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Author Guidelines

General Information

Published by the Langkah Berkelanjutan Indonesia, the Journal of Sustainability Perspectives is a cross-disciplinary scholarly, open-access journal of human beings' environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability, providing an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development. We accept original research articles, short communications, reviwes articles, best-practice reports, and letters to the editor. To ensure accessibility by all readers, submitted articles should be written in good English, and authors for whom English is not their native languange are encouraged to have their manuscripts checked by a professional editor for grammar and clarity. Submitted work should also not have been previously published or presently under consideration by anither journal.

Title

The title is an opportunity to attract the reader’s attention. Remember that readers are the potential authors who will cite your article. Identify the main issue of the paper, beginning with its subject. The title should be accurate, unambiguous, specific, and complete. Do not include infrequently-used abbreviations.

Abstract and Keywords

A short abstract (100-300 words) should inform the prospective reader of what yiu did and highlight the key findings. Avoid using technical jargon and uncommon abbreviations. The abstract should be clear, concise, and descriptive, and sholud provide a brief introduction to the problem (preferably 1-2 sentences, the objective of the paper, the research method in short, and a brief summary of the results. It should end with a comment on the significance of the results or a bried conclusion. 

Keywords enhance the indexability and searchability of articles. They should tehrefore represent the content and highlight, using terms that are not already in the title or abstract. Use only those abbreviations that are firmly established in the field (e.g., DNA). 

Introduction

The purpose of an introduction is to introduce readers to their research, including those who are not familiar with the subject. Ideally, it should present the sate of the art based on previous studies, and include a clear gap analysis and statement indicating the article's novelty. Authors should provide an adequate background alongside a short literature review, the purpose of which is to identify past approaches and highlight their limitations and where the present study addresses these limitations. Avoid a detailed literature review or summarization of results. Group the information in the review according to the topic, rather than author-by-author. At the end of the introduction section, the objectives of the work shoul be stated.

Theoretical Approach/Methodology/Scenario

This section must clearly explain the experiment being carried out. If you follow a published method, cite it and note any modifications instead of redescribing the method verbatim.

Results/Discussions/Implementation

As the most important part of the paper, the results and discussion or implemntation section is where you present and contextualize your findings. It should encompass and answer the following:

• What: How do the results relate to the original question or objectives outlined in the Introduction?
• Why: Is there a scientific interpretation for each finding that is presented?
• What else: Are the results consistent with ehat other investigators have reported, oe otherwise what are the differences?

As a rule, summarize the (scientific) findings as opposed to merely presenting the data. Similarly, in the discussion, explore the significance of the results of the work, rather than repeating them, and take care to highlight differences batween your findings and those pf previous publications, buut avoid excessive citations and an overly long discussion. Context is what's most important.

Conclusions/Summary/Future Perspectives

Considering how many readers tend to jump to the conclusions first, this section is critical to helping both readers and reviewers determine the merits of your work. Focus only on answering the paper's objectives. Explain how your work advances the field based on the present body of knowledge. Do not repeat the abstract, or just list experimental results; avoid bullets or numbering. Finally, provide a clear scientifc justification for your work, and indicate possible applications and extensions, along with suggesting experiments and/or pointing out those that are underway.

References

Cite the main scientifc publications on which your work is based. Cite only items that you have read. Do not inflate the manuscript with unnecessary references. Avoid excesibe self-citations. Avoid excessive citations of publications from the same region. All publications cited in the text should be included in a list of references at the end, with a reasonable minimum number of references being approximately 15. Make sure to check each reference against the original source (author's name, volume issue, year).

The content of these author guidelines can be donwloaded from this link.

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point Calibri 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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

The Journal of Sustainability Perspectives provides immediate open acess to its published articles, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. As such, everyone is free to read, download, print, copy, search, upload to a social network or institutional repository, crawl for indexing, link to the full text, transform, pass as data into software, or redistribute articles for any lawful purpose in any medium, without requiring prior permission from either the athor(s) or the journal, provided they give appropriate attribution to the original author(s) and the Journal of Sustainability Perspectives, link to the license, indicate if changes were made, and redistribute any derivative work under the same license.

Authors, themselves, are not beholden to these requirments, as they retain the copyright of articles, without restrictions, merely granting the journal a non-exclusive lincese to publish their article and identify itself as its original publisher. However, by submitting to the Journal of Sustainability Perspectives, authors recignize and assent to the rights of readers, in accordance with the CC BY-SA lincense. 

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