Submission Rules & Publishing Process

İLEF Dergisi Ethical Principles and Publishing Policy

İLEF Dergisi is a peer-reviewed journal in the field of communication research and media studies. It seeks to reflect the variety of intellectual traditions and multidisciplinary approaches to provide a free and critical platform for scholars. ILEF Dergisi encourages contributions in areas such as the conjunctions of class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality in audiovisual culture, conventional and new medias, histories and theories of journalism, film, television, video, and digital media; and politically engaged approaches to a range of media practices. 

It is an open access journal, published biannually both in printed and on-line versions by Faculty of Communication at Ankara University; the oldest institute in the field of communication in Turkey and in the surrounding region.  İlef Dergisi adheres to the following ethical principles and publication policy, formulated based on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Directive, which can be found on https://publicationethics.org/.

İLEF Dergisi does not demand a submission or a publication fee.

Review and Publication Process

İLEF Dergisi accepts submissions and carries out reviewing process in an ongoing basis.  There is no deadline for submissions except for themed special issues. 

The submitted manuscripts are initially screened by the editorial board in order to determine whether the manuscript is appropriate for the aim and scope of Ilef Dergisi and whether it displays potential for quality academic publication. Manuscripts that pass this initial screening process are sent out for peer-review. Manuscripts that are accepted at the end of the review process are published in the forthcoming issue. According to the resolution of the Editorial Board, 5 to 7 articles at most can be published in each issue. In the case that the number of accepted manuscripts exceed this limit, the publication of the most recently accepted manuscripts are postponed to the following issue.

İLEF Dergisi accepts submissions to the e-mail address editor@ilefdergisi.org.

Revision and Withdrawal Processes

Revisions may be demanded from the manuscripts submitted to İLEF Dergisi by the editor or the reviewers.  The authors comply with the revision demands as they see fit.  The authors are asked to account for the revisions they choose not to make.

The authors have the right to withdraw their submissions at any point of the publication process.

Editors' Responsibilities

İLEF Dergisi is published by Ankara University Faculty of Communication (İLEF). The editor-in-chief and ownership status is held by the faculty dean in the name of İLEF. 

The editorial board of the journal is composed of members put forth by the departments in İLEF in every two years.  The editors have absolute editorial independence with respect to Ankara University.

Ankara University Faculty of Communication publicizes and distributes İLEF Dergisi; and protects the printed versions and the intellectual property rights of authors and partners in publishing.