Author Guidelines

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Submission checklist

You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details. Ensure that the following items are present: One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details: • E-mail address • Full postal address

Further considerations

  • Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'
  • All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
  • Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
  • A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
  • Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
  • Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements.

Submission of Manuscripts

Online submissions require:

  • Cover Letter: Document (Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, LaTex) containing your cover letter to the Editors. The following statement should be included in the letter to the editor: " All of the authors have read and approved the paper and it has not been published previously nor is it being considered by any other peer-reviewed journal."
  • Response to Reviews (Resubmissions Only): Document (Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, LaTex) detailing your response to the reviewers' and editor's comments of a previously rejected manuscript that you are re-submitting.
  • Manuscript: Single word processing (Word, WordPerfect, RTF) or LaTex file consisting of the title page, abstract, manuscript text, and any figure/table legends. Manuscript file should include page numbers and line numbering.
  • Tables: Tables should be separate from the manuscript text, and can be uploaded individually or consolidated into a single file. The file description you input below when uploading your table must include the table number or range (e.g. Table 1, Tables 2-4).

Manuscripts must be written in English. There are no submission fees or page charges. Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that no substantial portion of the study has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere and that its submission for publication has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out; further, that any person cited as a source of personal communication has approved such a citation. Written authorization may be required at the Editor's discretion. All papers reporting on studies involving human subjects must include documentation that the study was reviewed and approved, prior to its conduct, by an appropriate institutional review board for human subjects research. No exceptions will be made to this requirement. Manuscripts that do not meet the general criteria or standards for publication in BUMI: International Journal of Environmental Reviews will be immediately returned to the authors without detailed review.

General Requirements

The type of paper should be an original research article, review article, opinion article, and case-based article.

    1. Original Research Article (3000-8000 words, excluding references)

    A full-length original empirical research, mainly following this order: introduction, methods, results and discussion, conclusions, and references, an accurate description of research, and an objective and comprehensive discussion of the results are highly encouraged.

    1. Review Article (4000-7000 words, excluding references)

    A comprehensive and critical literature review (including organizing, integrating, and evaluating) of the latest published research, meta-analysis, and systemic reviews are highly encouraged.

    1. Opinion Article (2500-7000 words, excluding references)

    A commentary, analysis, and argument on a specified issue, reliable and accountable data, and its valid sources are highly encouraged.

    1. Case-based Article (1500-5000 words, excluding references)
    A technical and practical article focuses on a single but unique case study, mainly has a briefer introduction, less theoretical studies, focused methodology, and deep technical outcomes.

 

Article structure

The general structure of paper should be divided into two files. First file is title Page (Title, Name of Authors, Affiliation, Email and Acknowledgement) and Second file is full-text manuscript (Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, and References. Title of the manuscript should be defined to understand the readers globally. So, the authors must avoid the title with some local meanings, such as: "Case study in City X or Subdisrict Y, etc". Also, the manuscript title in Full Manuscript should be clear, concise, informative, and limited to 15 words, including conjunctions. Subtitles, colons, and nonstandard abbreviations are unacceptable.

In general, the structure of the article must be able to show uniqueness, novelty, rigour, contribution, value, and most importantly it has a good story telling in environmental issues and Sustainable Development. Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. American English spelling is preferred.

Please title your manuscript in this order ‘Manuscript_Title”. Submit both the source file and the MS-DOC/MS-DOCX/PDF file to Submission Online Process without name and afilliation. Please ensure that paper is free from plagiarism, especially through plagiarism check by iThenticate.

References should be in APA style constructed with Mendeley. Other specific requirements are stated in the template. Authors are requested to write the paper directly in the template file.

Specific Requirements

Adjustments to this structure are permitted in several conditions.

Title

Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible

  • Author names and affiliations. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. You can add your name between parentheses in your own script behind the English transliteration. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lowercase superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
  • Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.

Abstract

Abstract with no more than 350 words should be supplied to reflect the content of the paper. A concise and factual abstract is required (IMRAD Model).

  1. Introduction/Backgorund. Provide context or background for the study and state the study’s primary objective or hypothesis in 1–6 sentences. Also, please explain the previous research/program what other people do or what you have done before. Author includes hypothesis (if any) which explained the tentative of result.
  2. Describe the basic procedures used during the study, including selection of study subjects, observational, analytical methods, and define the primary outcomes.
  3. Results and Discussion. Summarize the main findings, including specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible. Include (if relevant) the number of participants in each group, the primary outcome for each group, and any significant adverse events or side effects. Also, please explain relation between your theory and your result in your article.
  4. In 1–2 sentences, state the principal conclusions, emphasizing new and important aspects of the study or observations in aspect of your research

An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand-alone. For this reason, References should be avoided. Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. In the end of this section, please also briefly state the structure of paper, starting from Title up to References.

Following the abstract, there should be 6 keywords maximum, alphabetically sorted, and separated by semicolon.

Introduction

Provide an adequate background, context of the problems based on the literature review. State the objectives of the work and emphasize the originality (state of the art).

The first paragraph of a section or subsection should not be indented; subsequent paragraphs should be indented. There is no theoretical background section in this manuscript. But, you must input your theoretical background on Introduction section. Theoretical background contains previous theories as the basis of research and the temporary hypothesis. The theory can be in the form of scientific articles, articles in journals, textbooks, or other sources of scientific writing.

This theory will be used to provide state of the art of your manuscript from research problems that have been proposed. Other theories that are still needed to solve the problem of research to support theories that are delivered after the theory of your research is discussed. After the theories are mentioned and discussed, you need to form a problem that show:

  1. why this manuscript is important,
  2. existing gaps,
  3. previous research and
  4. the purpose of the manuscript.

After the theories are mentioned and discussed, the author has written a temporary hypothesis (if any) as a temporary answer of the research. If this temporary answer is true, then the writer can reveal that the research problems have been answered and has been given the solution.

Methods

Methods are the means used by the author to answer the existing research problem. Please provide sufficient detail methods to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described. In the methods, must clear with the location and time of the research, the population and sample of the research, the research variables and the research data.

Results and Discussion

Results should be clear and concise. Adequate discussion or comparison of the current results to the previous similar published articles is recommended to shows the positioning of the present research (if available).

The discussion is presented systematically from general, then leads to the specific. Discussion must explore the significance of the results of the work. Presentation of the research can be done with the help of tables, drawings/graphs, maps/plans, and schemes.

Result and discussion of your manuscript also interconnected with your theory that used, included novelty of your manuscript about your research. Minimum of your explanation on this chapter is range 40% to 50% of your manuscript as a whole

Conclusions

The main conclusion of the study may be presented in a short conclusions section, which may stand-alone (maximum 4 paragraphs). It should not repeat the results, instead provide significant findings and contribution of the study. To close this section, state some important limitations of research, followed by potential future research regarding the issue.

Acknowledgement

Acknowledgements should be collected in a separate section in the Title Page before your article is published. Individuals who assisted with the study should be listed here (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance, or proofreading the article, etc.).

Acknowledgment is written before Bibliography. It is written to pay respect to all people, organizations, and institutions that have contributions to the research. It includes funding institution and people who previously review the manuscript before submission.

Formatting of funding sources

List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements:

Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number aaaa].

It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.

If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence:

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

References

  1. Meanwhile, references should be in APA style constructed with Mendeley. For more information, please check Mendeley.
  2. Number of references should be more than 30 references which published within last 3-5 years.
  3. References from articles published by highly reputable (Scopus-indexed and WOS journals are preferred) 70% of the references is from primary sources/journal only references related to the theme of the writing may be referred and your reference can be accessed by anyone

Here is an example reference format with the style of APA.

Journal Article

Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207-217.

https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

 

Journal Article With An Article Number

Jerrentrup, A., Mueller, T., Glowalla, U., Herder, M., Henrichs, N., Neubauer, A., & Schaefer, J. R. (2018). Teaching medicine with the help of “Dr. House.” PLoS ONE, 13(3), Article e0193972. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193972

Journal Article With Missing Information

Missing Volume Number

Stegmeir, M. (2016). Climate change: New discipline practices promote college access. The Journal of College Admission, (231), 44-47. https://www.nxtbook.com/ygsreprints/NACAC/nacac_jca_spring2016/#/46

Missing Issue Number

Sanchiz, M., Chevalier, A., & Amadieu, F. (2017). How do older and young adults start searching for information? Impact of age, domain knowledge and problem complexity on the different steps of information searching. Computers in Human Behavior, 72, 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.038

Missing Page or Article Number

Butler, J. (2017). Where access meets multimodality: The case of ASL music videos. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 21, 1.

http://technorhetoric.net/21.1/topoi/butler/index.html 

Newspaper Article References

Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html

Harlan, C. (2013, April 2). North Korea vows to restart shuttered nuclear reactor that can make bomb-grade plutonium. The Washington Post, A1, A4.

Stobbe, M. (2020, January 8). Cancer death rate in U.S. sees largest one-year drop ever. Chicago Tribune.

Book

McKibbin, B. (2007). Deep economy: The wealth of communities and the durable future. Times Book/Henry Hold and Co.

Chapter In An Edited Book

Pigg, K. E., & Bradshaw, T. K., (2003). Catalytic community development: A theory of practice for changing rural society. In D. L. Brown & L. E. Swanson (Eds.), Challenges for rural America in the twenty-first century (pp. 385-396). Pennsylvania State University Press.

Conference Presentations And Proceeding

Conference Presentations

Evans, A. C., Jr., Garbarino, J., Bocanegra, E., Kinscherff, R. T., & Márquez-Greene, N. (2019, August 8–11). Gun violence: An event on the power of community [Conference presentation]. APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, IL, United States.

https://convention.apa.org/2019-video

Abstract of a Conference Precentation

Cacioppo, S. (2019, April 25–28). Evolutionary theory of social connections: Past, present, and future [Conference presentation abstract]. Ninety-ninth annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Pasadena, CA, United States.

https://westernpsych.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/WPA-Program-2019-Final-2.pdf

Conference Proceedings published in a Journal

Conference proceedings published in a journal follow the same format as journal articles

Duckworth, A. L., Quirk, A., Gallop, R., Hoyle, R. H., Kelly, D. R., & Matthews, M. D. (2019). Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 116(47), 23499–23504.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910510116

Conference Proceedings published as a whole Book

Conference proceedings published as a whole book follow the same reference format as whole edited books.

Kushilevitz, E., & Malkin, T. (Eds.). (2016). Lecture notes in computer science: Vol. 9562. Theory of cryptography. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49096-9

Conference Proceedings published as a Book Chapter

The format for conference proceedings published as an edited book chapter is the same as for edited book chapters.

Bedenel, A.-L., Jourdan, L., & Biernacki, C. (2019). Probability estimation by an adapted genetic algorithm in web insurance. In R. Battiti, M. Brunato, I. Kotsireas, & P. Pardalos (Eds.), Lecture notes in computer science: Vol. 11353. Learning and intelligent optimization (pp 225-240). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05348-2_21