Title of the report. (Report No. 123). URL

Individual Author: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of the report. (Report No. 123). Organization Name. URL

World Health Organization. (2014). Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/113048/WHO_NMH_NHD_14.1_
eng.pdf?ua=1

Winthrop, R., Ziegler, L., Handa, R., & Fakoya, F. (2019). How playful learning can help leapfrog progress in education. Center for Universal Education at Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/how_playful_learning_can_help_leapfrog_progress_in_education.pdf

Internet Sources
Web Page: Author, A. / Organization Name. (Year, Month Day). Title of the content. Name of the Website. Retrieved Month Day, Year, from URL

Center for Systems Science and Engineering. (2020, May 6). COVID-19 dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, Coronavirus Resource Center. Retrieved May 6, 2020, from https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Blog: Author, A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the content. Name of the Blog. URL

Rutledge, P. (2019, March 11). The upside of social media. The Media Psychology Blog. https://www.pamelarutledge.com/2019/03/11/the-upside-of-social-media/

Online Magazine: Author, A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the content. Name of the Magazine. URL

Gander, K. (2020, April 29). COVID-19 vaccine being developed in Australia raises antibodies to neutralize virus in pre-clinical tests. Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/australia-covid-19-vaccine-neutralize-virus-1500849

Online Newspaper Article: Author, A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the content. Name of the Newspaper. URL

Roberts, S. (2020, April 9). Early string ties us to Neanderthals. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/science/neanderthals-fiber-string-math.html

Online Dictionary: Author, A. (Year, Month Day). Title of the entry. In Name of the Dictionary. Retrieved Month Day, Year, from URL

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Internet addiction. In APA dictionary of psychology. Retrieved April 24, 2020, from https://dictionary.apa.org/internet-addiction

Thesis from a Database: Author, A. (Year). Title of the thesis. (Thesis Identification Number) [Doctoral dissertation / Master’s thesis, Name of University]. Name of Database.

Horvath-Plyman, M. (2018). Social media and the college student journey: An examination of how social media use impacts social capital and affects college choice, access, and transition (Publication No. 10937367) [Doctoral dissertation, New York University]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

4. TABLES AND FIGURES

Figures should be placed on the template to fit in 11 or 17 cm wide columns. If the size of the table or figure exceeds the width of the paragraph 11 cm, it is placed so that it is justified on both sides. Each figure, table, and picture are written in the text, regardless of the heading and subtitle numbers in the section where it is written, as Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Table 1, Table 2 etc. It should be named and enumerated in order. It should be shown in bold in the text. Table and figure names should be written in Calibri Light 10 font size.

In addition, figures must be uploaded in a zip file with a resolution of at least 300 dpi and in jpeg/tiff format.

For all tables, figures, and pictures that are not belonging to the authors but previously published by other sources, permission should be obtained from the persons who have the right to publish and the permission document should be sent with the article.

5. MATH FORMULA

The mathematical equations are submitted as editable text and not as images. The equations should be presented in line with normal text where possible, not as an image. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Number consecutively any equations that must be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text). Each equation should be presented in the text as Equation 1, Equation 2, etc.

6. BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES

A book review should be between 500 and 1000 words, which includes the scope of an assessment of the book and its contribution to knowledge and discussion in the context of computational design, architecture, planning, and design. Comments should be written using an 11-point Calibri font with 1.15 line spacing. The name, institution, and e-mail address of the person making the book review should be given. Book cover photo must be provided in jpeg format. Title, author, source, publisher, date, number of pages, price, and ISBN number should be provided as in the example below.
Name of the Book, Name of the Author, Publication Year, Publisher, City, Number of Pages, Price, Type of Volume, ISBN no.

You can access the JCODE Manuscript Template in Word format, the Copyright and Author Agreement, as well as the Cover Page Form via the link below: