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Author Guidelines
The General Guidelines
The manuscript submitted is a result of research or study on vocational education, which has not been published elsewhere and is not being sent to other journals.
The length of the manuscript is approximately 5.000 words (or 10-15 pages using the manuscript template) including title, author(s)’ identity, abstract, tables, figures, references, and acknowledgement
The manuscript should be written in A-4 paper size; single space, font: Time New Roman (TNR) 11; written in 2 columns except the abstract (single column); Title TNR 14; To make it easier please download this
Any images, graphs, and tables are presented in the following arrangement:
Image photographs must be sharp enough to be printed on glossy paper.
Image, graph, and table size should meet the journal page set up.
Images and graphs are adjustable to be printed on white paper and black ink.
All of these should be numbered and referred to the text.
The citation and references are referred to American Psychological Association (APA) style. The author is strongly recommended to use Reference Manager applications (Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, RefWorks, etc) to facilitate referencing
The manuscript should be written in English, saved in the form of .doc, .docx, or .rtf and submitted through the Online Journal System (OJS) following this
Manuscript accepted for publication will be charged Rp1.500.000,00,- for article-processing cost (APC). The *.pdf of each article will be published as soon as the author(s) pay the APC. The author(s) will be given two copies of a fully printed journal from the editorial board.
The Guidelines for Constructing Article
Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order:
Title The title of the manuscript should be clear and representative (reflecting the content of the whole manuscript, the employed method, or the raised issue understudy). Besides, the title has to contain the keywords, protect the privacy and security of the research’s subjects, and written in a capital letter (TNR-14).
Author identities Authors' identities (under the title) on the manuscript articles should be omitted, and replaced by the following item:
Anonymous (Author's identity is omitted due to the review process)
Note: Please fill in Author(s)’ identity(es) completely in the submission form. All Author(s)' names and identity(es) must be completely embedded in the form filled in by the corresponding author: email; affiliation; and each author's short biography (in the column of 'Bio Statement'). Authors' biography is written in the form of narration, including author's full name, place, and date of birth, educational qualification/information started from bachelor degree (S1) until the latest educational degree, the affiliation in which the author is currently working, phone number, and email address.
Abstract An abstract of maximum of 250 words is required for any submitted manuscript. It is written narratively containing at least the aim(s), method, and the result(s) of the research.
Keywords Each manuscript should have 3 to 6 keywords written under the abstract. The keywords should help the audience search the relevant literature to their interest.
Heading The heading levels of the manuscript must be arranged as follows: (1) HEADING ONE (Uppercase, Bold); (2) Heading Two (Capitalize Each Word, Bold; (3) Heading Three (Capitalize Each Word, Bold, Italic)
Main text
Introduction The introduction should perform the relationship among the research background, rationale, justification of the research urgency, the emergence of research problems, alternative solutions, the solutions which are chosen, and the research aims. The background and rationale should be stated according to the theories, evidence, pre-survey and/or relevant research. It may also contain the narrative operational definition of the main constructs, variables, or terminologies used.
Method The method comprises of the design of the research, population, and sample, sampling techniques, procedures, instruments (including the construct, validity, and reliability), data collection tools, and data analysis techniques. All of these components need to be detailed in a report format (past tense), except for general explanations and references.
Findings and Discussion The findings and discussion are presented in one part. Findings are the presentation of the research purely based on the analyzed data while the discussion is the explanation of the findings relevant to the literature discussed in the introduction and other relevant theories and ideas. The author(s) is/are required to provide the findings and discussion on the same sequence with the research aims, and, should also provide the summary of the discussion aimed at answering the grand question of the research at the end of the discussion part.
Conclusion (and implications, recommendations, or suggestions, if any) The conclusion can be in the form of finding generalization based on the research problems. Suggestions can be in the form of input/proposition for future researchers, or implicative recommendations from the research findings on theory, practice and probably policy.
Acknowledgments for the Funding and grant-awarding bodies (if any) The funding or grant-awarding bodies is acknowledged in a separate paragraph. For a single agency grant: "This work was supported by the [Name of Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
References The citation and references are referred to American Psychological Association (APA) (Sixth Edition) style. APA Style format for references can be checked in http://www.citationmachine.net/apa/cite-a-website. The author is strongly recommended to use Reference Manager applications to facilitate referencing. Examples of Reference style:
Books: Borg, W. R., & Gall, M. D. (1989). Educational research: an introduction (4th ed.). New York: Longman. Hill, J. R., Wiley, D., Nelson, L. M., & Han, S. (2004). Exploring research on Internet-based learning: from infrastructure to interactions. In D. H. Jonassen (Ed.), Handbook of research for educational communications and technology (2nd ed., pp. 433–460). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Journals: Wangid, M. N., Mustadi, A., Senen, A., & Herianingtyas, N. L. R. (2017). The evaluation of authentic assessment implementation of Curriculum 2013 in Elementary School. Jurnal Penelitian Dan Evaluasi Pendidikan, 21(1), 104-115.
Book Review: Dent-Read, C., & Zukow-Goldring, P. (2001). Is modeling knowing? [Review of the book Models of cognitive development, by K. Richardson]. American Journal of Psychology, 114, 126-133.
Online Newspaper Articles: Becker, E. (2001, August 27). Prairie farmers reap conservation's rewards. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com
Technical and Research Reports: Hershey Foods Corporation. (2001, March 15). 2001 Annual Report. Retrieved from http://www.hersheysannualreport.com/2000/index.htm
Website: Census data revisited. (n.d.). Retrieved March 9, 2009, from Harvard, Psychology of Population website, http://harvard.edu/data/index.php
Blog Post: Lincoln, D. S. (2009, January 23). The likeness and sameness of the ones in the middle. [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.blogspace.com/lincolnworld/2009/1/23.php
Appendices (if any, as appropriate)
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.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. All submitted manuscripts have to be written by referring to APA style and already used the TEMPLATE
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Copyright Notice
The authors submitting a manuscript to this journal agree that, if accepted for publication, copyright publishing of the submission shall be assigned to Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi. However, even though the journal asks for a copyright transfer, the authors retain (or are granted back) significant scholarly rights.
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Author Fees
This journal charges the following author fees.
Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Article Publication: 1500000.00 (IDR)
If your paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs. The journal management will contact you informing the payment receipt by email.
