Submissions

Online Submissions

Already have a Username/Password for Solution, Journal of Counseling and Personal Development?
Go to Login

Need a Username/Password?
Go to Registration

Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions.

 

Author Guidelines

  1. Manuscript to be sent for publication in the journal of Solution, Journal of Counseling and Personal Development must be about research, theory, practice, literature review and policy in educational psychology and counseling.
  2. Manuscripts are written in English and or in Bahasa Indonesia. The language and styles used in the body of the manuscript are to be considered as one aspect of manuscript evaluation. The writer is advised to maintain accuracy including, for example, the use of a proofreader’s services. Authors have the responsibility to avoid plagiarism at all costs and should follow appropriate writing techniques. The editor will examine the resemblance of texts using computer software (e.g., Turnitin), allowing tolerance of not more than 20%, before sending the manuscript to the reviewer.
  3. In general, an article is between 3,000 and 7.000 words in length including the title, abstract, tables, and references. Page numbers are not needed. The body of the article consists of four main sections; namely: a) introduction (20%) should contain (in sequence) a general background, a review of previous literature (state of the art) as the basis for the statement of scientific novelty of the article, a statement of scientific novelty, and the research problem or hypothesis, b) method (10%) section contains the research design, research subjects, instruments, data collection procedures, and data analysis which are presented in paragraph form, c) results and discussion (60%) contains research findings obtained from research data and related to the hypothesis and discussion of research results and comparison with similar theories and/or research, d) conclusion (5%) section answers the hypothesis, research objectives and research findings as well as suggestions regarding further ideas from the research, and e) references (5%) all references referred to in the article text must be listed in the References section. Writing references (bibliography) uses the APA 6th edition style and it is recommended to use the Mendeley application or similar. The reference list is also an important part of the article. It is advisable to include only internationally accessible, reliable, and reputable references.
  4. To make it easier please download this Template
  5. Any images, graphs, and tables are presented in the following arrangement:
  • Image photographs must be sharp enough to be printed on glossy paper.
  • Image, graph, and table size should meet the journal page setup.
  • Images and graphs are adjustable to be printed on white paper and black ink.
  • All of these should be numbered and referred to in the text.
  1. The journal accepts submissions through the Online Journal Sistem (OJS)

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal, Solution, Journal of Counseling and Personal Development, agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

 

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Fast-Track Review: 0.00 (IDR)
With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript is guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks.

Article Publication: 0.00 (IDR)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.

If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.