Submissions

Author Guidelines

Article is written in English, single-spaced, two columns, 3.000 - 8.000 words length. Author's name should not be written on the article but it should be put on the article metadata on Open Journal System (OJS) website. Author must fill out author's profile on OJS website that consists of author Given Name, Family Name (If author only uses one name, fill the given name and family name with the same name), Affiliation (University/or Institution), Complete address of affiliation: Study Program, Department, Faculty/ School, University, City, Country, Postal Code, and email address or ORCID.

Article contains TITLE, ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, METHODS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS, CONCLUSIONS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, and REFERENCES.

TITLE: Title must succinctly describes the contents of the research article and attracts the academic readers. The title consists of 8-12 words, not including definite article (the) and indefinite article ( a, an). Use the phrases, not sentence.

ABSTRACT: The abstract is a summary of the article. It consists of research objective, research methods, finding, and originality. Implications or recommendation can be added in the abstract. The abstract must be written in 200 - 250 words. The abstract must not contain lengthy background information and have no reference to figure, table, equation, any bibliographical reference either coming within or other article. The language of abstract must be clear and concise. It is a stand-alone summary in one paragraph.

KEYWORDS: Keywords consist of important/ specific words or phrases found mainly in the title and abstract. But, it can also come from the article. There are 3-5 keywords from one article.

INTRODUCTION: The introduction shows what is already known from the previous studies, defines the importance of the study, literature review, and state the research objective. In order to understand what is already known from the previous study, the introduction must consist of discussing the relevant journal article (with citation) and summarizing the current understanding of the problem encounter to show novelty of the research.

METHODS: The methods explain clearly how the author carried out the research. The method must describe the research design clearly, the replicable research procedures, describe how to summarize and analyze the data.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS: The results show objectively the presentation of the research key results without any interpretation using text, tables and figures. The result begin with text, presenting the key finding, and referring to the tables and figures. The table must not print screen, specific numerical values, compare and contrast values, and minimum of 2 row and column. The figures must clear (provide original file as supplementary file in article submission), highlight trends, pattern, and relationship. The results must present how the author ensure the data validity and reliability.

The discussions show how the author interpret the results in light of what was already known, and to explain the new understanding of the problem after taking your results into consideration. The discussions must connect with the Introduction so it tells how your study contribute to the body of knowledge and society.

CONCLUSIONS: The conclusions show the answer or clarification of the research questions and opportunities for future research.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The authors must acknowledge any sources of funding that supported the research and may acknowledge the outside reviewers of their drafts.

REFERENCES: The references must consist of 80% from relevant and recent primary sources (such as article of journal or conference from last 5 years). The references must be written in APA style and using reference manager software (Mendeley, Zotero, etc). The minimum requirement for the references is 12.

How to submit your manuscript

The Journal of Game, Game Art, and Gamification (JGGAG) is a web based online submission and peer review system powered by Open Journal System.

Authors should submit manuscripts via the online submission system of JGGAG which can be accessed through this submission link. Manuscript template is available here.

IMPORTANT: If submitting your journal article please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created.

Structure of Submitted Manuscripsts and Template

The Editorial Board may reject submitted manuscripts during the preselection process due to formal reasons, such as spelling, vague lexical purity, unrestrained use of unnecessary Anglicisms, incorrect punctuation, lack of coherence and cohesion, lack of clarity, inconsistency, etc. Thus, we strongly recommend the authors to carefully check the linguistic aspects before submitting the paper as well as the publication guidelines, the citation format and bibliographical references.

Manuscript structure

Any manuscript submitted to JGGAG should be in accordance with the following procedure. According to this procedure the following two documents should be submitted in WORD or Open Office format (we recommend to watch the tutorial for authors):

1. The manuscript to be published in accordance with the publication guidelines (it should be uploaded as main document in step 2: Upload file). The file should contain a title, abstract, keywords and the manuscript. 
2. An additional document (it should be uploaded as supplementary file in step 4: Upload supplementary file) must include:

• Title of the work should not exceed 80 characters with spaces (8-12 words).
• Name and surname of each author (more than three authors is not recommended for the publication) and the authors professional affiliations as well as the city, country, and contact details of the authors.
• Acknowledgments, fundings (projects, grants) or other comments.

Optional documents:

• Cover letter (including statement of responsibility and authorship, declaration of conflict of interest, etc.).
• Photographs of the authors in JPG or TIF format (they may be sent later in case the manuscript is going to be published).
• Other documents (appendices, etc.) the authors consider of interest for the process of evaluation (in this case the author must tick the appropriate box when submitting the document to make it available to the reviewers).

Bibliographical references

Cites and bibliographical references should follow IEEE referencing Style. For more information you can see it on manuscript template

References need to meet uniform and consistent standards throughout the text.

The bibliography should only include works cited in the text. Due to the importance of citation indices to calculate the impact factor of the journal, reviewers are asked to focus on correct citation according to the Harvard Style, as well as on actuality and relevance of the literature references.

JGGAG uses the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) system. Thus, it is essential that the DOIs of the cited works are identified in the literature references of the manuscript. Authors can go on the following website to identify them:http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/

We recommend authors to review the literature published by JGGAG to ensure scientific consistency according to the editorial line of the journal. It is also recommended to consult indexed journals in JCR, Scopus, ERIH and RECYT.

Other publication norms

Hyperlinks are embedded to the document using the corresponding URLs and square brackets. Remember to use services as bit.ly, Google Shortener, or is.gd for long URLs that interfere with the reading of the text. Hyperlinks may be referenced in the bibliography (see manuscript template).

Elements in the text should be highlighted in italics. They should never go in inverted commas, bold, small letters or capital letters.

Inverted commas should be only used for direct quotations.

Tables should appear in consecutive order in the text and be cited in the paper consecutively. Tables must be referred to as Table and numbered sequentially.

Figures should also appear in consecutive order in the text and be cited in the paper consecutively. Figures must be referred to as "Fig" and numbered sequentially.

Abbreviations: Only universally accepted standard abbreviations should be used in the text (see Abbreviations and Acronyms section on the template). Abbreviations must defined when first mentioned in the text using brackets. For example: the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Abbreviations must then be used throughout the text.

Style guidelines

When preparing the manuscript, authors should follow the style guidelines below:

1. Manuscript format: should be written in Times New Roman size 10, line spacing above paragraph 0, below paragraph 6, with single line spacing, without indenting or tabs, left-aligned.

2. Footnote format: should be written in Times New Roman size 8, line spacing above paragraph 0, below paragraph 0, with single line spacing, without indenting or tabs, left-aligned. Notes should be numbered consecutively using footnotes.

3. Bibliography format: should be written in Arial size 8, line spacing above paragraph 8, below paragraph 0, with single line spacing, without indenting or tabs, left-aligned.

Graphs, images, tables, etc. should appear in consecutive order in the text and be cited in the paper consecutively. They should be numbered sequentially as "Fig" and, if necessary, its source should be identified. They should be written in Times New Roman size 8, single-spaced. They should have a title and indicate the source of the information.

If appendices are needed, they are numbered with the letter A followed by a digit (A.1, A.2, etc.). They should be uploaded to the platform as supplementary file in step 4: Upload supplementary file.

Please refer to manuscript template for detail style guidelines

To be published in JGGAG the manuscript must not be published previously, and must not be under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.

• Manuscript Template