Author Guidelines

Manuscript Requirements:

1. The length of the manuscript is not more than 20 pages.

2. The title of the manuscript shall be no more than 15 words and shall reflect the contents of the manuscript, followed by the author's name and the author's institute.

3. Abstract no more than 250 words.

4. Brief Introduction describes the background of the research problem and the objectives of the study.

5. Materials and methods are clearly described. New techniques and modification methods need to be described in more detail. The standard method simply includes references.

6. Results and Discussion is briefly and clearly described. Results are presented using Table or Picture and are not repeated in the text. The table is made in one space with the same letter with text, no vertical line, super clip, illustration/picture sent as many as 3 pieces, one of which original must be sharp enough to be reproduced.

7. Conclusions are briefly summarized by considering the title of the manuscript, intent and purpose, and the results of the research. Suggestions are included if needed.

8. Acknowledgments if written no more than 40 words.

9. The reference should be mentioned in the text with the name of the family or the author's last name and year of publication, written a Wang (1985) or (Wang, 1985). For references to more than two authors, the first author is firstly mentioned followed by et. al. for foreign authors. The bibliographies are listed in alphabetical order without sequence number: author name, publishing year, article title, book title, name, and the number of journals, publisher and city where published, and the number of pages/page numbers, written as follows:

Lauwery, R.R., and P. Hoet. 1993. Industrial Chemical Exposure Guidelines for Biological Monitoring, 2nd. Ed. Lewis Publisher. Boca Raton. Florida. 318pp.

Skidmore, J.P. 1970.  Respiratory and Osmoregulation in Rrainbow Trout Damage with Zinc Sulfate. Journal of Experimental Biology. 52: 481-494.

Adnan, R., M.N. Mohamad , dan H. Setan. 2003. Multiple Outlier Detection Procedure in Linier Regression. Diakses pada tanggal 22 Januari 2008. http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pbourke/other/correlateAccecesed in January 2006.

10. Unpublished reference can be used as references, but they should be included in the text (for example, Suparno, not published).

11. Unusual acronyms or abbreviations are written complete on the first skin and then written abbreviation only. Unusual abbreviations should be avoided unless they often appear in the text.

12. Latin names, families, and species firstly written together with their common name. Furthermore, the name is generally written.

13. International Unit systems should be used for all units.

 

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 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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.