Submissions

Author Guidelines

Carefully read the submission guidelines as follows:

General Requirements

The minimum standard requirements of the Early Childhood Research Journal (ECRJ) must be:

1. Written in English.
2. The length of the submitted paper is at least 4000 - 8000 words.
3. The article must include abstract in English (100-200 words) and be following by the keywords (3-5 words).
4. Use of a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting. The citation must be in the form of in-text and bibliography are based on APA 6th Edition (American Psychological Association)
5. Make sure that your paper is prepared using the ECRJ paper template.

Structure of The Manuscript

The manuscript must be prepared and suggested present follow the structure:

1. The title of the paper should describe research aims, method/model, and objective, without Acronym or abbreviation.
2. The Abstract has 100 to 200 WORDS; No citation; State in the abstract a primary objective, research design, methodology, main outcomes, and results, and the conclusions.
3. Section structure. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the section structure: Introduction - Method - Results and Discussion – Conclusion
   • Introduction: Introduction consists of the urgency of research, supporting facts from previous studies, gap analysis, research status, the novelty of the research, and research objectives. Written in one chapter without subtitles.
   • Method: consists of research design, population, and sample, data source, data collection technique, data analysis technique. It is written in paragraph form.
   • Results and Discussion: presented are important data obtained from the results of data collection in the field (test results, questionnaires, interviews, documents, etc.). The results of the research can be supplemented with tables, images, or graphs to clarify the results of the research. Avoid presenting similar data in separate tables. All tables, images, and graphs must be centered and numbered sequentially. For qualitative research, the results section contains detailed sections in the form of sub-topics that are directly related to the focus of research and categories. The discussion in the article aims to:
     • answer the problem formulation and research questions;
     • show how the findings were obtained;
     • interpreting findings;
     • linking research findings with established knowledge structures; and
     • raising new theories or modifying existing theories.
       This section of the discussion must contain the benefits of the results of the study, not the repetition. The analysis must answer the stated gaps.
   • Conclusions presented briefly, narrative, and conceptual that describes the research findings and their effects. Avoid using numbering and symbols (bullet and numbering).
4. References. Expect a minimum of 30 references primarily with a minimum of 85% from reputable journal papers.
5. The manuscript should be checked and edited by an English Language Editor (Proofreader).

Section Policies

1. Author submits manuscript to journal through our online journal system (OJS).
2. All manuscripts submitted to this journal must follow focus and scope, and author guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscripts must address scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the focus and scope. All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking. Editors will check the each manuscripts' similarity rate using the Turnitin software.
3. The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) will check the feasibility of the topic for possible publication. Suitable manuscripts are submitted to the editors for further processing. Manuscripts not suitable for publication will be rejected.
4. The EIC will check the completeness of provisionally accepted manuscripts based on the guidelines for authors, adherence to the journal’s templates, adequacy of references, originality (check on potential plagiarism issues), and accuracy of language.

Manuscripts that meet the journal format and requirements will be forwarded to a minimum of two reviewers/ advisory editors under a double-blind process. Manuscripts that did not meet the requirements will be sent back to the author/s for revision. The reviewers give scientific valuable comments improving the contents of the manuscript. Based on the results of the peer review, the EIC decides whether a manuscript may be published without revisions, or be sent back to authors to perform minor revisions or major revisions; a manuscript may also be rejected. For a minor revision, the authors are requested to submit a final version of the manuscript with the required changes. For a major revision, a final version of the manuscript will be resubmitted to the peer reviewers for re-evaluation. In this case, the peer review process begins anew.