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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Articles submitted for publication have to follow the following guidelines:

  1. The paper should discourse on the themes of legal and social science in general, including legal theory, customary law, legal jurisprudence, legal philosophy, private law, public law, constitutional law, legal debate, socio-legal, human rights, international law, court and justice, sharia law, law and politics, and social legal;
  2. The manuscript must be well-written in British English or American English; thus, using a professional proofreader is really recommended before submitting. The manuscript in Bahasa Indonesia is only for specific theme.
  3. The article must be typed in one-half space on A4-paper,  page layout top 4, left 4, right 3 dan buttom 3, and using Book Antiqua font 12 with margin 1,15 space for body text, and 1 space for abstract;
  4. Paper length is about 5,000–10,000 words; thus, only manuscripts following the word count will reach the review stages.
  5. All submissions must include 150–250 words of abstract written in British English or American English and also translated in Bahasa Indonesia.
  6. All submission must have file in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word file format;
  7. The full name(s) of the author(s) must be stated, along with his or her institution and complete address, and the number of authors must not be more than five.
  8. In the matter of writing citations and bibliographies, JURISTA follows the CHICAGO manual style of 17th edition (full note). A citation requires the name of the author(s), title, edition, publisher, year, and page number. 
  9. The body of the article must follow the standard of scientific publication, using the IMRaD standard (introduction, methods, results, and discussion), and sum up with a conclusion.
  10. The length of the title is no more than 14 words.
  11. Examples of footnote references and bibliographies are shown below:

Footnote:

Books

  • Malgosia Fitzmaurice, ‘The Quetion of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: A Time for Reappraisal?’, in Statehood and Self-Determination: Reconciling Tradition and Modernity in International Law, ed. Duncan French (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 351.
  • Mattias Åhrén, Indigenous Peoples’ Status in the International Legal System (Oxford ; Portland, Or: Oxford University Press, 2016).
  • Fernando R. Tesón, The Theory of Self-Determination (United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 3.
  • Berhard Ter Haar, Asas-Asas Dan Susunan Hukum Adat (Beginselen En Stelsel Van Het Adatrecht), trans. Soebakti Poesponoto (Djakarta: Pradnja Paramita, 1960).

  • M. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia Since C.1200 (New York: Macmillan International Higher Education, 2008).

Journals

  • M. Ya’kub Aiyub Kadir, ‘Defining “People” and “Indigenous People” in International Human Rights Law and Its Application in Indonesia’, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 26, no. 3 (14 May 2019): 373–408, https://doi.org/10.1163/15718115-02602006.
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Example of Bibliography:

Åhrén, Mattias. Indigenous Peoples’ Status in the International Legal System. Oxford ; Portland, Or: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Akhmad Muslih. ‘Legal Political Thought of Christian Snouck Hurgronje in Indonesia Legal System Development’. South East Asia Journal of Contemporary Business, Economics and Law 10, no. 4 (August 2016): 7–11.

Allen, John. Apartheid South Africa: An Insider’s View of the Origin and Effects of Separate Development. New York, NY: iUniverse, Inc, 2005.

AMAN, AMAN. ‘Profil Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN)’. Tentang Aman, 2001. http://www.aman.or.id/profil-aliansi-masyarakat-adat-nusantara/.

Amend, Allison. Hispanic-American Writers. Multicultural Voices. New York: Chelsea House, 2010.

Ariel Heryanto. ‘Ethnic Identities and Erasure Chinese Indonesians in Public Culture’. In Southeast Asian Identities: Culture and the Politics of Representation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, edited by Joel S. Kahn. London ; New York: I.B.Tauris, 1998.

Arizona, Yence, and Erasmus Cahyadi. ‘The Revival of Indigenous Peoples: Contestations over a Special Legislation on Masyarakat Adat’. In Adat and Indigeneity in Indonesia: Culture and Entitlements between Heteronomy and Self-Ascription, edited by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin. Göttingen Studies in Cultural Property 7. Göttingen: Univ.-Verl. Göttingen, 2013.

Arthur Schiller. ‘Native Customary Law in the Netherlands East Indies’. Pacific Affairs, University of British Colombia 9, no. 2 (June 1936): 254–63. www.jstor.org/stable/2751411.

Aspinall, Edward. Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia. United Kingdom: Stanford University Press, 2009.

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