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Author Guidelines
GUIDELINES FOR AUTHOR
- The manuscript submitted must be original and has never been published elsewhere.
- Manuscript is written in Bahasa Indonesia or English using Microsoft Word
- The Body of manuscript should be written in paper size A4, 1 space, double column, font type Times New Roman, font size 12pt, and margin 2 cm.
- Use JMSE template for preparing your manuscript (download)
- The manuscript must be in *.doc or *.rtf, and sent to the journal system via online submission by creating account in this Open Journal System (OJS)
GENERAL GUIDELINES
- Article for Journal of Mathematics and Science Education covers all research in the field of Mathematics and Science Education. Manuscript must be written in Times New Roman, font size 12 points, single space, double column, and A4 paper size. Length of manuscript must be 5-12 pages and written using Microsoft Word in *.doc or *.rft format.
- Authors’ name (personal or team) and institution address should be placed under the title of the article. Authors’ name should be listed without academic degree. For manuscript written by a team, the editor only communicate with the corresponding author. E-mail addresses and phone numbers of corresponding author should be included for easy communication.
- Articles must be written in Bahasa Indonesia or English with the following requirement: Title, written briefly and effectively, font size 14 points, maximum 12 words for Indonesian language articles; 10 words for English article, and capitalize each word except conjunction; Abstract, written in English and Bahasa Indonesia (maximum 200 words), containing the objectives, methods, and research results; Keywords, informative words or terms that reflect the article content (3-5 words), are written underneath the abstract with one-line spacing and bold-tilted; Introduction (without subtitles), containing backgrounds, literature reviews, and research objectives; Methods, accompanied by references, relevant modification should be explained; Results and Discussion, presented in one section, clearly and briefly, discussion should contain the benefit and explaination of the result, not repeating the result; Conclusion, presented clearly; and Reference, should use minimum 80% of primary referral sources (international journal) of the last 10 years of publications and written in APA IV style. Unpublished reference is not suggested to be cited.
- Referrals and quotations should be written using confined referral techniques (last name, year), eg: (Miller, 1993). The direct quotation is accompanied by a description of the page number from which the quotation originates, for example: (Miller 1993: 47) and typed one spacing jutted right 5 taps, left and right flat.
- Tables and pictures presented follow the certain Scientific Writing Guidelines (eg, Lampung University, 2008) or directly modeled on the manner in which the articles have been published. The Indonesian article uses the Enhanced General Guidelines (Depdikbud, 1987). Articles in English use a variety of standards.
- All manuscripts are reviewed by anonymous reviewers 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 reviewer or editor. Acceptance or rejection of the manuscript will be notified by an e-mail.
- Journal of Mathematics and Science Education does not require authors to pay an Article Processing and Submission Charges. However, authors who want to order a printed version of the article should pay the printing fee of 150.000 IDR (one hundred and fifty thousand rupiahs). In return, the author receives a copy of the article.
- The list of references is arranged in the manner of the following examples and sorted alphabetically and chronologically.
Book:
Beverley, B. 1993. Children’s Science, Constructivism and Learning in Science (Second Edition). Victoria: Deakin University Press.
Saukah, A. & Waseno, M.G. (Eds.). 2002. Menulis Artikel untuk Jurnal Ilmiah (Edisi ke-4, cetakan ke-1). Malang: UM Press.
Article in the Book:
Kozma, R.B. & Russell, J. 2007. Students becoming chemists: Developing representational competence. Dalam J. Gilbert (Eds.), Visualization in science education. Netherlands: Springer.
Article:
Miller, S. 1993. Children’s Alternative Frameworks: Should be Directly Addresses in Science Instruction? Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 30 (3): 233-248.
Official Document:
Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. 1978. Pedoman Penulisan Laporan Penelitian. Jakarta: Depdikbud.
Undang-undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 2 tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional. 1990. Jakarta: PT Armas Duta Jaya.
Thesis, Dissertation, Research Reports:
Tarmini, W. 2008. Kata Tanya dalam Konstruksi Interogatif Bahasa Indonesia: Kajian Sintaktis dan Semantis. Disertasi tidak diterbitkan. Bandung: PPS Unpad.
Proceeding:
Rahman, B. 2010. Manajemen Mutu Akademik Lembaga Pendidikan Tenaga Kependidikan untuk Meningkatkan Produktivitas Kelembagaan. Makalah disajikan dalam Seminar Nasional Revitalisasi LPTK untuk Menghasilkan Guru Profesional, Universitas Lampung, Bandar Lampung, 9 Juni.
Internet:
Cole, P. 2005. How Irregular is WH in Situ in Indonesian. (Online), (http://www.ling.udel.edu/pcole/How_Irregular html), diakses 18 Mei 2005.
Articles submitted to Journal of Mathematics and Science Education will be reviewed by two independent reviewers from our Editorial Advisory Board (double-blind peer review) according to research interest and scientific field of reviewers. Article evaluation process will be taken approximately three months and the acceptance or rejection decision will be delivered to authors via email. The articles must not be published elsewhere.
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.
- 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).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- If available, URLs for the references should be provided.
- 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.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- 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:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- 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 acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- 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 (See The Effect of Open Access).
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Author Fees
This journal charges the following author fees.
Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.
Manuscript Processing Fee: 300000.00 (IDR)
If your manuscript is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay a Manuscript Processing Fee to cover publications costs.