Submissions

Author Guidelines

Gender Equality Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal accepting paper submissions in the areas related to gender, families, and children. Only 10 selected articles will be published in each Gender Equality Journal issue (equals to 10 articles per volume/annually). In order to increase the publication quality, starting from May 2021, Gender Equality Journal has applied some new regulations. Text must be written in English. Submitted article should normally range from 4000 to 6,000 words, although up to 7000 words will be accepted under exceptional circumstances. Book reviews should be between 1,000 to 2,500 words. The manuscript submitted to the editor must be a finalized script that has been formatted in accordance with Gender Equality's guidance and style guidelines. Because this script can be directly displayed and printed. Text typed using Times New Roman letter size 12, line spacing exactly at 1.15. The text area is 11.5 cm wide and 22 cm high, including the header and footer. Foreign languages should be tilted. The bibliography only contains libraries that are actually cited in the script and follow the American Psychological Association (APA) Style rules. Words that have not been adopted in KBBI must be written using transliteration guidelines. While that has been adopted in KBBI used to like writing that exists in KBBI. Conclusions are written consistently. The conclusion contains an affirmation of what has been described above. Can also add some important information that should be given the author related to the article. 

Submitted writing must adhere to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) available for download here.

Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process. Please adhere to the following guide for submission consistency:

1. The submitted writing should be in Microsoft Document file format (.docx format is recommended) and should not exceed 2 MegaBytes in size.
2. Illustration and tables should be carefully checked for dimension and resolution. Normally tables should fit in A4 portrait page orientation, although in some cases it needs to be fully stretched in landscape page orientation. Images need to be properly cropped and not over-compressed to maintain eligibility.
3. Vector drawings (such as diagrams, image arts, charts, etc.) in Microsoft Words need to be grouped for shape and design consistency to avoid damage during layout.
4. Any additional documents should be submitted separately (in a separate file) during the submission process.

Abstract and keywords are required upon submission. Make sure that it is already been checked for writing errors before filling the abstract and keyword form. Your abstract should:

1. Provides a synopsis of the entire article.
2. Starts with the broad context of the study, followed by a specific background for the study.
3. Describes the purpose, methods and procedures, core findings and results, and conclusions of the study.
4. Emphasizes new or important aspects of the study.
5. Engages the broad readership of ELT and be understandable to a diverse audience (avoid using jargon).
6. Be a single paragraph of less than 300 words.
7. Not contain citations or uncommon abbreviations.

As parts of Blind Review Policy, every submitted writing should not present the author's name(s); either in the filename or the body text of the file. Once the submission process has been completed, the board of the editor of the journal will notify the author and proceed with the initial review process. Submissions will be checked for writing consistency, adherence to the submission guide, referencing style, and topic relevance. Only accepted paper will be sent to reviewers, whilst the rejected submission will be returned to the author.