Author Guidelines

1. Articles submitted to the Journal should normally be 5,000 to 7,000 words or 12-17 pages with a single space. They should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words, containing the importance of the topic, the gap between theory and practice and expectation, objectives of the present study, method, findings, and conclusion.
2. On the abstract, explicitly write in bold: Introduction, the objective of the papers, the method, findings, and conclusion.
3. Below the abstract, about three to five keywords should appear together with the article's main body with a font size of 10.
4. The Journal operates a peer review process and promotes blind reviewing. To facilitate this process, the author's names (without academic titles), institutional affiliations, and the corresponding author's email address would not appear.
5. Contributor(s) should include a short CV describing his/her/their current position and activities in not more than 80 words.
6. Articles should be written in English in single and half-space, using Microsoft Word, font size 11, Book Antiqua, top 0.5 cm and bottom margin 2.75 cm, left and right margin 1.52 cm, printed in A4.
7. Insert a header on an even page indicating the name of the Journal, Volume, Number, month, year, and page number of the publication. On the odd page, insert the author(s) and a few words of the title of the articles.
8. Footnotes should appear at the end of the text, not at the foot of the relevant page. The page number should be placed at the bottom and on the right.
9. Write the main body of the article in one column. Use the first line indent of 1 cm, but no indent for the first paragraph right after the main title and the first paragraph after the subheadings.
10. Block citation should be 1 cm indented with the font size 11.
11. For research-based articles, the outline is an introduction (without heading or subheading), method, results and discussions, conclusion, and references.
12. The title should be less than 12 words, capitalized, and centered, with a font size of 11.
13. The introduction should consist of the background of the study, research contexts, literary review, and research objective. All introductions should be presented in paragraphs, not pointers, with a proportion of 15-20% of the whole article length.
14. The method section consists of a description concerning the research design, data sources, data collection, and data analysis, with a proportion of 10-15% of the total article length, all presented in paragraphs.
15. The results and discussion section consist of a description of the results of the data analysis to answer the research question(s) and their meanings seen from current theories and references of the area addressed. The proportion of this section is 40-60% of the total article length.
16. The conclusion consists of a summary and restatement of the main findings.
17. Use only horizontal lines when using tables. Put the table number and the table's title on top of it.
18. Every source cited in the body of the article should appear in the reference, and all sources appearing in the reference should be cited in the body of the article.
19. The sources cited should have at least 80% come from those published in the last ten years. The sources cited are primary sources in the form of journal articles, books, and research reports, including theses and dissertations. Citations from the journal should be at least 80% of the total references cited.
20. Citation is done using brackets (last name and year of publication). The page number is included when the sources are cited verbatim (p.78 or pp. 78-89).
21. Proofs will be sent to the author's account for correction and should be resubmitted to https://jurnal.tintaemas.id/index.php/ETS/index by the deadline given.
22. Plagiarism results in no more than 20% (check by Turnitin and Plagiarism Checker X).
23. Quotation and references follow APA style, and the latter should be included at the end of the article in the following examples: