AUTHOR GUIDELINES

The author must send the manuscript online by first registering as an author to the website http://journal.iainlangsa.ac.id/index.php/atfaluna
For every submitted article, the author is obliged to follow the terms and conditions in accordance with Style Guide of Aṭfālunā: Journal of Islamic Early Childhood Education.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

  • The text submitted by the author is the original scientific paper, has never been published, and is not being submitted for publication in other media / journals
  • The text proposed may be results of the study (field / literature), conceptual ideas, studies, application of theories, and criticism in the field of early childhood education 
  • Scripts can be written either in Arabic. English, or Bahasa Indonesia. The manuscript is written with Palatino Linotype of font 11 with single spacing and two colum format.
  • The title is written either in English or Arabic followed with the translation in Indonesian in Palatino Linotype of font 14.
  • The manuscript begins with abstract of 100-150 words in 2 languages (English - Bahasa Indonesia or Arabic - Bahasa Indonesia) with Palatino Linotype of font 9 with single spacing and one colum format.
  • Abstracts should clearly indicate background of the problems, objectives, theories and methods, findings or novelty of ideas, and main conclusions.
  • The author's name is written without academic degrees. If a script is written by a team or more than one person, the editor will communicate only with the main author or the author whose name is listed in the first place.
  • Scripts are organized into five subheadings in the following order: (a) Introduction: includes problem identification, literature review, research objectives, as well as the benefits of the research, (b) Method: consists of the way the research is done and a description of the material, equipment, and procedures used in conducting the analysis or research, (c) Findings and Discussion: describes the results of research or analysis and can be presented in sub-chapters, (d) Conclusion: written in the form of a summary and if necessary, each paragraph containing conclusions of the research can be given serial numbers. (e) Bibliography: Bibliography arranged alphabetically refers to the APA Style of Citation, and (f) Acknowledgements (optional)
  • Use the Mendeley application to facilitate the inclusion of references. Review script can be written in Indonesian or English as many as 8-12 pages.
  • The script is written in the following sequence: book identity, biography of author, introduction, discussion, and cover.
  • Obituary script can be written in Indonesian or English as many as 3-5 pages. Sources of references / citations listed in the script are the primary reference sources in the form of research reports or articles published in the scientific journal / magazine in the last 10 years. Primary reference sources are at least 80% of references used.
  • Technical of writing citations uses the enclosed reference technique (name, year).
  • Article Format has met the Article Template
  • The article must be under 20% check by plagiarism software
  • The article does not contain the results of plagiarism, falsification, and fabrication of data.