Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) is a peer-reviewed research journal that is devoted to the dissemination of new and original knowledge in all branches of chemistry. The result of research and development in the fields of chemistry in both experimental and theory/ computation, chemical-based technological innovations, and chemical applications in industrial fields. The journal publishes original research articles or review articles in some chemistry field, such as:
The articles submitted to Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) will be processed through a formatting review by the editor and a substantial review by a minimum two independent reviewers. The reviewing process is conducted by the double blind review. The reviewers are chosen by a section editor. The decision regarding article publication is based on the review result.
Editor applies a plagiarism scanning with Turnitin and Google Scholar before the article is subjected to a substantial review process. If it is found plagiarism indication (above 30%), editor will reject manuscript immediately.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Publication Ethics
Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) The Editors of journals published by the Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) provide a set of ethical guidelines for persons engaged in the publication of chemical research, specifically, for editors, authors, and manuscript reviewers. These guidelines were developed by the Editors of the journals published by the Publications Division of the Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) and are reviewed regularly to ensure their clarity.
The Indonesia Chimica Acta Journals' Ethical Guidelines are offered from a conviction that the observance of high ethical standards is so vital to the whole scientific enterprise that a definition of those standards should be brought to the attention of all concerned.
Special Notes for Authors Plagiarism. In publishing only original research, Indonesia Chimica Acta Journals' is committed to deterring plagiarism, including self-plagiarism. Indonesia Chimica Acta Journals' Publications uses CrossCheck's Turnitin software to screen submitted manuscripts for similarity to published material. Note that your manuscript may be screened during the submission process.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure. During manuscript submission, Indonesia Chimica Acta Journal authors are required to disclose the nature of any competing and/or relevant financial interest. A statement describing any financial conflicts of interest or lack thereof is published with each manuscript. During the submission process, the corresponding author must provide this statement on behalf of all authors of the manuscript. The statement should describe all potential sources of bias, including affiliations, funding sources, and financial or management relationships, that may constitute conflicts of interest. The statement will be published in the final article. If no conflict of interest is declared, the following statement will be published in the article: "The authors declare no competing financial interest."
Coauthor Notification. During manuscript submission, the submitting author must provide contact information (full name, email address, institutional affiliation and mailing address) for all of the coauthors. The author who submits the manuscript for publication accepts the responsibility of notifying all coauthors that the manuscript is being submitted. Deletion of an author after the manuscript has been submitted requires a confirming letter to the Editor-in-Chief from the author whose name is being deleted.
Suggesting Reviewers When suggesting potential reviewers for a submitted manuscript, authors should not suggest reviewers who have a personal or professional connection to the authors or co-authors if the relationship might bias judgment of the manuscript.
Publication Frequency
Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) is a journal published by Department of Chemistry Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Hasanuddin University. Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) publishes twice in a year in June and December.
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.
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).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-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.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Author Guidelines
GUIDELINE FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION Author should first register as Author and/or is offered as Reviewer through the following address: http://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/ica/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
Author should fulfil the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, Author clicks on “Register” button to proceed the registration. Therefore, Author is brought to online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start a New Submission section, click on “’Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in online submission process:
Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of journal, i.e. Original Research Articles or Review Articles. Thus, author must check-mark on the submission checklists. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click Upload button. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including marked corresponding author. After that, manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including Statement Letter. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the files, and then click on Upload button. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission: Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta), click Finish Submission button after the documents is true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgement by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site.
After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at anytime by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes status of manuscript review and editorial process.
FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS
Scope The scope of this journal covers experimental, theory/computation, chemical-based technological innovations, and chemical applications in industrial fields in all areas of chemistry, including organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, and environmental chemistry.
To simply follow our journal's guideline, please download this TEMPLATE, and replace the content with your own material.
Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) have a policy of screening for plagiarism. We use Anti-Plagiarism Software Turnitin to check the authenticity article
In addition, the author must make a Statement Letter that the article has never been published in another journal.
Language All articles should be written in a clear and concise English.
Structure (For Research Article) : Please use the following structure for your your research article.
Title The title should be brief and informative. For the article presented in a scientific meeting should be informed in a footnote.
Authors Authors’ names should appear immediately below the title, followed by Authors’ affiliations, addresses and the email address of the corresponding author.
Abstract Abstract should be no longer than 250 words, giving a brief summary of the content and conclusions. Do not include artwork, tables, elaborate equations or references.
Keywords 3-5 keywords should be provided for indexing and abstracting.
Introduction State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, state the art, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Theory/Calculation (if any) A theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.
Experimental Methods Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference. Only relevant modifications should be described.
Results and Discussion Results should be clear and concise. Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
Conclusions The conclusion section is required. It contains the main points of the article. It should not replicate the abstract, but might elaborate the significant results, possible applications and extensions of the work.
Conflict of Interest Financial contributions and any potential conflict of interest must be clearly acknowledged under the heading ‘Conflict of Interest’. Authors must list the source(s) of funding for the study. This should be done for each author. If there is no conflict of interest, authors should state "The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest."
Acknowledgement Acknowledgment is recommended to be given to persons or organizations helping the authors in many ways. Sponsor and financial support acknowledgments may be placed in this section. Use the singular heading even if you have many acknowledgments.
References Jurnal Akta Kimia Indonesia (Indonesia Chimica Acta) uses American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. It is recommended to use Mendeley reference manager application. The number of references should be at least ten, and 80% of which should be from primary source publications (journals) from the last five years.
References should be written as the following examples.
Journal Reference If the number of authors exceeds six then et al. will be used after three names (the term “et al.” should be in italics.)” Bergquist PL, Morgan HW, Saul D. Selected enzymes from extreme thermophiles with applications in biotechnology. Curr Biotechnol 2014; 3(1): 45-59. Gygli G, van Berkel WJH. Oxizymes for biotechnology. Curr Biotechnol 2015; 4(2): 100-110. More than Six Authors Lanfranchi E, Köhler EM, Darnhofer B, et al. Bioprospecting for hydroxynitrile lyases by blue native PAGE coupled HCN detection. Curr Biotechnol 2015; 4(2): 111-117.
Edited Book Blaxter PS, Farnsworth TP. Social health and class inequalities. In: Carter C, Peel JR, Eds. Equalities and inequalities in health. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press 1976; pp. 165-78.
Chapter in a Book Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, Eds. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press 1995; pp. 465-78.
Patent Larsen CE, Trip R, Johnson CR. Methods for procedures related to the electrophysiology of the heart. US Patent 5529067, 1995.
Conference Proceedings Kimura J, Shibasaki H, Eds. Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology; 1995 Oct 15-19; Kyoto, Japan. Amsterdam: Elsevier 1996.
Thesis and Dissertation Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans. PhD dissertation. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Micihigan University 2002.
Electronic Material Journal Article in Electronic Format Frangioni G, Bianchi S, Fuzzi G, Borgioli G. Dynamics of hepatic melanogenesis in newts in recovery phase from hypoxia. Open Zoo J 2009; 2: 1-7. Available from: www.benthamscience.com/open/tozj/openaccess2.htm [cited: 26th Jan 2009]. Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role. Am J Nurs [serial on the Internet]. June 2002 [cited: 12thAug 2002]; 102(6): [about 3 p.]. Available from: www.nursingworld.org/AJN/2002/june/Wawatch.htm
Titles of non-English reference should be translated into English, ended by original language in parenthesis (in Japanese, etc.).
Article Format The article should be written in Times New Roman 12, MS Words for Windows of A4 paper. A template of the article can be downloaded here.
Figures and Tables Figures and tables should be numbered using Arabic numerals and be kept to the minimum consistent with clear presentation of the work reported. Numbers and titles of figures should be placed below the figures, while those of tables should be placed above.
Because AIJ will do the final formatting of your paper, you do not need to position figures and tables at the top and bottom of each column. In fact, all figures, figure captions, and tables can be at the end of the paper. Large figures and tables may span both columns. Place figure captions below the figures; place table titles above the tables. If your figure has two parts, include the labels “(a)” and “(b)” as part of the artwork. Please verify that the figures and tables you mention in the text actually exist. Please do not include captions as part of the figures. Do not put captions in “text boxes” linked to the figures. Do not put borders around the outside of your figures. Do not abbreviation “Fig.” but should use “Figure”. Do not abbreviate “Table.” Tables are numbered with Roman numerals. Color printing of figures is available. Do not use color unless it is necessary for the proper interpretation of your figures.
Figure axis labels are often a source of confusion. Use words rather than symbols. For example, write the quantity “Magnetization,” or “Magnetization M,” not just “M.” Put units in parentheses. Do not label axes only with units. For example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or “Magnetization (Am-1),” not just “A/m.” Do not label axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write “Temperature (K),” not “Temperature/K.”
Multipliers can be especially confusing. Write “Magnetization (kA/m)” or “Magnetization (103 A/m).” Figure labels should be legible, 9 point type.
Examples of a figure and a table are as follows:
Figure 1. The relationship of antioxidant activity and variation of M.oleifera extract.
Table 1. Antioxidant activity of Moringa leaf extract at various concentrations.
Equations, Symbols, and Abbreviations Use either the Microsoft Equation Editor or the MathType add-on (http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/) for equations in your paper (Insert | Object | Create New | Microsoft Equation or MathType Equation). “Float over text” should not be selected.
Number equations consecutively with equation numbers in parentheses flush with the right margin, as in (1). First, use the equation editor to create the equation. Then, select the “Equation” markup style. Press the tab key and write the equation number in parentheses. To make your equations more compact, you may use the solidus (/), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. Use parentheses to avoid ambiguities in denominators.
Copyright Notice
This is an open access journal which means that all contents is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.