SUBMISSION

We recommend that you carefully review the Review process page as well as the Author Guidelines. Manuscripts that do not adhere to the Author Guidelines may be returned to the corresponding author for technical revisions before undergoing double-blind peer review or be rejected in case of many violations detected. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting all manuscripts online at https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/joltida or, if already registered, can simply log on and go through the five-step on-line submission process. For questions about submitting a manuscript, contact Editor-in-Chief of JOLTIDA, Dr. Mehmet Akif Ocak, at joltida.info@gmail.com

PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT

For manuscript submission, the following items are mandatory: 1. Full manuscript, 2. Copyright form, 3. Cover letter, 4. Title page, 5. Ethics Committee Permission Letter, 6. Similarity report,  7. Author(s) Contribution Form 

Optional items:   Proof reading letters

1. FULL MANUSCRIPT: Authors are required to follow APA 7.0 style for preparation of their manuscripts. Please check with General Guidelines below.

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2. COPYRIGHT FORM:  Copyright form must include all authors' names and contact details must be signed by the corresponding author.

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3. COVER LETTER:

Authors have to submit a cover letter with each manuscript. The cover letter should articulate/confirm the following information:

*-Name of original research/review article entitled "title of article" for consideration by JOLTIDA.
*-Submitted manuscript is original and has not been published elsewhere, nor is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
*-The author(s) confirms full access to all aspects of the research and writing process, and will take final responsibility for the paper.
*-Brief description of the research you are reporting on your article, why it is important, and why you think the readers of the journal would be interested in it.(Do not just copy your abstract into your cover letter)
*-Conflicts of Interest. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest related to this study. They have no financial, personel, or institutional relationships that could influence the research, analysis, or findings presented in this manuscript. If any potential conflicts arise, they must be disclosed in your covert letter accordingly. In short, please declare any conflicts of interest, or confirm there are none in Cover Letter.
*-Authors’ names and affiliations do not appear anywhere on the manuscript for ensure scientific integrity.

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4.TITLE PAGE: Title page must include title of the manuscript, authors' name, institution, faculty, department, country, e-mail, ORCID, study fields, correspondence author's name, contact email.

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5. ETHICS COMITTEE PERMISSION LETTER (Updated):

• All candidate articles (including literature reviews, meta-analysis, bibliometric analysis) must submit a paper requesting clearance from the ethics committee.
• Researchers should submit the "does not require ethics committee approval" form to be obtained from their institution's ethics committee in order to conduct studies that don't need such permission.
• Prior to starting the study's data gathering procedure, independent researchers should apply to the ethical committees of the institutions in their province and acquire a letter of clearance from the committee.
• The ethics committee's thesis approval is sufficient to submit for publications based on  theses. The approval of a separate ethical committee is not required for the articles produced from theses. 

6. SIMILARITY REPORT:  The original similarity report of the manuscript  in pdf format must be uploaded and the similarity rate must  be below 10%.

7.AUTHOR(S) CONTRUBITON FORM: To be an author, a person must have made substantive contributions to the study by fulfilling at least 3 of the criteria presented in the following table. All authors are also expected to fulfill the first 3 criteria stated below:

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GENERAL GUIDELINES:

Margins should be 1½" on all sides, left justified only. Type must be a minimum of 12-point font size. Double-space throughout and arrange the text in the following sequence: title, affiliation, abstract, main text (figures and tables included), references. Number the pages consecutively, in the upper right-hand corner. Number the lines continuously beginning with the main text. Include a short title in the header of each page, just above the page number.

We encourage authors to use headings and subheadings throughout the manuscript. We also encourage the use of diagrams, tables, charts, illustrations, and photos; however, authors should place them in the body of the text.

Authors are required to follow APA 7.0 style for preparation of their manuscripts. Please strictly follow the requirements written in the APA style and place your title, abstract, key words, main text, tables and graphics (with captions or titles) within the text as this will produce document that is easier to review. Note that a corresponding author information is required on the first page of the template. Authors are also encouraged to write in active voice.

Language. Manuscripts should be written in English language.

Title. Title of the study must not exceed limit of 15 words. Please use Times New Roman, 14 pt for the title.

Author(s). Provide author names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses.

Abstract. The abstract should deliver the essence of the manuscript in a concise or clear academic writing. Please provide a structured abstract using the following headings: Background, Purposes, Methodology/Approach, Findings, and Discussion. The abstract must be Times New Roman 11pt, single line spacing, justified, and should not exceed 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined acronym or abbreviation.

Keywords. Include 5 keywords for indexing purposes. Keywords should be written in italic.

Corresponding author. Provide the corresponding author along with; (In footer section of the first page)

• E-mail
• Full mailing address (including phone number)

Main text. The main body of the manuscript should not exceed 10,000 words. Type face should be Times New Roman, 12 pt, and justified. Avoid footers and footnotes except in tables, where needed. Authors should clearly articulate implications and recommendations for educators and scholars in the discussion section.

Headings. 3 levels of headings should be used as the title:

• First level, all capital letters, bold and centered
• The second level, the first letters capitalized, left justified, bold and not left indent. Second level headings should be used appropriately to describe the subtopics of the main topic.
• Third level, the first letters capitalized, bold, italic and left indented 1.25 cm (0.5 inch). Use third level headings to describe subtopics of topics in the second level headings.

Tables. Table titles should be placed at the top of the related table. Table titles should be written in Times New Roman, 12 pt, and justified. All tables should be referenced in the text of the manuscript.

Figures. Figure titles should be placed at the bottom of the related figure. Figure titles should be written in Times New Roman, 12 pt, and justified. All figures should be referenced in the text of the manuscript.

Acknowledgement. This is an optional section. At the end of the paper, before the references, the acknowledgments should be given if there is a source of funding that contributed to the manuscript. You may also recognize other people who made contributions to the manuscript.

References. All the references should be presented according to Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition, 2020) (APA; https://apastyle.apa.org/). All the resources cited in the main text should be listed in the references. For double-checking of the refereed resources, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) information on each reference should be also described. The references should be written in Times New Roman, 11 pt. Do NOT use any reference formatting software (e.g., End Notes).

Appendices. All the appendices should be presented after the references. Please use an identifying capital letter for each Appendix (Appendix A, Appendix B). Please refer to each Appendix in the manuscript.

Submission Preparation Checklist. 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.

1. Author guidelines has been used for preparation of the manuscripts.
2. 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).
3. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
4. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
5. Tables and figures are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

6. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines
   

7. Authors’ names and affiliations do not appear anywhere on the manuscript for ensure scientific integrity
8. Copyright form has been provided with the manuscript
   
9. A Cover Letter has been provided with the manuscript (Please see Author Guidelines for preparation of cover letter)
10. A Title page has been provided with the manuscript
11. Ethics Comittee Permission Letter has been provided with the manuscript
    
12. A valid ORCID ID number must be provided for all authors.

ORCID ID

All authors must provide a valid ORCID number during application process. If author(s) have a valid ORCID number, they are required to enter into "Edit Profile, ORCID ID section". ORCID iDs can only be assigned by the ORCID Registry. You must conform to their standards for expressing ORCID iDs, and include the full URI.

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TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS: 

Original Research/ Empirical Research

Case Study (including Assessment Study and Usability/Feasibility Study)

Systematic/Integrative Review Paper (including Meta-Analysis)

Method Paper (including Developmental Research)

Discussion Paper

Perspectives. They are brief, accessible pieces covering a wide variety of timely topics of relevance to technology-mediated learning and teaching. It includes proposals. Perspective articles are limited to 1000 to 1200 words and usually include one figure or table. There is a maximum of 5 references.

Letters to the Editor, up to 300 words and 3 references. JOLTIDA welcomes letters to the editor on items published in JOLTIDA in the preceding six months. Letters may address statistics, facts, research, or theories of the previously published articles in JOLTIDA; however, it should not include critiques of original research or personal attacks on an author rather than constructive criticism of the author’s ideas/study findings. Authors of the original article may be invited to provide thoughtful responses to one or more letters by Editor-in-Chief of JOLTIDA, Dr. Mehmet Akif Ocak.

Other Types of Submissions. JOLTIDA also welcomes submissions of narratives, reflections, viewpoints, commentaries, photo/graphic essays, and other forms of writing. Contact Editor-in-Chief of JOLTIDA, Dr. Mehmet Akif Ocak, at joltida.info@gmail.com  to discuss formats not discussed in these guidelines.

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There are no publication fees for the Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age