Recommendations for authors

Before submitting a paper for our journal, please read the following recommendations carefully.

The Journal of Educational Sciences (JES) is open access, a peer-reviewed academic journal. All the JES s articles and reviews are free to access immediately from the date of publication. There are no submission or article processing charges and no charge for any reader to read, download and use articles and reviews for their scholarly activity if proper credit is given.

All materials are published under an open-access license, with authors retaining full and permanent ownership of their work. JES retains a perpetual, non-exclusive right to publish the work and to include it in other aggregations and indexes to achieve broader impact and visibility.

Authors are free and encouraged to store their work elsewhere, for instance, in institutional repositories or websites such as academia.edu, research gate, to increase circulation.

The authors responsibility is to obtain permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, or figures from other publications. By submitting their work for publication in JES, authors agree to the terms set above.

Before publishing, all papers are subject to similarity index verification using IThenticate antiplagiarism software. Antiplagiarism policy provided is concerning of:
-  first similarity index < 10%;
-  second similarity index < 7%.


Instructions for the authors:

Download JES template

Every article sent to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Educational Sciences must be original researches or manuscripts not previously published, either in full or preliminary form, in other publications and are not the subject of another peer review process in any other context.

The recommendations below ensure the maintaining of the expected and desirable scientific quality of the journal. The author(s) can send the electronic version, Microsoft Word (.doc), of the articles via e-mail, at the following address: resjournal@e-uvt.ro

The authors should provide a Proofreading Letter from authorized translators for every submitted paper.

The sent papers shall be submitted to a double-blind peer-review. The scientific criteria used by the reviewer are also published. If the article does not respect the technical and editing criteria, it will not be submitted to the peer-review process. The peer-review process results could be the following: accepted unconditionally, accepted with minor revision without further review, accepted with major revision and further review, or rejected. The authors will receive the conclusions and recommendations of peer-reviewers.
The authors of accepted papers would sign the Author Agreement Statement before publishing the article.


Editing criteria:

The accepted publishing language is English.

This journal's paper should be between 4000 and 6000 words, including tables of contents, references, figure captions, and endnotes. The words and quotes in foreign languages should be written in Italics, while English quotes should be written in regular font. Every quote will be referenced according to APA Format 5 th Edition citation norms, in text, avoiding footnotes.

Every author shall insert his name below the paper's title, at the upper right side of the paper, with a footnote that shall stipulate: academic title, institution, city, country, and e-mail.

An abstract of 250-300 words shall precede every text; every abstract shall be followed by a maximum of 5 keywords, separated by semicolons. The recommended paper's structure contains an Introduction, Theoretical background, Methodology, Results, Discussions, and Conclusions.
Complete bibliographical references for works mentioned in the paper should be included as References at the end of the article.


Technical criteria:

Page setup: justified, line spacing: Multiple 1.2 Cambria 12;

Paper Title: aldine (bold), Cambria 14p;

Author(s) Name: Cambria, 12, bold, first page, the upper right side

Text: Cambria, 12; line spacing Multiple 1.2; first paragraph indent: none; following paragraphs indent: 0.3

Abstract: Cambria, 11, italic, Multiple 1.2.

Key-words: 3 to 5 key-words, Cambria, 12, single, separated by a semicolon.

Identification footnote: Cambria, 10, single

References: Cambria, 10, single, hanging at 0.3

References shall be written in APA style format.

For more information on how to cite in APA Format 5 th Edition, check out https://apastyle.apa.org/.