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Author Guidelines
A. General Requirements
The minimum standard requirements of the Indonesian Journal of Law and Policy Studies are as follow:
- The author writes his/her article in English
- The author states his/her name clearly without any salutation or degree. The name accompanied with affiliation and corresponding email
- The editors expect the author to write his/her article in a maximum of 15 pages
- We suggest the author for using the reference tools such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote to manage and format the article’s reference. The reference style used by Indonesian Journal of Law and Policy Studies is APA Citation Style
- We oblige the author to prepare his/her article using our recent template
B. Structure of The Article
The author must follow the Indonesian Journal of Law and Policy Studies article structure as numbered below:
- Title. The title is clear and preferably not more than 15 words
- Abstract. The abstract should be clear, concise, and descriptive. It should provide a brief introduction to the problem, objective of the paper, followed by a statement regarding the methodology and a summary of findings.
- Introduction. The introduction should be clear and provide the issue to be discussed in the manuscript. Before the objective, authors should provide an adequate background, and very short literature survey in order to record the existing solutions, to show which is the best of previous researches, to show the main limitation of the previous researches, to show what do you hope to achieve (to solve the limitation), and to show the scientific merit or novelties of the paper.
- Methodology. The method is written in descriptive and should provide a statement regarding the methodology of the research. This method as much as possible to give an idea to the reader through the methods used. This method is optional, only for original research articles. It is not necessary to add methodology in the General Review type of paper.
- Results and Discussion. This section is the most important section of the article. The analysis or results of the research should be clear and concise. The results should summarize (scientific) findings rather than providing data in great detail.
- Conclusion. The conclusion contains a description that should answer the objectives of the research. Provide a clear and concise conclusion. Do not repeat the Abstract or describe the results of the research. Give a clear explanation regarding the possible application and suggestions related to the research findings. It is preferable to write the conclusion in only one paragraph or two.
- References. The minimum references are 15 and it must be based on 80% primer reference: journals and thesis (Magister/Doctorate) and 20% of books published in the last 10 years. The citation style of the manuscript should be written in APA (American Psychological Association) both in the body text and references.
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.
- 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).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Copyright Notice
The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, the copyright of the article shall be assigned to Indonesian Journal of Law and Policy Studies, Post Graduate in Law Universitas Muhammadiyah Tangerang, Indonesia as the publisher of the journal.
Indonesian Journal of Law and Policy Studies (IJLPS) right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the work for any purpose, even commercially with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in Indonesian Journal of Law and Policy Studies (IJLPS). 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 Indonesian Journal of Law and Policy Studies (IJLPS). 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 (See The Effect of Open Access).
Privacy Statement
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Author Fees
This journal charges the following author fees.
Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.
Article Publication: 0.00 (IDR)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.