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Author Guidelines

By submitting to Telukawur Journal of Legal Community Empowerment, authors attest that the submission:

  1. is an original work, free from any form of plagiarism (text, data, and figures).
  2. has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal.
  3. has been approved by all co-authors and relevant authorities (e.g. an institution or sponsor).


Online Submission

Submissions to Telukawur Journal of Legal Community Empowerment should be through the online submission system. There are no strict formatting requirements for the initial submission, as long as the article structure conforms with our guidelines (see the manuscript structure section below). Manuscripts that advance to the revision stage will then be required to be formatted appropriately (see the formatting section). This enables authors to focus on the scientific content of their manuscript, along with speeding up the article’s processing time.

Author registration. Authors without an Telukawur Journal of Legal Community Empowerment account are required to create an account before beginning their submission. Make sure that the “Author” role is selected in the Role dropdown menu, otherwise, you will not be able to proceed with the submission.

Author(s) data. The submitting author is required to complete the author(s) data during the submission. Please ensure that the affiliation addresses are complete and written exactly as they appear on the manuscript. 

Manuscript metadata. Please complete at least the following information related to the manuscript:

  1. Title - Fill in the manuscript title field in the title case.
  2. Abstract - Paste the abstract into the abstract field; make sure that the formatting is consistent with the manuscript (e.g. superscript and italics).
  3. Keywords - Provide a maximum of six words/phrases, separated by semicolons (;).
  4. References - References should be written in accordance with the APA, including the DOIs (if any). Separate each individual reference with a blank line.


Manuscript Structure Guide

Title. Use a concise and informative title in the title case, with a maximum of 20 words.

Affiliation. Provide each author’s affiliation, no abbreviation, including the city and country.

Abstract. Should be no longer than 150 words. Provide the background and objective of the paper, its principal results, and its conclusions. Avoid using abbreviations and citations.

Keywords. Include a maximum of six keywords or phrases, separated using a semicolon (;). Use specific, relevant terms, so that the article is easier to find in search engines. Do not use terms that are too general or too long.

Introduction. This section should briefly explain the background of the study of community engagement, provide a short review of the pertinent literature, state the originality of the research, and state the research and/or program objectives. This section also covers the factual and actual problems, challenges, or requirements needed by a community related to the research purposes.

Methodology of research or program design. Combine the methods and procedures used in one narrative passage. Enough information should be provided to enable the repetition of the research. For commercial sources of the materials, the name of the company, and the town and country in which they are located should be indicated.

Results. Describe the outcome of the study. Data should be presented as concisely as possible, and in the form of tables or figures if appropriate, although very large tables should be avoided. If needed, this section can be combined with the Discussion section into a Results and discussion section.

Discussion (if necessary). This section should be an interpretation of the results of the work (not a repetition of them) in the context of previous research. Avoid excessive referencing of published literature. If needed, this section can be combined with the Results section into a Results and discussion section.

Conclusions. The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a standalone “Conclusions” section or included as a subsection of the “Discussion” section.

Acknowledgments. Acknowledge anyone who contributed to the research and/or program, as well as any funding or grants received in support of it. The names of funding organizations should be written in full, along with the grant numbers, if available. List any individuals who helped you during the study (e.g. assistance with study design or analysis, or guidance through a study area), or writing of the article (e.g. providing advice on the language, editing, or proofreading the article).

References. List all items alphabetically. Literature cited during the construction of the paper is included in the bibliography. For the purposes of efficiency and conciseness, avoid using more than 30 references and less than 10, consisting of a fair ratio of journal and book references from at least 10 recent years. Telukawur Journal of Legal Community Empowerment uses an APA (American Psychological Association) citation system.

Appendix (if necessary). Any supplemental files such as questionnaires and other supporting data not more than 3 pages.

Submission Checklist

Author(s) can use the following checklist when preparing their submission: 

Files to send

  • Manuscript file (in doc, docx, or rtf format), include the images (png, jpeg, tiff, eps, svg, pdf; at least 300 dpi), graphs and tables.

General formatting

  • 2500-6000 words and/or 9-20 pages in length.
  • Written in good English spelling or proper Bahasa Indonesia for scientific publication. 
  • Standard 12pt Times New Roman font; 1.25 spaced.


 

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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. 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.
  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

Copyright:

  • The copyright of each manuscript belongs to the author.
  • The author acknowledges that Telukawur Journal of Legal Community Empowerment is the first publisher under the license of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Authors can publish papers separately, and arrange non-exclusive distribution of manuscripts that have been published in this journal into other versions by acknowledging that the manuscripts have been published for the first time in Telukawur Journal of Legal Community Empowerment.

 

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