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Author Guidelines

  1. The manuscript submitted must be original and has never been published elsewhere.
  2. Manuscript must be written in Times New Roman, font size 12 points, 1 space, single column, and paper size A4. The length of the manuscript must be 5-12 pages and written using Microsoft Word. Use the AIJBE template for preparing your manuscript (DOWNLOAD).
  3. The manuscript must be in *.doc or *.rtf, and sent to the journal system via online submission by creating an account in this Open Journal System (OJS) [click REGISTER if you have not had any account yet, or click LOG IN if you have already had an account].
  4. Authors’ name (personal or team), listed with no academic degree with institution address, and placed under the title of the article. For a manuscript written by a team, the editor only communicates with the corresponding author. E-mail addresses and phone numbers of the corresponding author should be included for easy communication.
  5. Articles must be written in Bahasa Indonesia or English with the following requirements: Title, written briefly and effectively, font size 14 points, maximum 15 words, and capitalize each word except conjunction; Abstract, written in English and Bahasa Indonesia (maximum 200 words), containing the objectives, methods, research results; Keywords, words or terms that reflect the article content and informative (3-5 words), are written underneath the abstract; Introduction (without subtitles) containing backgrounds, literature reviews, and research objectives; Method should be accompanied by references, relevant modification should be explained; Results and Discussion, this part should be presented in the same part, clearly and briefly. The discussion part should contain the benefit of the research result, not repeat result part.; Conclusion, presented clearly; and Reference should use a minimum of 80% of primary referral sources (international journal) of the last 10 years of publications and written in APA VII style. Unpublished reference is not suggested to be cited. 
  6. All manuscripts are reviewed by two independent reviewers from our Editorial Advisory Board (double-blind peer review) appointed by the editor based on their research interest or field of expertise. The authors are given a chance to make improvements (revision) of the manuscript as suggested by the reviewer or editor. Acceptance or rejection of the manuscript will be notified by a letter.
  7. The list of references is arranged in the manner of the following examples and sorted alphabetically and chronologically. Manuscripts are written by using a reference manager. APA (American Psychological Association) 7th edition reference style is required.

 

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

The copyright holder is the journal. The author transfers the copyright and the associated rights along with it to the journal. This means the journal is now responsible for the article. The journal can elect to license back certain rights to the author.  

The author(s) by signing this form (click here to download) hereby assign worldwide copyright of the Work in all forms and media (whether now known, or hereafter developed), in all languages for the full term of copyright and all extensions and renewals thereof.

 

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