Author Guidelines

The author must send the manuscript online by first registering as an author on the website https://kiswantara.id/index.php/mandat

For every submitted article, the author is obliged to follow the terms and conditions in accordance with Style Guide of Mandat: Journal of Public Governance (can be downloaded on the web)

General Guidelines

  1. Use the Mandat: Journal of Public Governance guide (download) as template.
  2. The text submitted by the author is the original scientific paper, has never been published, and is not being submitted for publication in other media/journals.
  3. The text proposed may be results of the study (field/literature), conceptual ideas, studies, application of theories, and criticism in the Mathematics and Statistics.
  4. Scripts can be written either in Indonesian or in English. The manuscript is written with Palatino Linotype of font 11 with single spacing and one column.
  5. The manuscript begins with abstract of 100-200 words written in Indonesian and English.
  6. The English-language abstracts are typed slanted with the font of 10. Title, abstract, and keywords are written in Indonesian and English.
  7. Abstracts should clearly indicate background of the problems, objectives, theories and methods, findings or novelty of ideas, and main conclusions.
  8. The author's name is written without academic degrees. If a script is written by a team or more than one person, the editor will communicate only with the main author or corresponding author.
  9. Scripts are organized into five subheadings in the following order: (a) Introduction: includes problem identification, literature review, research objectives, as well as the benefits of the research, (b) Method: consists of the way the research is done and a description of the material, equipment, and procedures used in conducting the analysis or research, (c) Results and Discussion: describes the results of research or analysis and can be presented in sub-chapters, (d) Conclusion: written in the form of a summary and if necessary, each paragraph containing conclusions of the research can be given serial numbers. (e) Bibliography: Bibliography arranged alphabetically refers to the APA Style of Citation.
  10. Script can be written in English as many as 12 -18 pages. Sources of references/citations listed in the script are the primary reference sources in the form of research reports or articles published in the scientific journal/magazine in the last 10 years.
  11. Technical of writing citations use the enclosed reference technique of APA citation style.
  12. Article Format has met the Style Guide of Mandat: Journal of Public Governance.
  13. The article has not been published in any media and is not being submitted to other journals.
  14. The article does not contain the results of plagiarism, falsification, and fabrication of data.
  15. The author revised the article to the time limit specified by the Editor.
  16. Note that we require that all authors/coauthors to have an ORCID (a unique researcher identifier) at the time of publication. Application for an ORCID is free of charge and only takes a few minutes - please go to ORCID.org to apply for one. We also recommend that the corresponding author contacts all of his coauthors and encourages them to obtain an ORCID during the manuscript preparation process. While they can be added after submission, ORCIDs are required in case of acceptance. (Author's information ORCID - Authors info page).

Please note that any papers which fail to meet our requirements will be returned to the author for amendment. Only papers which are submitted in the correct style will be considered by the Editors.