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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

  • All submitted manuscripts must be original work of the authors, have not been previously published in any form, either in part or in whole, and are not currently being considered for use by any other institutions.
  • All submitted manuscripts should be written in essay format, 4.000-8.000 words in length for research article including abstract and bibliography, and 1.500-2.000 words for a book review.
  • All submitted manuscripts should be typed in Book Antiqua 12pt font, single-spaced, and align text-justify.
  • The title of the manuscript should not exceed 15 words and should represent the substance.
  • The abstract should not exceed 250 words and contain all key elements of the manuscript, accompanied by several keywords.

Notes for Contributors

As part of the submission process, author(s) are required to check that their submissions comply with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to the author(s) that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it currently being considered for publication in another journal or any other forms of publication.
  2. The manuscript is formatted and referenced in accordance with the manuscript guidelines (see following) and article template.
  3. Author(s) are required to obtain necessary permission for reproduction of any figures, tables or extracts from other copyrighted sources.
  4. All submitted manuscripts should be typed in Book Antiqua 12pt font, single-spaced, and align text-justify.
  5. The title of the manuscript should not exceed 15 words and should represent the substance.
  6. The abstract should not exceed 250 words and contain all key elements of the manuscript, accompanied by several keywords 

Submitting Your Manuscript

  1. Manuscript should be submitted through the journal submission portal. Author(s) are required to log into the journal website to submit the manuscripts.
  2. Please use the following Journal of Global Focus templates to prepare your submission files.

All manuscripts should use body note citation style following the format: (last name, year of publication: page(s)). Example:

Citing from a certain page:

       (Wendt, 1999: 4). 

Citing an argument without referring to a certain page:

       (Wendt, 1999).

Citing by mentioning author's name:

       Wendt (1999: 4) has argued that ...

Citing articles anonymously from newspaper or magazine:

       (Kompas, 2014: 8).

Citing anonymously from online sources:

       (Aljazeera, 2014).

Citing from an edited or co-edited volume:

       (Wendt in Lapid & Kratochwil, 1996: 47).

Citing from a source written by two authors or more:

       (Wendt et al., 1996: 18).

References should follow APA referencing style 6th edition following the format: Last name, First name initial. (Year of publication) Title of publication. City of publisher: Publisher. Example: 

  • Book with a single author: Wendt, A. (1999) Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
  • Edited or co-edited book: Lapid, J. & Kratochwil, F. eds. (1996) The Return of Culture in IR Theory. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
  • Anthology of the edited volume: Wendt, A. (1996). Identity and Structural Change in International Politics. In: Lapid, J. & Kratochwil, F. eds. The Return of Culture in IR Theory. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 47-64.
  • Journal article: Wendt, A. (1992). Anarchy is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics. International Organization, 46 (2) Spring, pp. 391-425.
  • Paper presentation: Rosyidin, M. (Oktober, 2014). ASEAN In(Security) Community? Arms Race and Collective Identity Building in Southeast Asia. Paper presented at the international conference on ASEAN Studies, Yogyakarta.
  • Thesis and dissertation: Novotny, D. (2007). Indonesian Foreign Policy: A Quest of The Balance of Threats. Ph.D. dissertation, University of New South Wales.
  • Newspaper and magazine article: McRae, D. (2014). Membaca Kebijakan Luar Negeri Indonesia [Understanding Indonesia’s Foreign Policy]. Kompas, 5 March, p. 7.
  • Online article: 
  1. With an author: Anwar, D.F. (2013) Indonesia's Wary Thinking on Foreign Policy [Online], Europe's World. Available at: <http://europesworld.org/2013/06/01/indonesias-wary-thinking-on-foreign-policy/> [accessed on 27 March 2014]. 
  2. Without an author: BBC (2019) Trump-Kim summit breaks down after North Korea demands ends to sanctions [Online], 28 February. Available at: <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47398974> [accessed on 18 March 2019]

 

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 MICROSOFT WORD Document (.doc/.docx) file format or RICH TEXT FORMAT (.rtf)
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The manuscript uses the font Book Antiqua; 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.
  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.
  7. There are no submission fees, processing fees, and publication charges for this journal
 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License-NonCommercial 4.0 International that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal for non-commercial purposes.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

 

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Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Publication Fees: 0.00 (IDR)
Global Focus does not charge authors any fee for submitting, processing, and publishing articles. All processes of the article publication are free of charge