Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Preparing Manuscripts

Authors are requested to carefully follow the submission guidelines below. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's scope, ethical requirements, or formatting guidelines may be returned to the authors before peer review.

A. General Requirements

Manuscripts must be written in clear academic English.
Manuscripts should contain 3,000–5,000 words, excluding references, tables, and figures.
The title must be concise, informative, written in English, and contain a maximum of 25 words.
Each manuscript must include an English abstract of 150–200 words followed by 3–5 keywords.
Citations and references must follow APA 7th Edition. Authors are encouraged to use reference-management software such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote.
Manuscripts must be prepared in Microsoft Word (.docx) using the official Ceddi Journal of Education article template. Use A4 paper (21 × 29.7 cm), Times New Roman 10 pt, and single spacing for the main text. Set the margins to 3.76 cm at the top, 2.20 cm on the left, 3.00 cm at the bottom, and 2.11 cm on the right.
Manuscripts must be original, must not have been previously published, and must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal.
All submissions undergo similarity screening using Turnitin. Similarity reports are evaluated in context by the editorial team and are not used as the sole basis for determining plagiarism or making editorial decisions.
All listed authors must have made a substantive contribution to the work and must approve the submitted manuscript. Contributors who do not qualify for authorship may be acknowledged where appropriate.
All manuscripts must address a clearly defined educational problem and explain their contribution to teaching, learning, assessment, or educational management and services within the journal's Focus and Scope. Technology and information systems studies must evaluate their educational relevance using methods and indicators appropriate to their objectives. Evaluation may examine learning processes or outcomes, assessment quality, access to learning resources, educational service performance, implementation processes, or stakeholder experiences. Technical functionality, software usability, or algorithm performance alone is insufficient. Preliminary studies must clearly identify their exploratory purpose and limitations, distinguish user perceptions from demonstrated outcomes, and keep claims proportionate to the evidence. Conducting a study in a school or university does not, by itself, establish suitability for CJE.

B. Structure of the Manuscript

Title: Provide a concise and informative title of no more than 25 words. Avoid unnecessary abbreviations and formulas. Follow the template using Times New Roman 16 pt, bold, and centred.
Authors and Affiliations: Provide full author names, institutional affiliations, city, country, and the corresponding author's email address. Use Times New Roman 12 pt for author names and 8 pt for affiliations, as specified in the template. Authors are encouraged to provide this information in a separate title-page file and submit an anonymised manuscript. If identifying information remains in the submitted manuscript, the editorial team will prepare an anonymised copy before external review, as explained in Section E.
Abstract: Write 150–200 words in a single paragraph using Times New Roman 9 pt and single spacing. Summarise the research problem, objective, methodology, principal findings, conclusion, and contribution to learning, assessment, or educational practice and services, as applicable. Do not include citations, tables, figures, or undefined abbreviations.
Keywords: Provide 3–5 specific and relevant keywords or phrases in English immediately after the abstract. Arrange them alphabetically, separate them with semicolons, and use Times New Roman 8 pt.
Introduction: This is the first main section after the abstract and keywords. Establish the educational background and significance of the research problem. Summarise relevant literature and the theoretical or conceptual foundation, identify the research gap, and explain the novelty of the study. Conclude with the research objective, questions, or hypotheses where applicable, and the expected contribution to educational theory, policy, practice, or services within the journal's scope. Define specialised terms and abbreviations at first use. Avoid presenting detailed methods, results, or conclusions in this section.
Method: Describe the research design, setting, participants or data sources, sampling procedures, instruments, research procedures, and analysis methods, as applicable to the study. Explain instrument validity and reliability or other appropriate measures of methodological quality. For technology-related studies, describe the development or implementation procedures and explain how educational relevance or benefits were evaluated. For educational service studies, specify the service processes, stakeholder experiences, or outcomes examined and how they were assessed. Usability testing may support the evaluation but is insufficient on its own. Include sufficient detail to enable methodological appraisal and, where applicable, replication, while protecting participant confidentiality. Describe research ethics and consent procedures where applicable.
Results and Discussion: Present the findings clearly and interpret them in relation to the research objectives, relevant theories, and previous studies. Use the Results and Discussion subsections provided in the template. Explain the contribution to learning, assessment, or educational practice and services, as applicable, together with practical implications and limitations. Distinguish observed outcomes from user perceptions and proposed benefits. Tables and figures should support the analysis rather than duplicate the text.
Conclusions and Suggestions: Summarise the principal findings and educational contribution in relation to the research objectives. Provide relevant recommendations for educational practice, policy, services, or future research. Do not introduce new findings or make claims beyond the evidence presented.
Acknowledgements (if applicable): Acknowledge individuals or organisations that supported the research but do not qualify for authorship. Obtain permission from individuals before naming them.
Funding Statement: Identify the funding source and grant number where applicable. If there was no external funding, state: "This research received no external funding."
Author Contributions: Describe each author's actual contribution to the research and manuscript. All authors must ensure that the stated contributions accurately reflect their involvement.
Research Ethics and Informed Consent: For research involving human participants or identifiable personal data, report ethical approval or an applicable exemption, including the approving institution and approval number where available. Explain how informed consent was obtained where required. Research involving children must address parental or guardian consent and age-appropriate assent where applicable. If ethical approval or informed consent was not required, explain the reason rather than providing an unsupported statement of non-applicability.
Conflict of Interest: Declare any financial, professional, personal, or other competing interests that could influence the research or its interpretation. If none exist, state: "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
Data Availability Statement: Explain how readers may access the data, instruments, code, or other materials supporting the findings. Provide repository links or identifiers where available. State any ethical, legal, privacy, confidentiality, or proprietary restrictions. Do not promise access to materials that cannot legitimately be shared.
Declaration of Generative AI Use: State whether generative AI tools were used in preparing the manuscript. If used, identify the tool and explain its purpose, including assistance with language, organisation, or formatting. Generative AI must not be used to fabricate research data, participant responses, observations, analyses, findings, or references. Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Human authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and content of the manuscript. The use of generative AI as part of the research methodology, rather than solely for manuscript preparation, must also be described in the Method section with sufficient detail to support methodological appraisal. Any AI-generated materials or outputs used as research objects must be clearly identified and must not be misrepresented as observations or responses from human participants.
References: Follow APA 7th Edition. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference entry, and every reference entry must be cited in the text. References should primarily comprise relevant and recent primary scholarly sources, preferably from the last five years. Older authoritative or foundational sources may be included where appropriate. Include accurate DOI links where available.

Use the table, figure, caption, and equation formats provided in the official template. Table and figure captions should use Times New Roman 8 pt. Number tables, figures, and equations consecutively within their respective categories and refer to them in the text. Place equation numbers on the right, as shown in the template.

C. Article Types Accepted

Ceddi Journal of Education (CJE) publishes original research articles on educational innovation, technology-enhanced learning, educational assessment, and technology-supported educational management and services. Research on curriculum, teacher development, educational psychology, and educational management must directly relate to the areas defined in the journal's Focus and Scope.

Studies may address early childhood, primary, secondary, vocational, higher, and non-formal education, including community-based learning. Manuscripts must present original research findings supported by appropriate methods and analysis. Preliminary development and evaluation studies may be considered when they address a substantive educational problem, provide an evaluation appropriate to their objectives, and clearly state the limitations of their findings.

D. Review and Publication Process

All submissions undergo initial editorial screening for scope, originality, methodological quality, ethical requirements, and manuscript completeness. Similarity screening is conducted using Turnitin. Similarity reports are evaluated in context by the editorial team and are not used as the sole basis for determining plagiarism or making editorial decisions.

Manuscripts considered suitable proceed to double-blind peer review by at least two independent external reviewers with relevant expertise and no conflicts of interest. The editorial team checks the review files and removes or masks author-identifying information before sending them to reviewers. Author and reviewer identities are concealed from each other during the review process.

Editorial decisions may include Reject, Major Revision, Minor Revision, or Accept. Authors requested to revise their manuscript must submit a revised version and a point-by-point response to the editorial and reviewer comments. Revised manuscripts may undergo further peer review where necessary.

The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection based on the reviewers' reports, editorial evaluation, authors' responses, and compliance with the journal's policies. Where the Editor-in-Chief has a conflict of interest, the final decision is delegated to an appropriate editor without that conflict. Any other editor with a conflict of interest must not participate in handling or deciding the manuscript. Further details are provided in the journal's Peer Review Process.

The journal aims to complete the initial peer-review round within approximately 30 days after the manuscript is sent for review. For manuscripts accepted for publication, the journal targets approximately 23 weeks from submission to online publication. These timelines are editorial targets, not measured averages or guarantees. Actual processing times may vary depending on reviewer availability, manuscript complexity, the extent of revisions, authors' response time, and the editorial and production workflow.

Accepted manuscripts undergo copyediting and typesetting. Authors receive galley proofs for checking and must return corrections within the deadline specified by the editorial team. Submission does not guarantee acceptance or publication.

E. Submission Information

Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's online submission system using the latest official CJE article template. Registration and login are required to submit manuscripts and monitor their progress.

To facilitate double-blind peer review, authors are encouraged to submit a separate title page containing author identities and an anonymised manuscript. If author-identifying information remains in the submitted manuscript, the editorial team will prepare an anonymised review copy before sending it to reviewers. Author names, affiliations, identifying acknowledgements and declarations, and identifying document properties will be removed or masked in the review copy while retaining information necessary for methodological and ethical appraisal. Complete author information and declarations will be included in the final publication.

During online submission, the submitting author must confirm, on behalf of all authors, compliance with the Submission Preparation Checklist and agreement with the journal's guidelines and policies in effect at the time of submission.

Before submission, carefully proofread the manuscript, remove all instructional text and example placeholders from the template, and ensure that the information entered in the submission system matches the manuscript.

Authors must comply with the journal's Publication Ethics, Peer Review Process, Plagiarism Policy, Generative AI Policy, Open Access Policy, Copyright and License, and applicable Article Processing Charges policy published on the journal website.

For questions regarding manuscript preparation and submission, please contact:
Email: ceddicje@gmail.com or admin@ceddi.id.

View the Official CJE Article Template