- Section Policies
- Open Access Policy
- Section Editor
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving Policy
- Peer Reviewer Process
- Publication Fee
- Copyright License
- Plagiarism Policy
- Section Policy
- Focus and Scope
- Author Guidlines
- Reviewer
- Retraction
Section Policies
Articles
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Section Editor
1. Biliana Popova, [Scopus ID: 57219297567] Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria
2. Moh Khoirul Anam, Sinta ID: 6697887, Orcid ID: 0000-0002-9091-6631, Scholar ID: Ndq8AAAAJ, Asosiasi Dosen Peneliti Ilmu Keislaman dan Sosial (ADPIKS), and Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta, Indonesia,
3. Adamu Abubakar Muhammad,
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0LitDRMAAAAJ&hl=en, Department of Religious Studies Federal University of Kashere Gombe State, Nigeria, Scholar ID: 0LitDRMAAAAJ.
4. Ali Taufik, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57218776422, [Scopus ID: 57218776422], Scholar ID: moaSCL8AAAAJ Universitas Kutai Kartanegara, Indonesia.
5. Erawadi Erawadi, http://iainpadangsidimpuan.academia.edu/ErawadiMuhammad, Scopus ID: 5721674020, Sinta ID : 6190328, Scholar Google ID: idHqEIcAAAAJ Universitas Islam Negeri Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia.
6. Abdul Nasir bin Haji Abdul Rani, Scopus ID: 57221914017, Scholar ID: QJdOpeQAAAAJ,
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57221914017,
Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali, Brunei Darussalam,
Sinta ID: 6001376
Orcid ID: 0000-0002-4398-0331
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Archiving Policy
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
Peer Reviewer Process
Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and through editorial communication with authors can also assist authors in improving manuscripts.
Article manuscripts submitted online to DAGANAK: Journal of Early Childhood Islamic Education will be examined by the editorial board regarding scope, in-house style, plagiarism. Manuscripts that meet the focus and scope of DAGANAK: Journal of Early Childhood Islamic Education will proceed to a review process that will at least be reviewed by reviewers with a double blind commitment. Reviewers are journal partners of experts who are concerned with the field of journals. The editor will send an e-mail to the selected reviewer regarding the title and contents of the manuscript, as well as an invitation to log into the journal's website to complete the review process. Reviewers log on to the journal's website to agree to do the review, download the manuscript, submit their comments, and vote on recommendations. The review process by the reviewer is carried out at least in two weeks. The results will be returned to the author for further action. Eligible papers will be published in English.
Speed
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review research reported in a manuscript or knows that its rapid review is not possible must notify the editor and withdraw from the review process.
confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They may not be shown or discussed with others except as permitted by the editors.
Objectivity Standards
The review must be carried out objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees must express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Source Acknowledgment
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the author. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument has been previously reported must be accompanied by a relevant citation. Reviewers should also call the editor's attention if there are substantial similarities or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and other published papers of which they are personally aware.
Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest resulting from competitive, cooperative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the paper
Publication Fee
DAGANAK: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam Anak Usia Dini does not charge APCs, submission charges, or another fee. All processes of article publication are free of charge.
Copyright License
Authors who publish with 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-ShareAlike 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 are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's 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 permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism Policy
DAGANAK: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam Anak Usia Dini published by Yayasan Al-Ahliyah Al-Islamiyah Aek Badak recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable for all authors and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified by DAGANAK: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam Anak Usia Dini anti-plagiarism software detection using Turnitin software (https://www.turnitin.com) in an article that is submitted for publication.
“Plagiarism is copying another person’s text or ideas and passing the copied material as your own work. You must both delineate (i.e., separate and identify) the copied text from your text and give credit to (i.e., cite the source) the source of the copied text to avoid accusations of plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of a job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course."
This definition of plagiarism applies to copied texts and ideas:
Regardless of the source of the copied text or idea.
Regardless of whether the author(s) of the text or idea which you have copied actually copied that text or idea from another source.
Regardless of whether or not the authorship of the text or idea which you copy is known
Regardless of the nature of your text (journal paper/article, web page, book chapter, paper submitted for a college course, etc) into which you copy the text or idea
Regardless of whether or not the author of the source of the copied material gives permission for the material to be copied; and
Regardless of whether you are or are not the author of the source of the copied text or idea (self-plagiarism).
When plagiarism is identified by the Plagiarism Checker (using Turnitin software), the Editorial Board is responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the article in agreement with the following guidelines:
1. Minor Plagiarism: A small sentence or short paragraph of another manuscript is plagiarized without any significant data or ideas taken from the other papers or publications.
Punishment: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the manuscript and properly cite the original sources.
2. Intermediate Plagiarism: A significant data, paragraph, or sentence of an article is plagiarized without proper citation to the original source.
Punishment: The submitted article is automatically rejected.
3. Severe Plagiarism: A large portion of an article is plagiarized that involves many aspects such as reproducing original results (data, formulation, equation, law, statement, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications.
Punishment: The paper is automatically rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles to the journal.
Section Policy
Focus and Scope
The focus of the study is on the areas of: Children's education from an Islamic perspective.
1. Child's relationship with family and Muslim community
2. Cross-cultural education for children
3. Innovation and technology for children's education
4. Educational environment, curriculum, and assessment
5. Child development
Author Guidlines
Carefully read the Author Guidelines as follows:
A. General Requirements
- Manuscripts submitted to DAGANAK: Journal of Early Childhood Islamic Education should be research-based papers that have not been published or are under consideration elsewhere.
- Manuscripts must be in English or Indonesia. It should be typed in MS Word doc. format; using 11-pt Time New Roman font; left, top margins are 3 cm, and right, bottom margins are 3 cm; Spacing Exactly 18 pt with paper size A4; 13-18 pages in length or 6000-9000 words.
- The manuscript will be reviewed by subject reviewers, while the editors reserve the right to edit the manuscript for format consistency without altering the substance.
- Make sure that the manuscript is prepared using the Article Template. Use the Online Submission Guidelines for access to the Open Journal Systems (OJS).
- The manuscript must be submitted through the OJS DAGANAK: Journal of Early Childhood Islamic Education. For confirmation, the Submission Checklist and Statement of Originality must be emailed to the Journal Editor (daganakjournal1234@gmail.com)
- The citations and references should follow the style of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition and use Reference Management Software ZOTERO (http://www.zotero.org) or MENDELEY (www.mendeley.com).
- The manuscript must be checked in terms of grammar, structure, spelling, etc. It is suggested to use Grammar Checker Software GRAMMARLY (http://app.grammarly.com).
B. Manuscript Structure
- The article structure contains (a) Title; (b) Author(s) Name, (c) Affiliation, (d) Email Address; (e) English Abstract and Indonesian Abstract; (f) Keywords; (g) INTRODUCTION (WITHOUT heading); (h) RESEARCH METHOD; (i) RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION; (j) CONCLUSION (and Suggestion); (k) Acknowledgements (if necessary); and (l) REFERENCES.
- Title: the title of the article should be written in a simple form, concise, and informative in a phrase or clause format (Capitals-lowercase, Bold, Center, Time New Roman font 12, max 14 words)
- Author(s) Name: The full name of the author(s) must be written without academic title(s) in 12-pt Time New Roman font.
- Affiliation: The affiliation (Full name University, and country) should be written below the name in 11-pt Time New Roman font.
- Email Address; The email address of the Corresponding Author should be written below the affiliation in 10-pt Time New Roman font. (Corresponding Author will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication; this responsibility includes answering any future queries about the Methodology and Materials of the paper). Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the Corresponding Author.
- English/Arabic Abstract and Indonesian Abstract: An abstract must go with each manuscript; it should be clear, descriptive, and provide a brief overview of the problem studied. It is also with no figure, table, equation, or citation), between 150 – 250 words and written as a single paragraph in English in Time New Roman font 11 single space. The abstract should include the purposes of the research, methodology, and findings. The abstract should be ended with a comment about the importance of the results or a conclusion brief.
- INTRODUCTION: This section is to introduce your paper including the background of the study, issues to be solved, and reviews of related findings which consist of 700 – 1000 words (1.5 – 2.5 pages) with the font Time New Roman font 12 point Line Spacing 1,5 pt with paper size A4, should be written without heading. The introduction should include key references to appropriate work. It states the significant contribution of the research. The introduction should consist of the background of the study, research contexts, literary review, and research objective (at the end of the introduction). The introduction should explicitly state the research gap and show the scientific merit or novelty of the research. All introductions should be presented in the form of paragraphs, not pointers.
- RESEARCH METHOD: This sub-title must consist of a brief description of the methods of the research; including research design, sources of the research (population/sample/ participants of the research, instrument used, techniques of collecting the data, and data analysis) without subtitle, which consist of 1 – 2 paragraphs (150 – 300 words or 0.5 – 1 page). It is written in the font Time New Roman font 12 with Line Spacing of 1,5 pt.
- RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION: This section will describe the findings of the research, then complete with a discussion. It must consist of elaborated between 1500 – 4500 words (8 – 10 pages). Research Findings is the explanation of the result of the research based on analysis of the data whether it is in qualitative or quantitative approaches. The findings section consists of a description of the results of the data analysis to answer the research question(s). The findings should summarize (scientific) findings rather than provide data in great detail. Please highlight the differences between your results or findings and the previous publications by other researchers. This section should be explained in several subsections with a detailed explanation of the findings. The First Sub Topic (Finding 1): The author(s) should make a sub-topic in bold type and capitalize each word. The findings are the description of the result, and it can be completed with chart(s), graphic(s), diagram(s), or table (s); The Second Sub Topic (Finding 2): The findings should summarize (scientific) findings rather than providing data in great detail. Please highlight the differences between your results or findings and the previous publications by other researchers. This section should be explained in several subsections with a detailed explanation of the findings; The Third Sub Topic (Discussion): This sub-topic describes the relationship of your findings to theory and other research findings. It is not for repeating the research findings or the theory, but to elaborate on the result. The author(s) must show the novelty of this study compared to the others.
- CONCLUSION: This section is in the format of a paragraph that consists of 1 – 2 paragraphs (300 – 500 words or 0.5 – 1 page only). It should indicate the findings clearly. It also explains the advantages and disadvantages of your findings, and the possibility to develop the research.
- Acknowledgment: If it is needed, you must say in this sub-discussed about the involvement of other parties or institutions or other institutions in the research conducted, just written in 2 – 5 sentences only.
- REFERENCES: Every source cited in the body of the article should appear in the References, and all sources appearing in the References should be cited in the body of the article. The references should be more up-to-date (published in the last 5-10 years). The primary sources cited in your paper are in the forms of journal articles, proceedings, and research reports including theses and dissertations that can be accessed online (show the DOI address/URL). Citations from online journal articles should be at least 80% of the total references cited. The References should be presented alphabetically and chronologically and be set to 12-pt Time New Roman font, justified, with single line spacing and hanging indent. Check each reference against the original source (author name, volume, issue, year, DOI number). Please use the Reference Manager Application (ZOTERO/ MENDELEY) to manage the references for your paper. Use other published articles in the same journal as models.
Subheading System:
- LEVEL ONE: ALL CAPITAL, BOLD, LEFT JUSTIFICATION
- Level Two: Capitals-lowercase, Bold, Left Justification
- Level three: Capitals-lowercase, italics-bold, left justification
Reviewer
Retraction
Articles published in DAGANAK: Journal of Early Childhood Islamic Education will be considered withdrawn from publication if:
1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of errors (e.g. data falsification) or honest errors (e.g. miscalculations or experimental errors)
2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper cross-reference, permission, or justification (i.e. a case of over-publication)
3. it constitutes plagiarism
4. Report unethical research
The revocation mechanism follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf





