Al-Adzka: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Guru Madrasah Ibtidaiyah publishes original and high-quality research in elementary education, Islamic primary education, madrasah ibtidaiyah studies, teacher education, curriculum and pedagogy, literacy, assessment, educational technology, inclusion, character education, and related interdisciplinary fields.
Authors must ensure that their manuscript is original, has not been published previously, and is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal. All manuscripts must comply with the journal’s Focus and Scope, Publication Ethics and Research Integrity, and Peer Review Process.
Language and Manuscript Preparation
Manuscripts must be written in clear and academically appropriate English. Al-Adzka uses American English as its standard language style. Authors whose first language is not English are strongly encouraged to have their manuscripts professionally proofread before submission.
Language editing does not guarantee acceptance. Editorial decisions are based on scholarly quality, originality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal’s scope.
Manuscripts must be prepared using the latest Al-Adzka template and submitted in Microsoft Word .doc or .docx format. The manuscript should generally contain between 5,000 and 8,000 words, excluding references and supplementary materials. Longer manuscripts may be considered when academically justified.
Authors should not change the page size, margins, font, spacing, heading styles, or reference format provided in the journal template.
Title, Authors, and Affiliations
The title should be concise, informative, and accurately represent the main content or contribution of the study. It should normally contain no more than 15 words and should avoid uncommon abbreviations, unnecessary location names, and vague expressions.
The full names of all authors must be written without academic titles. Each author must provide an accurate institutional affiliation consisting of the department or study program, institution, and country.
The corresponding author must be clearly identified and provide an active institutional email address. All authors are required to provide an ORCID identifier during submission. Authors are responsible for ensuring that names, affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID records are accurate and consistent.
Abstract and Keywords
The abstract must be written in English and contain between 150 and 250 words. It should briefly explain the research background or problem, objective, methodology, main findings, principal conclusion, and significance or implications of the study.
The abstract must be understandable without consulting the full article. References, undefined abbreviations, tables, figures, and lengthy statistical details should not be included.
Authors must provide three to five relevant keywords or phrases. Keywords should represent the central concepts of the study, support article discoverability, and avoid merely repeating words already used in the journal title.
Manuscript Structure
Original research articles should follow the IMRaD structure:
Results and Discussion should normally be presented as separate sections. Subheadings may be used when they improve clarity and reflect the research questions or major findings.
Introduction
The Introduction should provide a concise explanation of the research context, problem, significance, and relevant scholarly literature. Authors should critically synthesize previous studies rather than merely list or summarize them.
The final part of the Introduction must clearly identify the research gap, novelty, contribution, objective, and, where applicable, research questions or hypotheses. The contribution should be relevant beyond a single local institution or research site.
Method
The Method section must provide sufficient detail to enable readers to evaluate the credibility of the research and, where appropriate, replicate the study.
Authors should explain the research design, setting, participants or population and sample, sampling procedure, research instruments, data-collection process, validity or trustworthiness procedures, and data-analysis techniques. Quantitative studies should report relevant validity, reliability, statistical assumptions, effect sizes, and analytical software where appropriate.
Qualitative studies should explain participant selection, researcher positioning where relevant, data saturation or information adequacy, coding procedures, triangulation, member checking, and other strategies used to establish trustworthiness.
Research involving human participants must state the name of the approving ethics committee or institutional review board, approval number where available, informed-consent procedure, and measures used to protect participant confidentiality. Research involving children must also explain parental or guardian consent, child assent where appropriate, and safeguarding procedures.
Results
The Results section should present the principal findings clearly and objectively in accordance with the research objectives or questions. Findings must be supported by appropriate data, such as statistical results, interview excerpts, observations, documents, tables, or figures.
Authors should avoid repeating all information from tables and figures in the narrative. Only the most important findings should be emphasized in the text.
Statistical results should be reported accurately using appropriate symbols, exact probability values where possible, confidence intervals, and effect sizes when relevant. Qualitative findings should be organized into analytically meaningful themes and supported by adequate evidence.
Discussion
The Discussion should interpret the findings rather than repeat them. Authors must explain the meaning and significance of the results, relate them to relevant theory and previous studies, and clarify how the study extends, challenges, or refines existing knowledge.
The Discussion should clearly present the study’s theoretical, pedagogical, practical, or policy implications. Authors must avoid unsupported claims and should distinguish between conclusions supported directly by the data and broader scholarly interpretations.
Study limitations and realistic directions for future research should be addressed. Limitations should not merely list weaknesses but explain how they affect the interpretation, transferability, or generalizability of the findings.
Conclusion
The Conclusion should directly address the research objective and summarize the principal contribution of the study. It should be written as a concise narrative rather than a repetition of the abstract, results, or discussion.
The Conclusion should not introduce new data, references, arguments, or claims that were not discussed previously. Practical or scholarly recommendations may be included when they are supported by the findings.
Tables and Figures
Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively according to their appearance in the manuscript. Each table and figure must have a concise, informative caption and must be mentioned in the main text.
Tables should be editable and should not be submitted as images. Figures, diagrams, and photographs must be clear, original, and of sufficient publication quality. Images should preferably have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Authors must obtain permission to reproduce copyrighted tables, figures, photographs, instruments, or other materials. The source and permission status must be stated clearly.
Tables and figures should present information efficiently and should not duplicate data already explained fully in the text.
References and Citation Style
All citations and references must follow the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition—APA 7th—style. Authors are strongly encouraged to use reference-management software such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote.
Every source cited in the manuscript must appear in the reference list, and every reference must be cited in the text. References must be accurate, traceable, and relevant to the manuscript.
Manuscripts should normally include at least 25 scholarly references. Authors should prioritize recent peer-reviewed journal articles, particularly sources published within the previous ten years, while retaining relevant foundational literature where necessary. DOI links must be included whenever available.
The journal prohibits fabricated references, irrelevant citations, excessive self-citation, coercive citation, citation stacking, and citations intended primarily to increase the metrics of an author, journal, institution, or publisher.
Similarity and Originality
All manuscripts will be screened using similarity-detection software. The overall similarity should normally not exceed 20%, excluding the reference list, properly quoted material, institutional terminology, and unavoidable methodological expressions.
The similarity percentage is not the sole basis for an editorial decision. Editors will evaluate the nature, source, distribution, and academic context of the matched text. Manuscripts containing plagiarism, inappropriate paraphrasing, duplicate publication, or substantial unattributed material will be rejected.
Further information is available in the journal’s Plagiarism Check Policy.
Authorship and Author Contributions
All listed authors must have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, or preparation of the manuscript. Every author must approve the submitted version and accept responsibility for the integrity of the work.
Honorary, guest, gift, purchased, and ghost authorship are prohibited. Individuals who provide language editing, administrative support, technical assistance, or general supervision without meeting authorship criteria should be acknowledged rather than listed as authors.
The manuscript must include an Author Contributions Statement using the CRediT contributor roles where appropriate.
Changes to authorship after submission must be explained in writing and approved by all authors. Changes after acceptance will only be considered in exceptional circumstances.
Required Declarations
The following statements must be included before the References section:
Acknowledgments: Identify individuals or institutions that provided assistance but do not qualify for authorship. Omit this section when it is not applicable.
Author Contributions: Explain the contribution of each author using initials or the CRediT taxonomy.
Funding: State the funding agency and grant number. When no external funding was received, write: “This research received no external funding.”
Conflict of Interest: Disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest. When none exist, write: “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”
Data Availability: Explain where and under what conditions the supporting data can be accessed. Ethical, privacy, legal, and child-protection restrictions must be stated.
Ethics Approval and Informed Consent: Include the approving institution, approval number where available, informed-consent procedure, and child-assent procedure where relevant.
Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Generative artificial intelligence tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, references, analysis, confidentiality, and integrity of all submitted content.
Material use of generative AI in drafting, language editing beyond routine correction, coding, data analysis, image creation, literature synthesis, or research-material development must be disclosed in the manuscript.
AI must not be used to fabricate data, quotations, participants, references, findings, or ethical documentation. Further requirements are available in the journal’s Generative AI Policy.
Submission and Review Process
All manuscripts must be submitted through the official Al-Adzka online submission system. Manuscripts submitted through personal email, messaging applications, or unofficial channels will not enter the formal editorial process.
Authors must upload:
All manuscripts that pass initial editorial screening are evaluated through a double-anonymous external peer-review process involving at least two independent reviewers. Submission does not guarantee external review, acceptance, or publication.
Detailed procedures are available in the journal’s Peer Review Process.
Revision and Proofreading
Authors receiving a revision decision must submit a revised manuscript and a detailed response-to-reviewers document. Every reviewer and editor comment must be addressed individually. When a recommendation is not followed, authors must provide a clear academic justification.
Accepted manuscripts may undergo copyediting, language editing, formatting, metadata verification, and proofreading. Authors are responsible for reviewing the final proof carefully and returning corrections within the period specified by the editorial office.
Proof-stage corrections should normally be limited to factual, typographical, formatting, and production errors. Substantial changes to data, findings, authorship, or conclusions require editorial approval.
Copyright, Licensing, and Publication Fees
Authors retain copyright and grant Al-Adzka the right of first publication. Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction provided that the original authors and source are properly credited.
Authors should consult the journal’s Copyright Notice and Author Fees pages before submission.
Final Submission Checklist
Before submitting, authors must ensure that the manuscript:
Manuscripts that do not comply with these guidelines may be returned for technical revision or rejected before external peer review.
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ISSN (Online): 2597-937X | ISSN (Print): 2088-9801 |Email: [email protected] |Published by Department of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Teacher Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, Universitas Islam Negeri Antasari Banjarmasin
