Author Guidelines

Educational Praxis Journal (EPJ) is an interdisciplinary publication of original research and writing on education which publishes papers to international audiences of educational researchers. aims at becoming the publication center of education researches in instruction, learning and teaching, curriculum development, learning environment, teacher education, educational technology, and educational development.

All papers submitted to the journal should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The official language of the manuscript to be published in EPJ is English. 

1. General Author Guidelines 

All manuscripts must be submitted to EPJ Editorial Office using Online Submission at E-Journal portal address:

https://lonsuit.unismuhluwuk.ac.id/EPJ/about/submissions, where author register as Author by online. If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email: editorepj@gmail.com

2. Manuscript Template

Manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template: download the template of the EPJ

3. Reviewing of manuscripts

Every submitted paper is independently reviewed by at least two peer-reviewers. The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendation and made by Editor. If two or more reviewers consider a manuscript unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors within three months of the submission date. 

4. Revision of manuscripts

Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised manuscripts can be sent to editorial office through the Online Submission Interface (https://lonsuit.unismuhluwuk.ac.id/EPJ/index). The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions. 

5. Guideline for Online Submission

Author should first register as Author and is offered as Reviewer through the following address:

https://lonsuit.unismuhluwuk.ac.id/EPJ/about/submissions

The author should fulfill the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, Author clicks on “Register” button to proceed the registration. Therefore, Author is brought to online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start a New Submission section, click on “’Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in online submission process:

1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Article, or Short Communication. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists. An author should type or copy-paste Covering Letter in Letter to Editor.
2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file (.doc/.docx) to be submitted, then click "Upload" button until the file has been uploaded. Do not upload cover letter and other supplementary files here.
3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including marked corresponding author. After that, manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.
4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the files, and then click on Upload button.
5. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission:  Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to EPJ, click Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site. 

After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes a status of manuscript review and editorial process. 

6. User Rights

All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. 

7. Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

7.1. General Organization of Paper

The paper will be published in JP2 after the peer-reviewed process and decided as “Accepted” by Editor. The final paper layout will be reproduced by Editorial Office of EPJ. The final paper layout in PDF type, known as “Uncorrected Proof” should be corrected by Author. The final corrected proof will be published first in “Article In Press” pre-issue.

According to Engelmore and Morgan [1], manuscript content should, in general, be organized in the following order: Title; Authors Name; Authors Affiliation; Authors Email;  Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; Methods; Results and Discussion; Conclusions and Suggestions; Acknowledgments; and References. 

7.2. Section Headings

Three levels of heading are allowed as follows:

• Level 1 (Heading1 format) - 16pt, Cambria bold, Title Case, left justified
• Level 2 (Heading2 format) - 16pt, Cambria bold, left justified
• Level 3 (Heading3 format) - 16pt, Cambria bold italic, left justified 

7.3. Body Text

The body of the text is a set of body text paragraphs defined as follows:

• 10pt Cambria
• One space
• Spacing after the heading is 1
• Spacing before the new heading is 1
• Indentation for the first line is 1 cm 

7.4. Bullets

Bullet and numbering within body text are not allowed. All sentences should be typed as descriptive paragraph. 

7.5. Tables

Tables are sequentially numbered with the table title and number above the table. Tables should be centered in the column OR on the page. Tables should be followed by a line space. Elements of a table should be single-spaced. However, double spacing can be used to show groupings of data or to separate parts within the table.  Table headings should be in 10pt not bold. Tables are referred in the text by the table number, e.g., Table 1. Do not show the vertical line in the table. There is only horizontal line should be shown in the table, as well as table heading. 

7.6. Figures

Figures are sequentially numbered commencing at 1 with the figure title and number below the figure as shown in Figure 1. 

7.7. Equations

The equation should be prepared using MS Equation Editor (not in image format). The equation number is to be placed at the extreme right side.  

7.8. Units, Abbreviations, and Symbols

Metric units are preferred and should be consistent throughout body text. Define abbreviations and symbols at the first time as they are introduced in the text. 

7.9. Manuscript Heading, Font, and Spacing

The manuscript should be typed using word processors (Microsoft Word or Open Office) software. The font used throughout the paper is Cambria. The paper size is A4 (i.e., 210 x 297 mm), one-column format with a 2.5 cm margin at the top, a 2.5 cm margin at the bottom, 3.0 cm margin on the left, and 3.0 cm margin on the right. Lines are one spaced, justified. Page numbers should be included in the text located in the footer section of each page. Use of pronouns such as I, we, etc. is to be avoided.

Manuscript submitted to this journal should follow the heading below, except for the review article: Title; Authors Name; Authors Affiliation; Authors  email; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; Methods; Results and Discussion; Conclusions and Suggestions; Acknowledgments; and References.  

7.10. Paper Title

This is your opportunity to attract the reader’s attention. Remember that readers are the potential authors who will cite your article. Identify the main issue of the paper. Begin with the subject of the paper. The title should be accurate, unambiguous, specific, and complete. Do not contain infrequently-used abbreviations.

The title of the paper should be in 16pt bold Cambria, capitalized, and be centered. The title should have 0 pts space above and below.  

7.11. Authors Name, Affiliations, and Email

Write Author(s) names without a title and professional positions such as Prof, Dr, Production Manager, etc. Do not abbreviate your last/family name. Always give your First and Last names. Write clear affiliation of all Authors. Affiliation includes a name of department/unit, (faculty), a name of university, address, country. Please indicate Corresponding Author (include email address) by adding number in superscript behind the name.

Author names should be in 12pt Cambria. Author addresses are superscripted by numerals and centered over both columns of manuscripts. Author affiliations should be in 12pt Cambria. The body of the text should commence two lines (24 points) below the last address.

Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. 

7.12. Abstract and Keywords

An abstract should stand alone, means that no citation in the abstract. Consider it the advertisement of your article. The abstract should tell the prospective reader what you did and highlight the key findings. Avoid using technical jargon and uncommon abbreviations. You must be accurate, brief, clear and specific. Use words which reflect the precise meaning. The abstract should be precise and honest. Please follow word limitations (200?250 words).

Keywords are the labels of your manuscript and critical to correct indexing and searching. Therefore the keywords should represent the content and highlight of your article. Use only those abbreviations that are firmly established in the field. e.g. DNA. Each word/phrase in keyword should be separated by a comma (,), not a semicolon (;). 

7.13. INTRODUCTION

The purpose of the Introduction is to stimulate the reader’s interest and to provide pertinent background information necessary to understand the rest of the paper. You must summarize the problem to be addressed, give background on the subject, discuss previous research on the topic, and explain exactly what the paper will address, why, and how. Avoid your introduction as a mini review. There is a huge amount of literature out there, but as a scientist you should be able to pick out the things that are most relevant to your work and explain why. This shows an editor/reviewer/ reader that you really understand your area of research and that you can get straight to the most important issues.

Introduction must be very concise, well structured, and inclusive of all the information needed to follow the development of findings. Do not over-burden the reader by making the introduction too long. Get to the key parts other paper sooner rather than later.

7.14. METHODS

In the section, please explain clearly how to conduct your research in order to: (1) enable readers to evaluate the work performed and (2) permit others to replicate the research. The author must describe exactly what he/she did: what and how experiments were run, what, how much, how often, where, when, and why equipment and materials were used. The main consideration is to ensure that enough detail is provided to verify the findings and to enable the replication of the research

7.15. FINDING AND DISCUSSION

The purpose of the Results and Discussion is to state the findings and make a interpretations and/or opinions, explain the implications, and also make suggestions for future research. Its main function is to answer the questions posed in the Introduction, explain how the results support the answers and, how the answers fit in with existing knowledge on the topic. The Discussion is considered the heart of the paper and usually requires several writing attempts.

To make it clear, the discussion should be kept as short as possible while clearly and fully stating, supporting, explaining, and defending the answers and discussing other important and directly relevant issues. Be careful to provides commentary and please do not make a repetition of the results. Side issues should not be included, as these tend to obscure the message.

Graph and tables are the most effective way to present results. Captions should be able to stand alone, such that the figures and tables are understandable without the need to read the entire manuscript. In addition, data represented should be easy to interpret. Please look at the examples bellow.

7.15. CONCLUSIONS

The conclusion is intended to help the reader understand why the research should matter to them after they have finished reading the paper. A conclusion is not merely a summary of the main topics covered or a re-statement of the research problem, but a synthesis of key points. It is important that the conclusion does not leave the question unanswered.

7.16. REFERENCES

It is recommended to use reference application such as, Mendeley Application, Zotero, EndNote. Please set APA 6^th Edition, Cambria 11 pt with single space. Make sure that only cited references are listed. Make sure to put cited reference in the reference list.  References should be the most recent and pertinent literature available (about 5-10 years ago).

All publications cited in the text should be included as a list of references. References are sequentially numbered as they appear in the text. Reference numbers are indicated in square brackets. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either “Unpublished results” or “Personal communication”. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, a reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

Please ensure that the words 'this issue' are added to any references in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.

This journal has to follow standard templates available in key reference management packages EndNote (http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp), Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com), or Reference Manager (http://refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp). Using plug-ins to word processing packages, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article and the list of references and citations to these will be formatted according to the journal style, which is described below.

8. REFERENCES