Authors' Guidelines

For Authors

Everything you need to prepare, format, and submit a manuscript to EBJET—the EleventhBit Journal of Education and Technology. Please follow every detail closely; submissions that do not meet these standards may be returned before review.

  • Length: 4–20 pages
  • Language: English
  • References: IEEE style
  • Format: Word

Download the EBJET template.

1. Scope & aims

The EleventhBit Journal of Education and Technology (EBJET) is an interdisciplinary, open-access publication of original research and writing on education and the technologies that shape teaching and learning. EBJET provides a forum for scholarly understanding of the field and supports the process by which knowledge, values, and skills are transmitted from one generation to another, making rigorous methods and findings available to teachers, administrators, and researchers.

The journal welcomes work across a range of topics, including educational technology and digital pedagogy, curriculum and instructional design, learning analytics, online and blended learning, assessment and evaluation, child development, reading comprehension, and the philosophies and approaches that underpin education. Papers published in EBJET typically (1) report research and evaluation findings; (2) treat conceptual and methodological issues; (3) consider the implications of the above for practice; and/or (4) review educational materials, tools, and equipment.

For the full aims, coverage, and editorial policy, see the About the Journal page.

2. Minimum standards

Use this list for a final check of your submission before sending it for review.

  • Language & length. Written in English; at least 4 pages and no more than 20 pages.
  • Reference manager. Use a tool such as EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero, and select the IEEE style.
  • EBJET format. Follow every detail of the EBJET template as closely as possible.
  • Title. Maximum 10 words, with no acronyms or abbreviations.
  • Abstract. Maximum 200 words, informative and self-explanatory, with no citations—state the problem, the proposed approach, and the major findings and conclusions.

3. Manuscript structure

Present your article in the following sequence. Proofs of theorems or non-obvious algorithm correctness may follow the introduction; obvious theorems and straightforward proofs of existing results are not needed.

  1. Introduction—context and precise objective of the study.
  2. Proposed method / algorithm / procedure (optional)—only if you designed something specific.
  3. Research method—clear and complete in every detail, so others can reproduce it.
  4. Results and discussion—your most important findings, interpreted in words.
  5. Conclusion—the primary outcomes summarized in a paragraph.

The introduction should contain three parts:

  1. Background—Make the context clear and give a sense of the state of the art in the field.
  2. The problem—Tell readers why they should keep reading. A few lines are often enough.
  3. The proposed solution—now—and only now—outline your contribution, making the novel aspects of your work explicit.

Place the paper in proper context by citing relevant work; use at least 5 references (recent journal articles) in this section.

Research method—The presentation of experimental methods should be clear and complete in every detail, facilitating reproducibility by other researchers.

Results and discussion—Keep the presentation simple and straightforward. Report the most important findings—including results of statistical analyses where appropriate and comparisons with other research—and explain in your own words what you discovered, laid out clearly and in a logical sequence. Results shown in figures should not be repeated in tables, and the discussion should be supported by suitable references.

Conclusion—Summarize the primary outcomes in a paragraph. Make sure the claims are supported by your results, indicate how the findings relate to expectations and to earlier research, note whether the work supports or contradicts previous theory, and explain how it moves the body of knowledge forward.

4. Writing & clarity

Poor grammar makes the science harder to follow, so write carefully. The manuscript should read well from one section to the next and be easy for a well-qualified professional to understand—while avoiding lengthy descriptions of well-known facts (cite proper references instead).

If reviewers struggle to understand a manuscript, other readers will too. Clarity is the author's responsibility, not the reviewer's—and it is one of the most common reasons a paper is sent back.

Keep the manuscript current: 10–20% of references should be to recent papers.

5. References & citations

Expect a minimum of 10 to 25 references, primarily to journal papers, depending on the length of the paper. Cite textbooks very rarely and avoid citing web pages. Every cited paper must be referenced within the text.

Number each citation in order of appearance, in square brackets—for example, the first citation [1], the second [2], and the third and fourth [3], [4]. When citing several sources at once, list each number in its own brackets, separated by commas or a dash, e.g., [1], [3], [5], or [4]–[8]. Do not give the author's name, page numbers, or date in the in-text citation; refer to the source by its bracketed number, which corresponds to the full entry in your reference list.

Examples:

  • This theory was first put forward in 1970 [9].
  • Sutikno [10] has argued that…
  • Several recent studies [7], [9], [11]–[15] have suggested that…
  • …end of the line for my research [16].

Self-citation—To guard against citation manipulation (COPE, 2019), keep self-citation to a minimum—no more than 5 (including jointly authored work), or 20% of references, whichever is lower.

Please also tailor the final paper so that the last page is not left half empty.

6. Figures & tables

Because tables and figures supplement the text, everyone must be referred to in the text, and you must tell the reader what to look for—focus on the important point and leave the details for the reader to examine.

Figures

  • Number all figures in the order they appear in the text.
  • Give each figure a caption that fully explains its content.
  • Present captions as a paragraph beginning with the figure number, i.e., Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
  • Place captions below the figure.
  • Fully cite any figure taken from another article.
  • Refer to every figure in the body of the article.

Tables

  • Anything tabular in nature must appear in a numbered, captioned table.
  • Number all tables in the order they appear in the text.
  • Give each table a caption with its number, i.e., Table 1, Table 2, etc.
  • Give each column a clear, concise heading.
  • Use single horizontal lines only—under the caption, under the column headings, and at the end of the table.
  • Refer to every table in the body of the article.
  • Fully cite any table taken from another article.

7. Submission checklist

During submission through the OJS portal, you confirm your manuscript meets all of the following—submissions that do not comply may be returned.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation is provided in the comments to the editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text follows the stylistic and bibliographic requirements in these guidelines.

Submitting with LaTeX—Currently we are not accepting LaTeX files. If you need any clarity, please contact submissions@ebjet.org or editor@ebjet.org.