Author Guidelines

All papers submitted to the journal should be written in English or Indonesian.

1. General Author Guidelines
All manuscripts must be submitted to AL JABAR: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Matematika Editorial Office by Online Submission at e-Journal portal address: https://jurnal.staim-probolinggo.ac.id/Al-Jabar, where author register as Author and/or offered as Reviewer by online. If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Editorial Office.

2. Manuscript Template
Manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template (download here).

3. Reviewing of Manuscripts
Every submitted paper is independently reviewed by at least two peer-reviewers. Decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendation. If two or more reviewers consider a manuscript unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors within three months of the submission date.

4. Revision of Manuscripts
Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised manuscripts can be sent to editorial office through the Online Submission Interface (https://jurnal.staim-probolinggo.ac.id/Al-Jabar). The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

5. Editorial Office
All correspondences should be sent to the following Editorial Office:
Editorial Office of AL JABAR: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Matematika
Department of Mathematics Education, STAI Muhammadiyah Probolinggo
Jl. Mahakam No. 1, Kedopok, Probolinggo, Jawa Timur, Indonesia

6. Guideline for Online Submission
The author should fulfill the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, the Author clicks on the “Register” button to proceed with the registration.

Therefore, the Author is brought to an online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. In order to do a New Submission section, click on “Click Here": to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in the online submission process:

Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Article, or Short Communication. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists.

Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click the Upload button.

Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including the marked corresponding author. After that, the manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.

Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter, and Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement Form. Therefore, click on the Browse button, choose the files, and then click on the Upload button.

Step 5 – Confirming the Submission: The author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Infinity, click the Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site.

After this submission, the Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. Submission tracking includes the status of the manuscript review and editorial process.

Articles are full-length research reports that contain detailed descriptions of experimental or theoretical work with clear interpretation and discussion of the theoretical and/or experimental results and data. Articles should be structured under the section headings Abstract in English and Indonesian, Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment (optional) and References.

Title page

The organization shown below should be followed (in the order given):
a. Title of the paper (TNR, UPPERCASE, 14 pt, bold, centered)
b. Author name(s) (TNR, 12 pt, bold, centered)
c. Author affiliation(s) (TNR, 12 pt, centered)
d. E-mail addresses of the corresponding author (TNR, 12 pt, centered)

The title should be brief and should not exceed 20 words. 

Abstract (TNR, 11 pt, italics, justify)

Articles must include an abstract of 200 words or fewer. The abstract should not repeat the information already present in the title. The abstract should be written in both English and Indonesian. The abstract contain introduction, the aim of study, method, subject, results, discussion, and conclusion. 

Keywords (TNR, 11 pt, italics)

Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords written in alphabetical order. Please avoid general terms, multiple concepts (avoid, for example, and or of), and abbreviations. Only abbreviations firmly established in the field are eligible.

Introduction (TNR, 12 pt, bold)

The Introduction presents the purpose of the studies reported and their relationship to earlier work in the field. It should not be an extensive review of the literature. Use only those references required to provide the most salient background to allow the readers to understand and evaluate the purpose and results of the present study without referring to previous publications on the topic.

Methods (TNR, 12 pt, bold)

The Methods sections should be brief, but they should include sufficient technical information to allow the experiments to be repeated by a qualified reader. Only new methods should be described in detail. Cite previously published procedures in References.

Results and Discussion (TNR, 12 pt, bold)

The Results should include the rationale or design of the experiments as well as the results of the experiments. Results can be presented in figures, tables, and text. The Discussion should be an interpretation of the results rather than a repetition of the Results. This section should contain linked the results of previous study with the results of this study. The discussion should interpret the results of this study, either good results or bad results.

Conclusion (TNR, 12 pt, bold)

The Conclusion should contain the confirmation of the problem that has been analyzed in the result and discussion section.

Acknowledgments (TNR, 12 pt, bold)

Place Acknowledgments, including information on the source of any financial support, received for the work being published.

References (TNR, 12 pt, bold)

The Bibliography follows the APA writing guidelines. It must encompass all relevant published works, and all references listed in the bibliography must be cited using reference management software such as Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, etc. The relevance of articles from reputable journals is typically within the last 5-10 years. Each article should have at least 15 references. Ideally, 80% of the references should come from primary sources (national or international journals, seminar proceedings).
Follow the style shown in the example below for books, specific book chapters, and journal articles.

Handayani, S. (2019). Model Pembelajaran Speaking tipe STAD yang Interaktif Fun Game Berbasis Karakter. ponorogo: Uwais inspirasi Indonesia.

Nurhayati, A. S., & Aripin, U. (2020). Students thinking process in solving the problems of social arithmetic stories test based on gender. MaPan: Jurnal Matematika dan Pembelajaran, 8(1), 103-113. https://doi.org/10.24252/mapan.2020v8n1a8

O’Brien, P., Revaprasadu, N. (2013). Solid-State Materials, Including Ceramics and Minerals. In Reedijk, J., Poeppelmeier, K. (eds.), Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II, 2nd ed. Elsevier. United States. pp.xxii-xxiv.

References to papers accepted for publication but not yet published should show the journal name, the probable year of publication (if known), and they should state "in press."

The following types of references are not valid for listing in the References section:

Unpublished data, Personal communication manuscripts in preparation or submitted pamphlets, Abstracts, Patents, Newsletters, and Material that has not been subjected to peer review.

Tables

Tables should be typewritten separately from the main text and preferably in an appropriate font size to fit each table on a separate page. Each table must be numbered with Arabic numerals (e.g., Table 1, Table 2) and include a title. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.), not symbols. Do not use vertical rulings in the tables. Each column in a table must have a heading, and abbreviations, when necessary, should be defined in the footnotes.

Figures

Figures should be provided separately from the main text. Use Arabic numerals to number all figures (e.g., Figure 1, Figure 2) according to their sequence in the text. The figure number must appear well outside the boundaries of the image itself. Multipart figures should be indicated with uppercase and bold font letters (A, B, C, etc.) without parenthesis, both on the figure itself and in the figure legends.