Author Guidelines

 Carefully read the submission guidelines as follows:

A. General Requirements

The minimum standard requirements of the Journal on Orbital: Jurnal Pendidikan Kimia must be:

  1. The manuscript is typed in English with Microsoft Word program, Times New Roman letter, 12 pts size, with space 1.0. The manuscript is written on an 10-20 page A4 paper.
  2. The article must include abstract in  English (150-250 words) and be following by the keywords (3-5 words).
  3. 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 7th Edition (American Psychological Association)
  4. Make sure that your paper is prepared using the orbital: Jurnal Pendidikan Kimia?s template

B. Structure of The Manuscript

The following is a guide for writing articles in Orbital: Journal of Chemistry Education that can be guided by the author:

 1. Title

The title of article should not be more than 16 words/characters written in capital Each Word, bold type, Times New Roman, font size -12 pt, center alignment, single line spacing.

2. The Authors Name

The authors name without titles/degrees, if the authors more than 3 peoples, write the name of the author in order of first, second, third.

3. Institutional affiliation

The name of institution authors.

4. E-Mail

E-Mail corresponds of authors.

5. Abstract

The abstract written in Times New Roman, font size -10 pt, single line spacing. Abstract written in English. Abstract written between 150-250 words. Abstract consist of background or purpose, objectives, research methods, type and design research, participants, tools of data collection and data analysis, result and conclusion.

6. Keywords

Conceptual keyword, lower case except names (require alphabetical order of 3-5 keywords).

7. Introduction

This part contains of background, subject matter, importance of the themes discussed, and purpose of the subject matter. The introduction is written in bold with no heading. Literature Review/Theoretical Frameworks consist literature reference from previous research, and theory that explains why the research problem under study exists. The review of the literature is up-to-date, comprehensive and addresses the need for the manuscript.

8. Methods

Methods consist of research design, research target, research data, research instumen and data analysis.

Research Design

The research design is clearly described and appropriate for the purpose of the study.

Research Target

A person, object, or place selected as the aim.

Research Data

Empirical facts that are collected by researchers for interests of solving problems or answer research questions.

Research Instruments

All tools used by researchers to collect research data

Data Analysis

Describe analysis of research data and descriptive statistics required in the study. Analysis procedures are clearly explained with a reference to the role and competency of the researcher(s).

9. Results and Discussion:

Results and discussion are presented systematically, in the same part, clearly and briefly. Findings and results are supported with sufficient and relevant quotations, examples, tables and diagrams are accompanied by descriptive discussion, findings and interpretations of the findings.

10. Conclusion and Recommendations/Implications

Conclusion of the research, implications, suggestions and limitations of this study are presented briefly. This part written directly and do not use shallow and narrow.

11. Reference

References contains only the sources included in the article. References should use reference management applications such as  Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero, or the other and written by American Psychological Association (APA) 7th style guidelines. Minimum of 20 referral sources. Referral sources should provide 80% of journal articles from the last ten years.

Book         

Slavin, R. E. (2006). Educational psychology : theory and practice (8th ed.). Pearson Education.

Journal Article    

Muroi, S. K., & Bertone, E. (2019). From thoughts to actions: The importance of climate change education in enhancing students' self-efficacy. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35(2), 123-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2019.12\

Newspaper or Magazine Article

National Institute of Mental Health. (1990). Clinical training in serious mental illness (DHHS Publication No. ADM 90-1679). www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/asth_sch.pdf

Conference Proceeding  

Asbupel, F., Retnawati, H., Muhardis, Yovita, S., & Munadi, S. (2020). Analysis of students’ difficulties in answering questions on the chemistry national standardized school exam in Kupang. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Research, Implementation, and Education of Mathematics and Sciences (ICRIEMS 2020), 528(I), 209–217. https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210305.032

Thesis

Radjlin, N. A. (2015). Pengembangan media pembelajaran kimia lectora inspire berbasis pendekatan saintifik pada materi kelarutan dan hasil kali kelarutan [Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta]. http://repository.unj.ac.id/id/eprint/26375

Plagiarism

The articles must be original contributions and not be under consideration for any other publications at the same time. Make sure that the similarity index shall not exceed 30 percent excluding references.

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 paper should have not been published or considered for publication in the other journals or other media.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
  • Manuscripts have been following author guidelines and orbital: jurnal Pendidikan kimia’s template that has been provided

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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. 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 acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. 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.

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