Submissions

Author Guidelines

The process from submitting the manuscript until it is published takes more or less 8 weeks. Manuscripts will first be reviewed by the Editorial Boards. The manuscript texts are written in English and typed well using the Manuscript Submission Template. The manuscript must be submitted in a Word document (.docx) format. The body text of the manuscript should be within 2500 words for Short Communication, 4000 - 7000 words for Research Article, and 5000 - 7000 words for Review (excluding abstracts, acknowledgment (if any), and references). The manuscript contains an original work that potentially contributed to the highly scientific advancement.

Please prepare your manuscript using the following guidelines before submission.

MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES

The manuscript is in one of the following categories:

• Research Article. A research article reports the results of original research and assesses its contribution to the body of knowledge in a given area.
• Literature Review. The literature review is a text of a scholarly paper, which includes the current knowledge, including substantive findings, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Literature reviews are secondary sources and do not report new or original experimental work. Most often associated with academic-oriented literature, such reviews are found in academic journals and are not to be confused with book reviews that may also appear in the same publication.
• Short Communication. Short communications are publications with up to about four pages in size and reporting a result, likely an impact on future research in the respective field. Short communications are publications with up to about four pages in size and reporting a result likely an impact on future research in the respective field. Authors are encouraged to submit an extended version of the paper at a later stage.

MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE

The manuscript should contain the following sections in this order:

1. Title
   The title of articles should describe the main content of manuscripts, be informative, concise, neither too short nor too long, written in English, and not contain formulas.
2. The author’s name
   Full name without academic degrees and titles, written in capital letters. Manuscript written by groups needs to be supplemented by complete contact details.
3. Name of affiliation for each author
   The author's name should be accompanied by a complete affiliation.
4. Abstract
   Written briefly in English in one paragraph of 150-250 words, containing background, research objectives, methodology, results, conclusion, and impact.
5. Keywords
   Written in English 3-5 words or groups of words, written alphabetically.
6. Introduction
   Explaining the background, problems, importance of research, a brief literature review that relates directly to research or previous findings that need to be developed, and ending with a paragraph on the research purpose and impact. A balance must be kept between the pure and applied aspects of the subject. 
7. Methods
   Make sure that the work can be repeated according to the details provided. It contains technical information about the study presented clearly. Therefore, readers can conduct research based on the techniques presented. Materials and equipment specifications are necessary. Approaches or procedures of study, together with data analysis methods, must be presented.
8. Results and Discussion
   Well-prepared tables and or figures must be a significant feature of this section, because they convey the major observations to readers. Any information provided in tables and figures should no longer be repeated in the text, but the text should focus on the importance of the principal findings of the study. In general, journal papers will contain three to seven figures and tables. The same data cannot be presented in the form of tables and figures. The results of the study are discussed to address the problem formulated, the objectives, and the research hypotheses. It is highly suggested that the discussion be focused on the why and how of the research findings, and extend to which the research findings can be applied to other relevant problems.
9. Conclusion
   The conclusion should be withdrawn based on research findings, formulated concerns, and research purposes. The conclusion is presented in one paragraph without a numerical form of expression. Explain your research contributions to science.
10. Acknowledgement (Optional)
    Contributors who are not mentioned as authors should be acknowledged, and their particular contribution should be described. All sources of funding for the work must be acknowledged, and both the research funder and the grant number (if applicable) should be given for each source of funding
11. References
    Manuscripts are written using standard citation applications (Mendeley/Endnote/Zotero). The seventh APA (American Psychological Association) reference style is required.

    Citing an article written by two authors, both of authors should be mentioned, however, for three and more authors only the first author is mentioned followed by et al., for example: Rahayu & Sudarsono (2015), Subekti et al. (2014).  A series of references should be presented in ascending date order (Retnoningsih et al., 2005; Indriyanti et al., 2007; Rahayuningsih, 2010). Different publications with the same author(s) and year will be presented separately, as follows 2013a, 2013b. References of unpublished data and personal communication should not appear in the list but should be cited in the text only (e.g., Rifai MA 2015, pers. com. (personal communication); Indriyanti DR 2014, unpublished data).

    In the reference list, the references should be listed in alphabetical order. More or less 80% references for literature reviews should be from recent (up-to-date) journals published in the last 10 years.