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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 Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines/Template, 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

INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHOR

Manuscript Preparation, Writing, Structure, and Format Guideline

PREPARATION
General requirements:

  1. The manuscript should meet the focus and scope of the Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi.
  2. The manuscript which sent to the Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi should be original work, i.e. the same manuscript must have not been published or accepted for publication in any other journals/ books either in full or substantial part and must not be submitted to any other journal for concurrent publication or being considered for publication or even being reviewed.
  3. Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi and to assure double-blind review process, make sure that the author(s)-identifying information (name, email and affiliation) is not included in the manuscript. The soft file submitted should be in Microsoft Word format.
  4. The manuscript must comply with the guidelines and should be formatted in accordance with the Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi template for submission (EN). The paper which does not comply with this requirement may be returned for revision (format/template) before entering the review process.
  5. The manuscript only could be sent via the open journal system (OJS) mechanism (not by email) in web address: https://journal.fkip.uniku.ac.id/quagga
  6. The Editor of Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi reserves the right to edit the grammar and spelling of the text contained without reducing or changing the intent of writing.

WRITING, STRUCTURE, AND FORMAT GUIDELINE

  1. Articles submitted to the Journal in english language should normally be between 5,000 to 8,000 words with single space and should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words, containing the importance of the topic, the gap between theory and practice or between reality and expectation, or lacks of studies, objectives of the present study, method, findings, and conclusion.
  2. On the abstract, explicitly write in bold: Introduction, objective of the papers, method, findings, and conclusion. 
  3. Below the abstract, about three to five keywords should appear together with the main body of the article with the font size 11.
  4. The Journal operates a peer review process and promotes blind reviewing. To facilitate this process, author’s names (without academic titles), institutional affiliations, and the email address of the corresponding author should appear only on a detachable cover sheet.
  5. Articles should be written in English in single space, using Microsoft Word (.doc), font size 11, Times New Roman, top and left margin, bottom and right margin 2,5 cm, printed in A4.
  6. Write the main body of the article in two columns, except for tables and figures. Use first line indent of 1 cm, but no indent for first paragraph right after the main title and first paragraph after subheadings.
  7. Block citation should be 1 cm indented with the font size 12.
  8. For research-based articles, the outline used is: introduction (without heading or subheading), method, findings and discussion, conclusion, and references.
  9. The title should be less than 12 words, capitalized, centered, with font size 12.
  10. The introduction should consist of the background of the study, research contexts, literary review, and research objective. All introductions should be presented in the forms of paragraphs, not pointers, with the proportion of 15-20% of the whole article length.
  11. The method section consists of description concerning the research design, data sources, data collection, and data analysis with the proportion of  10-15% of the total article length, all presented in the form of paragraphs.
  12. The findings and discussion section consist of description of the results of the data analysis to answer the research question(s) and their meanings seen from current theories and references of the area addressed. The proportion of  this section is 40-60% of the total article length.
  13. The conclusion section consists of the summary, restatement of  the main findings.
  14. Use only horizontal lines when using tables. Put table number and the title of the table on top of it.
  15. Every source cited in the body of the article should appear in the reference, and all sources appearing in the reference should be cited in the body of the article.
  16. The sources cited should at least 80% come from those published in the last 10 years. The sources cited are primary sources in the forms of journal articles, books, and research reports, including theses and dissertations. Citations from journal should be at least 80% of the total references cited.
  17. Citation is done using bracket (last name and year of publication).
  18. Quotation and references follows APA style.
  19. Use This Template (Download Template)

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Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi has CC-BY-SA or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work. Authors who publish with this journal retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
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2. The journal allows the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions
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Authors who publish with Quagga: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Biologi agree to the following terms:

  1. For all articles published in Quagga, copyright is retained by the authors. Authors give permission to the publisher to announce the work with conditions. When the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic transfer of the publishing right to the publisher.
  2. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).