Author Guidelines

The manuscripts

The manuscript should be an original research paper which sufficiently contributes novelty to LITERAL: Disability Studies Journal. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using the LITERAL online submission procedure. The corresponding author should also provide statement that the manuscript is not concurrently being under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Editors will ignore submissions that do not follow these procedures.

Structure of the manuscripts

  1. Title.The title should be clear and informative
  2. Author's names and institutions. The author's names should be accompanied by the author's institutions and email addresses, without any academic title. For a joint paper, one of the authors should be notified as the corresponding author.
  3. Abstracts are written in Indonesian and English with a maximum length of 200 words that contain the basic issues, research objectives, methods and research results written in a concise, clear, complete and complete self describes the essence of the whole writing. Number of 3-5 word keywords or word combinations. Abstract typed with Calibri Body, 11 with single space.
  4. Introduction.This section explains the background of the study, a review on the previous researches in the area, and aims of the manuscripts. Importantly it should also show the significance and novelty of the research.
  5. Methods.This section describes the appropriate tools of analysis along with the data and their sources.
  6. Results and Discussion.This section explains the results of the study. It should be presented clearly and concisely. Author(s) should explore the novelty or the contribution of the work to the literature.
  7. Conclusion.This section concludes and provides implications, if any, of the study. The conclusion(s) should be at the same order with ones discussed in the body of the manuscript.
  8. References.This section lists only the papers, books, or other types of publications referred to in the body of the manuscript.
     

General Writing Format

  1. The manuscript is prepared in a A4 paper, single-sided, and single line spacing format as in the template.
  2. The manuscript is written in proper English or Indonesian.
  3. The research article should contain title, author’s name(s), affiliation/institution, abstract, keywords, introduction, method, results and discussion, conclusion and suggestion, and references.
  4. The manuscript should be between 10 to 15 pages long (4000-7000 words).
  5. The paper margins are measuring 210mm (8.27") wide and 200 97mm (11.69") long. Margin limits are set as follows: Top = 30 mm; Bottom = 25mm; Left = 30mm; Right = 20mm.
  6. The title is written using capital letters only at first word or special name (example: location name), 14 font size, left position.
  7. Sub titles are written using capital letters only at first word or special name and 12 font size
  8. Sub of sub titles, if any, are written using capital letters only at first word or special name. They should be started from the left margin.
  9. Sub of sub of sub titles, if any, are written using capital letters only at the beginning of each word except for connecting words. They should be started from the left margin.
  10. References should be those of the last ten years publication (>80%), except for key references (80%). Referring to any textbook should be minimized (<20%).

Specific Writing Format

  1. Equations and formula should be numbered as (1), (2)...etc appearing to their right.
  2. Estimation results from a software package are not allowed to be directly presented in the paper. They should be presented in summary tables.

Tables and Figures

Tables and figures should be presented as follows:

  1. The name of tables and figures should follow a numbering system. The title of the tables and figures are placed at the top and the bottom respectively.
  2. The tables and figures should provide the source of information, if any, at the bottom. 
  3. Any table should contain only heading and contents. The table contains row lines only without column lines. Note(s) and source(s) should be included underneath the table where appropriate. 

Citation

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 is ....
  2. Inflation targeting would be sufficient (McCain, 1982).
  3. The definition of contagion is ... (Wagner, 1976; Rhonda 2009).
  4. The Authors are recommended to use Mendeley Reference software.

 

References

The manuscript is expected to involve approximately 15-20 primary and up-to-date references to assert high quality contributions to the knowledge development. Citations and references must strictly follow the APA (American Psychological Association) 7th Edition style.  References should include only works that are cited within the text of the manuscript.  Consulting the APA style manual (http://www.apastyle.org/pubmanual.html) is strongly recommended for completing manuscript submissions. The Authors are recommended to use Mendeley Reference software

 

Manuscript Template

Manuscript should be prepared according to the following MS Word template (click here)

 

How to send the manuscript

  1. The manuscript in microsoft word should be sent to the editor by clicking Register tab on our Website.
  2. A brief bio that contains full name, academic title, institution, telephone, mobile number, and others should be written in the fields of data when registering online in the website submission.