Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• Publication Guidelines for the Kurdish Academy Journal
  1. The Kurdish Academy Journal is a quarterly scientific publication that publishes original research in Kurdish, Arabic, and English across the fields of language, literature, history, Kurdish culture, and comparative studies in areas partially related to Kurds and Kurdistan.
  2. The Kurdish Academy Journal prioritizes research that adopts interdisciplinary methodological approaches.
  3. Submitted research must constitute the original scholarly work of the author(s) and follow the fundamental principles of scientific methodology in its writing and preparation.
  4. Research articles must not have been published in any local, national, or international journal, nor in conference proceedings. They must not be submitted to any other journal until the review process is complete and a publication decision has been made.
  5. The responsibility for each research article rests entirely with the author(s), and the research represents the views of the author(s) rather than those of the Kurdish Academy Journal.
  6. Kurdish-language research articles must conform to the approved Kurdish orthographic standards of the Kurdish Academy. When necessary, the Kurdish Academy Journal may make revisions to research articles without altering their content.
  7. Research articles must comprise the following components with these specifications:
  o Abstract: Written in the language of the research article, between 150-200 words, following abstract-writing standards
  o Keywords: Five terms
  o Introduction: Including topic identification, research hypothesis and questions, literature review, etc.
  o Analysis and Discussion sections
  o Conclusion and References
  8. Every research article must address a novel topic and include a comprehensive literature review. This review should provide a new perspective on the historical development of the research topic. Contemporary and historical sources must be considered; both theoretical sources and those pertaining to historical materials or subjects must be current.
  9. The Kurdish Academy Journal does not accept research articles exceeding 7,000 words.
  10. The author(s) must provide abstracts of their research in two additional languages in addition to the language of the study.
  11. Any discussion or topic concerning manuscript review (paleography) must be conducted according to established scientific principles of the field, accompanied by several photographed pages and complete information regarding the manuscript and its repository.
  12. Corresponding authors must format their submissions according to the following specifications:
  First: For Kurdish-language Research:
  • Main title: Unikurd Peshew font, size 20
  • Headings: Unikurd Hiwa font, size 13
  • Body text: Unikurd Goran font, size 13
  • Footnotes: Unikurd Goran font, size 11
  • Kurdish abstract: Unikurd Goran font, size 13
  • Latin script words within text: Times New Roman font, size 11
  Second: For Arabic-language Research:
  • Main title: Times New Roman font, size 20
  • Headings: Times New Roman font, size 13, bold
  • Body text: Times New Roman font, size 13
  • Footnotes: Times New Roman font, size 11
  • Arabic abstract: Times New Roman font, size 13
  • Latin script words within text: Times New Roman font, size 11
  Third: For English-language Research:
  • Main title: Times New Roman font, size 20
  • Headings: Times New Roman font, size 12, bold
  • Body text: Times New Roman font, size 12
  • Footnotes: Times New Roman font, size 10
  • English abstract: Times New Roman font, size 12
  • Latin script words within text: Times New Roman font, size 11
  13. Latin equivalents of words shall be written in page footnotes. Titles and specific terminology that authors deem necessary for proper expression in their research shall have their Latin equivalents placed in footnotes. All words and terms in Latin script must be written in page footnotes, not within the main text.
  14. Submissions must not contain any form of author identification (name, title, email, telephone number, etc.). Information about the author(s) must be submitted on a separate page accompanying the research article, including: full name, title, academic rank, title of submitted research, email address, affiliation of author(s) (university, college, department, etc.), complete postal address and postal code if available, and telephone number.
  15. In-text citations of sources shall be formatted as follows: (Author's surname or third name, publication year: page/pages), such as (Gerdi 1995: 25). Citations from sources in languages other than Kurdish and Arabic shall follow the same format.
  16. Quranic verse references shall be cited as: (Chapter: Verse number) within parentheses, such as: (Al-Rahman: 20).
  17. If quoted text from a source exceeds three lines, it shall be separated from the author's text and indented one centimeter from both margins ( block quotation)
  18. References shall appear at the end of the article, arranged alphabetically by author's surname/third name, formatted according to American Psychological Association (APA) bibliography style, as follows:
  • Books: Surname/third name of author(s), First name (publication year in parentheses), Book title (italicized), Translator or editor name, Place of publication, Publisher name, Edition number.
  • Journal Articles: Surname/third name of author(s), First name (publication year in parentheses), Article title (italicized), Volume, Year, Issue number (following volume), Page numbers of article.
  • Edited Collections: Surname/third name of author(s), First name (publication year in parentheses), Collection title (italicized), Editor name, Place of publication: Publisher name, Page numbers of article.
  • Internet Sources: Surname/third name of author(s), First name (publication year in parentheses), (Date of article posting on website in parentheses), Article title (italicized), (Article link), Date accessed or retrieved.
  • References shall be organized by language in the following order: Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, English.
  19. Section headings throughout the research article (Introduction, Literature Review, Theoretical Framework, Analysis and Discussion, etc.) shall be numbered using Microsoft Word's automatic numbering feature, with all main and subordinate headings numbered according to sections, parts, and sub-parts as follows: 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-4-1, 1-4-2, 1-4-3, 1-4-4, etc.
  20. Punctuation marks, including periods, semicolons, colons, question marks, exclamation marks, etc., must be attached to the preceding word with one space separating them from the following word. Words within parentheses are placed without spaces, such as: (literature). Periods after parentheses are placed immediately after the closing parenthesis without spaces, such as: (Gerdi 1995: 25).
  21. All quoted text from any source, regardless of length, must be enclosed within double quotation marks formatted as: “........”. The source citation, consisting of (author's surname/third name, year, and page), must be placed immediately after these quotation marks within regular parentheses, such as: (.......), (Gerdi 1995: 25).
  22. Prior to peer review, submitted articles undergo preliminary evaluation by the editor-in-chief and managing editor. If the submission complies with these guidelines, it proceeds to peer review; otherwise, it is returned to the researcher for revision and resubmission within a brief period or rejected.
  23. A cover letter must be submitted on a separate page by the researcher, stating that the research is scholarly, contains no plagiarized content, and does not conflict with the interests of the Kurdish Academy and the Kurdistan Region.
  24. Following acceptance of any research article by expert reviewers, the researcher receives written notification of acceptance from the editorial board under the editor-in-chief's signature. Subsequently, the researcher must not submit the article to any other entity without written consent from the journal's editor-in-chief.
  25. The arrangement and ordering of topics and subjects relate to the journal's thematic classification system rather than the subject matter and significance of research articles or the academic rank of researchers.
  26. Research articles that do not receive approval for publication are not returned to their authors.
  27. In writing their research, researchers must consider both scientific research methodology and publication standards and ethics