Submissions

Author Guidelines

Manuscript General Preparation

The manuscript should be written in the following rules and criteria:

1. Insignia: Journal of International Relations seeks original manuscripts of research articles and opinion articles on International Relations studies. The scope of the journal, but is not restricted to, the following areas: international security studies, globalization and development studies, diplomacy and foreign policy, regional studies, international political economy, and non-traditional issues.
2. The article should be original and not a work of plagiarism, have never been published in other media or publications, and should never be sent to other media or publications at the same time.
3. The article is written in English in the format of an essay, with a title for each section of the article. The title must be specific, effective, and boldfaced. The title should be written in Cambria, 14 pt., 1 space, with 20 words. Titles for section and subsection hierarchy should be in boldface or italics without numbering.
4. The abstract contains a brief introduction to the problem, objectives, methods, results, and conclusion. The abstract is single-spaced, written in English and Indonesian. Each abstract should contain no more than 250 words. Written in Cambria, 10 Pt, Italic.
5. Keywords should contain 3-5 words, alphabetized, and use the same language as the abstract. Avoid using multiple concept and plural term (e.d. ‘and’, ‘of’). These keywords will be used for the indexing process.
6. The article should be written in Cambria, 12 pt., 1 space, with a length of 5000-6000 words (not including bibliography) and sent through the Online Journal System (OJS) website. Please log in or register.
7. Authors are encouraged to use sources published within the last 10 years. Preferred references are primary sources, such as research articles in scientific journals or research reports (including undergraduate theses, graduate theses, and dissertations).
8. Citations should be made with in-text citations based on APA (American Psychological Association) style.
9. Authors have full responsibility for their submitted article.
10. The editorial team has the right to edit an article without changing the substance and the original idea of the author. 
11. The template can be downloaded from https://s.id/templatebaru

Submission Preparation Checklist

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is using Cambria font with size of 12, space of 1, page size of A4, left and top margins of 3 cm, right and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines and Template.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the authors of the document have deleted their names from the text. For Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the file properties.

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Guideline for Online Submission

Author should first register as Author and is offered as Reviewer through the following address: http://jos.unsoed.ac.id/index.php/insignia/user/register. The author should fulfill the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, Author clicks on “Register” button to proceed the registration. Therefore, Author is brought to online author submission interface where Author should click on “Submissions”. In the start a Submissions section, click on “’New Submission”: to go to step one of the four-step submission process. The following are the four steps in the online submission process:

1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Choose “Articles” in the Section. The author must check the Submission Requirements.
2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Upload Submission. Choose “Article Text” and choose the manuscript document file (.doc/.docx/.rtf) to be submitted, then click "Upload File" button until the file has been uploaded. Click “Continue” and “Complete” button to go to the next step.
3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including marked corresponding author. After that, manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.
4. Step 4 – Confirming the Submission: The article has been uploaded and is ready to be sent. Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Insignia Journal of International Relations, click the "Finish Submission" button after the documents are correct. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal website. 

After submission, authors will receive a confirmation email. Therefore, authors can track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes the status of the manuscript review and editorial process.