Author Guidelines

Some of the provisions in Journal of Governance and Administrative Reform writing include:

  1. JGAR accept articles with the following types:
          1. Research Paper
          2. Literature review
          3. Case study

  2. General Guideline
    1. Article has never been published before.
    2. Result-based research is prioritized for publication.
    3. The article should be written in MS Word using Times New Roman font size 12, with 1.5 line spacing, and formatted on A4 paper, containing between 3500 and 6000 words, and margin of 3 for top, bottom, left, and right sides.
    4. The article has no typos.
    5. The article has no plagiarism.
    6. The article is written in the form of essay in which it has no dot points and numbering.
    7. It does not use footnote or endnote, but running note (surname, year of publication: page)
  3. Title
    1. Title is written in dual languages; those are Bahasa Indonesia, and English.
    2. The title in Bahasa Indonesia must not exceed 12 words; whereas, the title in English must not exceed 10 words.
    3. The title must mention the results of the study.
    4. There must be no subheading
    5. The title is written in Times New Roman 13, Bold, center.
    6. The initial letter of every word in the title must be capitalized except for conjunctions that must use small letters. 
  4. Name of author and institution of author
    1. The author's name is completely written without academic title or indication of position and stratification.
    2. The name of institution is completely written.
    3. Correspondence must include post address, telephone, and email.
  5. Abstract
    1. Abstract is written in dual languages; those are Bahasa Indonesia, and English.
    2. Abstract must be written between 200 – 250 words in English, and 200 – 250 words in Bahasa Indonesia.
    3. Abstract must be written in one paragraph only encompassing background, purpose of the study, methods, results, and conclusion.
  6. Keyword
    1. Keyword must be written in dual languages; those are Bahasa Indonesia, and English.
    2. There must be at least two keywords in the abstract.
  7. Introduction
    1. Introduction consists of background, purpose of the study, and research urgency.
    2. Statement of the problem and/ or hypothesis must not be written in the form of subheading but research question which is integrated in paragraph, part of the introduction.
  8. Methods
    1. Practical methods
    2. It consists of research type/ approach, location, population and sample, sampling drawing techniques, data collection techniques, and data analysis techniques.
  9. Results of the study
    1. All tables, graphics, and figures are thoroughly discussed, placed in the center, and appropriate interpretation are highly desirable (description is not repetitive from tables, graphics, and figures).
    2. Tables use three horizontal lines.
    3. Tables and graphics are made in the format of MS Word/ Excel
    4. Every table consists of table number and table title written above the table.
  10. Conclusion
    1. Conclusion does not repeat what has been discussed in results section.
  11. References
    1. References written must be cited in writing and vice versa.
    2. Book citation is at least from last 10-year publication, whereas, for journals, it is at least from last 5-year publication.
    3. Using APA style 
  12. Authorship
    1. Filling in the statement form of responsibility upon all content of the article
    2. Signing the statement that the article is not being proposed to another journal and it will not be submitted to another journal during the editing and reviewing process by JGAR.
    3. Signing the statement of plagiarism free
    4. Attaching Curriculum Vitae (CV)
    5. Editorial staff has the right to edit the article without changing the content and the main idea of the author.
    6. Submit article to https://e-journal.unair.ac.id/JGAR/Online_Submissions 

 

Manuscript Preparation and Selingkung Style
JGAR journal writing techniques to support the building of scientific journal writing, writing techniques must pay attention to several things, including:

a) Articles are written in essay form, so that there is no numeric (or alphabetical) format that separates chapters / sections, or to mark new chapters / sections.

b) To compress and streamline the content of the article, running notes are used instead of footnotes or endnotes, for example:

.......... (Hill & Hupe, 2001; Thompson, 2005: 120-123).

.......... (Porter et al, 2004)

...... .. (Hogwood, 1981 in Gunn, 1984)

c) Conclusions are not detailed in points, but in the form of paragraphs

d) If there is a Table / Graph or Image, it is submitted in a different file from the article text in tab-delimited form.

e) Writing Table 1 and so on above the table, then continued with Table Title

f) Figure 1 and so on below the image, followed by image captions.

 

Bibliography

Writing for the bibliography uses the "name-year" system (not "acuurut"), with the alphabetical order of the family name (last name). Regarding bibliographical citations taken from several sources, there are several provisions for how to cite several sources, namely:

o Books

Higgins, J. (1981) State of Welfare. Oxford: Blackwell

o Books (edited)

Hill, M. (ed) (1993) New Agendas in the Study of Policy Process. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

o Chapters in books

Immergut, E.M. (1992) „The rules of the game: The Logic of health policymaking in France"Ÿ. In Steinmo, S., (Eds) Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

o Journal article

Hoggett, P. (1996) "New modes of control in public service". Public Administration Review 74 (1): 8-34

o Thesis and dissertation

Gill, M.R. (1997) The relationship between the physical properties of human articular cartilage and tissue biochemistry and ultrastructure. Desertation, University of Leeds.

o Website without author

Feminist Collections A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources (2000) [Accessed January 10, 2009]. Http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Women Studies / fcmain. htm.

o Website with author

Hawking, S. (2000) Professor Stehen Hawking's website. [Accessed 9 May 2009]. http: // www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html

 

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 double anonymous peer review have been followed.