Instruction to Author

Every manuscript submitted for publication in English Language Education Journal (ELEJ) will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin software. If the editors or peer reviewers detect plagiarism, the author/s will be informed and requested to rewrite the text or provide any necessary citations. The manuscript will not be eligible for review and publication if the Turnitin report results is more than 20% of the similarity index.

If you have any questions, please contact the editorial assistant at: jurnalelej@gmail.com

 

ELEJ Author Guidelines:

Authors must strictly follow the submission guidelines of the journal. To submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines provided, they will be REJECTED. Please submit your article through the online submission of this journal.

Article Structure in General:

All articles must be written in English, should have an abstract between 200 to 250 words in length, followed by three to five keywords related to your article. Submissions should be between 4000-8000 (including abstract, table(s), figure(s) and references) in A4 size paper with margins as the following: top 1.18”, bottom 0.98”, right 0.98” and left 1.58”.

Title: the title should summarize the main idea or ideas of your paper; the title is within 16 words maximum.

Author detail: include name of authors and their affiliation. Email is required for corresponding author only. To prevent misconduct in authorship, ELEJ allows a maximum of seven authors for one article.  

Abstract: concisely describe the content and scope of your paper and identify the objective(s), its methodology and its findings, conclusions, or intended results.

Keywords: The words should capture the essence of your paper. Include the most relevant keywords that will help other authors find your paper. These words must be presented in alphabetical order and separated by commas.

Introduction: state your work’s objectives and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. Explicitly state the literature gap, which signifies your research’s significance.

Kindly rephrase the statements. When restating content from an external source, ensure the author's ideas or viewpoints are conveyed faithfully using your own expressions. Even when rephrasing the author's content, proper attribution to the original work is necessary. If directly quoting the author, use quotation marks throughout the citation. Include the author's name and publication year, along with the relevant page number.

Method: provide sufficient detail to allow your work to be reproduced. This includes participants, location (if necessary), instrument(s), the technique of data collection, and the technique of data analysis. A reference should indicate methods already published; only relevant modifications should be described.

Results: present the results of your work. Use graphs and tables if appropriate, and summarize your main findings in the text. Do NOT discuss the results or speculate as to why something happened; that goes in the Discussion.

Discussion:  Emphasize the most notable outcomes while avoiding duplicating the content presented in the Results section. The objective of the discussion is to interpret and portray the importance of your findings considering the preexisting knowledge related to the studied research problem. Furthermore, elucidate any new understanding or insights that have arisen from your examination of the issue. It is frequently suitable to combine the Results and Discussion sections.

Conclusion: provide the final words on the value of your analysis, research, or article. Limitations of your study should be addressed. Recommendations for future research related to your topic should also be mentioned.

Acknowledgments (optional): give credit to funding bodies and departments that have been of help during the project, for instance, by supporting it financially.

References: follow the APA 7 style.

Guidelines for APA referencing (7th edition) can be found at: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html

All names/references mentioned in the text/article should be listed in the References section. Names not mentioned in the text/article should be removed from the References section.