Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to JIL. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements. Please read the guide for authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.
Please read the guide for authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.
Peer Review
JIL is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Word Limits
Please include a word count for your paper. A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 5000 words; this limit includes title, abstract, keywords, text, references, footnotes, endnotes, biographical notes, tables and figures etc. Please be aware that tables/figures take up more publishing space than the words/characters that they contain. Papers of more than 5000 words will be returned to the author first to reduce to an acceptable length before re-submit for review.
Style Guidelines
Please use British or American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript. Use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
Formatting and Templates
Papers may be submitted in Word formats. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s). Word templates are available for this journal via: http://www…………………………………………. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use. If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.
References
Please use the 6th APA reference style when preparing your paper. You can refer to the APA reference style at: https://apastyle.apa.org/6th-edition-resources.
Conflict of Interest Declaration
The manuscript submitted to JIL must be an author’s original work that has not received prior publication in whole or in part elsewhere and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. On behalf of all Co-Authors, the corresponding Author shall bear full responsibility for the submission. All Authors listed on the title page have contributed significantly to the work, have read the manuscript, attest to the validity and legitimacy of the data and its interpretation, and agree to its submission to the JIL. All authors agree that author list is correct in its content and order and that no modification to the author list can be made without the formal approval of the Editor-in-Chief, and all authors accept that the Editor-in-Chief’s decisions over acceptance or rejection or in the event of any breach of the Principles of Ethical Publishing in the Journal of Innovative Learning being discovered of retraction are final. No additional authors will be added post submission, unless editors receive agreement from all authors and detailed information is supplied as to why the author list should be amended.
Article Reprints
You will be sent one reprint per author. For enquiries about reprints, please contact this e-mail: You can also order more reprints. copies of the journal issue in which your article appears.
Queries
Should you have any queries, please contact us via this e-mail: il.webmail@mahidol.edu
