Author Guidelines

    1. Each authors should be confirmed their authorship, and we encourage the international collaborationThe misconduct of authorship will affect several sanctions, and even ban for author(s).
    2. We cannot accomodate 'massive submission' whether from certain instutution and or certain author/co-author. We suggest author and/co-author to submit their paper with minimum gap one year. If a certain name (either as main author or co-author) makes submissions too often, we will most likely reject the manuscript to prevent misconduct activities.
    3. Manuscripts must be related to 1) State and Governance, 2) Policy and public services, 3) Government innovation, 4) Local Government and Public Policy, 5) Political and Government.
    4. Manuscripts must be typed at least 6000 words (including footnotes but not including Abstract and References).
    5. The manuscript uses English with American style according to English Academic Writing
    6. Each manuscript must be checked for proofreading through a professional proofreader (proof of proofreading is included in the supplementary file). Authors should submit only papers that have been carefully proofread and polished. Manuscripts are accepted with the understanding that they are original or extended version of previously published papers in conferences and/or journals and that, if the work received an official sponsorship, it has been duly released for open publication. 
    7. Each manuscript uses at least 30 references from the latest year’s journal articles (the last five years).
    8. Reference sources must be written clearly and completely.
    9. The manuscript is completed with an Abstract, a maximum of 250 words
    10. The title must be concise and clear, a maximum of 15 words
    11. Keywords consist of 3-5 related to the topic, not a snippet of the title
    12. Citation models must use Mendeley's standard citation application type: APA Style 6th Edition. 
    13. The structure of the Manuscript (Article) as follows:
    • Introduction 

      The Introduction part should contain at least five previous studies concerning to the topic. At this part, author should emphasize the urgency of the research, as well as the significant of the research. Author also have to explore and combine some previous studies. It is important for reader to know the uniqueness, novelty, urgency, and significance of research. Most of reader is non-native English speaking, therefore, Author should use a formal simple language, as well as, for international reader, author also have to add and improve some global perspectives.

      The introduction should be clear and provide the issue to be discussed in the manuscript. Before the objective, authors should provide an adequate background, and very short literature survey in order to record the existing solutions, to show which is the best of previous studies, to show the main limitation of the previous studies, to show what do you hope to achieve (to solve the limitation), and to show the scientific merit or novelties of the paper. Citation writing model and reference sources using APA Style 6th Edition. (font Palatino Linotype 12, spacing 1). Each paragraph is written indented 1 cm from the left edge. 

      At the end of the paragraph, the author/s should end with a comment on the significance concerning identification of the issue and objective of the research.

      Method

      he method is written in descriptive and should provide a statement regarding the methodology of the research. This method as much as possible to give an idea to the reader through the methods used. Both Research and Review Article should explain the method. For the research article it is clear the method should describe the location, of the study, research design, data collection, research instrument and analytic methods as well as reliability and validity of findings.. Meanwhile, in the Review Article, the method is written descriptively regarding the topic being analyzed, what theories are used to analyze the topic and the limitations of the study.. 

      Result and Discussion 

      This part consists of the research results and researchers is discussed. The results obtained from the research have to be supported by sufficient data. The research results and the discovery must be the answers or the research hypothesis or research question stated previously in the introduction part.

      Conclusion

      This is the final part containing conclusions, limitations and recommendations. The conclusions will be the answers of the hypothesis or research question, the research purposes and the research discoveries. The conclusions should not contain only the repetition of the results and discussions. It should be the summary of the research results as the author expects in the research purposes or the hypothesis. Research limitations and recommendations contain deficiency in the research and suggestions associated with further ideas from the research.

      References

      All the references that used in the article must be listed in this part. In this part, all the used references must be taken from primary sources (scientific journals and the least number is 80% from all the references) that published in the last 5 years. Each article  should has at least 30 references

      The references should use a reference application management such as Mendeley. The references format using APA (American Psychological Association) 6th Edition Style.  

    Each submitted manuscript must be accompanied by an Author Biography in a separate file (Word) with a maximum of 150 words for each author in the form of a description.