OAIJSS is a peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal covering social and political sciences, governance, culture and social transformation. It welcomes Indonesian, comparative and international scholarship.
The journal publishes original research articles, case studies, systematic literature reviews, and meta-analyses in English, with six issues per year. Manuscripts passing editorial screening undergo double-blind review by at least three independent reviewers.
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 authors have read the APC policy: IDR 1,000,000 or USD 100 per accepted article, payable only after acceptance. There is no submission fee and APC waivers are not available.
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, or RTF 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.
Author Guidelines
OAIJSS welcomes original research articles, case studies, systematic literature reviews, and meta-analyses within its social and political science scope. Manuscripts must be in clear English and must not be under consideration elsewhere.
Preparing the submission
Prepare an editable Word manuscript and a separate title page containing the title, full author names, affiliations (institution, city and country), corresponding-author contact details and ORCID identifiers where available.
Remove author names and identifying information from the blinded manuscript and file properties. Keep acknowledgements and identifying disclosures on the title page for review.
Provide a concise abstract, keywords, a clear research question, appropriate methods, results or findings, interpretation, limitations and conclusions.
Include funding, competing-interest, author-contribution and data-availability statements, and ethics approval/exemption and consent statements where applicable.
Structure by article type
Original research: Introduction (including the relevant literature and research gap), Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion. Qualitative and mixed-methods reporting should be appropriate to the study design.
Case studies: Introduction, case context and methods, findings, discussion and conclusion, with appropriate protection of identities.
Systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses: Introduction, Methods (search strategy, selection criteria, appraisal and synthesis), Results, Discussion and Conclusion. Describe the protocol or registration where available.
References, tables and figures
Use Vancouver references numbered in order of first citation, with superscript Arabic numerals in the text. Apply one consistent reference style throughout. List the first three authors followed by et al. when there are more than three. Include DOI links where available. Place numbered tables and figures near their first mention, with informative titles/captions, and supply editable tables and publication-quality figure files. Credit reused material.
Submission and assessment
Send the manuscript, separate title page and cover letter to indonesiajournalsocialsciences@gmail.com. State the article type and confirm that all authors approve submission. There is no submission fee. Manuscripts passing editorial screening undergo double-blind review by at least three independent reviewers. The published APC policy applies only after acceptance.
Authors retain copyright and publishing rights in their work. Submission and publication do not transfer copyright ownership to HM Publisher, CMHC Research Center or OAIJSS.
Authors may deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript and published version in institutional or subject repositories without an embargo. Identify the version, acknowledge publication in OAIJSS and add the article DOI or journal link when available. Preserve the licence and attribution accompanying the deposited version.
Website copyright
Copyright notices for the OAIJSS website, layout and visual identity apply only to those elements. They do not replace or restrict the copyright and reuse rights of article authors.
