Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

All submitted manuscripts must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles should adhere to ethical standards and include a similarity report from plagiarism detection software (Turnitin).

Manuscript preparation

General requirements: Submitted manuscripts must describe original research not previously published and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

When submitting, the authors should be required to confirm that:

The paper, or any version, has not been submitted, or is under review elsewhere
The paper will not be submitted elsewhere until the LJMAS review process is complete
All authors agree to the paper being submitted (need e-mails for all authors and ORCID)
Persons who submit a manuscript for review should suggest the names and e-mail addresses of up to three specialists as peer reviewers in their cover letter. The Editorial Teams reserve the right to decide whether to accept or decline these suggestions, and is not required to communicate their decision to the authors.
All manuscripts must be clearly written in English (American or British usage is accepted but not a mixture of these).

Non-English speaking authors who do not have a good command of written scientific English are kindly advised to seek assistance, before submission, from someone whose native language is English or engage a professional language editing service for help.

Important NOTE: Manuscripts may be editorially rejected, without review, on the basis of poor English or unsuitable for the journal because it does not reach an acceptable level of quality, is outside the scientific aims and scope of the journal or contains evidence of scientific fraud.

Text file formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted as a Word document. The entire manuscript file, including the abstract, experimental section, results and discussion, references and footnotes, must be formatted as single-column, double-spaced text.

The document must be typed in Arial, 10 point, regular, fully justified, normal. Italicize any words that should appear in italics. Don’t use the tab key to indent blocks of text such as paragraphs of quotes or lists.

Fonts and Typography: The Symbol font (rather than the normal text font) must be used for Greek letters and mathematical symbols.

Abbreviations: If abbreviations are used in the text either they should be defined in the text where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided.

Title Page:

Title: should be informative and concise (no more than 2 lines) and describes the topic of the manuscript in terms understandable to a broad readership. Non-standard acronyms or abbreviations should be avoided. Capitalize only the first word of the title

Authors: contains names of all authors and their complete mailing and e-mail addresses. The name of the corresponding author should be marked with(Specified on the Title Page).

Author affiliation: The affiliated institutions are to be listed directly below the names of the authors. Include department, institution, and complete address, with the ZIP/postal code, for each author. Multiple affiliations should be marked with superscript Arabic numbers, and they should each start on a new line.

Abstract: A maximum of 350 words summarizing the research aims, methods, findings, and significance.

Keywords: 3–7 relevant terms for indexing purposes.

Main Sections:

Introduction

The introduction should start in page 1 after abstract. It should contain a clear statement of the problem, the relevant literature on the subject, and the proposed approach or solution and state the objective(s) of the work [1].

The main-headers: Introduction, Methods and Materials, Results and Discussion, Conclusion and References should be typed in sentence case, bold and placed flush left. Leave two lines after the main-header and for all new paragraphs. Each new paragraph should be indented by 0.3 inch. Sub-headings (if applicable) should be in sentence case, bold and Arial, and placed flush left. The final copy of manuscript (camera ready format) should include galley proof (acknowledgment, Author Contributions, Disclosure of Conflict of Interest and Compliance with Ethical Standards).

Materials and Methods

It should be completed enough to allow experiments to be reproduced. However, only truly new procedures should be described in detail, previously published procedures should be cited, and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Use past tense in methodology part [2-5].

2.1 Sub-headings One

 

It should be in sentence case, bold and Arial, and placed flush left. Type the contents in one column.

2.2 Sub-headings Two

It should be in sentence case, bold and Arial, and placed flush left. Type the contents in one column.

Results and Discussion

Results and Discussion should be written in the same section. It should be presented with clarity, clear and precision. The results should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the authors' experiments. Results should contain at least one aspect of imaging and analysis technique including electron microscopy or other imaging devices. The discussion should interpret the findings in view of the problem statement and results obtained in this and in past studies [6].

Conclusion

Acknowledgements (if any)

Conflict of interest

Work ethics

Figures and Tables:

• High-resolution images (300 dpi minimum).
• Numbered sequentially (e.g., Table 1, Figure 1).
• Include captions for each figure or table.

Citations

All text references should be consecutively numbered parenthetically e.g. [1] or [1, 2], [3-5] or [2-4,7-10]. Example: Somebody et al. [7] reported that the …..etc.

References:

Organized by number in the order they were cited in the text. Reference list format should be in numbered list of [1], [2], [3]. Use full name of journal references and Arial font. Author names should be written in Surname First Name order. Example: If full name is Minah Jarinah Bakar. Example: If full name is Jaminah Galaksi Bakar, so the reference will be Bakar J.G. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list. It is highly recommended to use recent references from the past five years. For review articles, a minimum of 20 references and a maximum of approximately 30 references are required during submission. Please note that the number of references in reviewed articles may exceed the specified maximum limit.

 

 [BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR]

Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2019). Five pillars of the mind: Redesigning education to suit the brain. WW Norton & Company.

[BOOK WITH MULTIPLE AUTHORS]

 Parsons, T. D., Lin, L., & Cockerham, D. (Eds.). (2018). Mind, brain and technology: Learning in the age of emerging technologies. Springer.

[DIGITAL JOURNAL ARTICLE]

1. Featherston, R. J., Shlonsky, A., Lewis, C., Luong, M. L., Downie, L. E., Vogel, A. P., ... & Galvin, K. (2018). Interventions to mitigate bias in social work decision-making: A systematic review. Research on Social Work Practice, 29(7), 741-752, https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731518819160
2. Hobbiss, M. H., Massonnié, J., Tokuhama‐Espinosa, T., Gittner, A., de Sousa Lemos, M. A., Tovazzi, A., ... & Gous, I. (2019). “UNIFIED”: Bridging the Researcher–Practitioner Divide in Mind, Brain, and Education. Mind, Brain, and Education, 13(4), 298- 312, https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12223

[DIGITAL NEWSPAPER]

3. Begley, S. (2005). Beware of the cognitive brain paparazzi lurking in brain science labs. Wall Street Journal, Science section, (Mar 18). Downloaded 14 de September 2009 from http://agelessmarketing.typepad.com/ageless_marketing/2005/03/beware_of_cogni.html

[DISSERTATION OR THESIS]

4. Amato, V. (2005). An exploration of teacher understanding and use of brain research in the instruction of young adolescents. Dissertation (M.S.), Texas Woman's University, Texas. AAT 1425943.

[DOCUMENTS FROM THE INTERNET: Blogs, Videos, Webpages]

5. (2010, October 29). E-ZPass is a life-saver (literally) [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/e-zpass-is-a-life-saver-literally/
6. Stanford University. (2019). Stanford Social Learning Lab [webpage]. http://sll.stanford.edu/
7. Walker, M. (2019). Sleep is your superhuman power. [video]. Ted Talk. Retrieved 10 Nov 2019 https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_walker_sleep_is_your_superpower

[REFERENCE FROM REPORT]

8. Robinson, D. N. (2023). A Unified Creep-Pasticity Model for Structural Metals at High Temperature. (Report ORNL/TM-5969, Oak Ridge National Laboratory).

[REFERENCE FROM DISSERTATION OR THESIS]

9. Othman, S. Z. & Izrail M.J. (2020). Synthesis & Characterization of Hydroxyapatite Bioceramics. (M. Eng. Thesis, University Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia) pp. 40-50.

[JOURNAL ARTICLE]

10. Darling-Hammond, L., Flook, L., Cook-Harvey, C., Barron, B., & Osher, D. (2019). Implications for educational practice of the science of learning and development. Applied Developmental Science, 1-44.
11. van Atteveldt, N., Tijsma, G., Janssen, T., & Kupper, F. (2019). Responsible research and innovation as a novel approach to guide educational impact of Mind, Brain, and Education research. Mind, Brain, and Education, 13(4), 279-287.

[CHAPTER IN A BOOK]

12. Coch, D. (2018). Reading from a mind, brain, and education perspective. In M.S. Schwartz & E.J. Paré-Blagoev (Eds.) Research in mind, brain, and education (pp. 97-132). Routledge.
13. Hamilton, R. B., & Newman, J. P. (2018). The response modulation hypothesis: Formulation, development, and implications for psychopathy. In C. J. Patrick (Ed.), Handbook of psychopathy(2nd ed., pp. 80–93). Guilford Press.

[REFERENCE FROM CONFERENCE PROCEEDING]

14. Kusrini, E., Pudjiastuti, A.R., Astutiningsih, S. & Harjanto, S. (2022). Preparation of hydroxyapatite from bovine bone by combination methods of ultrasonic and spray drying. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Chemical, Bio-Chemical and Environmental Sciences (ICBEE’2012), Singapore, 14–15 Dec 2019.

[Reference from patent]

15. Ghatak, S. (2019). Immunization testing system (U.S. Patent No. 10,788,482). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

NOTE: The APA 7^th Edition is active as of Spring 2019. For the most notable changes, see:

Scribbr. (2019). APA Manual 7th edition: The most notable changes. Retrieved 10 Nov 2019 from https://www.scribbr.com/apa-style/apa-seventh-edition-changes/