Author Guidelines

General Instructions

By submitting to Jurnal Kommunity Online, author attest that:

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal (submit, review, revision, editing).
  • The submission has been approved by all co-authors and relevant authorities (ex: an institution or sponsor).
  • The submission is an original work and uphold the ethic of scientific writing which will be checked through Turnitin by the journal’s Editorial Team. The acceptable threshold of similarity is below 30%.
  • The submission should be between 3,500 and 6,000 words. This total includes references, figures and tables.
  • The submission has been written Bahasa Indonesia or English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are strongly recommended to have their paper be proofread before submission for proper grammar and clarity.
  • All articles submitted to Jurnal Kommunity Online must follow the Pedoman Penulis. If the articles submitted incompliance with the guidelines, then it will be returned directly to the authors without review process. To help authors, Jurnal Kommunity Online provides an Article Template can be downloaded from: Template in Bahasa Indonesia and Template in English. 

Online Submission Procedure

All articles must be submitted online by the Open Journal System (OJS) through the journal website https://journal.uinjkt.ac.id/index.php/jko. Before making an online submission, the author must register on the website https://journal.uinjkt.ac.id/index.php/jko/user/register. If there are problems related to online submission, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Team via email at jko@apps.uinjkt.ac.id.

Each article submitted by the author undergoes the editorial and production stages. Editorial includes technical screening and double-blind peer review process. Production includes copy edit, layout, and proofreading of accepted manuscripts. Detail information about the stages of publishing article in JKO can be seen bellow.

 

Article Structures

  • Title. The title should briefly and clearly describe content.
  • Author(s) name(s). Write Author(s) names without a title and professional positions. Do not abbreviate your last/family name. Always give your First and Last names (should be at least 2 (two) words). The Middle Name is optional.
  • Affiliation. Write a clear affiliation of all Author. Affiliation includes the name of university or institution, city and country. Please indicate Corresponding Author (include email address) by adding an asterisk (*) in superscript behind the name.
  • Abstract. An abstract should contain no citation. Abstract should describe the content well, including the study background, aim, methods, result and conclusions. Abstract should not exceed 250 words.
  • Introduction. The introduction contains an elaborative research background, a formulation of the problem and research objectives at the end of the introduction. Authors should provide an adequate background and very short literatures review in order to record the existing solutions/method, to show which is the best of previous researches, to show the main limitation of the previous researches.
  • Method. Methods contain the research method and how method is applicable in the study. Methods also consist of data collection, data analysis and sampling techniques.
  • Result and Discussion. The result and Discussion must be clear and concise. Result and Discussion contain elaboration of scientific research findings and not just display detailed data. In this section, it is hoped that the author can focus on the differences in findings in the research conducted by the author and previous studies that have been published, by focusing on the research that is a reference in the Theory Studies section. Therefore, avoid citing extensively in the result and discussion sections.
  • Conclusions. The conclusion must contain the answer to the research objective or problem. Explain how your research provides uniqueness or difference from previous research. Without a clear conclusion, it will be difficult for reviewers to assess the results of the research presented in this manuscript, especially related to the author’s research input on the studies that have been conducted previously. Give clear scientific justifications to the manuscript and show the potential for development that can be carried out by future studies.
  • References. It is recommended to use APA 6th Edition and use Reference Manager Applications such as Mendeley and Zotero. The references should be reflected in the topicality of the article. All citations in the manuscript must be available in references and vice versa. References must be presented in the alphabetical order in compliance with the author-date system.

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 fileis in Microsoft Word 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

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. 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 acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. 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).

Jurnal Kommunity Online have CC-BY-SA or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work.

In developing strategy and setting priorities, Jurnal Kommunity Online recognize that free access is better than priced access, libre access is better than free access, and libre under CC-BY-SA or the equivalent is better than libre under more restrictive open licenses. We should achieve what we can when we can. We should not delay achieving free in order to achieve libre, and we should not stop with free when we can achieve libre.

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