Author Guidelines

FOOTNOTE CITATION STYLE GUIDE

General Rules

First Citation: Author(s)’ full name, full title of the work in italics, name of the editor/translator (if applicable), place of publication, publisher, year of publication, page number(s).
Subsequent Citations:

  • If only one work by the author is used: author’s last name and page number.
  • If multiple works by the same author: author’s last name, shortened title, page number.
  • If multiple authors with the same last name: include first initials for clarity.

BOOKS

Single Author

  • Halil İnalcık, Tanzimat and the Bulgarian Question, (Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Press, 1943), p. 98.
  • Halil İnalcık, State, Law, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire (Istanbul: Eren Publishing, 2000), p. 94.
  • İnalcık, Bulgarian Question, p. 39.
  • İnalcık, State, Law, and Justice, p. 65.

Two Authors

  • Ömer Lütfi Barkan and Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi, Istanbul Waqf Census Register of 1546 (Istanbul: Istanbul Conquest Society, 1973), pp. 520–26.
  • Barkan and Ayverdi, Waqf Census Register, p. 159.

Three or More Authors

  • Bekir Topaloğlu et al., The Principles of Belief in Islam (Istanbul: Marmara University Faculty of Theology Foundation, 1998), p. 25.
  • Topaloğlu et al., Principles of Belief, p. 36.

Ottoman Turkish Source

  • Nev‘îzâde Atâî, Hadâiku’l-Hakâik fî Tekmileti’ş-Şekâik, ed. Abdülkâdir Özcan (Istanbul: Çağrı Publishing, 1989), pp. 600–1.
  • Nev‘îzâde, Hadâiku’l-Hakâik, pp. 607–8.

Other Language Works

  • Daniel Jeremy Silver and Bernard Martin, A History of Judaism (New York: Basic Books, 1974), I, 39.
  • Baruch Spinoza, Ethic, trans. W. Hale White (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930), pp. 15–19.
  • Jeremy and Martin, History of Judaism, I, 39.
  • Spinoza, Ethic, pp. 25–31.

Arabic Works

  • Imām al-Haramayn al-Juwaynī, Al-Irshād ilā Qawāṭiʿ al-Adilla fī Uṣūl al-Iʿtiqād, ed. M. Yūsuf Mūsā and ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd (Cairo: Maktabat al-Ḥanajī, 1950), pp. 181–83.
  • Juwaynī, Al-Irshād, pp. 112–36.
  • Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Mafātiḥ al-Ghayb (Al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr), ed. M. Muḥyiddīn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd (Cairo, n.d., 1934–62), I, 45.
  • Rāzī, Mafātiḥ al-Ghayb, II, 35.

ARTICLES

First citation:

  • Ahmet Kavas, “Ottoman Sovereignty on the East African Coast: The Strategic Role of Zeyla Port in Northern Somalia (1265–1334/1849–1916),” Journal of Islamic Studies, V (2001), pp. 109–20.
  • Orhan Şaik Gökyay, “The Harname of Tokatlı Molla Lütfi,” Turkish Folklore Bulletin, I (1986), p. 155.

Subsequent citations:

  • Kavas, “Ottoman Sovereignty,” p. 125.
  • Gökyay, “Harname of Tokatlı,” p. 173.
  • Paul Mendes-Flohr, “Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig,” Journal of Jewish Studies, XXIII, 2 (1987), p. 204.
  • Mendes-Flohr, “Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig,” p. 210.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

  • Ömer Faruk Akün, “Âlî Mustafa Efendi,” in Turkish Religious Foundation Encyclopedia of Islam (TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi), II (1989), p. 416.
  • Akün, “Âlî Mustafa Efendi,” p. 417.

ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS

  • Prime Ministry Ottoman Archives (BOA), İrade Mesâil-i Mühimme (İ. Mes. Müh), 2079.
  • BOA, İ. Mes. Müh., 2079.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

  • Sedat Şensoy, “The Problem of Meaning in ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī” (PhD diss., Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, 2001), p. 122.

ONLINE RESOURCES

  • Alane D. Oestreicher, “Worldwide Traditions of a Primordial Paradise,” no. 192, Vital Articles on Science/Creation; (Accessed March 27, 2003).

BIBLIOGRAPHY STYLE GUIDE

All authors submitting to Journal of Ottoman Studies must include a complete bibliography at the end of their manuscript, following the format examples below:

Books

Akarlı, Engin D. Tanzimat with Documents: Political Testaments of Ottoman Grand Viziers Ali and Fuad Pashas.Istanbul: Boğaziçi University Press, 1978.
Berkes, Niyazi. The Development of Secularism in Turkey. Edited by Ahmet Kuyaş. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publishing, 2002.

Edited Volumes

Sharif, M., ed. History of Islamic Philosophy. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1966.

Articles

Artuk, İbrahim. “Succession to the Ottoman Throne and Related Coins.” Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Journal of History, 32 (1979), pp. 255–80.

Book Chapters

Beydilli, Kemal. “Selim III: An Enlightened Monarch.” In From Nizam-ı Kadim to Nizam-ı Cedid: Selim III and His Era, edited by Seyfi Kenan, pp. 27–59. Istanbul: ISAM Publications, 2010.

Translations

Crone, Patricia. Political Thought in Medieval Islam. Translated by Hakan Köni. Istanbul: Kapı Publishing, 2007.
Oestreich, Gerhard. Neostoicism and the Early Modern State. Translated by David McLintock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Theses

Öğreten, Ahmet. Reform Proposals on Nizâm-ı Cedîd, (Unpublished MA Thesis) Istanbul: Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, 1989.

Encyclopedia Entries

Özen, Şükrü. “Caliphate.” Encyclopedia of Islam (TDV), XVII (Ankara 2004), pp. 527–38.

Online Sources

Oestreicher, Alane D. “Worldwide Traditions of a Primordial Paradise,” no. 192, Vital Articles on Science/Creation. (Accessed March 27, 2003).

Archival Documents

BOA, Bâbıâli Evrak Odası (BEO), 3200–239969; 4162–312084; 4314–323498.
BOA, Bâb-ı Asafî Amedî Defteri (A. AMD), 26/61.
BOA, Ministry of the Interior, Public Security Division, Supplies Office (DH.EUM.LVZ.), 16A–34.
TSMA, Ârifi, Süleymannâme, Treasury Collection, 1517.