Submissions

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, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 11-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.
• References may come various sources: books, documents, theses, dissertations, newspaper, journal, and internet. It is advisable to use management applications, for example bibliography with Mendeley, Zetero, and Endnote with APA Style.
  (a) The bibliography has to be written alphabetically in one space and without number.
  (b) The bibliographies written in the bibliography list are the ones used as references and quoted in the article. In other word, the quotation in the article should be written in the bibliography, and vice versa.
  (c) Whereas multiple authors wrote the bibliography, the written author’s name is the last name, followed by first name and middle name (if they exist). Then, it is followed by publishing year, book title, Publishing location, and publisher name.
  (d) Whereas the bibliography was written by more than two authors, the first author’s name should be written according to point (c) followed by the second author. The second and so forth author’s name should be reversed as the first author.
  (e) The bibliography should not use et al. to replace the second author and so forth.