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Author Guidelines

The manuscripts

The manuscript should be an original research paper, literature review, or position paper which sufficiently contributes novelty to the field of education, language, and religion studies. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using the IJELR online submission procedure. The corresponding author should also provide a statement that the manuscript is not concurrently being under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Editors will ignore submissions that do not follow these procedures.

 

Structure of the manuscripts (Research Article)

  1. Title.The title should be clear, informative, and concise.  
  2. Author's names and institutions.The author's names should be accompanied by the author's institutions and email addresses, without any academic title. For a joint paper, one of the authors should be notified as to the corresponding author.
  3. Abstract and keywords.The abstract should be less than 300 words. The abstract contains the clear elaboration of research purpose, method, and result. The keywords should be of 5 words or phrases.
  4. Introduction.This section explains the background of the study, a review of the previous researches in the area, and objectives of the manuscripts. Importantly it should also show the significance and novelty of the research.
  5. Methods.This section describes the appropriate tools of analysis along with the data and their sources.
  6. Results and Discussion.This section explains the results of the study. It should be presented clearly and concisely. Author(s) should explore the novelty or the contribution of the work to the science education literature.
  7. Conclusion.This section concludes and provides policy implications, if any, of the study. The conclusion(s) should be at the same order with ones discussed in the body of the manuscript.
  8. References. This section lists only the papers, books, or other types of publications referred to in the body of the manuscript.

 

Structure of the manuscripts (Literature Review/Position Paper)

  1. Title.The title should be clear, informative, and concise.  
  2. Author's names and institutions.The author's names should be accompanied by the author's institutions and email addresses, without any academic title. For a joint paper, one of the authors should be notified as to the corresponding author.
  3. Abstract and keywords.The abstract should be less than 300 words. The abstract contains the clear elaboration of research purpose, method, and result. The keywords should be of 5 words or phrases.
  4. Introduction.This section explains the background of the study, a review of the previous researches in the area, and objectives of the manuscripts. Importantly it should also show the significance and novelty of the research.
  5. Methods.This section describes the appropriate tools of analysis along with the data and their sources.
  6. Results and Discussion.This section explains main findings/arguments of the manuscript. It should be presented clearly and concisely. Author(s) should explore the novelty or the contribution of the work to the whole body of literature. Author(s) should also provide implication for practice and policy (if any).
  7. References.This section lists only the papers, books, or other types of publications referred to in the body of the manuscript.

 

General Writing Format

  1. The manuscript is prepared in an A4 paper, single-sided, and single line spacing format. A new paragraph should be in line with the left margin, using 12-size, Times New Roman font type.
  2. The manuscript is written in English.
  3. The manuscript should be between 6 to 15 pages long (4000-10000 words).
  4. The top and bottom margins are 2 and 1.5 cm. Left and right margins are 2 and 1.5 cm.
  5. The title is written by capitalizing each letter of every word, 20 font size, bold style, center position.
  6. Subtitles are written by capitalizing each letter of every word, 14 font size, bold style, starting from the left margin.
  7. Sub of subtitles, if any, are written capitalizing each letter of every word, 13 font size, bold style, starting from the left margin.
  8. Sub of the sub of subtitles, if any, are written using capital letters only at the beginning of each word except for connecting words, all in italics. They should be started from the left margin.
  9. References should be written following APA 7th edition and consist of those of the last ten years publication (>80%), except for key references (80%). Referring to any textbook should be maximized (<20%).

 

Specific Writing Format

  1. Equations and formulas should be numbered as (1), (2)...etc appearing to their right.
  2. Estimation results from a software package are not allowed to be directly presented in the paper. They should be presented in summary tables.

 

Tables and Figures

Tables and figures should be presented as follows:

  1. The name of tables and figures should follow a numbering system (Arabic numbering system). The title of the tables and figures are placed at the top and the bottom respectively.
  2. The tables and figures should provide the source of information, if any, at the bottom. 
  3. Any table should contain only heading and contents. The table contains row lines only without column lines. Note(s) and source(s) should be included underneath the table where appropriate. 

 

Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment, if any, should be written before references.


Citation

Citation in the text body should be written using the family name and years of publication. Example:

a. Hill (2001) suggests that the objective of depreciation is... 

b. Inflation targeting would be sufficient (McCain, 1982).

c. The definition of contagion is ... (Wagner, 1976; Rhonda 2009).

d. The Authors are recommended to use Mendeley Reference software.


References should appear as:

Book with one author: 

Author, A.A. (2015). Title of work. Location/City, State: Publisher.

Book with two authors: 

Author, A.A., & Author, B.B. (2015). Title of work. Location/City, State: Publisher.

Book with more than two authors:

Author, A.A., Author, B.B., & Author, C.C. (2015). Title of work. Location/City, State: Publisher.

Journal article:

Ramadani, M., Supahar, S., & Rosana, D. (2017). The validity of an evaluation instrument on the implementation of performance assessment to measure science process skills. Jurnal Inovasi Pendidikan IPA, 3(2), 180-188. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/jipi.v3i2.15534

Edited book:

Author, A.A. (Ed.). (2019). Title of work. Location/City, State: Publisher.

Unpublished doctoral dissertation or master’s thesis:

Author, A.A. (2019). Title of work. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University.

 

Manuscript Template

The manuscript should be prepared according to the MS Word template available online on the journal system. Click HERE to download the template.

 

How to send the manuscript

  1. The manuscript in Microsoft word should be sent to the editor by clicking the Online Submission tab on our Website.
  2. A brief bio that contains full name, academic title, institution, telephone, mobile number, and others should be written in the fields of data when registering online in the website submission.

 

Final Decision

Taking into account the results of the peer-reviewing process, the decision as to the acceptability of each manuscript for publication will be notified to the author(s) through the website system in the following alternative conclusions:

a. Accepted without revision, or

b. Accepted with minor revision, or

c. Accepted with major revision, or

d. Rejected.

 

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.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

 

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