Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Nusantara Innovation Journal is officially registered in the National Research and Innovation Agency, Directorate of Multimedia Repository and Scientific Publishing, ISSN INDONESIAN NATIONAL CENTER with ISSN Number 3032-5668 (online). This journal is published two times a year (June and December) by BPSDM Provinsi Kalimantan Timur.  NIJ a scientific journal, double-blind peer-reviewed and open-access journal.

The Nusantara Innovation Journal aims to publish research papers in social sciences, encompassing public policy, economics, management, education, psychology, language, and culture, to enhance human resource development in East Kalimantan province. Articles can be written in Indonesian or English using good and correct written language rules. Articles are written in manuscript form in MS Word according to the template provided. 

NIJ provides open access to anyone so that the information and findings in these articles are useful for everyone. This journal's article content can be accessed and downloaded for free, free of charge, following the creative commons license used. However, suppose the data in this article is used as material in article writing or anything else. In that case, you must quote and include the article author's name in the item being made.

All papers submitted to the journal should be written in a good English or Bahasa Indonesia. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their paper checked before submission for grammar and clarity. The work should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The official language of the manuscript to be published in Nusantara Innovation Journal is Bahasa Indonesia or English.

1. General Author Guidelines

All manuscripts must be submitted to Nusantara Innovation Journal Editorial Office by Online Submission at E-Journal portal address: https://nij.kaltimprov.go.id/index.php/nij/about/submissions, where author register as Author and/or offered as Reviewer by online. If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email: nij.bpsdmkaltim@gmail.com

Nusantara Innovation Journal only accepts Original Research and Literature Review Articles to be published. 

2. Manuscript Template

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the article template: download

 3. Reviewing of manuscripts

The decision to publish a paper is based on an editorial assessment and peer review. Initially, all papers are assessed by an editorial committee consisting of members of the editorial team. The prime purpose is to decide whether to send a paper for peer review and to give a rapid decision on those that are not. The rejection is based on the novelty or the relevancy with the scope of this journal.

  • Initial Editorial Assessment

Nusantara Innovation Journal is eager to provide a rapid publication process through an initial assessment conducted by an editorial committee consisting of the editorial team members. The primary purpose is to decide whether to send the paper for peer-review or to reject it. The main point is scope, compliance with the guideline, plagiarism check using Turnitin (max 25%), and language. Sometimes a paper will be returned to the author with a request for revisions with the purpose to help editors in deciding whether or not to send it out for review. Authors may expect the decision of the Initial Editorial Assessment from this stage of the review process within 1-4 weeks of submission.

  • Review Process

After passing the Initial Editorial Assessment, the article will be sent to peer-reviewers. The peer-review process involved at least two reviewers for each manuscript selected based on their expertise. All reviewing process is done by the double-blind review, which means the authors and peer-reviewers do not know each other's identity. The reviewers should complete the review within four weeks in each reviewing round after the review request was sent.

  • Decision-Making Process

The decision to accept for publication is based on the peer reviewer's recommendations, based on which two acceptance recommendations are required. If there is a difference in the two reviewers' recommendations, the editor has the right to seek the third reviewer's consideration. The final decision to publish is made by the editor-in-chief, editorial committee (national or international advisory board) by considering the advice from reviewers.

4. Revision of manuscripts

Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised manuscripts can be sent to editorial office through the Online Submission Interface https://nij.kaltimprov.go.id/index.php/nij/about/submissions. The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

5. Editorial Office of Nusantara Innovation Journal

All correspondences should be sent to the following Editorial Office:

Badi' Zulfa Nihayati (Editor-in-Chief)

Editorial Office of Nusantara Innovation Journal: BPSDM Provinsi Kalimantan Timur, Jl. H.A.M.M. Rifaddin No. 88 Kota Samarinda Provinsi Kalimantan Timur

6. Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

6.1.   The manuscripts represent academic research and literature review in social sciences, encompassing public policy, economics, management, education, psychology, language, and culture, to enhance human resource development in East Kalimantan province.

6.2.   Structure of the manuscripts

  • Title. The title should be brief, short, clear, written in English or Bahasa Indonesia, and informative which reflect the article content. The length of the title maximum 12 words. Each word of the title should be started with a capitalized letter.
  • Author’s names and institutions. The author’s names should be accompanied by the author’s institutions, affiliation address and email addresses, without any academic titles and/or job title.
  • Abstract. The abstract should be less than 250 words. Abstract contains clear statement of the background of the study, the purpose of the study, method, result, and implication, with no references cited.
  • Keywords should be 2 to 5 phrases.
  • Introduction. The introduction describes a brief background of the novelty, state of the arts, and objective (s). It should be written efficiently and supported by references. It should be written without numbers and/or pointers.
  • Literature Review. This section explains the theoretical framework that used in this research, a review of the previous research in the area.
  • Data and Research Methods. This section describes the data and tools of analysis along with the data and their sources.
  • Finding and Discussion. This section explains the results of the study. Data should be presented in Tables or Figures when feasible. There should be no duplication of data in Tables and Figures. The discussion should be consistent and should interpret the results clearly and concisely, and their significance, supported by the suitable literature. The discussion should show relevance between the result and the field of investigation and/or hypotheses. The discussion also should compare the result with previous research.
  • Conclusions. This section concludes and provides policy implications, if any, of the study.
  • Acknowledgment (if any) to the person(s) or institution(s) who help the experiment should be stated.
  • References. This section lists only the papers, books, or other types of publications referred to in the manuscript. References should be the last 10-year publication with minimum 80% of the journal. References should be listed alphabetically by the author(s) last name(s) and the year of publication. The authors must use reference management software like Mendeley to prepare citations and the list of references.

6.3.   The authors should provide an index of subject, namely the specific terms in the manuscript. The authors should also provide the index of authors, namely the key authors of papers referred to in the manuscript. Please write the family name followed by the given name.

6.4.   Estimation result from a software package is not allowed to be directly presented in the paper. They should be presented in equations with the appropriate estimation results.

6.5.   Table format should contain only heading and contents. Please provide the top and bottom lines, along with the line(s) that separate the heading and the contents. Example as attached. 

6.6.   Acknowledgment, if any, should be written as the foot-note of the manuscript’s title.

6.7.   The manuscript is prepared in an A-4 paper, single-sided, and single-space format. A new paragraph should start five characters from the left margin, using 12-size, Times New Roman font type.

6.8.      The article should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words. The allowable length of the manuscript is at Editor’s discretion; however, manuscript with a length less or exceeding the words may be return to the author(s) for revision before the manuscript is considered by the Editors. The word count excludes table, figures, and references..

6.9.    The top and bottom margins are 1 inch.

6.10.    The title is written using capital letters of 16 font size, center position.

6.11.    Subtitles are written using capital letters, started from the left margin.

6.12.         Sub of subtitles is written using capital letters only at the beginning of each word except for connecting words. They should be started from the left margin.

6.13.      References should be those of the last ten years publication unless they are key references.

6.14. Authors are advised to use references management application for citation and referral management (such as Mendeley).

6.15. Citation in the text body should be written using the family name and years of publication. Example:

  1. Hill (2001) suggests that the objective of depreciation ….
  2. According to Kotter (1867), intra industry trade can be …
  3. Wagner (in McCain, 1982) states that …
  4. The definition of flypaper effect is … (Wagner, 1976).

6.16.   Tables and figures should be presented as follows:

  1. The name of tables and figures should follow a numbering system (Arabic numbering system). The names of the tables and figures are on the top of the tables and figures.
  2. The tables and figures should provide the source of information, if any, at the bottom part of both.

6.17.  References should be written in alphabetical order, without any number. The journal using APA style for references. They should be written using the following criteria:

Every manuscript must include a list of references contain only the works cited. Each entry should contain all data necessary for unambiguous identification. With the author-date system, use the following format recommended by the Chicago Manual Styles (14th Ed.):

  1. Arrange citations in alphabetical order according to the surname of the author or the name of the institution responsible for the citation.
  2. Use author’s initials instead of proper names.
  3. In listing more than one name in references (Molyneux, P., and J. Thornton,…) there should always be a comma before “and.”
  4. Dates of publication should be placed immediately after the authors’ names.
  5. Titles of journal should not be abbreviated.
  6. Multiple works by the same author(s) should be listed in chronological order of publication. Two or more works by the same author(s) in the same year distinguished be letters after the date.

 Recommendations for references are:

  1. Authors are encouraged to have references mainly from primary source (at least 80% of the references), such as research articles in journal, proceedings, working paper, or dissertation.
  2. Authors are encouraged to have references that are up-to-date references (at least 80% references dated within the last 10 years).
  3. Authors should avoid excessively referencing your own work (self citation).

Books

Beamish, P. W. 1988. Multinational Joint Ventures in Developing Countries. London-New York: Routledge.

Collins, Geoffrey, and Mathew D. Wortmaster. 1953. The collected works of Pennyloss. Boston: Pennyloss.

Sanders, G.S., T. R. Price, V. L. DeSantis, and C. C. Ryder. 1989. Prediction and prevention of famine. Los Angeles: Timothy Peters. 

Ohio State University. College of Administrative Science. Center for Human Resource Research. 1977. The national longitudinal surveys handbook. rev. ed. Columbus. 

Chapter in a book

Allen, D. 1988. ‘British foreign policy and international co-operation’. In Byrd, P. (Ed.), British Foreign Policy. Deddington: Philip Allen, 210–18.

Journal Article

Banks, William. 1958. Secret meeting in boise. Midwestern  Political Review 6: 26-31.

Fraser J., N. Fraser, and F. McDonald. 2000. The strategic challenge of electronic commerce. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 5(1): 7-14.

Wambach, K. A. 1997. Breastfeeding intention and outcome: A test of the theory of planned behavior. Research in Nursing and Health 20 (1): 51-60.

Zhang, Y., and R. Buda. 1999. Moderating effects of need for cognition on responses to positively versus negatively framed advertising messages. Journal of Advertising 28 (2): 1-15.

Working Paper

Kang, D. 2000. Family Ownership and Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Fortune 500, 1982–1994. Working Paper 00-0051, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.

Dissertation

Gnyawali, D. R. 1997. Creation and Utilization of Organizational Knowledge: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Organizational Learning on Strategic Decision Making. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, PA.

Proceedings

Kowalik, T. 1992. ‘Trade unions attitude to privatisation’. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Privatization and Transformation in Eastern Europe, Warsaw, 15–20 November.

Newspapers

Klein, J. 2002. ‘How the solidarity dream turned sour’. The Guardian, 12 June, 8–9.

 

7. Author Fee (Page Charge)

Nusantara Innovation Journal  is an open access international journal and there is no submission and publication fee in the journal. 

8. 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- 4.0 International Public License