Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

1. Submission

Manuscripts must be submitted through the JAK online submission system. Email may be used for technical assistance but is not a substitute for an OJS submission. The corresponding author must complete all author names, affiliations, countries, email addresses, and available ORCID iDs in the submission metadata and ensure that the metadata match the manuscript.

2. Scope, Originality, and Language

JAK considers original research articles and, when they make a clear scholarly contribution, review articles and case studies within the journal's scope. A manuscript must be original, must not be published or under review elsewhere, and must not contain plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, citation manipulation, or inappropriate authorship. Manuscripts must be written in clear academic English. Authors are responsible for professional language editing when needed.

3. Files and Anonymization

Upload an editable Microsoft Word or compatible document using the current JAK template. Submit a separate title page containing the article title, all author details, acknowledgments, funding, and competing interests. The blinded manuscript must not contain author names, affiliations, self-identifying acknowledgments, document properties, or other information that reveals identity. Figures and tables must be editable, numbered, cited in the text, and placed near their first mention.

4. Format

Use A4 paper, single spacing, Times New Roman 12 point, and the margins defined in the journal template. A typical manuscript is 15-20 pages including tables, figures, and references. Use concise headings and continuous page numbering. The title should be informative, normally no more than 15 words, and should avoid unnecessary abbreviations.

5. Manuscript Structure

• Title: specific, accurate, and consistent with the study.
• Abstract: no more than 200 words stating the background or problem, objective, method, principal results, and conclusion. Do not include citations.
• Keywords: three to five specific terms not merely repeating the title.
• Introduction: context, current literature, research gap, novelty, objective, and hypotheses or research questions where applicable.
• Literature Review/Hypothesis Development: include only where appropriate to the study design.
• Research Method: design, setting, population/sample or cases, variables or constructs, instruments, data collection, ethics, and analysis sufficient for evaluation and replication.
• Results: report findings clearly without duplicating the same information in text, tables, and figures.
• Discussion: interpret the findings against theory and current evidence, explain contribution, limitations, and implications.
• Conclusion: answer the objective without introducing new results and identify justified recommendations.
• Declarations: author contributions, funding, competing interests, data availability, ethics approval and consent where applicable, and generative-AI use.
• References: include only works cited in the manuscript.

6. Research and Reporting Standards

Authors must use an appropriate reporting guideline for the study design where one exists. Research involving human participants, personal data, or animals must state the approving ethics body and approval number where required, explain informed consent where applicable, and protect privacy. Statistical methods, software, sample selection, exclusions, and missing data must be reported transparently.

7. References

Use APA 7th edition consistently and manage references with reliable reference-management software. Include DOI links in the form https://doi.org/... whenever available. References should emphasize relevant primary, peer-reviewed, and current literature; normally at least 80 percent should be journal literature and at least 80 percent should have been published within the previous ten years. Do not cite sources that have not been read, and avoid unnecessary self-citation or citation requested only to inflate metrics.

8. Required Declarations

Every manuscript must state each author's contribution, all funding and grant numbers, any financial or non-financial competing interests, and where supporting data can be accessed or why they cannot be shared. Generative-AI use must identify the tool, purpose, and extent; AI cannot be an author. If no funding, competing interests, shared data, or AI use applies, state this explicitly.

9. Review, Revision, and Acceptance

Suitable manuscripts undergo double-blind review by at least two independent reviewers. A revision must include a clean manuscript, a marked version when requested, and a point-by-point response. Acceptance is conditional on completion of scholarly, ethical, language, reference, and metadata checks. Authors must check proofs promptly and may correct production errors but may not introduce unsupported substantive changes at proof stage.

10. Fees, Copyright, and Policies

There is no submission fee. The publication fee is IDR 1,000,000 and is requested only after acceptance. Payment does not influence peer review or acceptance. Authors retain copyright and articles are published under CC BY-SA 4.0. Authors must read the journal's Publication Policies, Peer Review Process, Plagiarism and Retraction Policy, Publication Ethics, and Copyright and License pages before submission.