Author Guidelines
Authors should submit their manuscripts online via Make a Submission on the homepage of the journal. Manuscripts are accepted only in Word format.
Article Types
The journal requires authors to select the appropriate article type for their manuscript:
Research Article
Original research articles report scientifically sound experiments and provide a substantial amount of new information. It should have the following format: 1) Abstract, 2) Introduction, 3) Materials and Methods, 4) Results, 5) Discussion, and 6) Conclusions.
Review Article
Review articles present a synthesis of previous research and use clearly defined methods to identify, categorize, analyze, and report aggregated evidence on a specific topic. It includes meta-syntheses, meta-analyses, mapping reviews, scoping reviews, systematic reviews, bibliometric analyses, and systematic reviews with a meta-analysis. Systematic reviews should strictly follow the PRISMA checklist (http://prisma-statement.org/PRISMAStatement/Checklist) and include a completed PRISMA flow diagram as part of the main text or Supplementary Materials.
Instructions for Authors
Authors must carefully read the guidelines of the journal before submission. Articles may be rejected if not formatted as in the Template. Authors are recommended to structure their manuscript as follows:
Title
The title should be clear, brief, informative, and written in English with a maximum of 12 words. Abbreviations and formulas should be avoided.
Abstract
The abstract is a shortened paper and should contain what the purpose of the research was, how the research was conducted, what the results were, and the significance of the results. The nonstandard abbreviation should be avoided. This section should be no more than 300 words and should not include any undefined abbreviations or references.
Keywords
Authors should provide a minimum of three and a maximum of five keywords.
Introduction
The introduction should provide sufficient background information and the reasons why this research was important to investigate. This section also discusses the results and conclusions of previously published works and clearly establishes the focus and purpose of the literature review. It aims to explain why your present study is interesting and valuable.
Method
The method should provide detailed information to allow the experiments to be repeated by others. In sum, this section provides all the methodological details that other researchers need to duplicate your work in the future. Please specify the research design, samples, research instruments, procedures, and data analysis in brief.
Results
Results should present the main findings as concisely as possible. Please emphasize significant and interesting results. Please number the figures and tables in the order in which they are quoted in the text. This section can be organized into subheadings.
Discussion
The discussion should be concise and provide an interpretation of the results in relation to previously published research. It aims to provide an interpretation of your results and support for your conclusions. Please present the implications of the findings for what practice has been studied to illustrate the implications for future studies.
Conclusion
The conclusion should emphasize the importance of the thesis statement, give a sense of completeness to the essay, and leave a deep impression on the readers.
Acknowledgments (if any).
References
Each reference should be cited in the text, and each text citation should be listed in the references section. References must be in alphabetical order by the first author. Please use the APA 7 reference guide (https://apastyle.apa.org/) and the use of a tool such as EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero for reference management when preparing your paper. The examples of reference format are:
Journal Article
Lavoie, R., Main, K., King, C., & King, D. (2021). Virtual experience, real consequences: The potential negative emotional consequences of virtual reality gameplay. Virtual Reality, 25, 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-020-00440-y
Book
Fraenkel, J. R., Wallen, N. E., & Hyun, H. H. (2012). How to design and evaluate research in education (8th ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Book Chapter
Martin, A. (2006). Literacies for the digital age. In A. Martin & D. Madigan (Eds.), Digital literacies for learning (pp. 3–25). Facet.
Appendix (if any)
This section should be placed at the end of the manuscript after the reference list.
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