Journal History

EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka): Culture, Language, and Teaching of English was established in September 2015 by a team of lecturers from the D3 English Program at the University of Merdeka Malang. The journal’s name reflects its affiliation with the program and the university, while its cover features an orange color scheme, representing the program’s identity.

In its pursuit of academic excellence, EnJourMe achieved a significant milestone on August 8, 2017, when it was officially indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). To enhance publication standards, the Author Guidelines and Template were revised on May 21–22, 2018. Further improvements followed, including updates to the Editorial Board on October 10, 2018, and another revision to the Author Guidelines on February 7, 2019.

On September 26, 2019, EnJourMe was officially recognized with SINTA 4 accreditation by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia (Decree No. 28/E/KPT/2019). The journal continued to evolve with a template revision in July 2019 (Vol. 4, No. 1) and a change in the Editor-in-Chief on December 17, 2019. In 2020 (Vol. 5, No. 1), the journal underwent another template update to further refine its publication format.

To strengthen its editorial management, EnJourMe made significant adjustments to its Review and Editorial Board on August 6, 2023. Most recently, on January 5, 2024, a new Managing Editor and Editorial Board Members were appointed, ensuring the journal's continued commitment to quality research dissemination.

Through these developments, EnJourMe remains dedicated to maintaining high academic and ethical standards, continuously improving its publication processes, and contributing to the advancement of English language studies in the fields of culture, language, and teaching.

Author Fees

This Journal charges the following author fees.

• Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
  Authors must pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.
• Fast-Track Review: 0.00 (IDR)
  With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript are guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks.
• Article Publication: 250.000.00 (IDR)
  If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publication costs.

Screening for Plagiarism

EnJourMe strongly opposes all forms of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism. The journal is committed to upholding academic integrity and will not tolerate any act of copying without proper acknowledgment.

Authors must ensure that their submitted work is entirely original. If the work includes ideas, data, or direct quotations from other sources, proper citation and acknowledgment are required. If a manuscript is found to contain more than 25% plagiarized content, EnJourMe reserves the right to reject the submission outright.

We highly recommend that authors check their manuscripts for plagiarism before submission. For this purpose, EnJourMe encourages the use of plagiarism detection tools such as Turnitin (http://turnitin.com/). Authors using Turnitin for the first time are advised to read the user guidelines carefully to ensure accurate results. Please note that EnJourMe is officially affiliated with Turnitin for plagiarism detection.

Additionally, the submitted article must not have been published elsewhere and must be free of any duplicate publication or excessive redundancy. Authors are also encouraged to use reference management tools such as Mendeley to manage citations and references in accordance with EnJourMe’s formatting standards.

Review Guideline and Process

Peer Review Process

The research article submitted to this online Journal will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 (two) reviewers. The accepted research articles will be available online following the Journal peer-reviewing process. The languages used in this Journal are English and Indonesian.

Review Guidelines

General

1. Give a mark on the wrong part or part that needs to be changed
2. Give a mark on the right side of the wrong line or line that needs to be changed

Detail

1. Title: Effectiveness, Specification, and clarity
2. Abstract: Complete and describe the essence  of the article
3. Keywords: Describing the essential concept of the article
4. Introduction: Up-to-date, originality, relevance of the Topic, compatibility of the critical reason for the research object
5. Research Method: Has to emphasize procedure and data analysis for empirical study
6. Result: Analysis accurateness
7. Findings: Up-to-date findings, relevance to the interrelated researchers, and the scientific contribution effect of finding /idea to the development of science
8. Conclusion: Logical, valid, brief, and clear
9. Suggestion: For practical action, development of new theory, and next/advanced research
10. Picture/Table: Center located, Not cut, Good quality to view, Picture/table title, Referred with a capital letter
11. Bibliography: The degree of up-to-date and the reference to primary book sources. Rules: minimum of 80% of the journals or the interrelated scientific researchers above 2019 (year); the number of book sources is a minimum of 10; minimum of 80% in the text/material of art.

Complete the Review Process of the Manuscript

1. Writing: Is the manuscript easy to follow, that is, has a logical progression and evident organization?
2. Is the manuscript concise and understandable? Any parts that should be reduced,
3. Eliminated/expanded/added?
4. Note if there are significant problems with mechanics: grammar, punctuation, and spelling. (If just a few places are worded well or correctly, make a note to tell the author the specific areas. If there are consistent problems throughout, only select an example or two. Don't try and edit the whole thing).
5. Abbreviations: Used judiciously and composed so the reader won't have trouble remembering what an abbreviation represents.
6. Follows style, format, and other rules of the Journal.
7. Citations are provided when providing evidence-based information from outside sources.

Categories Decision

• Publish: No Need Revision
• Minor: Revision can be done by the Editor-In-Chief or those who help
• Major: Revision can only be done by the author
• Rejected: Unproperly scientific or too many

Revision Guidelines

The paper that has received the review results is expected to be immediately revised to adjust the suggestions and questions. The author is given no later than 15 days to revise his paper, which is counted since the submission of the review results. If, at that time, the author does not upload the revised paper, then the paper will not be refused to be published (reject). Renewal time extensions can be obtained following strong demand and reason. The revised paper is further uploaded through EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka): Culture, Language, and Teaching of English website and also sent via email to [email protected] Following the provisions of the revised paper in EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka): Culture, Language, and Teaching of English:

1. When a reviewer comments on a paper (in the comment box), the writer is asked to reply to that comment box directly. The answer from the author can be information that has been revised or reason/argumentation if the author is not willing to revise for some reason (please can be submitted in the comments field, which is already available briefly and with details).

2. Revised on paper or in additional material/sentence, please block the yellow highlighter.

3. After the revision is complete, the revised paper file is named after the revised paper and uploaded to the journal website of EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka): Culture, Language, and Teaching of English. The editor will receive only one post-revision paper. Revisions to comments from the second reviewer and additional sentences were also made on the post-revision paper marked with a green highlighter.

4. Attached is a sample of the revision process paper in EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka): Culture, Language, and Teaching of English, to facilitate the author's revision process.

Ethics Statement

Our ethical statements are based on CCOPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the Journal should be published.
The editor may be guided by the policies of the Journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers to make this decision.

Fair play
An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's research without the author's written consent.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communications with the author, may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that the authors have not cited. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper they know personally.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts with conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed and an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication
An author should not generally publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one Journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals concurrently constitutes unacceptable publishing behavior.

Acknowledgment of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have influenced the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have contributed significantly to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where others have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, the author must promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Publication Frequency

EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka): Culture, Language, and Teaching of English is published twice yearly on July and December.

Archiving

This Journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries. It permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the Journal for preservation and restoration. More...

 

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered on this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this Journal. They will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

 

Copyright Notice

License

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Copyright

Authors who publish in this Journal agree to the following terms:

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
• Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this Journal.
• Authors are encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during submission. This can lead to productive exchanges and earlier and more extraordinary citations of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

Open Access Policy

This Journal provides immediate access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange.

 

Abstracting and Indexing

EnJourMe (English Journal of Merdeka): Culture, Language, and Teaching of English has been indexing:

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Publication System

This Journal uses Open Journal Systems 3, an open-source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License.

 

Author Guidelines

This journal accepts articles in the form of analyses, studies, application of theories, research reports, materials development, and reviews on Culture, Language, and Teaching of English that have never been published anywhere else or submitted for consideration. The manuscript should be submitted in docx. format using Open Journal System (OJS) via EnJourMe https://jurnal.unmer.ac.id/index.php/enjourme/about/submissions (register and Online submissions)

General Instruction

1. The article should be written in English
2. The length of the manuscript is at a minimum of 6 pages and no more than 16 pages.  If the manuscript exceeds 16 pages, an additional charge of IDR 50,000 per page will apply. Editors will evaluate if it is necessary to present more than 16 pages.
3. Use Mendeley or other tools for reference management and formatting.
4. Authors who wish to publish scientific articles in this journal should use the EnJourMe paper template.
5. Research report articles should be arranged according to the following rules.

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 who do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal.
5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.