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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.
  • The manuscript is an original work.
  • The manuscript has not been under consideration for any other publication. Exceptions to this rule should be clearly indicated at the time of submission (provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word document file format (.doc or .docx).
  • The text has used the provided template or followed the template.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Author Guidelines

About the Journal

Tamalanrea: Journal of Government and Development (JGD) is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy. Contributions are welcomed from government scientists, political economists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, economists, geographers, lawyers, and others committed to the rigorous study and analysis of government and development-related issues and local and global insight.

Please note that this journal publishes manuscripts in English.

Tamalanrea: Journal of Government and Development (JGD) accepts the following types of article:

  • Original Article
  • Research Note
  • Article and Book Review

The peer review criteria for JGD comprise contemporary relevance, contribution to governance knowledge and implications for governance and development research, conceptual clarity and logic in analysis, organization and readability in the presentation, methodology of research articles, appropriateness of references, and originality.

Preparing and Submitting Manuscript

(i) Articles submitted to the journal should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication. Exceptions to this rule should be clearly indicated at the time of submission.

(ii) New submissions should be made via the Open Journal System (OJS) submission. Should your manuscript proceed to the revision stage, you will be directed to make your revisions via the same submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at anytime by logging on to OJS and clicking the “Submissions” menu. For technical help with the submission system, please contact andikaanas13@gmail.com or visit https://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/jgd/about/contact.

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Department of Government Science) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/jgd/about/privacy.

Manuscripts can be uploaded either as a single document (containing the main text, tables and figures), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. Should your manuscript reach revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. The main manuscript file should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.

Your main document file should include:

  1. A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations;
  2. The full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
  3. Abstract structured (intro/methods/results/conclusion) or unstructured (no more than 250 words);
  4. Up to seven keywords;
  5. Practitioner Points (optional) Authors will need to provide no more than 3 ‘key points’, written with the practitioner in mind, that summarize the key messages of their paper to be published with their article;
  6. Main body: formatted as the Introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, conclusion;
  7. References;
  8. Table(s) (each table complete with title and footnotes);
  9. Figure(s): Figure legends must be added beneath each individual image during submission AND as a complete list in the text;
  10. Acknowledgments.

Length

The number of words for the Original Article, Research Note, and Article and Book Review is no more than 8000, 4000, and 3000 words, respectively.

Style Guidelines

Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.

Any spelling style is acceptable so long as it is consistent within the manuscript.

Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.

Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Non-English speaking authors are advised to send their manuscripts for language editing before submission.

The manuscript title is limited to 25 words.

Formatting and Templates

To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).

Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.

If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.

References

Please use the APA reference style when preparing your paper. Authors are encouraged to use the Mendeley tool to assist you in following the APA reference style.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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Copyright Notice

Tamalanrea: Journal of Government and Development (JGD) adheres to an Open Access Policy, meaning that all articles published are freely accessible to everyone without any charges to the user or their institution. All articles published in JGD are protected by copyright and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Author Rights:

The copyright of all published articles remains with the respective author(s). However, the author(s) grant Tamalanrea: Journal of Government and Development a non-exclusive license to publish and disseminate the work under the specified license.

Usage of the Works:

Permitted activities include:

  • Downloading and reading articles for personal use.
  • Sharing articles in their original format for non-commercial purposes, provided proper attribution is given.

Prohibited activities include:

  • Selling or distributing articles for commercial purposes.
  • Modifying or creating derivative works based on the articles.

License Terms:

  1. Attribution: Users must provide proper credit to the author(s) and the journal as the original publisher. The attribution must be clear and complete, without implying any endorsement by the author(s) or publisher of the use or user.

  2. Non-Commercial Use: The articles may only be used for non-commercial purposes. Any commercial use of the work is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from the author(s) or the publisher.

  3. No Derivatives: Users are not allowed to alter, transform, or build upon the articles. The works may only be used in their original form.

For further information or to request special permissions, please contact the Editorial Board of JGD via email: mchaeroel@unhas.ac.id or the journal contact.

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