Author Guidelines

The manuscript should be an original research paper that sufficiently contributes novelty to mathematics education. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using the Hexagon: Jurnal Ilmu dan Pendidikan Matematika online submission procedure. The Editors will ignore submissions that do not follow these procedures.

General Guidelines

All manuscripts must be submitted to Heaxagon JIPM Editorial Office by Online Submission at the E-Journal portal address: http://jurnal.ut.ac.id/index.php/hexagon_jipm, where the author registers as Author and/or offered as Reviewer online. If authors have any problems with the online submission, please contact the Editorial Office at the following email: jurnalhexagonfkip@gmail.com

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template (download the MS Word article template here).

Review and Revision

Every submitted paper is independently reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based on their reports/recommendations. 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.

Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised manuscripts can be sent to the editorial office through the Online Submission Interface (http://jurnal.ut.ac.id/index.php/hexagon_jipm). The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

Pictures of work

A Graphical abstract is mandatory for this journal. It should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that represent the work described in the article. The provided images should have good visibility, clear, not blurry, have high resolution, and if it was a picture of human handwriting it should be readable.

Submission Flow

The author should first register as an Author and/or be offered as a Reviewer through the following address: https://jurnal.ut.ac.id/index.php/hexagon_jipm/user/register

The author should fill the form as detailed as possible where the star-marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, the Author clicked on the “Register” button to proceed with the registration. Therefore, the Author is brought to the online author submission interface where the Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start, a New Submission section, click on “’ Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission processes”. The following are five steps in the online submission process:

  1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Articles, or Short Communication. Thus, the author must check on the submission checklists.
  2. 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.
  3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detailed 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.
  4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary files 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.
  5. 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, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors can track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes the status of the manuscript review and editorial process.

 

Manuscript Structure

1. Title. The title should be clear and informative, and not more than 14 words.

2. Author's names and institutions. The author's names should be accompanied by the author's institutions and email addresses, without any academic title. For a joint paper, one of the authors should be notified as to the corresponding author.

3. Abstract and keywords. The abstract contained 150-200 words. Please provide the abstract in both English and Indonesian versions. The keywords should be of 3 to 5 words or phrases. 

4. Introduction. This section explains the background of the study, a review of the previous researches in the area, and aims of the manuscripts. Importantly it should also show the significance and novelty of the research.

5. Methods. This section describes the appropriate tools of analysis along with the data and their sources.

6. Results. This section explains the results of the study. It should be presented clearly and concisely.

7. Discussion. This section links the research findings with previous research findings and relevant theories, the contribution of the work to the education literature, research limitations and implications for practice and future research.

8. Conclusion. This section concludes and provides policy implications, if any, of the study. The conclusion(s) should be in the same order with ones discussed in the body of the manuscript.

9. Acknowledgement (if any).

10. References. This section lists only the papers, books, or other types of publications referred to in the body of the manuscript (note: The manuscript is expected to involve approximately 15-25 primary and up-to-date references to assert high-quality contributions to knowledge development).