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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 11-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.

When submitting a manuscript, the author should follow the guidelines below :

  1. The manuscript should be within the scope and focus of this journal subject.
  2. Articles submitted to the Journal with single space and should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words, containing the importance of the topic, objective, method, findings, and conclusion.
  3. Below the abstract, about three to five keywords should appear together with the main body of the article with the font size 11.
  4. The journal operates a peer review process and promotes blind reviewing. To facilitate this process, author’s names (without academic titles), institutional affiliations, and the email address of the corresponding author should appear only on a detachable cover sheet.
  5. Articles should be written in English or Indonesia in 1.15 space, using Microsoft Word, font size 11, Cambria, top and left margin 3 cm, bottom and right margin 2.54 cm, printed in A4.
  6. Insert a header on even page indicating name of the Journal, Volume, Number, month, and year, and page number of the publication. On odd page, insert the author(s) and a few words of the title of the articles.
  7. Write the main body of the article in one column, except for tables and figures. Use first line indent of 1 cm, but no indent for first paragraph right after the main title and first paragraph after subheadings.
  8. Block citation should be 1 cm indented with the font size 11.
  9. The outline used is: introduction (without heading or subheading), method, findings and discussion, conclusion, and references.
  10. The introduction should consist of the background of the study,contexts, literary review, and objective. All introduction should be presented in the forms of paragraphs, not pointers, with the proportion of 15-20% of the whole article length.
  11. The method section consists of  description concerning the design, data sources, data collection, and data analysis with the proportion of  10-15% of the total article length, all presented in the form of paragraphs.
  12. The findings and discussion section consist of description of the results of the data analysis to answer the community service question(s) and their meanings seen from current theories and references of the area addressed. The proportion of  this section is 40-60% of the total article length.
  13. The conclusion section consists of the summary, restatement, comment or evaluation of  the main findings.
  14. Use only horizontal lines when using tables. Put table number and the title of the table on top of it.
  15. The sources cited should at least 80% come from those published in the last 10 years. The sources cited are primary sources in the forms of journal articles, books, and research reports, including theses and dissertations.
  16. Citation is done using bracket (last name and year of publication). When the sources are cited verbatim, page number is included (p. 78 or pp. 78-89).
  17. Quotation and references follows APA style and the latter should be included at the end of the article