Manuscripts intended for publication, notes, announcements and news from members should be sent to the Editor. Books for review should be sent to the Book Review Editor. Opinions expressed in articles and communications are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the policies of the Association. Advertising rates are available on request. Submission guidelines are provided below or as a pdf (Submission Guidelines and Style Information).

Turkish Studies Association Journal
Submission Guidelines and Style Information

The Turkish Studies Association Journal welcomes manuscripts of scholarly articles in any field related to Turkish or Ottoman history. We are also interested in publishing images and new translations of primary sources, reviews of film, instructional materials, and other media on Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, other aspects of the Turks in history, and Turkish and Turkic languages and literatures.

Submission of manuscripts for publication in the Journal implies that the work is original and that it has never been previously published nor is it proposed for submission for publication elsewhere. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish copyrighted material. You should anticipate an immediate acknowledgement of receipt of your article if sent via e-mail, 2 weeks if sent via postal service, and comments from reviewers within 8-12 weeks after acknowledgement of receipt of your submission. If your article is accepted, the revised version will be expected within 8 weeks of receipt of comments from the editor.

Inquiries should be directed to the editor using the following contact information:

For scholarly articles:
You must include a coversheet that lists the author’s name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, postal address, and phone number(s). If you travel for more than 2 weeks in the 9-12 months after submission of your article, please send us your updated contact information when you leave and when you return.

The title should be centered on the first page of the manuscript without the name of the author or the author’s institutional affiliation.

Articles must be submitted in English and should be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point font with 1” margins on all sides.

The Turkish Studies Association Journal conforms to The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition, and follows the transliteration guidelines of The International Journal of Middle East Studies.

All pages should be numbered consecutively and should not contain the name of the author in the header or footer.

Footnotes must be numbered consecutively throughout the text and should be single spaced in 10-point font at the bottom of the page. Acknowledgements should be typed at the bottom of page 1 and signaled by an asterisk at the end of the title.

A full bibliography for the article should be sent along with the cover sheet and manuscript. The bibliography must include the secondary source materials consulted for your article. A narrow “works cited” bibliography is not sufficient, nor is a bibliography consisting only of primary source citations. Articles submitted without a generous bibliography will not be considered for publication.

Authors should send one copy via e-mail to frierseb@email.uc.edu using Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Alternatively, you may send three hard copies and a disk or CDR holding a copy of the article to the address below. You only need to submit your paper via ONE of these methods.

Dates: Use common era dates (C.E./B.C.E.) unless the original source contains dates in other forms (hijri, solar, etc), in which case use the date listed in the original source with the common era equivalent in parenthesis.

Tables and Figures: Tables and figures must be cited in the text, provided with clear captions, and numbered consecutively.

Primary source translations: Primary sources newly translated should be sent to Professor Frierson at the address above. The submission packet should include the following:

(1) a clear, legible copy of the original text;
(2) a translation into English, formatted as described above for scholarly articles;
(3) any accompanying images formatted as described below for photos and images.

This category may include new translations of formerly translated materials, if the new translation corrects significant misinformation in the pre-existing translation.

Photos: Photographs and images may initially be submitted, one per e-mail, via the e-mail address above. They must also be submitted in high-resolution format via storage medium such as CDR sent to the editor’s postal address above. Photographs and images must be accompanied by documentation of copyright permission or documentation that the image or photograph is no longer bound by copyright laws in the country of origin. Photographs and images must be accompanied by captions and contextualizations in the format described for scholarly articles.

Reviews of instructional materials, films, and other media:
Reviews for materials other than books should be sent to Professor Frierson at the address above, following the same submission guidelines as for scholarly articles.

Books for review:
Books for review should be sent to the Book Review Editor at this address:

William Blair
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Princeton University
110 Jones Hall
Princeton, NJ
08544-1008.

Announcements, conference summaries, news of members:
These items and all other correspondence should be sent to Professor Frierson at either the e-mail or postal addresses provided.