Author Guidelines

The Submission Stage

Manuscripts must be submitted by the author through the journal's online submission system. Submitted manuscripts must be original works and must not be under consideration or submitted simultaneously to another journal.

General Requirements

  1. Manuscripts must be submitted online in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) format.
  2. Articles must be written in English.
  3. Authors must follow the KafaEdu Template and the journal's Author Guidelines. Authors are also required to upload the Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) as a supplementary file when submitting a new manuscript.
  4. The similarity score of the submitted manuscript, based on Turnitin screening, must be no more than 10%.
  5. Authors who have an ORCID iD are encouraged to include it in their Open Journal System (OJS) profile when submitting an article to KafaEdu: Journal of Education and Pedagogy.
  6. If authors use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to develop any part of the manuscript, such use must be transparently disclosed. AI use related to research activities should be described in the Methods section, while AI used for general writing assistance may be disclosed in the Acknowledgements section.

Manuscript Preparation

Title

The title should be concise, clear, informative, and reflective of the main content of the study.

Author(s) Name(s) and Affiliation(s)

The full names of all authors, institutional affiliations, and email addresses must be clearly provided. Email addresses are required to facilitate communication among authors, editors, and readers.

Abstract

Each manuscript must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. The abstract should be written as a single paragraph and provided in both English and Indonesian.

Length of Paper

The manuscript should contain 5,000–10,000 words and must be prepared using Microsoft Word. The manuscript may be divided into appropriate sections according to the structure of a scholarly article.

  • Sections/Headings should be written in bold.
  • Subsections/Subheadings should be written in bold italic.
  • Authors may use either British English or American English, but the chosen spelling style must be used consistently throughout the manuscript.

References

Authors are encouraged to use reference management software such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote.

References and citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition.

Examples of reference formatting:

Book:
Bulliet, Richard. The Patricians of Nishapur, a Study in Medieval Islamic History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.

Journal Article:
Widigdo, Mohammad Syifa Amin. “Arab-Islamic or Greek Dialectics? Revisiting the Origins and Development of Jadal.” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 32, no. 2 (2021): 203–22.

Book Chapter:
Martin, Richard C., and Abbas Barzegar. “Formations of Orthodoxy.” In Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism, edited by Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin. South Carolina: The University of South Carolina Press, 2010.

Thesis/Dissertation:
Abulfaraj, Hussain. ‘Umayyad Poetry as Verbal Duel’. PhD diss., Indiana University, 2012.

The Proof Correction Process

Authors are required to carefully check the proofs of their articles before publication. The purpose of proofreading is to correct errors that may have occurred during the production process, rather than to make substantial changes to the content of the manuscript.

Authors have the final responsibility for all corrections. Proof corrections must be returned to the editor within one week of receiving the proofs. Corrections may be submitted by email in the form of a clear and detailed list.

Once the corrections have been received, the article will be revised and subsequently published online.

Transliteration System

Authors may use the transliteration system adopted by the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) or the transliteration system used by the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.

For the purpose of simplification, the use of diacritics may be minimized as long as the accuracy and clarity of the transliteration are maintained.