Manuscript Types
Cetta: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan, published by Jayapangus Press, accepts scholarly manuscripts that contribute to the advancement of educational research, theory, policy, and practice across all levels and types of education. Submissions must align with the journal's focus and scope, including curriculum studies, learning materials, instructional media and teaching aids, teaching methods and strategies, teacher competencies, learner and teacher development, educational institution management, character education, gender issues in education, and educational assessment and evaluation.
The journal primarily accepts two main types of scholarly manuscripts: Original Research Articles and Review Articles. In addition, the journal may accept Case Studies and Literary Studies on a limited and selective basis, provided that the manuscripts demonstrate scholarly originality, methodological rigor, substantial academic contributions, and clear relevance to the journal's focus and scope. The acceptance of these additional manuscript types is subject to editorial assessment, the journal's publication priorities, and compliance with its established academic and ethical standards.
1. Original Research Articles
Original Research Articles present original empirical findings or theoretical analyses that contribute to the development of educational knowledge, practices, and policies. These articles may employ qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods approaches and utilize primary data, secondary data, educational documents, classroom observations, interviews, surveys, experiments, or other relevant research sources.
Manuscripts may address various educational issues, including curriculum development and evaluation, instructional design, learning materials, educational technology, teaching and learning strategies, teacher professionalism and competencies, student learning and development, educational leadership and management, character education, gender equality in education, and educational assessment.
Authors must clearly articulate the research objectives, theoretical framework, research design, data sources, analytical procedures, findings, and implications. Submissions must demonstrate originality, methodological rigor, critical analysis, and a significant contribution to educational research and practice.
2. Review Articles
Review Articles provide critical, comprehensive, and methodologically sound examinations of existing scholarly literature relevant to educational sciences. Cetta: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan welcomes narrative reviews, scoping reviews, systematic literature reviews (SLRs), integrative literature reviews, and other academically recognized review approaches.
Review manuscripts may examine educational theories, curriculum innovations, pedagogical approaches, instructional technologies, teacher professional development, student learning outcomes, educational management, character education, gender perspectives, and assessment practices.
Review Articles must extend beyond descriptive summaries by critically synthesizing previous research, identifying knowledge gaps, evaluating theoretical and methodological developments, examining emerging educational trends, or proposing new conceptual frameworks and directions for future research.
Authors must clearly describe the literature search and selection procedures, inclusion and exclusion criteria where applicable, and analytical or synthesis methods appropriate to the selected review approach.
3. Manuscript Length
All manuscripts submitted to Cetta: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan must not exceed 8,000 words, excluding the reference list, table contents, and figures. The word count includes the abstract, main text, footnotes, and table and figure captions.
All submissions must demonstrate originality, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, theoretical or practical significance, methodological soundness, coherent academic argumentation, and compliance with established publication ethics.
The editorial team conducts an initial screening to evaluate manuscript suitability, academic quality, adherence to author guidelines, and compliance with ethical standards before determining whether the submission proceeds to the peer review process.
