Guidelines for Paper Writting

General Principles
• Papers shouldn’t be published/ introduced anywhere.
• Papers must be submitted in the format of MS Office Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003. The extension for the Word file must be docx. Presentations, which are submitted in power point format, will not be placed in the book of abstracts.
• As the reports will be printed with offset technique as the edited version by the writer, the following aspects must be fulfilled. Proofreading service will not be given.

1. The length of the reports
     The paper including text, tables, figures, graphics and photographs shouldn’t exceed 6 pages. The reported that exceed this limit will not be placed in the book of abstracts.

2. Submission of Papers
     Papers should be submitted by using the paper submission link on the website within the specified time. If the size of images contained in the paper is high, they can be post to mail address in a CD.

3. Norms and Uses
     Text, tables, figures, graphics, photographs should be in A4 format (21x29.7). It shouldn’t exceed the standard paper size. The margins should be 2 cm from right (internal), left (outside) top and bottom of the page.

a) Text and Tables Line spacing should be “single” both in text and abstract. Text, tables and figures must remain within 16x24 cm area. Use “Times New Roman” and 10 pt. font size for the lower case and 12pt, upper case and bold for the titles.

b) Figures, graphics and photos Figures, graphics and photos must be clear and bright. They should have a resolution of 300 dpi. All figures and photographs should remain in the specified margins.

c) Equations It is recommended that the equations be calculated on the computer. Equation numbers must be put into parentheses and written in the spaces on the right side of the text

d) Page numbers Page numbers shouldn’t be given.

4. Paper sections
a) Title The title must be written in 12pt, bold and upper case.
c) The author's name and last name The author's name and the last name must be written in small letters below the title without specifying academic title. The institution/organization/company that the author works must be written under the name and the surname. If there are co-authors, their name should be written in a similar way one under the other.
d) Abstract Abstract must be written in Italics with minimum spacing at the beginning of the paper after the author/s’ name. It shouldn’t exceed 100 words.
e) Section Titles Section titles should be written above the section in uppercase, bold and 10 pt.

5. References
     References should be indicated by consecutive numbers in square brackets (eg [1]). Full references should be cited in this numbered list at the end of the paper. The order of references should be as following:

Writer’s surname and the capital letter of his or her name (both capital letters if there are two names), full title of the paper, the name of the source (with international abbreviations if possible), volume number, page numbers, year and if there are more than one writer, all should be included.

Journal sample:
Çakır Ş. And Korukoğlu S., “Daily Rainfall Simulation and Its Application in Turkey”, Tr. J. Of Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Vol.21, pp.315-324, April 1997

Book sample:
White F.M., “Fluid Mechanics” pp 719-722, McGraw-Hill, Newyork, 1991

6. Institutions supporting the study
     If the study is conducted by the support of an institution, the name of the institution should be written within a 16x24 cm’s space and should be written as a footnote at the end of the first page by separating it with a 16 cm’s long horizontal line.


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