Author Guidelines

General Guidelines

  • Articles must be typed in 1.15 space, Arial font with size 10 pt, except in direct quote with single space.
  • Articles must include an abstract in English (150-200 words).
  • Articles must include keywords (5 – 10 words).
  • Local and non-English words should be written italic. 
  • Reference must be given in bodynote and use APA 7th edition style.  Please see click here the style of bodynote and bibliography.

All articles must be submitted by Online Submission at e-journal portal address: https://iasjournals.org/index.php/iasjol/about/submissions where author register as Author and/or offered as Reviewer by online. If authors have any problems about the online submission, please contact Editorial Team at the following email: iasjournaloflocalities@gmail.com

Manuscripts Template

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template or in PDF

Reviewing of Articles

Every submitted paper is independently reviewed by at least two peer-reviewers (Double-blind). The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendations. If two or more reviewers consider the articles unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors within three months of the submission date. 

Revision of Articles

Articles sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised articles can be sent through Online Submission Interface. The revised articles returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

Withdrawal of Articles

The authors are not allowed to withdraw submitted articles in the process of reviewing, because the withdrawal is a waste of valuable resources that editors and reviewers spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscript. The withdrawal can be direct requests or without confirmation in which the authors do not send their revised articles. For this circumstance, the authors and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal.

Plagiarism Check

The editors will run a plagiarism check using Grammarly Premium for the submitted articles before sending to the reviewers. We do not process any plagiarized contents. If an article has over 10% of plagiarism based on the result of the Grammarly Premium check, we will send back the article to the author to be revised for the plagiarized contents. 

Article Submission and Processing Charges

IAS Journal of Localities does not charge authors any fee for submitting, processing, and publishing articles. All processes of article publication are free of charge. Readers can read and download any full-text articles for free of charge.

User Rights

All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.  We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows: Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)

Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

This Guideline is used as a template with respect to the drafting purposes for the publication in the IAS Journal of Localities. It can be accessed via the following legal website. The author(s) is allowed to modify this template for the publication purposes. The special characteristic of the initial paragraph in this Journal is indicated by the use of capitalized letters given the example “THIS GUIDELINE” in the first line of this paragraph, which is not indented or in line with the left margin.

The articles submitted to this journal should be written in English with the minimum of 5.000–6.000 words and be handed in online via its website. The authors should log in for the publication request. The online registration is of no charge.

The article submitted is of the author’s original work that is plagiarism-free, and neither of which has been previously published in other scholarly journals or books. To ensure the originality of the article, the author is obliged to write a letter of acknowledgment stating the originality of his or her work, which is formatted in accordance with the Journal guideline (download here).

Drafting Structure

Articles should be preceded by a title, followed by the author’s ID(s), abstract, keywords and the main body of the article. The main body of the article contains the introduction, literatur review, method, result, discussion, conclusion and references.

Title

The research title should be succinct and insightful using a maximum of 15 words and without any acronyms. The topic should be actual and up-to-date.

Author’s identity

The name of the author should be without academic titles, yet containing identity, institutional affiliation and the accessible address of the corresponding author for the pre-and post-publication purposes.

Abstract

The abstract submitted to IAS Journal of Localities should be concise, factual containing the research objectives, research findings and the main conclusion. It should be presented separately from the article, so it is independent. Also, the use of acronym should be avoided; provided that it is necessary, it should be defined in the initial part of the abstract, e.g. Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI). In addition, the abstract should not contain picture(s) or table(s), yet using 1 space, Arial, font size 9, and a maximum of 200 words.

Keywords

Keywords should contain the general terms and be plural. Acronym should be effectively used (legal abbreviations used in the field that meet the requirements). These keywords will be used for indexation.

Introduction

This section comprises the background, the literature review or the summary of previous relevant studies, the aims of writing the article, and the description of the problem solving and clear objectives of the research.

Literatur Review

The literature review section consists of concepts relevant to the research.

Method

The method section contains important phenomena or issues, types of research, data sources, data collection techniques, and data analysis techniques.

Result

The findings contain a description of the research data.

Discussion

The discussion highlights the summary (research results), data reflection, data interpretation, data comparison, and plans or actions from the research results. In addition, this section should significantly explore the research findings without excessive and lengthy direct quotations.

Conclusion

The conclusion and recommendation of the author are given in this section and are consistent in using the term “Conclusion”. The conclusion of the research should serve the urgent purposes of the study within this section. This can be followed by suggesting the relevant future studies.

References

Referencing format used in this journal uses bodynote model pertaining to the characteristics of each reference such as books, translated books, periodical or volume books, Anthology, article in book chapter, Journal articles, articles in encyclopedia artikel dalam jurnal, articles in website (internet), articles in mass media [magazine, tabloid, bulletin, and newspaper], research reports, thesis, dissertation, manuscript, and holly books. IAS Journal of Localities employs the APA style 7th edition reference system. Please use Reference Manager Applications like Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero, etc. Use other published articles in the same journal as models. Further info in relation to this referencing format, see APA 7th edition style.

Layout and Writing Format

Articles submitted are written using Microsoft Office Word (doc atau docx format), paper size 21 cm X 29.7 cm, and top 3.25 cm; left 4 cm; bottom and right margin 3 cm.

The first and second word in the initial paragraph of IAS Journal of Localities should be capitalized, e.g., “This guideline” with no indent or in line with the left and right margin. The substantial forms of paragraph are formatted using justified text, single space, the first line 1 cm, widow/orphan control, Arial letter with font size 10. All forms of the paragraph should be based on the aforementioned formats.

Direct quotation: It should be grounded in as the following formats, Latin script Font Arial size 10, paragraph indent 1 cm, spacing before 3pt, and spacing after 6pt; paragraph widow/orphan control.

Article Title: It should be written in bold, using Font Arial 15pt, Capitalized letters, Single space , align left text, outside border. The title, author’ ID(s), abstract, and keywords should be in single main page.

Author’s Identity: It should be written in bold: the author’s names (without academic titles), font Arial size 9pt, capitalized initial letter, single space, align left text, paragraph spacing before 4, outside border. Institutional affiliation and email address of the author are written using single space, align left text, Times New Roman letters, font size 9pt, outside border.

Abstract: It should be formatted as the followings: Font Arial size 9pt, paragraph indent 0.7 cm, spacing after 4pt, paragraph widow/orphan control, and top border.

Keywords: It should be based on the following format: Font Arial size 9pt, paragraph indent 0.7 cm, spacing after 4pt, paragraph widow/orphan control, and bottom border.

Subtitles: It should be written as the following format: Font Arial size 11pt, bold, 1.15 line spacing, spacing before 4pt, after 4pt; embedded into the next paragraph.

Sub of subtitles: It should be formatted as the followings: Font Arial size 10pt, regular italic, 1.15 line spacing, spacing before 4pt, after 4pt; embedded into the next paragraph.

References: Cite the main scientific publications on which your work is based. Cite only items that you have read. Do not inflate the manuscript with too many references. Avoid excessive self‐citations. Avoid excessive citations of publications from the same region. Check each reference against the original source (authors name, volume, issue, year, DOI Number). Please use Reference Manager Applications like Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero, etc. Use other published articles in the same journal as models. Articles should include the references, which are organised in alphabetical order and attach only the references used. The reference system used is APA 7th edition style.