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Author Guidelines

Carefully read the submission guidelines as follows:

A.    General Requirements

The minimum standard requirements of the Early Childhood Research Journal (ECRJ) must be:

1. Written in English.
2. The length of the submitted paper is at least 4000 - 8000 words.
3. The article must include abstract in English (100-200 words) and be following by the keywords (3-5 words).
4. Use of a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting. The citation must be in the form of in-text and bibliography are based on APA 6th Edition (American Psychological Association)
5. Make sure that your paper is prepared using the ECRJ paper template.
6. Pictures, graphs, and tables are presented with the following conditions: 

   - The size of pictures, graphs and tables according to paper size
   - Image and graphic titles are written in the bottom center and are numbered sequentially
   - The table title is in the top center and is numbered sequentially, the table format is mandatory according to the template

7. Author(s) are required to attach the manuscript's similarity test with Turnitin (in PDF form) which are uploaded in the "Supplementary File". The percentage of similarity shall be no more than 25%.

B.    Structure of The Manuscript

The manuscript must be prepared and suggested present follow the structure:

1. Title. The title of the paper should describe research aims, method/model, and objective, without Acronym or abbreviation.
2. Abstract. The Abstract has 100 to 200 WORDS; No citation; State in the abstract a primary objective, research design, methodology, main outcomes, and results, and the conclusions.
3. Section structure. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the section structure: Introduction - Method - Results and Discussion – Conclusion
4. References. Expect a minimum of 30 references primarily with a minimum of 85% from reputable journal papers.
5. The manuscript should be checked and edited by an English Language Editor (Proofreader).
6. Please contact info [email protected] for the problems.

 

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.

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Authors who publish with Early Childhood Research Journal (ECRJ) agree to the following terms:

1. Author(s) retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License that allow others to share the work within an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication of this journal.
2. Author(s) are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangement for the non-exclusive distribution of the Profesi Pendidikan Dasar’s published version of the work (e.g. acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal).
3. Author(s) are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their websites) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published works.

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