Author Guidelines

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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.

  1. The Manuscript has not been published or is not in the process of submission for publication to other media and does not contain elements of plagiarism.
  2. The Manuscript is written in Indonesian or English using the manuscript template of Journal of Governance, Law, and Public Policy (click here).
  3. The length of the Manuscript is at least 3000 words and does not exceed 6000 words including drawings, graphs/tables (if any) and bibliography.
  4. The Manuscript should enclose the abstracts in English and Indonesian.
  5. The paper is submitted in Ms. Word.

 

Author Guidelines

The manuscript texts are written in English or Indonesia. Manuscripts will be first reviewed by editorial boards.The main text of a manuscript must be submitted as a Word document (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) file. The manuscript consists of 3000 words (minimum), well-typed in single column on A4 size paper, use font Time New Roman.The manuscript contains an original work and have potentially contribute to the highly scientific advancement.

The manuscript should contain the following section in this order:

Title

The title should be short, clear, and informative, but does not exceed 20 words. It has to be pinpoint with the issues discussed. The article title does not contain any uncommon abbreviations. The main ideas should be written first and followed by its explanations

Author's names and institutions. 

The author's names should be accompanied by the author's institutions, institutions address, and email addresses, without any academic titles and job title.

Abstract

Written briefly in English and Indonesian in one paragraph of 200-300 words, containing background, research objectives, methodology, results, conclusion of the study and your research contributions to science. check Template for detail.

Keywords

Written in English 3-5 words or groups of words, written alphabetically.

Introduction

In Introduction, authors should state the objectives of the work at the end of introduction section. Before the objective, authors should provide an adequate background, and short literature survey in order to record the existing solutions, to show the differences from previous researches, to show the main limitation of the previous researches, to show what you want to achieve or solve the limitation, and to show the novelties of the paper.

The introduction is presented in the form of paragraphs of approximately 1000 words.

Method

A detailed description of your methods in doing the research is necessary to write down in this section.  Please describe how you conduct data, theoretical framework that you apply, and how your analysis the data.

Results and Discussion

This section consists of the results of research and how they are discussed. The results obtained from research must be supported by adequate data. The results of the study must be the answers to the problem and the research objectives stated earlier in the introduction. In the discussion must contain: 1. Whether the data research results have been analyzed (not raw data). Can be presented with tables or figures other than verbal presentation to clarify. This section usually answers the question what and how? 2. Does the author provide a scientific interpretation for each of the results or findings the author presents (why)? 3. Are the results of the study consistent with what was reported by other researchers (what else)? Or is there a difference?

Results and Discussion are capitalized, spaced 1 space apart and bolded. If you use supporting tools, simplify the tables and use open tables, and map images are more focused on the object under study and not too large file size and complicated (sought in JPG format); tables and figures are numbered sequentially.

Conclusion

The conclusion should answer the research objectives clearly. Tells how your work will find a theory of knowledge. Without a clear conclusion, reviewers and readers will find it difficult to assess the benefits of your work. Do not restate the abstract, or just list from analysis.

References

The literature listed in the References contains only the sources referenced or included in the article. Manuscripts are written by using standard citation application (Mendeley). Referral sources should provide 80% of journal articles, proceedings, or research results from the last five years. Writing techniques bibliography, using the system cites APA (American Psychological Association) Style and the 7th edition. Citing an article written by two authors, both of authors should be mentioned, however, for three and more authors only the first author is mentioned followed by et al., for example:

(Waddington & Broderick, 2020)

Pente et al., 2024)

(Hassel, 2015)

A series of references should be presented in ascending date order ((Kulachai et al., 2023; Meekosha, 2011; Villaman, 2025)

and for reference

Badan Pusat Statistik. (2025) .Presentasi Penduduk Lansia. Jakarta.

Hassel, A. (2015). Public Policy. In International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edi, Vol. 19). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.75029-X

Kulachai, W., Lerdtomornsakul, U., & Homyamyen, P. (2023). Factors Influencing Voting Decision: A Comprehensive Literature Review. Social Sciences, 12(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12090469

Meekosha, H. (2011). Decolonising disability: Thinking and acting globally. Disability and Society, 26(6), 667–682. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2011.602860

Pente, V. Y., Jeyam, A., Bechange, S., Jolley, E., Roca, A., Dossou, S. R., Ba, K., Oye, J., Bocoum, S., Leclercq, L., & Schmidt, E. (2024). Electoral participation of people with and without disabilities in urban communities in Cameroon and Senegal. African Journal of Disability, 13, 0–10. https://doi.org/10.4102/AJOD.V13I0.1399

Villaman, N. (2025). Cultivating Political Efficacy: Facilitation as a Catalyst for Democratic Education and Civic Competence. Journal of Civil Society, 21(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2024.2390054

Waddington, L., & Broderick, A. (2020). Political participation of people with disabilities in the EU. Research Handbook on EU Disability Law, April, 89–104. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976428.00013

Interview (it should be written manually, not by application such as Mendeley or Zotero).

Ulfa. (2025), personal interview in Palopo, 3 April.

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Authors who publish in Journal of Governance, Law, and Public Policy

agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License A that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).