Author Guidelines
The journal is published twice a year, in June and November. The Editorial Board welcomes submissions throughout the year. The journal aims to provide rapid turnaround for manuscripts requiring peer review (i.e., three months) but cannot guarantee publication in a particular issue.
- The editors are responsible for final decisions regarding publication and reserve the right to edit for brevity, clarity, and consistency of style.
- A final decision to publish or not is made by the appropriate editor after the anonymous peer review is completed.
- All submissions to peer reviewed sections should be fully anonymized in preparation for peer review. See Ensuring an Anonymous Review for more information.
- All submissions to JEduTech should adhere to the guidelines set forth and the American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide, 7th edition.
- All authors should ensure that their user profile includes information on their affiliation and position title.
Research Articles
Submissions are welcomed on all areas of evidence based educational technology including:
- Application of evidence based educational technology
- Collaborative and inter-professional evidence based practice
- Developing and applying evidence based tools
- Evidence based practices from other disciplines applicable to educational technology practice
- Future prospects for the evidence based educational profession
- Harnessing evidence to support new innovations
- Management and administration issues related to evidence based educational technology
- Maximizing the value and impact of educational services
- Research on education in educational technology studies programs
- Research tools (statistics, data collection methods, etc.)
Submissions should report on research conducted using rigorous qualitative or quantitative methods, which should be described in appropriate detail as part of the article. Submissions reporting on survey research should include a copy of the data collection instrument as an appendix. Submissions using a case study approach should include a description of how the case study can be generalized to other situations.
- Research articles should include a structured abstract (250-500 words) using the following headings:
- Objective
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
See: Bayley, L. & Eldredge, J. D. The structured abstract: An essential tool for researchers. Medical Library Association. http://www.mlanet.org/page/structured-abstract
- Research articles should be written in a formal/academic style using the following headings as appropriate:
- Introduction: Background and introduction to the paper and why the work was carried out.
- Literature Review: An overview of relevant literature, summarising previous work in the area and highlighting the gaps and where this work fits in.
- Aims: Aims of the paper/research—it is useful to include the research question(s) used to frame the research study.
- Methods: How the study was conducted—this should provide enough information for someone to replicate the study, such as how the data were collected and analyzed.
- Results: The main findings from the study should be presented clearly and concisely.
- Discussion: A discussion of the findings from the study set in the context of the wider literature or issues arising from the study. Note any problems or limitations with the study, how these could have affected your results, and how they could be avoided in future studies.
- Conclusion: A summary of what was undertaken and what was discovered—this should not contain any new information but rather describe how the aims of the study were achieved.
- Research articles may be up to 7000 words in length, including references, tables, figures, and any appendices. A total of no more than six tables and/or figures is recommended. A paper presenting extensive and rigorous qualitative analysis may be considered even if it exceeds the word count limit.
- To maintain the consistency in citing and referencing, author is recommended to use a reference manager application, such as Zotero or Mendeley.
Review Articles
JEduTech welcomes review articles on topics of relevance to practitioners in educational technology studies. We are particularly interested in reviews which contain information on the state of research on a specific topic.
- Review articles should include a structured abstract (250-500 words) using the following headings:
- Objective
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
See: Bayley, L. & Eldredge, J. D. The structured abstract: An essential tool for researchers. Medical Library Association. http://www.mlanet.org/page/structured-abstract
- Review articles should be written in a formal/academic style using the following headings as appropriate:
- Introduction: Background and introduction to the paper and why the work was carried out
- Aims: Aims/objectives of the paper.
- Methods: How the review was conducted—this should not be too descriptive but it should provide enough information for someone to replicate the study.
- Results: The main findings from the review of the literature on a topic should be presented clearly and concisely.
- Discussion: A discussion of the findings from your review. Note any problems or limitations with the study, how these could have affected the results, and how they could be avoided in future studies.
- Conclusion: A summary of what was undertaken and what was discovered, including the implications for practice and any further research needed.
- Review articles may be up to 10,000 words in length, excluding references, tables, figures, and any appendices.
ORCID
An ORCID is a digital identifier that distinguishes authors from others, andJEduTech recommends that all authors register for an ORCID identifier. ORCiD numbers for each author will be included in an article’s author list.
Author Contributions
CRediT, Contributor Roles Taxonomy is a means of recognizing the different roles of authorship using a standardized list of contributor roles. In the interests of promoting transparency in research and scholarship, JEduTech is adopting the CRediT standard.
An Author Contributions statement will be requested from authors of research articles and review articles upon acceptance of the submission. All authors should discuss and agree upon their contributions before submitting this information to JEduTech, and the listed roles should accurately reflect contributions to the work. Individuals whose contributions do not warrant authorship may be recognized in an Acknowledgements section at the end of the paper. Single-author papers do not require an Author Contributions statement.
The 14 contributor roles are detailed on the website of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) at https://www.niso.org/publications/z39104-2022-credit. Individual contributors can be assigned multiple roles, and a given role can be assigned to multiple contributors. The optional degree of contribution qualifiers (lead, supporting, equal) will also be accepted in JEduTech; these are described on the NISO website.
The Author Contributions statement will be placed at the end of the text before the References, and will be formatted with each author name followed by a list of the appropriate contributor roles, as illustrated in the following examples:
Retno Sayekti: Conceptualization, Software, Supervision. Muhammad Aditya: Methodology, Formal analysis, Investigation. Nurhayani: Writing-Original Draft. Tessa Simahate: Writing- Review & Editing Yusniah: Data Curation, Validation. Rina Devianty: Funding acquisition.
