WRITING RULES

1. Manuscripts, in general, should follow this order: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Research Results, Discussion and Conclusions, Acknowledgements (if necessary) and References.
2. The text should be written in two-column format with a column width of 7.65 cm and spacing of 0.7 cm.
3. The page margins of the manuscript must be as follows; top: 4.0 cm, bottom: 3.0 cm, left and right: 2.5 cm.
4. The manuscript must be typed in Tahoma font type with 1.25 cm of line spacing.
5. The title should be written in 13 points of font size, bold and center aligned. First letter of each word of the title should be capital.
6. Author names should be listed after 2 blank lines below the title and typed in bold with 10 points font size. Authors’ first names should be in small letters, e.g. James, and surnames all in capital letters, e.g. BROWN. For more than one author, names should be separated by a comma on the same line.
7. Next line after the authors’ names, without giving any blank line, names and addresses of the authors’ and the email address of the corresponding author should be provided.
8. Abstract should follow the addresses after 2 blank lines. Abstract text body should be typed in as 1 column of 14 cm width, 9 points font size with a line spacing of 1. Keywords should follow the abstract as a separate line.
9. Section headings and the text should be in “Tahoma” font type with 9 points of font size.
10. Section headings should be bold capital letters and left aligned. Sub-headings of the sections should also be bold but small letters starting with a capital letter. No numbering will be given to any of the headings.
11. Alignment of the text body of the manuscript should be justified with 0.5 cm of first line indentation. No spacing will be given between the paragraphs.
12. References should be cited in the text by the last name(s) of the author(s) and year of publication, for example, (Brown, 1984) or (Morrison and Smith, 1984). If the citation is the subject of the sentence, then only the date should be given in parentheses, for example, According to Hatipoglu (1984) or as suggested by Ulusoy and Evcim (1984). For citation of references with three or more authors, only the first author’s name followed by “et al.” should be used, for example, (Ucucu et al., 1988) or as shown by Ucucu et al. (1988). If there is more than one reference in the same year for the same author(s), then please add the letters “a”, “b”, etc. to the year, for example, (Berkel, 1970a, 1970b). If there are more than one reference cited following each other, semicolon ( ; ) should be used to separate.
13. Equations should be typed by using the MSWord “Equation Editor” as a separate line between the text. Equations must be center aligned and numbered. Numbering should be placed in parentheses as right aligned of the equation line. Definitions for symbols used within the equations must be provided following the equation.
14. Tables and figures should be placed within the text close to their citation. Those tables or figures which do not fit to their column should be placed either top or bottom of the page in one column format.
15. A brief but complete and self-explanatory caption should be given to tables and figures. Captions must be above the tables as left aligned and below the figures as center aligned. Caption text should be in Tahoma font type, 8 points font size, bold and in sentence format (only the first letter is capital).
16. Tables and figures must be prepared in black and white or grayscale. Figures as photos or drawings must have a good contrast of dark and light.
17. Metric SI (Systeme International d’ Unites) units must be used in manuscripts.
18. References should be in 8 points font size and listed alphabetically at the end of the text without numbering. References to books, journal articles and URL web sites, etc. should be listed as given below:

For Books;
Last name of the first author, initial(s) of first name(s), initial(s) of the co-author first name(s), full last name of the co-author, publication year, (if they are the authors of a section of a book then the section heading and the author(s) of the book), title of the book (in italics), publishing company. e.g.;
Voorhees, W. B., 2000. Long-term Effect of Subsoil Compaction on Yield of Maize. Chap.3, Pp.331-338. In:  Subsoil Compaction Distribution, Processes and Consequences. Horn, R., J. J. H. Van Den Akker, J. Arvidsson (eds.), Catena Verlag GMBH, 35447 Reiskirschen, Germany.
For Journal articles;
Last name of the first author, initial(s) of first name(s), initial(s) of the co-author first name(s), full last name of the co-author, publication year, title of the manuscript, title of the journal, volume number, issue number and page number. e.g.;
Balota, E. L., A. C. Filho, D. S. Andrade, R. P. Dick, 2004. Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on microbial biomass and C and N mineralization in a Brezilian Oxisol. Soil & Tillage Research 77 (2): 137-145.
For URLs;
e.g.;
Schaeffer, L. R. 1997. Subject: Random Regressions. http://chuckagsci.colostate.edu/wais/logs/agdg869258263.html , Erişim: Kasım 1997.