AUTHOR GUIDELINES

AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan
Manuscript Preparation, Anonymous Submission, and Publication Requirements
Aligned with the Official Manuscript Template 2026
Mandatory Requirements Before Submission

Use the official 2026 manuscript template. Authors must follow its required manuscript structure, typography, paragraph formatting, table and figure captions, declarations, and reference style.

English-language requirement (effective from Volume 3, Issue 1 [2026]): All manuscripts must be written in English.

Submit an anonymous review manuscript. Author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, and identifying acknowledgments must not appear in the reviewer-accessible manuscript. Complete author information must be entered in OJS.

Remove all instructional content. Delete FORMAT GUIDE boxes, EXAMPLE labels, hypothetical example text, instructional subsections, and the final submission-check instructions before uploading the manuscript.

Quick Information
Journal Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan
Field Educational Technology
e-ISSN 3047-7557
Language English; mandatory for all manuscripts from Volume 3, Issue 1 (2026)
Publication Frequency May and November
Peer Review Double-blind peer review
Manuscript Template Official BTEP Manuscript Template 2026
Main Body Font Cambria 11 pt; 1.15 line spacing
Abstract Maximum 200 words; Cambria 10 pt
References APA 7th edition
License CC BY 4.0
Submission Online through OJS

1. General Information

Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal in educational technology. It publishes original research articles and scholarly studies contributing to educational technology theory, research, innovation, and practice.

Authors must examine the journal's Focus and Scope, follow the current official manuscript template, and comply with the editorial and ethical requirements before submission.

Submitted manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

The journal requires an anonymous manuscript for double-blind peer review.

2. Scope of Submission

Manuscripts must be relevant to educational technology and related fields identified in the journal's official Focus and Scope.

Authors should demonstrate the research problem, contribution, and relevance to educational technology scholarship or professional practice.

Manuscripts outside the journal's scope may be declined during preliminary editorial screening without external peer review.

3. Language

Effective from Volume 3, Issue 1 (2026), all manuscripts submitted to the journal must be written in English. Manuscripts must be prepared in clear, grammatically accurate, and academically appropriate English.

Authors are responsible for ensuring consistent spelling, terminology, academic expression, and readability. Editors may request language corrections when necessary.

Section headings, captions, table content, and figure labels should be in English unless original-language material is necessary for accurate scholarly reporting.

4. Manuscript Preparation

4.1. Mandatory Official Template

Authors must use the official BTEP Manuscript Template 2026. The template provides the prescribed manuscript layout and formatting conventions. Authors must retain its journal identity elements, publication placeholders, and prescribed formatting while replacing instructional material with their actual manuscript content.

Do not replace the template's journal header, footer, e-ISSN, or publication-license indication with an independently designed layout. Editorial production information must not be invented by authors.

4.2. Required Formatting

Component Requirement
Article title Cambria 14 pt; use the template's title formatting.
Main section headings Cambria 11 pt, bold, uppercase, left aligned.
Subsection headings Cambria 11 pt, bold, Title Case, left aligned; use when needed.
Main body Cambria 11 pt, 1.15 line spacing, justified, 0.5 cm first-line indentation.
Abstract Cambria 10 pt, single line spacing, justified, one paragraph, no first-line indentation; maximum 200 words.
Table captions Cambria 10 pt, centered, above the table.
Figure captions Cambria 10 pt, centered, below the figure.
Declarations Cambria 11 pt, 1.15 spacing; labels in bold Title Case.
References Cambria 10.5 pt, single line spacing, left aligned, 0.5-inch hanging indentation; APA 7.

4.3. Required Manuscript Structure

The template establishes the following main manuscript sections:

  1. Article Title, Abstract, and Keywords;
  2. Introduction;
  3. Method;
  4. Results and Discussion;
  5. Conclusion;
  6. Declarations; and
  7. References.

Subsections may be introduced when they improve clarity, reproducibility, or organization. The template does not require every possible subsection to be used.

Subsections should follow the content and hierarchy of the corresponding main section. Numbering of subsections is generally unnecessary unless the manuscript structure genuinely requires it.

4.4. Section-Specific Content

Introduction: Establish the research context and problem, synthesize relevant literature, identify the research gap and novelty, and conclude with the study objective, research question, or hypothesis.

Method: Explain the research design, setting, participants or sample, sampling procedures, instruments, implementation, data collection, analysis, and validity, reliability, or trustworthiness procedures as applicable. Provide ethical information when required.

Results and Discussion: Present appropriate evidence and interpret the findings in relation to research questions, theory, and previous scholarship. Explain implications, contributions, and limitations. Subsections are recommended when multiple findings, themes, or outcomes require separate treatment.

Conclusion: Answer the research objective or question directly, synthesize the principal findings, and identify their significance. Avoid simply reproducing the Results and Discussion. Recommendations and future research directions may be included when appropriate.

4.5. Tables, Figures, and Equations

  • Number tables consecutively in the order they are first cited.
  • Place table captions above tables using Cambria 10 pt and centered alignment.
  • Number figures consecutively in the order they are first cited.
  • Place figure captions below figures using Cambria 10 pt and centered alignment.
  • Refer to numbered items directly, for example, "Table 1" or "Figure 1", rather than "the table below" or "the figure above".
  • Use clear, publication-quality figures. Avoid screenshots when an original editable graphic or high-resolution image is available.
  • Use Microsoft Word's References > Insert Caption and References > Cross-reference where automatic numbering is appropriate. Update fields after editing.
  • Create equations using Microsoft Word Equation Editor or MathType rather than inserting equations as images.
  • When an equation is referenced, show its number in parentheses at the right margin, consistent with the template.
  • Provide attribution and permissions for adapted or reproduced materials where required.

4.6. Anonymous Review Manuscript

The manuscript file submitted for peer review must be anonymous. Do not include author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, author biographies, identifying acknowledgments, or other direct authorship information.

Complete author information must be entered in OJS. If the editorial office requests a separate title page, it must be submitted as an editor-only file and not assigned for reviewer access.

Remove author-identifying information from Word document properties, comments, tracked changes, hidden text, file names, and reviewer-accessible supplementary materials.

Self-citations should remain accurate and use objective third-person wording. Authors must not omit relevant scholarly references solely to conceal authorship.

Ethics, funding, contributions, repository, and acknowledgment information that would disclose identity should be appropriately anonymized or temporarily withheld from reviewer-accessible files. Complete information must remain available to the editorial office where necessary.

Identifying information will be restored to the final production manuscript after acceptance in accordance with editorial instructions.

4.7. Removing Template Instructions

The distributed manuscript template includes instructional materials and illustrative text. Authors must remove all of these before submission.

  • Delete all blue FORMAT GUIDE boxes.
  • Delete all EXAMPLE and EXAMPLE SUBSECTION labels.
  • Replace every hypothetical example paragraph with the author's own scholarly content.
  • Replace example tables, figures, captions, equations, and references with actual material where applicable.
  • Remove instructional explanations about Microsoft Word features from the submitted manuscript.
  • Remove the FINAL SUBMISSION CHECK instruction block after completing the checks.
  • Preserve the required scholarly sections, journal layout, and applicable declaration labels.

Do not submit an unedited demonstration copy of the template.

4.8. Editorial Production Information

Article-history dates, DOI, volume, issue, page numbers, and other production metadata are completed or assigned by the editorial office. Authors must not invent or preassign these details.

5. Title, Abstract, and Keywords

Title: Use a clear, specific, informative title that accurately represents the study. The template specifies Cambria 14 pt. Authors must follow its prescribed placement and formatting.

Abstract: Provide a single paragraph of no more than 200 words, formatted in Cambria 10 pt, single line spacing, justified, without first-line indentation.

The abstract should summarize the research problem or context, objective, method, principal results, and main conclusion or implication. Do not create abstract subsections. Avoid unexplained abbreviations and unnecessary citations.

Keywords: Provide relevant terms that represent the central topic and support discovery. Replace all keyword placeholders in the template with actual keywords and follow the prescribed format.

The journal template does not establish a separate numerical limit for the article title or mandatory fixed keyword count in these guidelines.

The title, abstract, and keywords must not reveal author identity in the anonymous review file.

6. Author Names and Affiliations

All author names, affiliations, corresponding author information, and other required identifying metadata must be entered accurately in the OJS submission system.

ORCID identifiers are encouraged where available.

No author names, affiliations, email addresses, corresponding-author information, or ORCID identifiers may appear in the anonymous review manuscript.

When requested, a separate title page may be uploaded for editorial access only. The editorial office must ensure that identifying files are not made available to reviewers.

Following acceptance, the editorial office will instruct authors on restoring complete author information to the publication version.

7. Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship must reflect substantial intellectual contributions to the conception, design, execution, analysis, interpretation, or preparation of the research.

All authors must approve the submitted manuscript and accept responsibility for its integrity and accuracy.

Guest, honorary, and ghost authorship are prohibited.

Requests to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must be justified and approved by affected authors. Changes after acceptance are considered only in exceptional circumstances.

The official template includes an Author Contributions declaration. For the anonymous review version, identifying contribution details should be withheld when necessary. The template permits the statement: Author contribution details are withheld during review and will be supplied after acceptance.

Complete contributions must be accurately provided for the production version.

8. Originality and Plagiarism

Submitted work must be original and appropriately acknowledge existing scholarship.

Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate text recycling, citation manipulation, and other misconduct are not acceptable.

Manuscripts may be evaluated through similarity-screening software and editorial assessment.

The journal does not require authors to cite articles from Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan solely to increase journal citation counts. All references must be selected for scholarly relevance.

Self-citation must remain bibliographically accurate during anonymization.

9. Citation and References

Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan uses APA 7th edition.

All reference entries must use Cambria 10.5 pt, single line spacing, left alignment, and a 0.5-inch hanging indent.

Examples of APA 7 in-text citations include:

  • Parenthetical: (Author, 2024).
  • Narrative: Author (2024) reported that ...
  • Two authors: (Author & Author, 2024).
  • Three or more authors: (Author et al., 2024).
  • Multiple sources: (Author, 2022; Author & Author, 2024).
  • Direct quotation: (Author, 2024, p. 15).

Every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference-list entry, and every reference-list entry should be cited in the text.

Verify author names, dates, titles, source names, volume and issue details, article numbers or page ranges, and DOI links or stable URLs where available.

Relevant current scholarship should be prioritized where appropriate, while seminal and primary sources may be retained when necessary. The template does not impose a mandatory five-year publication window for references.

Fabricated, unverifiable, or misleading references are prohibited.

10. Research Ethics and Informed Consent

Research involving human participants, identifiable personal data, or activities requiring ethical oversight must comply with applicable ethical, institutional, and legal requirements.

Where necessary, obtain ethics approval before data collection and provide appropriate informed consent information.

Studies involving children, students, vulnerable groups, photographs, recordings, or identifiable personal information require appropriate protections and permissions.

The official template includes an Ethics Approval and Informed Consent declaration. Authors must accurately state the approval authority and reference number when applicable, or explain why approval or consent was not required.

"Not applicable" may be used only when genuinely justified.

Where an institution or approval identifier may reveal authorship, an appropriately anonymized statement may appear in the review manuscript while complete details are supplied confidentially to the editorial office.

11. Conflict of Interest

Authors must disclose actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest that could influence research conduct, analysis, interpretation, or publication.

The official template contains a Conflict of Interest declaration.

When no conflict exists:
The authors declare no conflict of interest.

If a disclosure could identify an author, identifying details should be managed confidentially during review while preserving complete disclosure to the editorial office.

Disclosure does not automatically prevent publication.

12. Funding Disclosure

All funding sources and grant numbers must be reported when applicable, together with relevant information about the funder's involvement.

The official template contains a Funding declaration.

When no external funding was received:
This research received no external funding.

Funding details that would identify the authors should be managed appropriately during double-blind review. Complete disclosures must remain available to the editorial office and be restored for final publication where applicable.

13. Data Availability and Research Transparency

Research methods, analyses, and reporting must provide sufficient transparency for scholarly evaluation.

The official template includes a Data Availability Statement. Authors should identify where supporting data are available or explain legitimate restrictions arising from participant confidentiality, consent, ethics, law, or institutional requirements.

Examples:

The data supporting the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [persistent identifier or URL].

The data are not publicly available because they contain information subject to participant confidentiality requirements.

Data sharing is not applicable to this article because no new datasets were generated or analyzed.

Choose and adapt only the statement that accurately reflects the study. Remove all instructional placeholders.

Repository links, supplementary materials, and dataset metadata must be checked for identifying information during anonymous review.

14. Use of Artificial Intelligence

Authors may use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies responsibly and transparently, subject to the journal's applicable policy.

AI tools must not be listed as authors or co-authors. Human authors remain responsible for accuracy, originality, academic integrity, and all submitted content.

The official template includes an AI Use Disclosure. Where disclosure is required, identify the tool and explain its purpose, for example language editing, brainstorming, or another permitted activity.

Example when AI was used:

During preparation of this manuscript, the authors used [tool name] for [permitted purpose]. The authors reviewed and edited all generated output and take full responsibility for the final content.

Example when AI was not used:

The authors did not use generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in the preparation of this manuscript.

Authors must verify AI-assisted outputs and must not use such tools to fabricate or misleadingly manipulate data, citations, figures, results, or references.

Any identifying disclosure information must be appropriately handled during anonymous review.

15. Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright in their published work.

Authors grant the journal the right of first publication and the non-exclusive right to publish, preserve, distribute, archive, and disseminate the article.

Articles published under the current licensing policy are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license permits sharing and adaptation, including commercial use, subject to appropriate attribution and the conditions of the license.

Historical publications retain their applicable original copyright and license terms.

The template's copyright and license footer must remain consistent with the journal's production requirements.

16. Submission Process

Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's online submission system.

  1. Register or log in to OJS.
  2. Obtain and use the official BTEP Manuscript Template 2026.
  3. Replace all sample content and remove FORMAT GUIDE boxes, example labels, and instructional material.
  4. Check manuscript structure, typography, abstract, tables, figures, equations, declarations, and APA 7 references.
  5. Remove all author-identifying information from the reviewer-accessible manuscript.
  6. Check file properties, comments, tracked changes, supplementary materials, and file names.
  7. Start a new submission in OJS.
  8. Upload the anonymized manuscript and other required files.
  9. Enter complete and accurate metadata for all authors, including title, abstract, and keywords.
  10. Submit a separate title page or confidential identifying declarations when requested by the editorial office, ensuring they are not shared with reviewers.
  11. Review the submission details and confirm completion.

Author information provided in OJS must be accurate, but it must not appear in the anonymous manuscript submitted for peer review.

17. Submission Checklist

  • The manuscript is original and is not under consideration elsewhere.
  • The submission falls within the journal's Focus and Scope.
  • The manuscript uses the official BTEP Manuscript Template 2026.
  • The title is formatted using Cambria 14 pt.
  • The abstract is one paragraph, contains no more than 200 words, and uses Cambria 10 pt with single spacing.
  • The main text uses Cambria 11 pt, 1.15 line spacing, justified alignment, and a 0.5 cm first-line indent.
  • Heading and subsection formatting follows the official template.
  • All tables and figures are numbered, cited, and captioned correctly.
  • Equations are editable and numbered appropriately when referenced.
  • All FORMAT GUIDE boxes, EXAMPLE labels, hypothetical text, and instructional materials have been removed.
  • The review manuscript contains no names, affiliations, emails, ORCID identifiers, or identifying acknowledgments.
  • Document metadata, comments, tracked changes, file names, and supplementary materials have been checked for identifying information.
  • Complete authorship information has been entered in OJS.
  • Applicable ethics, funding, conflicts of interest, data availability, author contributions, and AI use declarations have been addressed.
  • The reference list follows APA 7 and uses Cambria 10.5 pt, single spacing, and a 0.5-inch hanging indent.
  • Every in-text citation matches a reference-list entry and vice versa.
  • DOI links and bibliographic details have been verified where available.
  • Production metadata such as DOI, volume, issue, pages, and article-history dates have not been fabricated.
  • All authors have approved the submission.

Noncompliant submissions may be returned for technical correction before editorial review.

18. Editorial Screening

All submissions undergo an initial editorial assessment.

The editorial team may evaluate scope relevance, originality, scholarly contribution, academic and methodological quality, English-language clarity, ethical compliance, completeness, and adherence to the official template.

Editorial screening includes checking whether the review manuscript has been anonymized and whether instructional material remains in the file.

Manuscripts not meeting basic requirements may be returned for correction or declined before peer review.

19. Peer Review

Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan applies a double-blind peer-review process. Reviewer identities are concealed from authors, and author identities are concealed from reviewers.

Reviewers evaluate manuscripts for originality, scholarly significance, methodological appropriateness, evidence, clarity, relevance, ethical integrity, and contribution to educational technology.

The editorial office is responsible for ensuring that files made accessible to reviewers have been appropriately anonymized.

Reviewers are expected to preserve confidentiality and should not deliberately attempt to identify authors.

Authors may be asked to revise manuscripts in response to editorial or reviewer recommendations.

Manuscript submission does not guarantee acceptance. Editorial decisions remain the responsibility of the journal's editorial team.

20. Revision of Manuscripts

When revision is requested, authors must respond carefully to the comments of editors and reviewers.

Normally, revised submissions should include an updated manuscript and a clear point-by-point response identifying the changes made or explaining academically justified disagreements.

The revised manuscript must continue to follow the official template, including formatting and citation requirements.

All reviewer-accessible revision files and response documents must remain anonymous during peer review.

Authors must recheck document metadata, comments, tracked changes, and embedded material before uploading revised files.

Following acceptance, the editorial office may request a production-ready version containing complete author information and declarations.

21. Complaints and Appeals

Authors may raise complaints concerning editorial procedures, peer review, publication ethics, or other journal-related matters.

An appeal against an editorial decision should provide clear evidence of a significant factual, procedural, or interpretative error.

Complaints and appeals will be assessed fairly and confidentially.

Concerns about potential breaches of double-blind review confidentiality should be reported to the editorial office.

22. Corrections, Retractions, and Withdrawals

The journal is committed to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.

Published errors may be addressed through appropriate correction notices. Articles may be retracted when serious concerns substantially undermine their reliability or integrity.

Published articles will not be silently removed from the scholarly record.

Withdrawal generally applies to manuscripts that have not yet become part of the final published record.

Changes in institutional branding, journal management, website design, or publishing platform are not reasons to remove previously published scholarly content.

23. Archiving and Digital Preservation

Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of scholarly content.

Published articles and issues are maintained electronically through the journal's OJS platform.

The journal works with institutional and technical administrators to maintain suitable backup and preservation arrangements.

Published scholarly records should remain accessible despite future changes in journal management, branding, website design, or publication platforms.

24. Publication Schedule

Jurnal Buana Teknologi Pendidikan is published twice annually, in May and November.

Manuscripts may be submitted throughout the year. Accepted manuscripts are scheduled according to the journal's editorial planning and production capacity.

25. Article Processing Charges and Author Fees

Authors must consult the journal's official Author Fees page for current information about submission fees, article processing charges, publication fees, and other applicable costs.

Any applicable charges must be communicated transparently and must not determine the academic evaluation of a manuscript or the outcome of peer review.

26. Responsibility of Authors

By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that:

  • the submitted work is original and not under consideration elsewhere;
  • all authors have approved the submission;
  • complete and accurate author metadata has been entered in OJS;
  • the anonymous review manuscript contains no identifying authorship information;
  • the official template has been followed;
  • all instructional boxes and illustrative example text have been removed;
  • tables, figures, equations, captions, citations, and references have been verified;
  • research ethics, consent, funding, conflicts of interest, data availability, author contributions, and AI disclosures have been addressed as applicable; and
  • all authors take responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the submitted work.

Authors are expected to cooperate with editors during review, revision, production, and legitimate post-publication investigations.

27. Further Journal Policies

Authors should consult the journal's detailed policies, including Focus and Scope, Peer Review Process, Publication Ethics, Open Access Policy, Copyright and Licensing Policy, Plagiarism Policy, and Author Fees.

Focus and Scope  ·  Peer Review Process  ·  Publication Ethics  ·  Open Access Policy  ·  Copyright and Licensing Policy  ·  Plagiarism Policy  ·  Author Fees

Additional policies concerning authorship, artificial intelligence, research ethics, data availability, complaints and appeals, archiving, and post-publication actions may also be consulted through the journal website.

If any instruction appears inconsistent with the current official template, authors should contact the editorial office before completing submission.

Final Reminder Before Submission
Prepare your manuscript using the official BTEP Manuscript Template 2026. Remove all FORMAT GUIDE boxes, EXAMPLE labels, and illustrative content. Check formatting, scientific reporting, tables, figures, citations, declarations, and APA 7 references. Remove author-identifying information from the review manuscript and provide complete authorship metadata separately through OJS.