Sosiolium: Jurnal Pembelajaran IPS is published by the Social Sciences Education Study Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Semarang. This scientific journal is one way to improve the competence of the academic community in the form of an articles collection from research conducted by students, especially students of the Social Sciences Education Study Program. Editors accept manuscripts written in Bahasa and English according to applicable rules and have the right to edit manuscripts without reducing their substance. This journal article is composed of titles, abstracts, introductions, materials and methods, results, discussions, conclusions, and a bibliography. This scientific journal article has a very high quality, both in terms of grammar and content.
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.
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).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
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.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
The manuscript is written in English or Bahasa. Manuscripts will be first reviewed by editorial boards. The manuscript must be submitted in a Word document (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) format. The manuscript consists of 5000 words (minimum), well-typed in a single column on A4 size paper, using 12pt of Times New Roman. The manuscript contains an original work and has potentially contributed to the highly scientific advancement.
The manuscript should contain the following section in this order:
a. Title The title of articles in English should describe the main content of manuscripts, be informative, concise, and not too wordy (12-15 words only), and does not contain formulas.
b. The author's name Full name without academic degrees and titles, written in capital letters. Manuscript written by groups needs to be supplemented by complete contact details.
c. Name of affiliation for each author The author's name should be accompanied by a complete affiliation address, postal code number, telephone number, and email address.
d. Abstract Written briefly in English in one paragraph of 150-200 words, containing background, research objectives, methodology, results, the conclusion of the study, and your research contributions to science.
e. Keywords Written in English 3-5 words or groups of words, written alphabetically.
f. Introduction Explaining the background, problems, importance of research, a brief literature review that relates directly to research or previous findings that need to be developed, and ended with a paragraph of research purposes. A balance must be kept between the pure and applied aspects of the subject. The introduction is presented in the form of paragraphs of approximately 1000 words.
g. Methods Make sure that work can be repeated according to the details provided. It contains technical information of the study presented clearly. Therefore, readers can conduct research based on the techniques presented. Materials and equipment specifications are necessary. Approaches or procedures of study together with data analysis methods must be presented.
h. Results and Discussion Well-prepared tables and or figures must be a significant feature of this section because they convey the major observations to readers. Any information provided in tables and figures should no longer be repeated in the text, but the text should focus on the importance of the principal findings of the study. In general, journal papers will contain three-seven figures and tables. The same data can not be presented in the form of tables and figures. The results of the study are discussed to address the problem formulated, objectives, and research hypotheses. It is highly suggested that discussion be focused on the why and how of the research findings can happen and to extend to which the research findings can be applied to other relevant problems.
i. Conclusion The conclusion should be withdrawn on the basis of research findings, formulated concerns, and research purposes. The conclusion is presented in one paragraph without a numerical form of expression. Explain your research contributions to science.
j. Acknowledgement Contributors who are not mentioned as authors should be acknowledged, and their particular contributions should be described. All sources of funding for the work must be acknowledged, both the research funder and the grant number (if applicable) should be given for each source of funds.
k. References Manuscripts are written by using standard citation applications (Mendeley/Endnote/Zotero). APA (American Psychological Association) reference style is required.
All writings published in this journal are personal views of the authors and do not represent the views of this journal and the author's affiliated institutions. Author(s) retain copyrights under the license of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
