Author Guidelines

The manuscripts

The corresponding author should also state that the manuscript is not concurrently being considered for publication elsewhere. The Editors will ignore submissions that do not follow these procedures.

Structure of the manuscripts

  1. Title. The title should be clear and informative and not more than 12 words.
  2. Author's names and institutions. The author's words 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 200 words. Abstract consist of aims, methods, and result. Please provide the abstract in both English and Indonesian versions. The keywords should be 3 to 5 words or phrases.
  4. Introduction. This section explains the background of the study, a review of the previous researches in the area, and the aims of the manuscripts. Importantly it should also show the significance and novelty of the study.
  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 decision (s) should be in the same order as the 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.

General Writing Format

  1.  The manuscript is prepared in an A4 paper, double-sided, and single-line spacing format. A new paragraph should start with five characters from the left margin, using 12-size, Cambria font type.
  2.  The manuscript is written in Indonesian or English.
  3.  The top and bottom margins are 1,5 and 0,8 cm.
  4.  The title is written using capital letters only at first word or memorable name (example: location name), 12 font size, center position.
  5.  Subtitles are written using UPPERCASE BOLD style, 11 font size, starting from the left margin.
  6.  If any, subtitles are written using capital letters only at first word or unique name. They should be started from the left margin.
  7.  If any, sub of the sub of subtitles 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.
  8.  References should be those of the last ten years' publication (>80%), except for critical connections (80%). Referring to any textbook should be minimized (<20%).