General Standard

Language Editing

The Journal of Social and Management (JEMA) requires manuscripts submitted to meet international English language standards to be considered for publication. Articles are usually published in Indonesian and English.

For authors who would like their manuscripts to receive language editing or proofing to improve manuscript clarity and help highlight their research, JEMA recommends language editing services provided by internal or external partners (contact JEMA Principals for more information).

Note that submitting your manuscript for language editing does not imply or guarantee that it will be accepted for publication by JEMA. Editorial decisions about the scientific content of a manuscript do not depend on whether the manuscript has received editing or language checks by partner services, or other services.

Language style
The default style in JEMA is American English. If you prefer your article formatted in British English, please mention this in your manuscript on the first page.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
There are simple ways to maximize your article discoverability. Follow the steps below to improve your article search results:

• Include a few of your article's keywords in the title of the article;
• Do not use long article titles;
• Pick 3 to 5 keywords using a mix of generic and more specific terms on the article subject(s);
• Use the maximum amount of keywords in the first 2 sentences of the abstract;
• Use some of the keywords in level 1 headings.

Title
The title is written with the title UPPERCASE, aligned in the middle, and with the Calibri (Body) font at the top of the page. The title should be brief, omit implied terms and, where applicable, be a statement of the main results or conclusions presented in the manuscript. Abbreviations should be avoided in the title. A witty or creative title is welcome, but only if it is relevant and in size. Consider whether a thought-provoking title might be misinterpreted as offensive or worrying. In extreme cases, the editorial office may veto the title and propose alternatives.

Author and Affiliate
All names are listed together and separated by commas. Provide proper and correct author name as this will be indexed in the official archive. Affiliation must be entered into the author's name with a superscript number and listed as follows: Institute/ University/ Organization, Country (without detailed address information such as city postal code or street name).

Correspondence authors must be marked with a superscript. Provide the exact contact email address of the appropriate author in a separate section under affiliation.

Headings and Sub-headings
Capitalize on headings and capitalize each word of subheadings. Headings need to be defined in Calibri (Body), 11, bold and subheadings defined in Calibri (Body), 11, bold.

Abstract
As the main objective, the abstract should make the general significance and conceptual progress of the work clearly accessible to a wide audience. In the abstract, minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references. Word length is not more than 250 words, written in English.

Tips:

- Study background
- Purpose and scope of the paper
- Method
- Summary of results or findings
- Conclusion

Keywords
All article types: You can provide up to 6 keywords; Minimum 3 is mandatory.

Text
Body text in normal 11 points Georgia (Body). All documents must be single-spaced and must contain page and line numbers to facilitate the review process. JEMA recommended manuscripts are written using MS-Word 97-2003.

Nomenclature
The use of abbreviations should be minimized. Non-standard abbreviations should be avoided unless they occur at least four times, and are defined at first use in the main text. Also consider providing a list of non-standard abbreviations at the end.

Part
Your manuscript is organized by headings and subtitles.

For Original Research Articles, it is recommended to organize your manuscript in the following sections:

introduction
An introduction is slightly different from a short and concise abstract. Readers need to know the background to your research and, most importantly, why your research is important in this context. What critical questions does your research answer? Why should readers be interested?

The purpose of the Introduction is to stimulate the interest of the reader and to provide permanent background information necessary to understand the rest of the paper. You should summarize the problem to be discussed, provide background on the subject, discuss previous research on the topic, and explain exactly what the paper will cover, why, and how. A good thing to avoid is to make your introduction a minireview. There's a ton of literature out there, but as a scientist, you need to be able to pick the things that are most relevant to your work and explain why. This shows editors/reviewers/readers that you really understand your area of ??research and that you can get right to the most important issues.

Keep your Introduction very concise, well structured, and include all the information needed to keep up with your findings. Don't overwhelm the reader by making the introduction too long. Get to other important sections of paper sooner rather than later.

Tips:

1. Begin the Introduction by providing a concise background account of the problem studied.
2. State the objective of the investigation. Your research objective is the most important part of the  introduction.
3. Establish the significance of your work: Why was there a need to conduct the study?
4. Introduce the reader to the pertinent literature. Do not give a full history of the topic. Only quote previous work having a direct bearing on the present problem. (State of the art, relevant research to justify the novelty of the manuscript.)
5. State the gap analysis or novelty statement.
6. Clearly state your hypothesis, the variables investigated, and concisely summarize the methods used.
7. Define any abbreviations or specialized/regional terms.

Example of novelty statement or the gap analysis statement in the end of Introduction section (after state of the art of previous research survey): "........ (short summary of background)....... A few researchers focused on ....... There have been limited studies concerned on ........ Therefore, this research intends to ................. The objectives of this research are .........".

Be concise and aware of who will be reading your manuscript and make sure the Introduction is directed to that audience. Move from general to specific; from the problem in the real world to the literature to your research. Lastly, please avoid making a subsection in the Introduction.

Method
In the Method section, you explain clearly how you conducted your research order to: (1) enable readers to evaluate the work performed and (2) permit others to replicate your research. You must describe exactly what you did: what and how experiments were run, what, how much, how often, where, when, and why equipment and materials were used. The main consideration is to ensure that enough detail is provided to verify your findings and to enable the replication of the research. You should maintain a balance between brevity (you cannot describe every technical issue) and completeness (you need to give adequate detail so that readers know what happened).

Tips:

- Define the population and the methods of sampling;
- Describe the instrumentation;
- Describe the procedures and if relevant, the time frame;
- Describe the analysis plan;
- Describe any approaches to ensure validity and reliability;
- Describe statistical tests and the comparisons made; ordinary statistical methods should be used without comment; advanced or unusual methods may require a literature citation, and;
- Describe the scope and/or limitations of the methodology you used.

In the social and behavioral sciences, it is important to always provide sufficient information to allow other researchers to adopt or replicate your methodology. This information is particularly important when a new method has been developed or innovative use of an existing method is utilized. Last, please avoid making a subsection in Method.

Result and Discussion
The purpose of the Results and Discussion is to state your findings and make interpretations and/or opinions, explain the implications of your findings, and make suggestions for future research. Its main function is to answer the questions posed in the introduction, explain how the results support the answers and, how the answers fit in with existing knowledge on the topic. The Discussion is considered the heart of the paper and usually requires several writing attempts.

The discussion will always connect to the introduction by way of the research questions or hypotheses you posed and the literature you reviewed, but it does not simply repeat or rearrange the introduction; the discussion should always explain how your study has moved the reader's understanding of the research problem forward from where you left them at the end of the introduction.

To make your message clear, the discussion should be kept as short as possible while clearly and fully stating, supporting, explaining, and defending your answers and discussing other important and directly relevant issues. Care must be taken to provide commentary and not a reiteration of the results. Side issues should not be included, as these tend to obscure the message.

Tips:

1. State the Major Findings of the Study;
2. Explain the Meaning of the Findings and Why the Findings Are Important;
3. Support the answers with the results. Explain how your results relate to expectations and to the literature, clearly stating why they are acceptable and how they are consistent or fit in with previously published knowledge on the topic;
4. Relate the Findings to Those of Similar Studies;
5. Consider Alternative Explanations of the Findings;
6. Implications of the study, and
7. Acknowledge the Study's Limitations,

It is easy to inflate the interpretation of the results. Be careful that your interpretation of the results does not go beyond what is supported by the data. The data are the data: nothing more, nothing less. Please avoid and makeover interpretation of the results, unwarranted speculation, inflating the importance of the findings, tangential issues or over-emphasize the impact of your research.

Work with Graphic:

Figures and tables are the most effective way to present results. Captions should be able to stand alone, such that the figures and tables are understandable without the need to read the entire manuscript. Besides that, the data represented should be easy to interpret.

Tips:

1. The graphic should be simple, but informative;
2. The use of color is encouraged;
3. The graphic should uphold the standards of a scholarly, professional publication;
4. The graphic must be entirely original, unpublished artwork created by one of the co-authors;
The graphic should not include a photograph, drawing, or caricature of any person, living or deceased;
5. Do not include postage stamps or currency from any country, or trademarked items (company logos, images, and products), and;
6. Avoid choosing a graphic that already appears within the text of the manuscript.

To see the samples of table and figure, please download the template of the Journal of World Science.

Last, please avoid making a subsection in Results and Discussion.

Conclusion
Conclusions are meant to help readers understand why your research is important to them after they finish reading the paper. A conclusion is not just a summary of the main topics discussed or a restatement of your research problem, but a synthesis of key points. It is important that conclusions do not leave questions unanswered.

Tips:

State your conclusions clearly and concisely. Be brief and to the point;
Explain why your study is important to the reader. You must instill in the reader a sense of relevance;
Prove to readers, and the scientific community, that your findings are worthy of note. This means setting your paper in the context of previous work. The implications of your findings should be discussed in a realistic framework, and;
For most essays, a well-developed paragraph is sufficient to conclude, although in some cases a two or three paragraph conclusion may be necessary. Another important point about this section is (1) no rewriting of the abstract; (2) a statement by "investigated" or "studyed" is not a conclusion; (3) not introduce arguments, evidence, new ideas, or new information unrelated to the topic; (4) does not include evidence (quotes, statistics, etc.) that should be in the body of the paper.

References
All citations in the text must be in the reference list and vice-versa. The references should only include articles that are published or accepted. Datasets that have been deposited to an online repository should be included in the reference list, include the version and unique identifier when available. For accepted but unpublished works use "in press" instead of page numbers. Unpublished data, submitted manuscripts, or personal communications should be cited within the text only, for the article types that allow such inclusions. Personal communications should be documented by a letter of permission.

In-text citations should be called according to the surname of the first author, followed by the year. For works by 2 authors include both surnames, followed by the year. For works by more than 2 authors include only the surname of the first author, followed by et al., followed by the year. For assistance please use management reference (Mendeley or Zotero) and utilize the format of the American Psychological Association 7th Edition. If possible, please provide the retrieved link for each reference.

Article in a journal
Keh, H. T., Nguyen, T. T. M., & Ng, H. P. (2007). The Effects Of Entrepreneurial Orientation And Marketing Information On The Performance Of Smes. Journal Of Business Venturing, 22(4), 592–611

Book:
Baron, R. A. (1977). Human Aggression. Boston, MA: Springer US.

Theses and Dissertations:
Maba, A. P. (2017). Peran Kesendirian dan Kecemasan Sosial terhadap Keinginan untuk Konseling Siswa (Skripsi). Institut Agama Islam Ma'arif NU Metro Lampung, Lampung.

Figures and Table Guidelines

General Style Guidelines for Figures
Figures help readers visualize the information you are trying to convey. Often, it is difficult to be sufficiently descriptive using words. Images can help in achieving the accuracy needed for a scientific manuscript. For example, it may not be enough to say, "The surface had nanometer-scale features." In this case, it would be ideal to provide a microscope image.

For images, be sure to:

Include scale bars
Consider labeling important items
Indicate the meaning of different colors and symbols used

General Style Guidelines for Tables
Tables are a concise and effective way to present large amounts of data. You should design them carefully so that you clearly communicate your results to busy researchers.

The following is an example of a well-designed table:

- Clear and concise legend/caption
- Data divided into categories for clarity
- Sufficient spacing between columns and rows
- Units are a provided font type and size are legible

Figure and Table Requirements

Legends

Figure and table legends are required to have the same font as the main text (11 points normal Georgia (Body), single-spaced). Legends should be preceded by the appropriate label, for example, "Figure 1" or "Table 4". Figure legends should be placed at the end of the manuscript (for supplementary images you must include the caption with the figure, uploaded as a separate file). Table legends must be placed immediately before the table. Please use only a single paragraph for the legend. Figure panels are referred to by bold capital letters in brackets: (A), (B), (C), (D), etc.

Image Size
Figure images should be prepared with the PDF layout in mind, individual figures should not be longer than one page and with a width that corresponds to 1 column or 2 columns.

Format
The following formats are accepted:

TIFF (.tif) TIFF files should be saved using LZW compression or any other non-lossy compression method. JPEG (.jpg)

EPS (.eps) EPS files can be uploaded upon acceptance

Colour Image Mode
Images must be submitted in the color mode RGB.

Resolution Requirements

All images must be uploaded separately in the submission procedure and have a resolution of 300 dpi at final size. Check the resolution of your figure by enlarging it to 150%. If the resolution is too low, the image will appear blurry, jagged or have a stair-stepped effect.

Please note saving a figure directly as an image file (JPEG, TIF) can greatly affect the resolution of your image. To avoid this, one option is to export the file as PDF, then convert into TIFF or EPS using a graphics software. EPS files can be uploaded upon acceptance.

Details of all funding sources must be provided in the funding section of the manuscript including grant numbers, if applicable.