Author Guidelines
AUTHOR GUIDELINE
KEUNIS
INTRODUCTION
KEUNIS, with registered number ISSN 2302-9315 (Print) and ISSN 2714-7274 (Online) is a multidisciplinary scientific journal published by Finance and Banking Program, Accounting Department, Politeknik Negeri Semarang. KEUNIS provides a specialized forum for the publication of research in the areas: Economic, Finance, Banking, Accounting and Auditing with placing primary emphasis on the highest quality analytical, empirical, and clinical contributions in the significant areas. This journal published twice a year (January and July). The KEUNIS of Politeknik Negeri Semarang was published in Indonesian and English. It is expected that the authors submit the paper in Indonesian and English.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
KEUNIS considers all on the condition that the manuscript is original work and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including the author's own work. The manuscript has been submitted only to KEUNIS. Manuscript submissions must follow the specified requirement of our journal.
SUBMISSION 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 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.
MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE
The following standard headings should be used in this journal based on most research papers' common structures.
Tittle
The title summarizes the main ideas of your research. A good title contains a few words to adequately describe the main content and main purpose of your research paper. The title must be simple, direct, accurate, appropriate, specific, functional, concise/brief, unambiguous, informative, unique, and it should not be misleading.
Abstract
Each article presents an Abstract consist of ± 200 words presented in English). The abstract contains a introduction summary (research problems), research methods (how to solve research problems), results (research findings) and discussion (implications of research findings) aims to provide a brief explanation to the reader before reading the full article. Abstract has at least four keywords to make it easier to index the article.
Introduction
It should be one page containing the background, brief review of previous literature, research gap, urgency, and novelty of the study. The research objectives are stated explicitly in the introduction.
Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses
It describes the previous related studies as the primary sources. The usage of secondary sources of references should not dominate the total references. Quotation should be maximally one paragraph and/ or the gist of the quoted sources. It describes the previously related studies as the primary sources. The usage of secondary sources of references should not dominate the total references (Hansen et al., 2008).
Research Methods
It contains the research procedures, sampling and data collection techniques, variable measurement, and data analysis methods which are presented briefly and concisely.
Result and Discussion
The result and discussion section are the main part of the author's contribution to the research by providing a report in the form of an explanation the findings of the research based upon the methodology you applied to gather information. The results section should state the findings of the research arranged in a logical sequence without bias or interpretation. A section describing results is particularly necessary if your paper includes data generated from your own research. The purpose of the discussion is to interpret and describe the significance findings of the research considering what was already known about the research problem being investigated and to explain any new understanding or insights that emerged as a result of the research process to answer of the problem. The discussion will always connect to the introduction by way of the research questions or hypotheses you posed and the literature you reviewed.
Conclusion
The conclusion should summarize the main state of the findings at the point of writing and consider the next steps. This section also the synthesis key points of the result and, if applicable recommend new areas for future research. Author can add implications and research limitation.
Acknowledgements (if any)
The Acknowledgement section should specify the individuals or institutions, who have also contributed to the article but are not its authors (the relevant scientific programs, grants, scholarships, contracts are indicated, the persons or organizations, which helped an author in conducting the research, namely, access to information, organization of the survey, interview, etc.).
MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS
MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES
Format
Article files should be provided in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format. While you are welcome to submit a PDF of the document alongside the Word file, PDFs alone are not acceptable. The manuscript is prepared in a A4 paper, single-sided, and single line spacing format. A new paragraph should start 5 characters from the left margin, using 11-size, Arial Narrow font type, 2.5cm margins should be used on all sides (left, right, top, bottom). Endnotes, Headers or Footers should not be used. The title is written using capital letters only at first word or special name (example: location name), 15 font size, center position.
Article length / wordcount
Articles should be between 5000 and 8000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices.
Article title
The title of the manuscript should fully reflect the topic of the research and its content. It must be simple, direct, accurate, appropriate, specific, functional, concise/brief, unambiguous, informative, unique, and it should not be misleading (not more than 15 words).
Author details
Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. The names of all contributing authors should list them in the order in which you would like them to be published. Each contributing author will extract the following details:
Author email address. A clear indication and an active email address of corresponding author, we advise to use an active university or institution email address.
Author name. We will reproduce it exactly, so any middle names and/or initials they want featured must be included.
Author affiliation. This should be where they were based when the research for the paper was conducted.
Structured abstract
The abstract should be no more than 200 words. All submissions must include a structured abstract, following the format outlined below.
These four sub-headings and their accompanying explanations must always be included:
- Purpose
- Methodology
- Findings
- Originality
The following three sub-headings are optional and can be included, if applicable:
- Research limitations
- Practical implications
- Social implications
Keywords
Please include 5 main words that represent the content of the manuscript for indexing purposes.
Paper Type
The following types of manuscripts can be submitted to the journal:
- Research paper, which is a final report on the finished original experimental study.
Headings
Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the required hierarchy. The preferred format is for first level headings to be in bold, and subsequent sub-headings to be write using capital letters only at first word or special name, 11 font size, started from the left margin. Sub of subheading, if any, are written using capital letters only at first word or special name. They should be started from the left margin.
Tables and Figures
Tables and figures should be presented as follows:
- The name of tables and figures should follow a numbering system (Arabic numbering system). The names of the tables and figures are on the top and bottom parts of the tables, respectively.
- The tables and figures should provide the source of information, if any, at the bottom part of both.
- Any table should contain only heading and contents. The table contains row lines only without column lines. Note(s) and source(s) should be included underneath the table where appropriate.
Equations
Equation and mathematical formulas must write using Microsoft equation. Equations and formula should be numbered as (1), (2)... etc. appearing to their right.
Acknowledgement(s):
The Acknowledgement section should specify the individuals or institutions, who have also contributed to the article but are not its authors (the relevant scientific programs, grants, scholarships, contracts are indicated, the persons or organizations, which helped an author in conducting the research, namely, access to information, organization of the survey, interview, etc.).
CITATION AND REFERENCE GUIDELINES
CITATION STYLE
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). All citations in the text should refer to APA (American Psychological Association) style, for example:
Author type | Parenthetical citation | Narrative citation |
One author | (Ahmad, 2020) | Ahmad (2020) |
Two authors | (Sato & Anhar, 2020) | Sato and Anhar (2020) |
Three or more authors | (Affan et al., 2020) | Affan et al. (2020) |
Group author with abbreviation: |
First citation | (Central Statistical Agency [CSA], 2020) | Central Statistical Agency (CSA, 2020) |
Subsequent citations | (CSA, 2020) | CSA (2020) |
Group author without abbreviation | (World Bank, 2020) | World Bank (2020) |
Sources: www.apastyle.org
REFERENCE GUIDELINES
Manuscripts should include adequate reference citations to support methodology and discussion of the research study. Manuscript is expected involve minimum 15 primaries and update references to assert a high quality of the contribution to the knowledge development. Citations and references must strictly follow APA (American Psychological Association) style. References should relate only to the content that is cited within the text of the manuscript. References should be those of the last ten years journal (>80%), except for key references (80%). Referring to any textbook should be minimized (<20%), while maximally 10% from the internet by focusing on the source credibility. Consulting the APA style manual (http://www.apastyle.org/pubmanual.html) is highly recommended for compiling manuscript submissions. The Authors are recommended to use Mendeley Reference software
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