Author Guidelines

Guidelines for preparing original, methodologically rigorous, ethically responsible, and academically significant manuscripts on gender and child-related issues.

Jurnal Harkat: Media Komunikasi Gender, published by the Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak (PSGA), LP2M UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, welcomes original research articles, critical reviews, and scholarly discussions concerning gender, women, children, families, and interdisciplinary social issues.

Submitted manuscripts must demonstrate a clearly defined academic problem, engagement with relevant scholarship, appropriate methodology or analytical approach, evidence-based arguments, and an identifiable contribution to knowledge. Authors must follow the journal's manuscript template and publication policies.

The journal accepts manuscripts written in Bahasa Indonesia or English. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted to another journal. Manuscripts must address topics within the journal's Focus and Scope and comply with applicable research and publication ethics.

Author Information: Provide full author names without academic titles, institutional affiliations, countries, email addresses, and corresponding-author details. ORCID iDs are encouraged. Author information must be consistent with OJS metadata.

Manuscripts written in Bahasa Indonesia must include the required English-language title, abstract, and keywords according to the official journal template. Format-specific adjustments for review articles and scholarly discussions are subject to editorial guidance.

Research articles must follow the prescribed sequence of sections, ensuring coherence between the research problem, methodology, findings, interpretation, and conclusion.

The abstract must be written in English, consist of 150–250 words, and appear as a single paragraph without subheadings, citations, figures, or unexplained abbreviations.

The abstract should briefly communicate:

1. Background and Purpose: The research problem, context, and objective.
2. Research Gap and Novelty: The specific issue addressed and the study's contribution.
3. Method: Research design, data sources or participants, and analytical approach.
4. Results: The principal findings of the study.
5. Conclusion: The main conclusion and significance of the findings.

Keywords: Provide exactly four keywords or key phrases that reflect the central concepts of the study. Arrange them alphabetically and separate them with semicolons. Avoid unnecessarily repeating words from the title.

The Introduction must establish the academic context and explain why the research problem is important to gender studies, child studies, or related interdisciplinary fields. The background should be supported by relevant scholarly literature and credible evidence.

Authors must critically discuss previous research, identify unresolved issues or limitations in existing scholarship, and demonstrate the specific research gap addressed by the study. The literature review should develop a clear academic argument rather than merely summarize individual publications.

The Introduction must also explain the study's novelty and contribution. Novelty should reflect a meaningful theoretical, empirical, methodological, or contextual insight. Merely changing the research location or population does not automatically establish originality.

State the research problem or questions and the research objectives clearly, preferably toward the end of the Introduction. Relevant theoretical perspectives may be integrated into this section without creating a separate Literature Review heading.

The Method section must explain how the research was conducted and how the evidence was obtained and analyzed. The description should be sufficiently transparent to allow readers to evaluate the appropriateness, rigor, and credibility of the research process.

The methodological explanation should include, where relevant:

1. Research Design: The research approach, design, and methodological justification.
2. Research Context: The setting, location, period, and relevant characteristics of the study.
3. Research Subjects or Sources: Participants, informants, samples, cases, documents, or other data sources.
4. Selection Procedures: Sampling techniques, participant selection, or document inclusion criteria.
5. Data Collection: Instruments, procedures, and methods used to collect research data.
6. Data Analysis: Statistical techniques, thematic analysis, coding, interpretation, or other relevant analytical procedures.
7. Research Quality: Relevant validity, reliability, triangulation, or trustworthiness procedures.

For literature-based, historical, conceptual, or documentary studies, authors should explain the selection of sources, analytical framework, and procedures used to develop and evaluate the scholarly argument.

The Results and Discussion must be presented as one integrated main section. Authors may use relevant subheadings to organize findings according to research questions, themes, variables, or analytical categories.

Results: Present the principal findings clearly, systematically, and objectively. Findings must be supported by appropriate evidence, such as analyzed research data, relevant participant statements, statistical results, documentary evidence, or other materials appropriate to the methodology. Avoid unnecessary repetition or excessive presentation of raw data.

Discussion: Interpret the meaning and significance of the findings in relation to the research questions, theoretical perspectives, and previous scholarship. Explain whether the results support, extend, challenge, or differ from earlier studies.

The discussion should move beyond describing findings by presenting critical analysis, explaining relevant contextual factors, and identifying new scholarly insights. Authors should demonstrate how the findings contribute to gender and child-related scholarship.

Where appropriate, discuss theoretical implications, practical relevance, policy implications, or contributions to future research. The interpretation must remain consistent with the evidence and limitations of the study.

The Conclusion must directly address the research objectives or questions and present the most important conclusions derived from the findings and discussion.

Emphasize the study's principal scholarly contribution and explain its implications for relevant theories, practices, or policies. Authors may briefly acknowledge significant research limitations and suggest focused directions for future investigation.

Avoid repeating the abstract, listing findings without synthesis, introducing new evidence, or making claims that are not supported by the study.

Authors may acknowledge institutions, research assistants, community organizations, or individuals who provided meaningful assistance but do not meet authorship criteria. Acknowledgments should be concise and must not disclose sensitive information about research participants without appropriate permission.

Authors must provide accurate and transparent declarations concerning authorship, funding, competing interests, and other matters relevant to research integrity. Use the following statements according to the nature of the research.

References must support the research background, theoretical framework, methodology, interpretation, and scholarly contribution. All in-text citations and reference-list entries must follow APA Style, 7th Edition.

• Research and review articles must include at least 25 relevant references.
• Target at least 80% peer-reviewed journal articles, with justified disciplinary exceptions.
• Prioritize scholarly literature published within the last ten years while retaining relevant foundational works.
• Books, legal documents, historical materials, and primary sources may be used when appropriate to the research.
• Include DOI links where available and verify the accuracy of bibliographic information.
• Include only works cited in the manuscript and ensure consistency between citations and references.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Mendeley, Zotero, or equivalent reference-management software. Reference quality, relevance, and credibility are more important than simply increasing the number of citations.

Tables, figures, and supplementary materials should support the analysis and improve the clarity of the manuscript. Authors must ensure that all materials are accurate, relevant, and appropriately presented.

• Number tables and figures consecutively in the order in which they appear.
• Provide clear titles, captions, explanatory notes, and source information where necessary.
• Refer to and explain each table or figure within the manuscript.
• Avoid duplicating identical information across text, tables, and figures.
• Obtain permission where required for reproduced or adapted copyrighted materials.
• Protect participant identities and confidential information in photographs, quotations, and supplementary data.

All manuscripts are subject to initial editorial screening to evaluate scope, academic quality, originality, formatting, and ethical compliance. Manuscripts that meet the journal's preliminary requirements may proceed to double-blind peer review by at least two qualified reviewers.

Before submitting, authors must ensure that:

• The manuscript is original and has not been published or submitted elsewhere.
• The article follows the prescribed structure and official journal template.
• The research problem, novelty, methods, results, and scholarly contribution are clearly presented.
• All citations, references, tables, and figures are accurate and verifiable.
• The manuscript complies with the journal's plagiarism-screening and publication-ethics requirements.
• Research ethics and relevant declarations have been addressed.
• The file prepared for anonymous review does not reveal author identities.
• All authors have approved the submission and agreed to the stated authorship information.

Authors receiving a revision decision must submit a revised manuscript and a point-by-point response to reviewer comments within the specified deadline. Acceptance remains subject to the journal's editorial decision.

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, ethical integrity, and scholarly content of their manuscripts. Detailed policies on research ethics, plagiarism, artificial intelligence, copyright, peer review, and publication fees are provided on the journal's official website.

All manuscripts must be prepared using the official Jurnal Harkat template before submission through the journal's online system.

Before submission, authors must verify that their manuscripts comply with the journal's formatting requirements, scholarly standards, originality criteria, ethical responsibilities, reference guidelines, and official manuscript template.