Author Guidline

Please read the Ruang Kata: Journal of Language and Literature Studies guidelines and follow these instructions carefully. Manuscripts not adhering to the instructions will be returned for revision without review and can be resubmitted after conforming to the author guidelines. The Editor in Chief reserves the right to return manuscripts that are not prepared in accordance with these guidelines.

Revised: April 2024

Ruang Kata: Journal of Language and Literature Studies is a national scientific journal focused on publish articles form diffrent fields correlated with languge and literature studies. 

1. General Author Guideliness

All manuscripts should describe original research which has not been reported or submitted elsewhere. All articles submitted to Ruang Kata: Journal of Language and Literature Studies, Full text can be written in good Indonesian or English. The paper should be submitted by the author via online submission at e-journal portal address. If authors have any problems with the online submission, please contact Editor in Chief.

2. Manuscript Template

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word journal template that was downloaded at e-journal portal address.

3. Peer Review Process

The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon reports/recommendations from reviewer and made by Editor.

4. After Acceptance

A Copyeditor will be assigned to work in the copyediting stage that intended to improve the flow, clarity, grammar, wording, and formatting of the article. Then, a Layout Editor will be assigned to prepare the galley PDF for online publication. Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link a publish Article.

5. Submission Declaration and Verification

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been previously published (except in abstract form or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint), so it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The author agrees that the manuscript will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or any other language, including electronically without written permission from the copyright holder.

Authors are required to submit an "Author Declaration" as supplementary material at the time of initial manuscript submission. No manuscript will undergo the publication process without this consent.

Manuscript Format

1. Title and Author

2. Abstract and Keywords

3. Introduction

4. Methods

5. Results and Discussion

6. Conclusion

7. References

Citation in text

The use of quotations is intended to help readers get an explanation of the sentences in the main text. Citations in the main text that refer to the bibliography are written with the author and year in parentheses (Author, 2014).

Interested in submitting to this journal?

We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Template Ruang Kata: Journal of Language and Literature Studies. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.