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Author Guidelines

Type of manuscript

Articles submitted to the Editor are articles that have never been and are not being published elsewhere in printed or electronic form.

Manuscript template

Templates can be downloaded on the right side of the MKMI main homepage or can be downloaded here.

Title page

Title of the article is typed in Times New Roman 14 font, Bold and is typed in capital letters at the beginning of each word (except connecting words such as and/with/or), without a period at the end of the title. The title must describe what is reported in the article.

Write the full name of the author (without abbreviations) in Times New Roman 11 font, Bold, and put a superscript behind each author's name. Each name is numbered in the order of the author.

Write institutional address of all authors under author’s name in Times New Roman 11 font and provide only corresponding author’s email address under institutional adress.

Don't write a professional title or position.

Abstract

Abstract are of 150-250 words and are written in Indonesian and English (Times New Roman font 10) in the form of one paragraph with the structure, namely:

Title

Background: Write down the research problem, briefly explain why this research is important and should be carried out. End this background section with the main objective of the research conducted.

Method: Write down research design and procedures, number of subjects involved, place of study, sampling techniques, variables, data collection techniques or variable measurement, as well as approaches in research data analysis.

Result: Write down the important research results descriptively from the variables studied, the results of hypothesis testing (if any) and the interpretation of the results of the analysis and synthesis. This section is the most important element in the abstract, so write results briefly, concisely, informatively, reflecting the objectives achieved from the research that has been carried out. 

Conclusion: Write a brief research summary and its implications

Keywords: Abstracts are accompanied by 3-5 keywords. The abstract is separated by a sign (;).

Instructions for making manuscripts

MKMI follows the structure of the article which consists of Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, and References.

Introduction

• The introduction section contains research problems, sufficient theoretical basis, results of review articles, identification of factors that are thought to be related (risk factors) to the problems that occur.
• The introduction section must explain the concepts contained in the keywords.The author must present several previous research articles that are relevant to the research theme. The author must show what is lacking in the previous research so that this research is important.
• All article narratives are written in Time New Roman 10 font, 1 spacing. The beginning of the paragraph begins with 5 tapped indent. In one paragraph should consists of at least 2 sentences (main sentence and explanatory sentence).
• At the end of the introduction, the author needs to clearly state the purpose of the research conducted.
• The citation style used in this journal is the Vancouver style (numbering).

Materials and Methods

• This section contains the type and design of the study, population and sample, research variables, data collection techniques or variable measurement, laboratory examination methods (if any), data analysis techniques. Likewise for qualitative or literature review specifications must be explained.
• Don't forget to enter the location and time of data collection.
• If any, at the end of this section can be added the number and institution that issued the research ethics clearance letter.

Results and Discussion

• The results and discussion section contains important research findings which are described in a narrative manner. Interpretation of research data needs to be interpreted so that it becomes information that is easily understood by readers.
• The narrative in this section should cover all the variables that are of interest to the research. Data processing can be calculated in the form of tables or images so that it is more interesting and easy to understand.
• Hypothesis testing needs to state what statistical tests are used in the analysis and needs to consistently write down the results in accordance to standardized statistical rules.
• The data in the table needs to be interpreted and discussed by comparing the research results with the theoretical basis and other similar articles. We prefer the interpretation of the table rather than showing statistical significance, for example, do not mention OR = 2, but are described as follows "Working mothers are twice as likely to breastfeed as mothers who are not working".
• We remind that the discussion does not repeat the results, let alone mention statistical figures.
• Every discussion that cites other people's articles must write the reference source using the Vancouver (numbering) system.

Conclusion

Conclusion consists of 1-2 paragraphs, containing narrated important points to be highlighted. If the conclusion consists of several points, then it is written in a narrative manner, for example: This study concludes: 1) ......................, 2) ...................... etc.

References

Writing references using the Vancouver style, with the following conditions: 1) References are written only those referred to in the manuscript, 2) References to books with the structure: author's name, title of edition (if any, place of publication, publisher, and year) published, 3) References from Scientific Journals with the structure: author's name, article title, journal name, month-year published, volume, number (issue), and the page of the article referred to.

At least 80% references comes from journal articles. On the other hand, using citation manager tools, such as Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, etc are suggested for authors.

Writing Technique

Text is typed in Times New Roman 10 font, spacing 1, on A4 size paper, 2 columns (according to template). There are no maximum number of words in the body of the manuscript. Writing abbreviations without explanation is only for units of measurement, in addition, it must mention the length when the abbreviation is first written.

Language

The language used is standard Indonesian. Abstracts are written both in Indonesian and English. Writing abstracts in English must follow good and correct English grammar. The use of foreign terms is marked with italics.

Tables and Figures

• The table must be given a title above the table with the Times New Roman 10 font. The table must be independently understandable. The bottom of the table should contain information that explains the symbols or abbreviations used in the table. The table is not from a screen capture (image).
• The figure/image is titled under the image, with the Times New Roman 10 font. The image should be clear and readable.

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, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 11-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and 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 Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

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