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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.
  • Settings Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • he 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.

Author Guidelines

These guidelines set out what Jurnal Pendidikan Karakter (JPKA) expects of a manuscript. Please read them before you begin writing, and check your manuscript against the checklist at the end before you submit. A manuscript that does not follow these guidelines is returned to the author at the initial screening stage, which delays the review by several weeks.

1 · Before You Start

◉ Check the scope
The manuscript must engage with character, character education, or character formation. See the Focus and Scope.
 ☰ Choose the type
An Original Research Article or a Systematic Literature Review. Each has its own structure: see Types of Manuscript.
⬇ Download the template
Write in the official template from the start. Rewriting a finished manuscript into it later is far more work. See Manuscript Template.
 ⚖ Read the ethics policies
Authorship, conflicts of interest, generative AI, and plagiarism are covered by policies that apply to every submission. See Publication Ethics.

2 · General Requirements

Originality The manuscript must be the authors' own original work, not published elsewhere and not under review at another journal.
Language English, in British spelling used consistently throughout: organise, recognise, analyse, colour, behaviour, centre, programme. Authors whose first language is not English are encouraged to have the manuscript edited before submission.
Length 5,000–8,000 words, including the abstract and references, and excluding tables, figures, and the end-matter statements.
File format Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), prepared in the journal's template. Do not submit a PDF.
Styles Keep the built-in styles of the template: Heading 1, 2, and 3 for headings, Normal for body text. Do not change fonts, margins, or spacing by hand. Headings are not numbered, and no more than three levels are used.
Referencing APA 7th edition throughout, managed with Mendeley or Zotero.

3 · Structure of the Manuscript

Title, authors, abstract

  • Title. Concise, specific, and informative, ideally no more than 20 words, in sentence case — capitalise only the first word, the first word after a colon, and proper nouns. Avoid abbreviations, question-only titles, and openings such as "A study of".
  • Authors. Full names without academic titles, in the agreed order, each linked to an affiliation by a superscript letter. Give the university and country only. Mark the corresponding author with an asterisk, and provide an institutional email address for every author.
  • Biographies. 50–100 words for each author: current position, university and country, research interests, and relevant recent publications.
  • Abstract. 200–250 words in a single paragraph, with no citations, footnotes, tables, or undefined abbreviations. Cover four moves in order: purpose and why the study matters; design and method, including participants or sources; the main findings; and the originality and value of the contribution. Write what was done and found in the past tense, and the implications in the present.
  • Keywords. Three to five keywords or short phrases, separated by semicolons and arranged alphabetically. Choose terms readers would search for, and avoid words already in the title.

Body of the article

Introduction Background, a concise review of the relevant literature, the research gap and why it matters, and the research questions or hypotheses, ending with the objective of the study. It must include a Level 2 subheading, Theoretical framework, setting out the theories or concepts that underpin the study and that will be used again in the Discussion.
Method Research design and approach, setting, participants or data sources, sampling, instruments, data collection, and analysis, in enough detail for a reader to judge the appropriateness of the method and the reliability, validity, or trustworthiness of the findings. State how ethical considerations were addressed.
Results and Discussion Divided into two Level 2 subheadings. Results presents the findings objectively, organised by research question or theme and supported by adequate data. Discussion interprets them in relation to the theoretical framework and prior studies, explains why they confirm, extend, or contradict existing evidence, and states the novelty and the implications.
Conclusion A synthesis that answers the research questions, not a repetition of the results. State the theoretical and practical implications, acknowledge the limitations, and suggest directions for future research. Do not introduce new data or new citations.

End matter

Every manuscript closes with these statements, in this order. Where one does not apply, write "None" or "Not applicable" rather than deleting it.

Acknowledgements  ·  Disclosure Statement  ·  Funding  ·  Data Availability Statement  ·  Ethics Approval and Informed Consent  ·  Author Contributions  ·  Declaration of Generative AI Use  ·  ORCID  ·  Supplemental Material  ·  Notes  ·  References

4 · Tables and Figures

  • Number tables and figures consecutively in the order they are first cited in the text, and place each one after its first citation.
  • Put the number on its own line in bold (Table 1.) and the title on the next line in italic Title Case, both above the table or figure. Put the source or note below, in italic.
  • Tables must be editable Word tables, not images: 11pt content, horizontal rules only, no vertical lines, no shading.
  • Figures are inserted "in line with text", centred, at a resolution of at least 300 dpi, with all text inside them legible (at least 8pt) and in English. They must be readable in greyscale, so do not rely on colour alone, and they carry no decorative borders or 3D effects.
  • Obtain written permission for any table, figure, or photograph reproduced from another source, and obtain consent for photographs in which people can be identified.
  • Do not present the same data in both a table and a figure.

5 · References

  • Every source cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and every item in the list must be cited in the text.
  • Use APA 7th edition, arranged alphabetically by the first author's surname, with a hanging indent.
  • Include more than 25 references, at least 80% of them primary sources — peer-reviewed journal articles — published in the last ten years. The remainder may be books, theses, research reports, or other relevant publications.
  • Include a DOI wherever one is available.
Examples
Journal article. Kusumaningrum, D. (2016). Interdependence versus truth and justice: Lessons from reconciliation processes in Maluku. Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 20(1), 34–49. https://doi.org/10.22146/jsp.17998  → in text: (Kusumaningrum, 2016)
Book. Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined communities. Verso.  → in text: (Anderson, 1983)
Chapter in an edited book. Hermann, M. G. (2008). Content analysis. In A. Klotz & D. Prakash (Eds.), Qualitative methods in international relations (pp. 151–167). Palgrave Macmillan.  → in text: (Hermann, 2008)

6 · How to Submit

  1. Register on the journal website, or log in if you already have an account.
  2. Start a new submission and complete the metadata: title, abstract, keywords, and the full details of every author, in the same order as in the manuscript, each with an ORCID iD.
  3. Upload the anonymised manuscript as the Article Text.
  4. Upload the version with author details as a Supplementary File. This serves as the title page.
  5. Upload any supplementary material, such as interview protocols, questionnaires, or additional tables.
  6. Confirm the submission. You will receive an automatic acknowledgement and a submission ID.
⚑ Anonymity. The journal uses double-anonymous peer review, so the file uploaded as the Article Text must carry no author names, affiliations, emails, ORCID iDs, acknowledgements, or funding details, no self-identifying citations, and no identifying information in the file properties. The full checklist is on the Manuscript Template page.

7 · What Happens Next

The manuscript is screened by the editors within 14 days, then sent to at least two independent reviewers. The whole process, from submission to the final decision, takes no more than six months, and the first decision is normally given within about nine weeks. The stages and their deadlines are set out on the Peer Review Process page. Authors who are asked to revise should return the revised manuscript, with changes tracked or highlighted, together with a point-by-point response to the reviewers.

✔ Submission Checklist

  • The manuscript is within the journal's scope and is an Original Research Article or a Systematic Literature Review.
  • It is original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
  • It is written in the journal's template, with the built-in styles kept and the blue guidance boxes deleted.
  • It is 5,000–8,000 words, in British English.
  • The abstract is 200–250 words, with three to five keywords.
  • The Introduction contains a Theoretical framework subheading.
  • Tables and figures are numbered, captioned, cited in the text, and formatted as required.
  • References follow APA 7th edition, with more than 25 entries, at least 80% primary sources from the last ten years, and DOIs where available.
  • All end-matter statements are completed.
  • The anonymised file carries no identifying information, including in its file properties.
  • Both files — the anonymised manuscript and the version with author details — are ready to upload.
✉ Questions? Write to the editorial office at jpk@uny.ac.id before submitting if anything in these guidelines is unclear.

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    1. Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. The work is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-SA 4.0), which allows others to share and adapt the work, including for commercial purposes, provided the author and the original publication in this journal are credited and any derivative work is distributed under the same licence.
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    4. Authors confirm that the manuscript is their own original work, that it has not been published elsewhere and is not under review at another journal, and that they have obtained written permission for any third-party material reproduced in it.
    5. The responsibility for the content of the article rests with the authors.

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