Jambura Geo Education Journal (JGEJ)

Jambura Geo Education Journal (JGEJ) welcomes high-quality empirical and theoretical studies at the intersection of geography education and human/social geography. Before submitting a manuscript, authors should read and follow these guidelines and use the official JGEJ manuscript template.

1. Scope and Suitability

JGEJ publishes research that makes a clear contribution to geography as a field of teaching, learning, and socio-spatial inquiry. Submitted manuscripts should demonstrate an explicit geographical framework or spatial perspective and contribute to geography education, human/social geography, or their intersection.

The journal particularly welcomes studies on:

• geography teaching, learning, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and instructional design;
• spatial literacy, spatial thinking, geographic reasoning, and place-based learning;
• GIS, remote sensing, digital mapping, geospatial media, and technology-enhanced geography learning;
• environmental, disaster, sustainability, and citizenship education;
• human and social geography, including mobility, inequality, identity, territoriality, urban and rural transformation, and human-environment relations; and
• tourism, culture, community, and development studies with a substantive geographical or socio-spatial analysis.

JGEJ does not prioritize manuscripts focused mainly on law, management, communication, general social issues, tourism, development, or general education when they lack a clear geographical, spatial, geography-learning, or geospatial-practice contribution.

2. Before You Begin

Originality and exclusive submission. Submit only original work that has not been published and is not under consideration by another journal. Authors must not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time.

Research integrity. Authors must report the work accurately and objectively. Data, methods, findings, figures, maps, and other evidence must be presented truthfully. Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and misleading presentation are unacceptable.

Similarity and plagiarism. JGEJ uses Turnitin for similarity checking. The maximum permitted similarity index is 20%. Manuscripts exceeding this threshold will be returned for correction and resubmission. Verbatim material from another source must be clearly quoted, cited, and, where required, used with permission from the copyright holder.

Authorship. Authorship is limited to people who made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study. The corresponding author must ensure that all eligible co-authors are included, all authors have approved the final manuscript, and all have agreed to submission to JGEJ.

Funding and competing interests. Disclose all financial support and any financial, institutional, professional, or personal relationship that may reasonably be perceived to influence the study, its analysis, or interpretation.

Research ethics. Where research involves human participants, personal data, schools, communities, or other ethically sensitive contexts, authors must obtain the required consent and approval and describe relevant ethical safeguards in the manuscript.

3. Generative AI and AI-Assisted Tools

Generative AI and AI-assisted tools may support manuscript preparation, such as language improvement, literature synthesis, or content organization, but they must not replace the authors' critical thinking, expertise, or scholarly judgment. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, originality, objectivity, and ethical compliance of the submitted work.

Authors must include an AI declaration statement when they use generative AI or AI-assisted tools in preparing the manuscript. Basic spelling, grammar, and punctuation checks do not require disclosure. Any AI use in the research process must be described in sufficient detail in the Research Methodology section.

AI tools must not be listed as authors or co-authors. Generative AI must not be used to create or alter figures, images, maps, or graphical abstracts, except where image generation is an explicit part of the research methodology and is fully described in a reproducible manner. Limited technical adjustments that do not distort data, such as brightness or contrast correction, are permitted.

4. Manuscript Preparation

Language. JGEJ accepts manuscripts in English. Authors should use clear, grammatically correct academic English and apply either American or British spelling consistently.

File and template. Submit the manuscript in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) and prepare it with the official JGEJ manuscript template.

Length. The manuscript should contain 4,000 to 8,000 words, unless the editorial office instructs otherwise.

Page setup. Use A4 paper (21 × 29.7 cm), single-column layout, and 2 cm margins on the top, bottom, left, and right.

Typeface and spacing. Use Times New Roman, 11 pt, single-spaced for the main text. Use Times New Roman, 14 pt, bold for the title and Times New Roman, 9 pt for the abstract and keywords, as set in the official template.

5. Article Structure

Prepare the manuscript in the following order:

1. Title. Use a concise and informative title. Apply Title Case and bold text. Keep articles, conjunctions, and short prepositions in lowercase unless they are the first or last word.
2. Author information. Provide each author's full name, institutional affiliation, country, and email address. Clearly identify the corresponding author. For the initial double-blind review file, remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding statements, and other identifying information from the manuscript. Enter complete author details in OJS metadata.
3. Abstract. Write a concise factual abstract in English. State the problem or objective, method, main findings, and principal contribution. Do not include citations, tables, figures, or unsupported claims.
4. Keywords. Provide 3 to 6 English keywords that accurately represent the article and support indexing.
5. Introduction. Establish the research problem, its significance, relevant scholarship, the research gap, and the research objective, question, or hypothesis. Explain the geographical, spatial, educational, or socio-spatial relevance of the study.
6. Methodology. Describe the research design, study area or setting, participants or sample, data sources, instruments, collection procedures, ethics, and analytic procedures with enough detail for readers to assess the evidence.
7. Findings. Present evidence in a clear and logical sequence that directly addresses the research objective or question. Avoid repeating the same evidence in text, tables, figures, and maps.
8. Discussion. Present the findings and discussion as separate sections. Interpret the findings, relate them to relevant literature and the conceptual framework, explain their contribution, and state important limitations.
9. Conclusion. Directly answer the research objective or question, state the study's contribution, and provide implications or suggestions supported by the findings. Do not introduce new evidence in the conclusion.
10. References. Use APA style consistently. Every in-text citation must appear in the reference list and every reference-list entry must be cited in the text.

6. Tables, Figures, Maps, and Other Visual Materials

Tables, figures, photographs, diagrams, and maps must be numbered consecutively, cited in the text, and accompanied by clear titles or captions. Each visual item must be legible at publication size and must add information that is not unnecessarily repeated in the main text.

Maps and spatial visualizations should contain appropriate geographic context, symbols, labels, legends, scale information, coordinate information where relevant, and a data-source statement. Authors are responsible for securing permission to reproduce copyrighted material and for acknowledging all sources.

7. References

JGEJ requires the American Psychological Association (APA) reference style. Authors are encouraged to use a reference manager, such as Mendeley, and should verify every reference before submission.

• Prioritize peer-reviewed journal articles, research reports, and conference proceedings as primary references.
• Use relevant and recent sources where recent scholarship is available.
• Include a DOI or stable URL for each reference when available.
• Ensure that author names, publication years, titles, volume and issue numbers, page ranges, and DOIs are accurate.
• Do not include uncited references or citations without a matching reference-list entry.

8. Submission through OJS

1. Register for an author account or log in to the JGEJ OJS website.
2. Start a new submission and select the appropriate journal section.
3. Confirm the submission preparation checklist, including originality and double-blind review requirements.
4. Upload the blinded manuscript in Microsoft Word format and any required supplementary files.
5. Enter complete and accurate metadata for all authors, title, abstract, keywords, references, funding information, and AI declaration where applicable.
6. Review the submission carefully and complete the confirmation step.

The corresponding author is responsible for monitoring the submission in OJS and responding to editorial communications. Authors agree to participate in the editorial process until the manuscript is accepted or rejected. To withdraw a manuscript, contact the editor by email.

9. Peer Review and Editorial Decisions

JGEJ applies a double-blind peer-review process. A manuscript that passes initial editorial screening is evaluated by at least two independent reviewers. The editor may appoint a third reviewer when necessary. Editors make the final decision based on reviewer reports and the Editorial Board's assessment.

Authors receiving a revision decision should submit a revised manuscript and a clear response to each reviewer and editor comment within the specified period. A request for major revision does not guarantee acceptance.

10. After Acceptance

Proofs. The corresponding author will receive proofs for final checking. Check the text, tables, figures, maps, references, author details, and layout carefully. Changes at this stage should be limited to correcting production or factual errors.

Publication fee. There is no submission fee. For accepted articles, JGEJ currently charges an Article Publication Fee of IDR 2,500,000 for authors or institutions in Indonesia. Authors from outside Indonesia are not charged a publication fee. The fee supports DOI registration, similarity checking, layout editing, and journal publication.

Open access and copyright. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Authors retain copyright and may share or reuse the published work with appropriate acknowledgement of its initial publication in JGEJ.

Corrections after publication. Authors who discover a significant error or inaccuracy in a published article must promptly notify the editor and cooperate in issuing a correction, erratum, or retraction where necessary.

11. Contact

Editorial Office, Jambura Geo Education Journal
Geography Education Study Program, FMIPA, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo
Prof. Dr. Ing. B. J. Habibie Street, Moutong, Tilongkabila, Bone Bolango 96119, Gorontalo, Indonesia
WhatsApp/chat: +62 853-9882-5637
Email: [email protected]