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Author Guidelines

Articles should be written in English. 

Before submitting a manuscript (submission process) make sure the author has registered the user. During registration, please ensure that you select “Author” in the “Register As” section. After the registration process is complete, Submission can be done through User Home → New Submission.

Download the Jurnal Masyarakat Informatika (JMASIF) template in Microsoft Word format HERE

JMASIF accepts original research articles and review articles in the field of Computer Science.

Articles submitted must be original, have never been published or are being sent to journals or other publications. The journal reserves the right to reject submissions and prohibit future submissions from authors who violate publication ethics. If an article is later found to contain plagiarism or ethical violations, it will be retracted in accordance with the journal’s retraction policy, and a formal retraction notice will be published.

Each manuscript received will be reviewed and assessed for its substance of eligibility by at least two experts of peer reviewers (single blind) as independent assessors in the appropriate field of expertise.

By submitting a manuscript, the authors confirm that all co-authors have approved the submission and that permission has been obtained for any copyrighted materials (including figures, tables, or images) used in the manuscript. 

Specific Instructions

The manuscripts must be composed of the following standard article components (subtitles-in order), as follows:

1. Article Title: The title should be accurate, unambiguous, specific, and complete. It should not contain infrequently-used abbreviations.
2. Author Names and Affiliations: 
   • Author names must not include academic degrees, professional titles, or honorifics (e.g., Prof., Dr., Ph.D., etc.).
   • All authors' last names should not be abbreviated
   • The affiliation of all authors should be provided clearly, including its address. Affiliation includes department/unit name (or faculty), the university's name or institution, address, country. Please indicate Corresponding Author (include email address) by adding an asterisk (*) in superscript behind the author's name.
3. Abstract and Keywords: An abstract should stand alone, accurate, brief, clear, and specific.
• The abstract should tell the prospective reader what you did and highlight the key findings. Avoid using technical jargon and uncommon abbreviations;
• The abstract should be written within 100‐200 words; 
• The keywords should represent the content and highlight of your article. Keywords are critical to correct indexing and searching. Each keyword is separated by a comma (,).
4. Introduction: The Introduction should contain general background, state-of-the-art review, gap analysis or scientific novelty statement, the research problem or hypothesis, and the research objective. 
• The problem background should be adequately provided, but not excessively;
• The existing solutions / state-of-the-art studies (including literature review, related works) should be concisely presented;
• The gap analysis should be adequately explained. This gap may explain the main limitation or differentiation of approach from the previous research. It may show the scientific novelty of the proposed study. Example of novelty statement or the gap analysis statement at the end of the Introduction section (after the state of the art of previous research survey): "........ (short summary of background)....... A few researchers focused on ....... There have been limited studies concerned on ........ Therefore, this research intends to ................. The objectives of this research are .........".
• The study aim should be stated precisely and explicitly. This aim should be related to the research gap;
• The literature review or related works should be included in the Introduction chapter, not as a separate chapter.
• This discussion of related works can be presented as the literature review. However, It should not be presented as the review of the author-by-author results but should be grouped by their methods or topics.
5. Literature Review (Optional): Literature should contain the theories or related research used, especially in justifying the novelty or key findings in the research
   • Related research could be written after the Introduction. Related research should be discussed in Research Methods or Discussions chapter to make it easier to highlight the main findings.
   • It is not recommended to write general theories or knowledge in the fields covered by JMASIF
6. Research Methods: The research methods must contain the research procedure, used method/algorithm/model, datasets (including the amount and methods to obtain them), tool/platform/software, and test design. The review articles need not have this chapter.
• The research procedure or framework describes the stages of research/development undertaken to achieve the research's objectives/outputs;
• It should describe the methods/algorithms and models (including analysis or statistical) used in the study;
• If provided, the datasets explanation should be adequately provided, including their number, types, and data collection methods;
• It may inform the materials/platforms used in the study, including the materials and the tools/software/hardware/platforms;
• It should describe the test design to obtain the result data and their analysis.
7. Results and Discussion: Results should be clear and concise. They should summarize (scientific) findings rather than provide data in great detail. 
• All results in this chapter must be discussed adequately. The discussion can be presented with the results or in a separate sub-chapter. Manuscripts with insufficient discussion of results may be rejected;
• The discussion should explore the relation of the findings to the original questions or objectives outlined in the Introduction;
• The discussion should provide an interpretation for each of the findings scientifically;
• The discussion should also explore the significance of the findings. It may highlight the conformities/differences between the findings of this study and the previous ones.
8. Conclusion: The conclusion should answer the objectives of the study concisely.
• It should provide a clear scientific justification for the study;
• It should not repeat the abstract or the experimental results;
• It may give an indication of possible applications, extensions, and future experiments suggestions.
9. Acknowledgments (Optional): Recognize those who helped in the research, especially funding institutions of your research. It may include individuals who have contributed to the study but do not meet the criteria for authorship, such as advisors, funding providers, technical assistants, language editors, or data contributors. Do not acknowledge one of the authors' names.

10. Declaration of the Use of Generative AI (If Any): 

    • Authors must disclose the use of generative AI tools by stating the name of the [Tools] and their specific [Purpose]. The authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the manuscript, and for ensuring that the use of AI complies with publication ethics standards.
    • Generative AI tools do not meet the criteria for authorship and therefore must not be listed as authors or co-authors of the manuscript. 
    • The use of generative AI for generating research data, analysis results, fabricated references, or experimental findings is strictly prohibited.
    • Failure to disclose the use of generative AI tools constitutes a breach of publication ethics and may result in rejection or retraction of the manuscript.
    • The declaration may be provided in a dedicated section entitled “Declaration of the Use of Generative AI” or included within the Acknowledgements section.
11. References: 
• All references cited in the article text must be listed in the References. The References should contain at least 80% references from primary sources (scientific journals, conference proceedings, research reference books), which are published within 5 (five) years;
• The cited reference must be relevant to the paragraph or sentence that refers to it. These references can be cited in literature studies, gap statements, and discussion of results;
• References from journals must contain information on the author's name, title, full journal name (NOT abbreviated), volume, number (if any), page number, year, and title (if any);
• References from conferences must contain the full conference name, the city and country of the conference host, the month and year of the conference, page number, and doi (if any);
• The author MUST include the Valid DOI for sources that have one. The submission of invalid, incorrect, fabricated, or non-functional DOIs will result in immediate rejection of the manuscript.
• If a cited reference is written in a non-English language, the original title must be retained and followed by its English translation in square brackets [ ]. The translation should accurately reflect the meaning of the original title. The original publication details (journal name, volume, year, DOI) must remain unchanged.

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 is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, Doc, Docx, or WordPerfect document file format. Get accessible template  HERE

3. The manuscript has composed of an introduction, research methods, results and discussion, and conclusions. See Specific Instruction in Author Guidelines.

4. Articles should be written in English.

5. Citation and bibliography writing techniques are employing IEEE reference style. (Reference writing is recommended to be done using the Reference Manager application such as: Mendeley, Zotero, OneNote)

6. At least 80% of the references are taken from primary references, such as journals and proceedings published in last 5 years.

Copyright Notice

The authors who submit the manuscript must understand that the article's copyright belongs to the author(s) if accepted for publication. However, the author(s) grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Authors should also understand that their article (and any additional files, including data sets, and analysis/computation data) will become publicly available once published under that license. By submitting the manuscript to Jmasif, the author(s) agree with this policy. No special document approval is required.

The author(s) guarantee that:

• their article is original, written by the mentioned author(s),
• has never been published before,
• does not contain statements that violate the law, and
• does not violate the rights of others, is subject to copyright held exclusively by the author(s), is free from the rights of third parties, and the necessary written permission to quote from other sources has been obtained by the author(s).

The author(s) retain all rights to the published work, such as (but not limited to) the following rights:

• Copyright and other proprietary rights related to the article, such as patents,
• The right to use the substance of the article in its own future works, including lectures and books,
• The right to reproduce the article for its own purposes,
• The right to archive all versions of the article in any repository, and
• The right to enter into separate additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of published versions of the article (for example, posting them to institutional repositories or publishing them in a book), acknowledging its initial publication in this journal (Jurnal Masyarakat Informatika).

Suppose the article was prepared jointly by more than one author. Each author submitting the manuscript warrants that all co-authors have given their permission to agree to copyright and license notices (agreements) on their behalf and notify co-authors of the terms of this policy. Jmasif will not be held responsible for anything arising because of the writer's internal dispute. Jmasif will only communicate with correspondence authors.

Authors should also understand that their articles (and any additional files, including data sets and analysis/computation data) will become publicly available once published. The license of published articles (and additional data) will be governed by a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Jmasif allows users to copy, distribute, display and perform work under license. Users need to attribute the author(s) and Jmasif to distribute works in journals and other publication media. Unless otherwise stated, the author(s) is a public entity as soon as the article is published.

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