Author Guidelines

A. GENERAL INFORMATION

  1. Manuscripts must be original, have not been published previously in any scientific journal, that manuscripts are not being submitted for publication elsewhere, and will not be submitted to any media during the review process, unless the authors have officially withdrawn the manuscripts from Jurnal Ilmiah Living Law. Jurnal Ilmiah Living Law uses Similarity Check powered by Turnitin to prevent any suspected plagiarism in the manuscripts. Authors are expected to explicitly cite others' work and ideas, even if the work or ideas are not quoted verbatim or paraphrased. This standard applies whether the previous work is published, unpublished, or electronically available. Failure to properly cite the work of others may constitute plagiarism. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. Jurnal Ilmiah Living Law applies a minimum standard of similarity score of the manuscript under 20%. If the manuscript performs above 20%, the article should be revised or rejected. 
  2. Manuscripts submitted are research topics which have not conflict with Law research.
  3. Manuscripts encompass a broad range of research topics in Law research:  Civil Law, Criminal Law, Bussiness Law, Property Law, International Law, Tax Law, etc.
  4. The journal is published 2 (two) times a year, i.e. January and July.

B. STRUCTURE OF THE MANUSCRIPT

  1. Manuscripts are written in English or Indonesian and use standard scientific usage.
  2. Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word format, except for Graphs using Microsoft Excel program and Figures using JPEG or PDF format.
  3. Manuscripts should be typed using Times New Roman fonts at 12 points. Manuscripts should be typed single-spaced throughout the paper, including abstract, body of the document, references, appendixes, tables, and figures. For title, 15 pt, uppercase letters bolded and centered.
  4. Manuscripts are prepared in A4 paper, margins on all four sides are 2.54 cm. The length of submitted paper is at least 5 pages and no more than 16 pages; strongly recommend the use of a tool such as Mendeley,  Zotero  or EndNote for reference management and formatting, and choose APA 7th ed.
  5. It is essential that you follow every detail of the Jurnal Ilmiah Living Law template. Please try to follow the template as closely as possible.
  6. The title of paper is max 10 words, without Acronym or abbreviation. The Abstract (MAX 150-250 WORDS) should be informative and completely self-explanatory (no citation in abstract), provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and point out major findings and conclusions.
  7. Manuscripts content should be arranged as the following order: Title, Name of the author(s) and their institutions, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment (if any), References.
  8. Introduction section: explain the context of the study and state the precise objective. An Introduction should contain the following three parts:
    - Background: Authors have to make clear what the context is. Ideally, authors should give an idea of the state-of-the art of the field the report is about.
    - The Problem: If there was no problem, there would be no reason for writing a manuscript, and definitely no reason for reading it. So, please tell readers why they should proceed reading. Experience shows that for this part a few lines are often sufficient.
    - The Proposed Solution: Now and only now! - authors may outline the contribution of the manuscript. Here authors have to make sure readers point out what are the novel aspects of authors work. Authors should place the paper in proper context by citing relevant papers.
  9. Method section: the presentation of the experimental methods should be clear and complete in every detail facilitating reproducibility by other scientists.
  10. Results and discussion section: The presentation of results should be simple and straightforward in style. This section report the most important findings, including results of statistical analyses as appropriate and comparisons to other research results. Results given in figures should not be repeated in tables. This is where the author(s) should explain in words what he/she/they discovered in the research. It should be clearly laid out and in a logical sequence. This section should be supported suitable references.
  11. Conclusion section: Summarize sentences the primary outcomes of the study in a paragraph. Are the claims in this section supported by the results, do they seem reasonable? Have the authors indicated how the results relate to expectations and to earlier research? Does the article support or contradict previous theories? Does the conclusion explain how the research has moved the body of scientific knowledge forward?
  12. We will usually expect a minimum of 25 references primarily to journal papers, depending on the length of the paper. Citations of textbooks should be used very rarely. All cited papers should be referenced within the text of the manuscript.
  13. Figures and Tables should be referenced in the text. Author also must explain what the reader should look for when using the table or figure. Focus only on the important point the reader should draw from them, and leave the details for the reader to examine on her own.
  14. Figures:
    All figures appearing in article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    a.    Each figure must have a caption fully explaining the content
    b.    Figure captions are presented as a paragraph starting with the figure number i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.
    c.    Figure captions appear below the figure
    d.    Each figure must be fully cited if taken from another article
    e.    all figures must be referred to in the body of the article
  15. Tables:
    a.    Material that is tabular in nature must appear in a numbered captioned table.
    b.    All tables appearing in article must be numbered in the order that they appear in the text.
    c.    Each table must have a caption fully explaining the content with the table number  i.e. Table 1, Table 2, etc.
    d.    Each column must have a clear and concise heading
    e.    Tables are to be presented with single horizontal line under: the table caption, the column headings and at the end of the table.
    f.    All tables must be referred to in the body of the article
    g.    Each table must be fully cited if taken from another article
  16. Each citation should be written in the order of appearance in the text. Citations and references must sequential
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