Information for Authors

Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Journal of Environment and Sustainability Education, provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article.

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Types of Articles

The journal seeks to publish two types of contributions in the form of original articles, and reviews.

  • Original articles: Articles which represent in-depth research in various scientific disciplines.
  • Review articles: Contain unstructured abstract and include up-to-date references. Meta-analyses are considered as reviews.

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Before Submission

Please make sure that your manuscript meets the following criteria:

  • Your manuscript is an original work and has not been published or is currently under review with another journal or conference proceedings.
  • Your work complies with all research ethics standards. If the study involves human or animal subjects, the manuscript should include a separate section titled Ethics Approval.
  • The manuscript is written in acceptable English and is free of grammatical and spelling errors.
  • The manuscript is formatted according to the Journal of Environment and Sustainability Education template (Manuscript Template).
  • All figures are of acceptable quality and uploaded as separate files.
  • References are correctly formatted and numbered according to their order of appearance in the text. Please ensure the reference style is followed.
  • Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that align with the aims and scope of the journal will proceed to the review stage.
  • Manuscripts must comply with the journal's guidelines outlined below.

Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be rejected or returned to the author before entering the peer review process.

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Manuscript Template

Manuscript Template can be downloaded here.

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Online Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors, as only one corresponding author is allowed per manuscript. Manuscripts should be submitted through Journal of Environment and Sustainability Education website. Only Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf) files can be submitted. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. The submitting author takes responsibility for the manuscript during submission and peer review.

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Initial Evaluation

All submissions undergo an administrative and ethics compliance check by the Editorial Office. Plagiarism is assessed with Turnitin; the maximum allowable similarity is 20%. Manuscripts that fail ethical standards or formatting requirements are rejected prior to peer review process.

Incomplete submissions or manuscripts not prepared in the required style are returned to authors without scientific review.

Following these checks, the Editorial Office consults the Editor-in-Chief to assess scope alignment and baseline scientific soundness. Manuscripts judged to have insufficient priority for publication are promptly desk-rejected. All such decisions are verified by the Editor-in-Chief.

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Submission Declaration and Verification

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture, or an academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.

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Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

Paper should be written in good Bahasa Indonesia/ English. The length of submitted paper is at least 6 pages and no more than 10 pages (including references). Use of a reference tool such as Mendeley, End Note, or Zotero for reference management and formatting, and choose APA 6th edition. 

Manuscript submitted to this journal should follow the heading below, except for the review article: Title; Authors Name; Authors Affiliation; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction; Methods; Results and Discussion; Conclusions; Acknowledgments (optional); and References.

1. Title
This is your opportunity to attract the reader’s attention. Remember that readers are the potential authors who will cite your article. Identify the main issue of the paper. Begin with the subject of the paper. The title should be accurate, unambiguous, specific, and complete. Do not contain infrequently-used abbreviations. Number of word in title is no more than 15 words. Title should be written in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

2. Authors name and affiliation
Write Author(s) names without title and professional positions such as Prof, Dr, Production Manager, etc. Do not abbreviate your last/family name. Always give your First and Last names. If you have one word name such as Laksana, write Laksana Laksana. Write clear affiliation of all Authors. Affiliation includes: name of department/unit, (faculty), name of university, address, country. Please indicate Corresponding Author (include email address) behind the name.

3. Abstract
The abstract should be clear, concise, and descriptive. This abstract should provide a brief introduction to the problem, objective of paper, followed by a statement regarding the methodology and a brief summary of results. The abstract should end with a comment on the significance of the results or a brief conclusion. An abstract should stand alone, means that no citation in the abstract. Abstract should be written in Bahasa Indonesia and English. The abstract should contains 150-200 words.

4. Keywords
Maximum of 5 keywords separated by semicolon (;), crucial to the appropriate indexing of the papers, are to be given.

5. Introduction
The Introduction ought to give readers with the background data required to know your study, and the reasons why you conducted your experiments. The Introduction ought to answer the question: what question/problem was studied? Please don't write a literature review in your Introduction, however, do cite reviews wherever readers will realize a lot of data if they need it. Whereas writing the background, make certain your citations are relevant, well balanced, and current (not older than ten years).Once you have got provided background material and expressed the matter or question for your study, tell the reader the aim of your study. Typically, the explanation is to fill a niche within the information or to answer an antecedent unrequited question. The ultimate factor to incorporate at the top of your Introduction could be a clear and precise statement of your study aims.

6. Method
Method is is a part consists of the design of the research, subject, instrument, data collection procedure, and data analysis. This section provides the reader with all the small print of however you conducted your study. You ought to use subheadings to separate totally different methodologies. Afterwards, you ought to describe what you probably did within the past, describe new strategies in enough detail that another investigator will reproduce your experiment, and describe established strategies in short.

7. Results and Discussion
In the Results section, merely state what you found, however don't interpret the results or discuss their implications. Results ought to be bestowed in an exceedingly logical order. Generally, this may be so as of importance, not essentially the order within which the experiments were performed. Use the past to explain your results; but, discuss with figures and tables within the present. Do not duplicate knowledge among figures, tables, and text. A standard mistake is to re-state abundant of the info from a table within the text of the manuscript. Instead, use the text to summarize what the reader can realize within the table, or mention one or 2 of the foremost necessary knowledge points. It is sometimes abundant easier to scan knowledge in an exceedingly table than within the text. Your Discussion ought to answer the question: What do your results mean? In alternative words, the bulk of the Discussion associated Conclusions sections ought to be an interpretation of your results. You ought to discuss your conclusions so as of most to least necessary. Compare your results with those from alternative studies as recommend further experiments required to clarify your results. Discuss what your results might mean for researchers within the same field as you, researchers in alternative fields, and therefore the general public.

Table
Tables are sequentially numbered with the table title and number above the table. Tables should be centered in the column OR on the page. Tables are referred in the text by the table number. eg: Table 1. Do not show vertical line in the table. There is only horizontal line should be shown within the table.

Figure
Figures are sequentially numbered commencing at 1 with the figure title and number below the figure as shown in Figure 1. Detailed recommendations for figures are as follows: (a) ensure that figures are clear and legible with typed letterings; (b) black & white or colored figures are allowed; (c) hard copy illustrations should, preferably, be scanned and included in the electronic version of the submission in an appropriate format as follows: BMP; WMF; EPS; Microsoft Graph; Microsoft Draw.

Equations
Equations should be numbered serially within parentheses as shown in Equation (1). Equation should be prepared using MS Equation Editor (not in image format). The equation number is to be placed at the extreme right side.

Units, Abbreviations and Symbols
Metric units are preferred. Define abbreviations and symbols at the first time as they are introduced in the text.

8. Conclusion
In conclusion, state however your results extend the findings of previous studies. If your findings are preliminary, you must recommend future studies that require to be disbursed.

9. Acknowledgment (optional)
Recognize those who helped in the research, especially funding supporter of your research. Include individuals who have assisted you in your study: Advisors, Financial supporters, or may other supporter i.e. Proofreaders, Typists, and Suppliers who may have given materials.

10. References
Cite the main scientific publications on which your work is based. Cite only items that you have read. Do not inflate the manuscript with too many references. Avoid excessive self‐citations. Avoid excessive citations of publications from the same region. Check each reference against the original source (authors name, volume, issue, year, DOI Number). Please use Reference Manager Applications like Mendeley, End Note, or Zotero, etc. Use other published articles in the same journal as models. Citation and Reference are written according to the APA 6th edition style. Each article should has at least 10 references.

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Revised Manuscript

When submitting a revised manuscript, all changes made in the manuscript must be clearly highlighted in green so they are easily identifiable by the reviewers and editors.

Note: The revised manuscript must be submitted within a maximum of 2 months from the editorial decision date. Failure to do so may result in withdrawal of the manuscript from the review process.

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After Acceptance

Upon acceptance, your article will be exported to production to undergo typesetting. once the typesetting is complete, you will receive the proofs.

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Proof

One set of page proofs (as PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness, and correctness of the text, tables, and figures. We will do our best to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, we kindly expect the proofreading to be completed within 48 hours to ensure a smooth publication process. Note that the publisher may proceed with the publication of an article if no response is received.

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Supplementary Materials

Authors can publish online supplementary files along with their articles. Each supplementary file should include an article title, journal name, authors' names, affiliations, and email address of the corresponding author. supplementary files will be published as received from the authors without any conversion, editing, or reforming.

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Article Publishing Charge

This journal charges the following author charge.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are not required to pay an Article Submission Fee.

Article Publication Charge: 2,000,000.00 (IDR) (approximately USD 150)
If your paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Charge.

Fee Exemption for International Authors:
To encourage global scholarly collaboration, the journal waives the Article Publication Charge for manuscripts whose first author is affiliated with an institution outside Indonesia. This exemption is applied automatically upon acceptance and does not require a separate waiver request.

Waiver Policy:
To promote inclusive academic participation and support researchers with limited access to funding, the journal offers a waiver policy for Article Publication Fee. Authors who are unable to pay the full fee due to financial constraints, particularly those from low-income countries or underfunded institutions may apply for a partial or full waiver.

Waiver requests must be submitted at the time of manuscript submission and will not affect the editorial decision. All requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and authors will be notified of the outcome prior to the initiation of the publication process.

Please note that not all waiver applications will be granted; approval is subject to the journal’s internal assessment and budget availability.

Refund Policy:
The article publication fee is not refundable under any circumstance.

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