Author Guidelines

General Author Guidelines

  1. The manuscript should be 3000-6000 words in length, written in English (American) or Bahasa Indonesia, and should be original research, unpublished and not under reviewed for possible publication in any other journals.
  2. The manuscripts should include: 200 words of Abstracts (each in English and Indonesia), Introduction, Methods, Results & Discussions, Conclusion, and References.
  3. The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines and Template. The writing template can be downloaded here: Template (English), Template (Bahasa Indonesia). 
  4. The manuscript submitted via website: https://journal.literasikhatulistiwa.org/index.php/kjs/ 

Manuscript Structures

  1. Title – Use a concise and informative title in sentence case, with a maximum of 16 words.
  2. Affiliation – Provide each author’s affiliation, including the country.
  3. Abstract – Should consist of a single paragraph of no more than 200 words. Provide the background and objective of the paper, methods, principal results, and conclusion. Avoid using abbreviations, citations, and repetition of certain structure in the main document.
  4. Keywords – Include a maximum of six keywords or phrases, arranged alphabetically and separated using semicolons (;). Use specific, relevant terms that do not appear in the title, so that the article is easier to find in search engines. Do not use terms that are too general or too long.
  5. Introduction – This section should briefly explain the background of the study, provide a short review of the pertinent literature, state the originality of the research, and state the research objectives. This section also covers the factual and actual problems, challenges, or requirements needed by community which related to the research purposes.
  6. Methods – Combine the methods and procedure used into one narrative passage. Enough information should be provided to enable repetition of the research. For commercial sources of the materials, the name of the company, and the town and country in which they are located should be indicated. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference.
  7. Results & Discussion – Describe the outcome of the study. Data should be presented as concisely as possible, and in the form of tables or figures if appropriate, although very large tables should be avoided. This section should be an interpretation of the results of the work (not a repetition of them) in the context of previous research. Avoid excessive referencing of published literature. If needed, this section can be combined with the Results section into a Results and discussion section.
  8. Conclusion – The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a standalone Conclusion section.
  9. References – List all items alphabetically. Literature cited during the construction of the paper are included in the bibliography. For the purposes of efficiency and conciseness, the cited works should consist of 80% academic journals within five to ten years of publication and 20% books and other types of references. Khatulistiwa Journal of Sociolinguistics uses an APA 6th Edition (American Psychological Association) format, and recommended to use Mendeley.