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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.
  • The manuscript is an original work.
  • The manuscript has not been under consideration for any other publication. Exceptions to this rule should be clearly indicated at the time of submission (provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word document file format (.doc or .docx).
  • The text has used the provided template or followed the template.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Author Guidelines

About the Journal

Tamalanrea: Journal of Government and Development (JGD) is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy. Contributions are welcomed from government scientists, political economists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, economists, geographers, lawyers, and others committed to the rigorous study and analysis of government and development-related issues and local and global insight.

Please note that this journal publishes manuscripts in English or Bahasa Indonesia.

Tamalanrea: Journal of Government and Development (JGD) accepts the following types of article:

  • Original Article
  • Research Note
  • Article and Book Review

The peer review criteria for JGD comprise contemporary relevance, contribution to governance knowledge and implications for governance and development research, conceptual clarity and logic in analysis, organization and readability in the presentation, methodology of research articles, appropriateness of references, and originality.

Preparing and Submitting Manuscript

(i) Articles submitted to the journal should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication. Exceptions to this rule should be clearly indicated at the time of submission.

(ii) New submissions should be made via the Open Journal System (OJS) submission. Should your manuscript proceed to the revision stage, you will be directed to make your revisions via the same submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at anytime by logging on to OJS and clicking the “Submissions” menu. For technical help with the submission system, please contact [email protected] or visit https://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/jgd/about/contact.

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Department of Government Science) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/jgd/about/privacy.

Manuscripts can be uploaded either as a single document (containing the main text, tables and figures), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. Should your manuscript reach revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. The main manuscript file should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.

Your main document file should include:

  1. A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations;
  2. The full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
  3. Abstract structured (intro/methods/results/conclusion) or unstructured (no more than 250 words);
  4. Up to seven keywords;
  5. Practitioner Points (optional) Authors will need to provide no more than 3 ‘key points’, written with the practitioner in mind, that summarize the key messages of their paper to be published with their article;
  6. Main body: formatted as the Introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, conclusion;
  7. References;
  8. Table(s) (each table complete with title and footnotes);
  9. Figure(s): Figure legends must be added beneath each individual image during submission AND as a complete list in the text;
  10. Acknowledgments.

Length

The number of words for the Original Article, Research Note, and Article and Book Review is no more than 8000, 4000, and 3000 words, respectively.

Style Guidelines

Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.

Any spelling style is acceptable so long as it is consistent within the manuscript.

Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.

Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Non-English speaking authors are advised to send their manuscripts for language editing before submission.

The manuscript title is limited to 25 words.

Formatting and Templates

To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).

Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.

If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.

References

Please use the APA reference style when preparing your paper. Authors are encouraged to use the Mendeley tool to assist you in following the APA reference style.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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Copyright Notice

Tamalanrea: Journal of Government and Development (JGD) is an open-access journal, which means that all contents are freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the articles' full texts in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the Author.

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or any other language, without the written consent of the publisher. An article based on a section from a completed graduate dissertation may be published in JGD, but only if this is allowed by Author's (s') university rules. The Editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication.

JGD operates a CC-BY 4.0 © license for journal papers. Copyright remains with the Author, but JGD is licensed to publish the paper, and the Author agrees to make the article available with the CC-BY 4.0 license. Reproduction as another journal article in whole or in part would be plagiarism. JGD reserves all rights except those granted in this copyright and license.

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