Submissions

Author Guidelines

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.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file should be in MS Word format NOT in Adobe Acrobat document (pdf file) format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been activated and ready to click. The references that have doi number must be provided.
4. The text must be written in Times New Roman font, single-spaced and follow author gudilines and journal template. All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guideline .
6. Articles written in English should have the English grammar and typographical errors carefully checked, and the similarity test must be below than 20%.
7. The authors must provide suggested reviewers. Please provide valid email address and affiliations.
8. The authors agree to the JOURNAL PUBLICATION POLICY: All accepted peer-reviewed papers will be asked to pay an article processing cost(APC). Only accepted and paid papers will be published.

Please provide ORCID ID for each author. The ORCID ID or Scopus ID must be input to metadata during submission.

The Manuscript General Guidelines

The manuscript text general guidelines are as follows:

1. The manuscript is the authentic research result that has not been published yet in other publication media or publishing houses.
2. The manuscript could be written in English or Indonesia Language. The manuscript text ought to be written as this article template. The article is written on A4-sized papers (210x297 mm), with custom margins as follows: left 25 mm, right 15 mm, bottom 25 mm and top 25 mm, Times New Roman theme font, 10pt font size, and single spacing.
3. The manuscript is typed using Microsoft Word program on A4 paper, around 7 – 15 pages including figures, tables and references.
4. The manuscript does not contain any plagiarism element. The editorial board will directly reject the text that indicates plagiarism above 20%. We use plagiarism software to check your manuscript.
5. The manuscript that has been written under the guidelines of JMEL (in MS Word format, use this article template) must be submitted through Online Submission System using Open Journal System (OJS) on the JMEL E-journal portal (http://jurnal.upnyk.ac.id/index.php/JMEL). Then, register as one of the author or reviewers in the “Register” button.
6. The manuscript article writing guidelines and template can be downloaded. The template and the guidelines of the article writing are available in MS Word (.doc) format.
7. The manuscript online submission can be viewed in the part of online submission guidelines below.
8. The manuscript which is inappropriate with the JMEL writing guidelines will be returned to the author before the reviewing process.
9. The manuscript should contain several aspects of a scientific article as follows: (subtitles as the order), which are the title of the article, the author’s name (no academic title), the affiliated author’s address, the author’s email, the abstract and the keywords, the introduction, the research method, the research findings and discussion, the conclusion, acknowledgement, and the references.
10. The subtitles included in the discussion part (Introduction, Methods, Findings and Discussion, and Conclusion) should be numbered that already mentioned in the template.
11. The words from uncommon or foreign languages are stated in Italic format. There must be 6pt spacing among paragraphs.
12. The tables and pictures are placed in the text group after the referenced tables or pictures. Each picture must be given a caption and source (Figure Caption) below the picture and be numbered in Arabic numbering format followed by the picture title. Each table must be given a table title (Table Caption) and numbered in Arabic numbering format above the table followed by the table title and source below the table. The pictures attachment should be guaranteed that they can be printed well in black and white ink (font size, resolution and line space are clearly seen). The picture, the table, and the chart should be placed in the centre between text groups. If it has a bigger size, it can be placed in the centre of a page. The table should not contain vertical lines, while horizontal lines are allowed only for the important point.

The Guidelines for the Manuscript Body Text

The title of the manuscript: The title should be informative and be written both briefly and clearly. It cannot diverse multi interpretations. It has to be pinpoint with the issues that will be discussed. The beginning word is written in capital case and symmetrically. The article title does not contain any uncommon abbreviation. The article title should be written within two-rows maximum, 12pt-sized Times New Roman font, with the bold selection and in the center text format.

Abstract/ Abstrak: The abstract and abstrak should be written in English (abstract) and Indonesia Language (abstrak). The abstract/ abstrak has to be written within 200 words maximum and followed by with three to five keywords and arranged alphabetically. Abstract must contain reseach objectives, methods, result, and conclusion. Abstract written in 1 space line and 10 font size Times New Roman.

Introduction: The introduction must contain (sortly and consecutively) a general background and a literature review (state of the art) as the basic of the brand new research question, statements of the brand new scientific article, main research problems, and the hypothesis. In the final part of the introduction, the purpose of the article writing should be stated. They should be represented in the literature review to show the brand new of the scientific article.

Methods: The method explains how the research is conducted, including research design, data collection, research instrument and analytic methods. This part should be narrated.

Results and Discussion: This part consists of the research results and how they are 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.

Acknowledgement: Acknowledgements to those who support the research (sponsors and respondents). Families and supervisors are not allowed in this section.

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 70% from all the references) that published in the last ten years. Each article should have at least ten references.

The Guidelines for the Citations and References

All the served data or quotes in the article taken from the other author articles should attach the reference sources. The references should use a reference application management such as Mendeley. The writing format that used in JMEL (Jurnal Mineral, Energi dan Lingkungan) follows the format applied by APA 7^th Edition (American Psychological Association).

The Online Submission Manuscript Guidelines

The manuscript text must be submitted online as follows:

1. Firstly, the author should register as either an author or reviewer (checking role as author or reviewer) in the “Register” or HERE.
2. After the registration step is completed, log in as an author, click in “New Submission”. The article submission stage consists of five stages, such as:  (1). Start, (2). Upload Submission, (3). Enter Metadata, (4). Upload Supplementary Files, (5). Confirmation.
3. In the “Start” column, chose Journal Section (Full Article), check all the checklists.
4. In the “Upload Submission” Columns, upload the manuscript files in MSWord format in this column.
5. In the “Enter Metadata” columns, fill in with all the author data and affiliation. Including the Journal Title, Abstract and Indexing Keywords.
6. In the “Upload Supplementary Files” columns, the author is allowed to upload supplementary files, the statement letter, or any other else.
7. In the “Confirmation” columns, if the data you entered are all correct already, then click “Finish Submission”.
8. If the author has difficulties in the submission process through the online system, please contact JMEL editorial team at jurnal.ftm@upnyk.ac.id.