Editorial Process

                                                               The flow chart of editorial process

 

Reforma : Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran follows a double blind peer-review process, manuscript submitted by an Author is assigned to a Managing Editor. Final acceptance, revision or rejection decision for a manuscript can be provided by the Editor-In-Chief or other Editorial Board member.

1. The Editor-in-Chief is mainly responsible for the scientific quality of the journal.
2. Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Board member should help Editorial office while submitting
   an application to any indexing services.
3. Overall editorial process is given in the flow chart.

 

Submission

Author uploads file to journal website and enters required metadata. Submitted manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Journal's Aims and Scope. Authors should meticulously follow the journal's Author Guidelines. Authors are also encouraged to use English editing services prior to submission or to seek assistance from an English-speaking colleague to enhance the manuscript's quality.

 

Pre-Check

The pre-check stage in a journal's editorial process involves an initial review to ensure the manuscript meets basic criteria like relevance, formatting, originality, clarity, ethical standards, and technical quality. After the initial review, an editor reads the paper, consults with the editorial team, and decides whether it should be proceed for the peer review, rejects a manuscript or requests a revision before the peer review. Editors decide whether to send a manuscript for the peer review based on the degree to which it advances our understanding of the field, the soundness of conclusions, the extent to which the evidence presented - including appropriate data and analyses - supports these conclusions, and the wide relevance of these conclusions to the journal’s readership.

 

Peer Review

If the editor decides to send the manuscript to peer reviewers, they will contact researchers with relevant expertise. Reviewer selection is critical to the review process, and we work hard to ensure that the different technical and conceptual aspects of the work are covered.

Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to our readership are sent for formal review, typically to two or three reviewers, but sometimes more if special advice is needed (for example on statistics or a particular technique). The editors then make a decision based on the reviewers' advice, from among several possibilities:

• Accept, with or without editorial revisions;
• Invite the authors to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached;
• Reject, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission;
• Reject outright, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems.

Reviewers make recommendations and the Editor-in-Chief and/or Editorial Board member are free to disagree with their views. If they do, they should justify their decision in favour of the authors and reviewers.

 

First Decision

The editor and the editorial team discuss the reviewer reports, and decide whether the manuscript or a revised version of it could be published in the journal. The editor contacts the author with the decision.

• If the decision is positive, the author will usually be asked to revise the manuscript and resubmit.
• If the decision is negative, the author can choose to transfer the manuscript – including the reviewer comments to another journal.

 

Revision

If you are invited to revise (minor or major revisions are recommended) and resubmit your manuscript, you should follow the instructions provided by the editor in their decision email. You will be expected to provide:

• a revised version of the manuscript that addresses the issues raised by the editor and peer reviewers; 
• a response to each of the reviewers, replying to each of the points raised.

Your revised manuscript should be submitted using the link provided in the decision email, and not as a new manuscript. In cases of conflicting review reports or where one or more recommendations for rejection are made, the Editor-in-Chief and/or Editorial Board member will be asked for their judgement before a decision on revision is communicated to the authors.

 

Final Decision and Pre-release

When all the reviewer reports are received, the editors decide to either:

• Accept publication, invite the authors to revise and resubmit their manuscript to address specific concerns; or
• Decline publication, typically on grounds of either there being insufficient support for the conclusions or a reassessment of the level of interest or advance in light of the reviewers' comments.

If the manuscript is accepted, then the publisher issues a Letter of Acceptance/LOA and the next stage is production.

 

Production

The editorial staff performs the production of all manuscripts, including copy editing, language editing, format conversion, and proofreading. Your manuscript and associated files are exported to our production system and assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Your manuscript files are quality checked to ensure they meet the basic technical requirements for publication. Format conversion of your manuscript text is converted into structured XML. Your images are resized and standard journal styles are applied to text and other graphic elements. The structured text and prepared figures are copy edited by a subject specialist for clarity, readability, consistency, accuracy and adherence to journal style.

Language editing is carried out by professional English editors. Authors are free to use other English editing services or consult a native English-speaking colleague.  

The last review of your manuscript text will pass though the proofreading stage before publication. This stage involves checking spelling, grammar, typos, formatting consistency, reference accuracy, figure and table labels, page layout, and overall completeness. This ensures the manuscript is polished and error-free.

 

Publication

Your article is sent to our central data repository, which coordinates the final stages of publication. Your article is published in Reforma : Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran