Author Guidelines

Open Access Indonesia Journal of Social Sciences

Author Guidelines

Prepare every submission with the official OAIJSS template for its article type. The journal accepts Original Articles, Case Studies, and Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.

Template 01

Original Article

For empirical qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods research.

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Template 02

Case Study

For single, multiple, comparative, or embedded case-study designs.

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Template 03

Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis

For evidence synthesis prepared in accordance with PRISMA 2020.

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Submission channel: Submit the manuscript, separate title page, and cover letter by email to indonesiajournalsocialsciences@gmail.com. Authors do not create an OJS submission at the initial stage. An OJS account is created for manuscripts that pass editorial assessment, and the account details are sent to the corresponding author for subsequent tracking.

1. General manuscript preparation

  • Write in clear academic English and use the two-column OAIJSS Word template corresponding to the article type.
  • Use a concise, informative title in sentence case. Provide each author's full name, affiliation, city and country; identify the corresponding author and provide a current email address and ORCID iD where available.
  • Provide a structured abstract with Background, Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusion, followed by 3–5 keywords.
  • Remove author names and other identifying details from the blinded manuscript and its file properties. Keep identifying information on the separate title page.
  • Use clear headings, define abbreviations on first use, use SI units, and report methods and findings with sufficient detail for appraisal and reproducibility.

2. Structure by article type

Original Article

Use: Introduction; Methods (study design and setting, participants or sampling, variables/instruments/procedures, data analysis, and ethical considerations); Results; Discussion (principal findings, comparison with previous studies, strengths and limitations, and implications); and Conclusion. Report effect estimates, uncertainty, and exact p-values where applicable. Qualitative and mixed-methods reporting must match the study design.

Case Study

Explain why the case is critical, unusual, revelatory, or information-rich; define the unit of analysis and case boundaries; state the single, multiple, comparative, or embedded design; and describe selection, chronology, data sources, instruments, validation, triangulation, researcher positionality/reflexivity, and the analytic approach. Present context, chronology, themes and outcomes, and protect identities through appropriate anonymisation and consent for publication. Discuss transferability rather than statistical generalisability.

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Follow PRISMA 2020. State the review question, protocol registration and amendments; define eligibility criteria; list all databases, registers, websites, grey-literature sources and search dates; provide reproducible search strategies; describe deduplication, independent dual screening, reasons for full-text exclusion, extraction, risk-of-bias assessment and author contact. For meta-analysis, report the model, effect measure, confidence interval, heterogeneity, subgroup or sensitivity analyses, reporting-bias assessment, certainty of evidence, and software/version. Include a PRISMA flow diagram and forest plot where applicable.

3. Tables, figures and references

  • Cite every table and figure in numerical order. Provide self-contained titles/captions, editable tables, and high-resolution figures. Credit any reused material.
  • Use Vancouver references numbered in order of first citation, with superscript Arabic numerals in the text.
  • Format author names as family name followed by initials without periods. When there are more than three authors, list the first three followed by et al. Include DOI links where available.
  • Case studies and systematic reviews should normally include at least 15 relevant, recent, and preferably primary references.

4. Required declarations

Place the following items after Acknowledgments and before References:

  • Use of artificial intelligence: identify the tool, version/provider, and purpose; authors must verify all outputs. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
  • Author contributions: describe contributions using the CRediT taxonomy.
  • Funding and conflict/competing interests.
  • Data availability: identify the repository/link or explain justified access restrictions. Systematic reviews should make search strategies, screening decisions, extraction materials and analytic data/code available where possible.
  • Ethics approval/exemption, consent to participate, and consent for publication where applicable. Case studies must explicitly address confidentiality, anonymisation, data protection, and publication consent.

5. Submission-ready checklist

✓ Correct OAIJSS template and article type used

✓ Separate title page, blinded manuscript, and cover letter prepared

✓ Structured abstract, 3–5 keywords, tables/figures, and Vancouver references checked

✓ Ethics, consent, funding, conflicts, contributions, data availability, and AI-use statements completed

✓ All authors approved the submission and the corresponding author is authorised to communicate with the journal