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Author Guidelines

Journal Language

Papers will be accepted only in English.

Author Guidelines

1. All manuscript shall be written in English and submitted online via journal website on https://ahlimedia.com/jurnal/index.php/imtech, if you encountered any difficulties, contact us through [email protected]

2. The manuscript shall be formatted in one column using 12 pt Times New Roman font type, 1.15 space in the A4 paper, justify alignment in a maximum number of 20 pages. All manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word at least the 2007 version.

3. The title must be written in title case and should be in 12 pt font size, center alignment, and maximum 16 words.

4. For blind review purposes, the author must ensure to delete all information regarding the authors' information in the draft.

5. Put all authors' information include Correspondence’s address in submission's metadata form

6. The abstract should be written in both English and Indonesian in one paragraph consists of maximum of 250 words. The abstract should explain the purpose, method, and the result of the research concisely.

7. Keywords are any terms related to the general issue(s) of the articles and written maximumly 5 keywords.

8. Systematic for research article are:

  • Introduction is a part consists of a background of the study, literature review as a basis of the research issue, hypotheses, and the purpose of the study. This part shall be presented in the form of the paragraph and with no title part.
  • Method is a part consists of the design of the research, subject, instrument, data collection procedure, and data analysis
  • The part of result exposes the findings obtained from research data which is related to the hypotheses.
  • The part of the discussion explains the findings obtained from research data along with theory and similar research comparison.
  • Conclusion part answers the aforementioned hypotheses, research purpose, findings, and discussion as well as the expected suggestions for future research. The conclusion shall be written in a paragraph.
  • Acknowledgment (Optional) Recognize those who helped in the research, especially funding supporters of your research. Include individuals who have assisted you in your study: Advisors, Financial supporters, or may another supporter, i.e. Proofreaders, Typists, and Suppliers, who may have given materials. Do not acknowledge one of the author's names.
  • Reference, all the references used in the article must be listed in this part. In this part, all the used references must be taken from primary sources (scientific journals at least 80% from all the references) that published in the last ten years. Each article should have at least 15 references.

9. Systematic for a review article is the title; author’s name; correspondence address, abstract, keywords, introduction (no title); main discussion (could be divided into several sub-discussion); conclusion; acknowledgment (optional); references.

10. Each title part shall be written in different types (all title part and subpart shall be written in bold or italic bold) and not in numbering format:

  • HEADING 1 (CAPITALIZED ALL FONT, BOLD, LEFT-ALIGNMENT, 11 pts)
  • Heading 2 (Title case, bold, left-alignment, 11 pts)
  • Heading 3 (Title case, italic bold, left-alignment, 11 pts)

11. Table: table shall be clearly identified using number and title above the table in bold font, 11 pt font, left alignment. The table shall be positioned in left-right alignment. The first letter in the table shall be capitalized, except phrases. The table’s data shall be written in a single space, 10 pt font. The table shall be presented only in a horizontal line and shall be mentioned in the paragraph.

12. Figure: Figure shall be presented in average to high resolution and identified using number and title above the table and written in bold font 11pt left alignment. The figure shall be mentioned in the paragraph.

13. Citation and Reference are written according to the APA (American Psychological Association) 6th edition style. The references shall be ordered based on alphabetical and chronological order. We recommend using a reference manager application such as Mendeley, End Note, or Zotero. Below is the example of References written according to the APA 6th edition style.

  • Vitkauskaitė, E., & Gatautis, R. (2018, January). Points for Posts and Badges to Brand Advocates: The Role of Gamification in Consumer Brand Engagement. In Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.Dunleavy, M., Dede, C., & Mitchell, R. (2009).
  • Affordances and limitations of immersive participatory augmented reality simulations for teaching and learning. Journal of science Education and Technology, 18(1), 7-22.
  • Wu, H. K., Lee, S. W. Y., Chang, H. Y., & Liang, J. C. (2013). Current status, opportunities and challenges of augmented reality in education. Computers & education, 62, 41-49.
  • Cheng, K. H., & Tsai, C. C. (2013). Affordances of augmented reality in science learning: Suggestions for future research. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 22(4), 449-462.

14. All issues regarding permission of citation or software utilization during the process of paper or any issues regarding Intellectual Property Rights related to the author including its legal consequences will be the responsibility of the author.

15. The Board is authorized to reject a manuscript based on peer reviewer advice and make necessary changes or adjustments related to language properties without altering the substance. Substance editing would be consulted with the author first.

16. All manuscripts submitted will not be in charge(free of charge). Only selected papers that are guaranteed to be published will be charged for publication cost (USD 25.00)

What should you submit?

Submitted contributions undergo a double-blind review. In order to make this possible, please:

  1. Submit an anonymized file without the authors' names.
  2. Once your paper is accepted please upload a final DOC, DOCX or RTF version with the authors' names in it. Please do not forget to add the authors at the beginning and in the CV section at the end of the paper.

 

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.

  1. 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).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

IMTECH: Journal of Instructional, Media Education and Technology allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions. Finally, the journal allows the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions

  • Authors are allowed to archive their submitted article in an open access repository
  • Authors are allowed to archive the final published article in an open access repository with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal

 

Privacy Statement

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 (USD)
Authors are required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Fast-Track Review: 50.00 (USD)
With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript is guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks.

Article Publication: 25.00 (USD)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.

If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.