Submissions

Author Guidelines

The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by an editor. It will be evaluated in the office, whether it is suitable for Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law's focus and scope or has a major methodological flaw and a similarity score by using Turnitin.

The manuscript will be sent to at least two anonymous referees for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation (double-blind peer review). Reviewers' comments are then sent to the corresponding author for necessary actions and responses.

The suggested decision will be evaluated in an editorial board meeting. Afterwards, the editor will send the final decision to the corresponding author.

Review Outcomes Utilizing feedback from the peer review process, the Editor will make a final publication decision. The review process will take approximately 4 to 8 weeks. Decision categories include:

• Reject - Rejected manuscripts will not be published, and authors will not have the opportunity to resubmit a revised version of the manuscript to the Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law.

• Resubmit for Review - The submission needs to be re-worked, but with significant changes, may be accepted. However, it will require a second round of review.

• Accept with Revisions - Manuscripts receiving an accept-pending-revisions decision will be published in the Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law under the condition that minor/major modifications are made. Revisions will be reviewed by an editor to ensure necessary updates are made prior to publication.

• Accept - Accepted manuscripts will be published in the current form with no further modifications required.

The reviewers' and editor's suggestions will be conveyed to the author, who will then have an opportunity to revise the paper. A manuscript returned to an author for revision can be held for a maximum of four weeks.

Correspondence All correspondence concerning manuscripts should be directed to the Editor of the Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law. The Editor will direct all correspondence to the lead author; the lead author is responsible for sharing communications with other authors. Beyond communication concerning the review, manuscripts accepted for publication may require additional correspondence to complete copyediting and layout editing.

After Accepted The accepted paper will be edited by the section edition of the Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law. The cost of language editing service is currently free.

Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law, an international journal, provides a forum for publishing original research articles, review articles from invited contributors, and news related to matrimonial and family law. The journal is published two times a year. Scientific articles dealing with doctrinal research, socio-legal studies, and comparative law are particularly welcome. The journal encompasses research articles, original research reports, reviews, short communications, and scientific commentaries in matrimonial and family law.

All papers submitted to the journal should be written in good English. 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 Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law is English.

1. General Author Guidelines All manuscripts must be submitted to the Editorial Office by Online Submission at the E-Journal portal address: https://publications.ebsco.com/?custId=s8997389&groupId=main&profileId=pfui, where the author can register as an Author and/or be offered as a Reviewer. If authors have any problems with the online submission, please contact the Editorial Office at the following email: ijmfl@unismuh.ac.id. The type of manuscript acceptable for publication is Original Research Articles.

2. Manuscript Template The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template (download the MS Word article template here).

3. Reviewing of Manuscripts Every submitted paper is independently reviewed by at least two peer-reviewers. The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based on their reports/recommendation. If two or more reviewers consider a manuscript unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors within three months of the submission date.

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 the editorial office through the Online Submission Interface. Revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

5. Graphical Abstract A Graphical abstract is mandatory for this journal. It should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article. Graphical abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system or can otherwise be submitted by email to ijmfl@unismuh.ac.id after the manuscript has been accepted. Please state the manuscript number in your email subject. Image size: please provide an image with a minimum of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, JPG, PDF, or MS Office files.

6. Guideline for Online Submission The author should first register as an Author and/or be offered as a Reviewer through the following address: https://publications.ebsco.com/?custId=s8997389&groupId=main&profileId=pfui. The author should fulfill the form as detailed as possible, where the star-marked form must be entered. After all form textboxes are filled, the Author clicks on the “Register” button to proceed with the registration. Therefore, the Author is brought to the online author submission interface where the Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start, a New Submission section, click on “’Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in the online submission process:

• Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e., Original Research Articles, Review Article, or Short Communication. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists.

• Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click the Upload button.

• Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered, including the marked corresponding author. After that, the manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and pasting it into the textbox, including keywords.

• Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary files should be uploaded, including a Covering/Submission Letter and a Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement Form. Therefore, click on the Browse button, choose the files, and then click on the Upload button.

• Step 5 – Confirming the Submission: The Author should do a final check of the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript, click the Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site. After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes a status of manuscript review and editorial process.

Articles are full-length research reports that contain detailed descriptions of experimental or theoretical work with a clear interpretation and discussion of the theoretical and and/or experimental results and data. Articles should be structured under the section headings Abstract (English and Indonesian), Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment (optional), and References.

Title page The organization shown below should be followed (in the order given): a. Title of the paper (title case, 14 pt, bold, centered) b. Author name(s) (12 pt) c. Author affiliation(s) (10 pt) d. Address(es) of the institution(s) at which the work was performed (10 pt) e. Name, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author to whom the revision or galley proofs of the paper are to be sent. (10 pt) The title should be brief and should not exceed 20 words. The affiliation address for each author should be indicated by superscript Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.).

Abstract (10 pt, bold) Articles must include an abstract of 200 words or fewer. The abstract should not repeat the information already present in the title. The abstract should be written in English and in Bahasa Indonesia.

Keywords (10 pt, italics) Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords written in alphabetical order. Please avoid general terms, multiple concepts (avoid, for example, and or of), and abbreviations. Only abbreviations firmly established in the field are eligible.

Introduction (12 pt, bold) The Introduction presents the purpose of the studies reported and their relationship to earlier work in the field. It should not be an extensive review of the literature. Use only those references required to provide the most salient background to allow the readers to understand and evaluate the purpose and results of the present study without referring to previous publications on the topic.

Methods (12 pt, bold) The Methods sections should be brief, but they should include sufficient technical information to allow the experiments to be repeated by a qualified reader. Only new methods should be described in detail. Cite previously published procedures in References.

Results and Discussion (12 pt, bold) The Results should include the rationale or design of the experiments as well as the results of the experiments. Results can be presented in figures, tables, and text. The Discussion should be an interpretation of the results rather than a repetition of the Results.

Conclusion (12 pt, bold) The Conclusion should contain the confirmation of the problem that has been analyzed in the result and discussion section.

Acknowledgments (12 pt, bold) Place Acknowledgments, including information on the source of any financial support, received for the work being published.

References (12 pt, bold) The References section must include all relevant published works, and all listed references must be cited in the text. References should be written in the order of they appear in the text. Within the text, cite listed references use APA style, by their author last name and year (e.g., Husnussalam (2010)). The author(s) must check the accuracy of all cite listed references, as the Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law will not be responsible for incorrect in-text reference citations.

Follow the styles shown in the examples below for books, specific chapters in books, and journal articles, respectively:

• [Contoh Referensi Buku: Penulis, (Tahun). Judul Buku. Kota Penerbit: Penerbit. hlm. xx-xx.]

• [Contoh Referensi Bab Buku: Penulis Bab, (Tahun). Judul Bab. In Penulis/Editor Buku, Judul Buku. Kota Penerbit: Penerbit. hlm. xx-xx.]

• [Contoh Referensi Artikel Jurnal: Penulis, (Tahun). Judul Artikel. Nama Jurnal. Vol(Isi): hlm. xx-xx, DOI]

References to papers accepted for publication but not yet published should show the journal name, the probable year of publication (if known), and they should state "in press."

The following types of references are not valid for listing in the References section:

• Unpublished data

• Personal communication manuscripts in preparation or submitted pamphlets

• Abstracts

• Patents

• Newsletters

• Material that has not been subjected to peer review. References to such sources should be made parenthetically in the text (e.g., J.J. Favier et al. (1986). Abstr. Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Crystal Growth, York, UK, p. 50).

All submitted papers in the Indonesian Journal of Matrimonial and Family Law are suggested using Reference management applications such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote.

Tables Tables should be typewritten separately from the main text and preferably in an appropriate font size to fit each table on a separate page. Each table must be numbered with Arabic numerals (e.g., Table 1, Table 2) and include a title. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.), not symbols. Do not use vertical rulings in the tables. Each column in a table must have a heading, and abbreviations, when necessary, should be defined in the footnotes.

Figures Figures should be provided separately from the main text. Use Arabic numerals to number all figures (e.g., Figure 1, Figure 2) according to their sequence in the text. The figure number must appear well outside the boundaries of the image itself. Multipart figures should be indicated with uppercase and bold font letters (A, B, C, etc.) without parenthesis, both on the figure itself and in the figure legends.