Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

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

1. General Author Guidelines

All manuscripts must be submitted to Jurnal Utilitas by Online Submission at E-Journal portal address: [https://journal.uhamka.ac.id/index.php/utilitas/about/submissions], where author register as Author and/or offered as Reviewer by online. If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email: utilitas@uhamka.ac.id

2. Manuscript Template

Manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the PDF article template:

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The article that will be submitted in this journal should contain:

Format of Articles

Font and Paper: use Times New Roman, A4, single-line spaced, margins of at least 2 cm.

Title: No more 14 words, bold, 14pt, center alignment with capital letter for every letter.

Author and Affiliation: Full names without academic titles and degrees, are written in capital letters. Affiliates are written in full (department, institution, road, city, country and postal code). Manuscripts written by groups need to be supplemented with complete email addresses of all the authors. Font size 12pt.

Abstract: Abstract contains background and research objectives, methods, results, and conclusions written with information such as examples in the template. For Indonesian texts, abstracts must be written in two languages, Indonesian and English. Font size 11pt.

Keywords: Please give five to six keywords that are relevant to the topic. Font size 11pt.

Body Text: Articles must fill no more than 11 pages, and Letters not more than 5 pages. Manuscripts are written with Times New Roman, 11 pt, two columns. 

Figures:  Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Description of the figure is written under the image with single space and font size 10 pt or smaller. Please supply an original image.

Tables: Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files (.xls format).

Introduction: This section could also provide the expected results. The introduction must be written in single line spacing. The introduction comprises of: (1) research problem; (2) insight and problem solve planning; (3) summary of theoretical studies and the results of the present study (state of the art), related to the observed problems (gap analysis), and (4) research aims.

Methods: Methods should make readers be able to reproduce the experiment. Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described. Do not repeat the details of established methods. Basically, this section describes the way the research was done. The main materials must be written here: (1) research design; (2) population and samples; (3) sample collection techniques and instrumental development; (4) data analysis techniques.

Results and Discussion: The results of the study must be clearly concluded in answering the research questions. The discussion must: (1) answer the problem and research questions; (2) shows how the findings were obtained; (3) interpreting the findings; (4) linking findings with permanent knowledge structures. (5) Findings in the form of facts found in the field of research are integrated into previous research or present theories. This must be supported by reliable references.

Conclusion: This part provides the summary of results and discussion which refers to the research aims. Thus, the new principal ideas, which are an essential part of the research findings, are developed. Conclusions should answer the objectives of the research.

References:  Citation and reference writing is written using APA 6th Edition (American Psychological Association).

 

Template: The author must write an article in accordance with journal format, as in the template of this journal [link].

4. Revision of manuscripts

Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised manuscripts can be sent to editorial office through the Online Submission Interface [https://journal.uhamka.ac.id/index.php/utilitas]. The revised manuscripts returned later than 30 or 60 days will be considered as new submissions.

 

3. Editorial Office of Jurnal Utilitas

All correspondences should be sent to the following Editorial Office:

Purnama Syaepurrohman (Editor-in-Chief)

Editorial Office of Jurnal Utilitas

Program Studi Pendidikan EKonomi, FKIP UHAMKA. Jalan Tanah Merdeka, Jakarta Timur, DKI Jakarta.

contact person +6285695637925 (Sugiono)
Email: utilitas@uhamka.ac.id

 

5. Guideline for Online Submission

Author should first register as Author and/or is offered as Reviewer through the following address: https://journal.uhamka.ac.id/index.php/utilitas/about/submissions

Author should fulfil 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 “New Submission”. In the Start a New Submission section, click on “’Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in online submission process:

Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Article, or Short Communication. Thus, author must check-mark on the submission checklists.

Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click Upload button.

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.

Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter, and Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement Form. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the files, and then click on Upload button.

Step 5 – Confirming the Submission:  Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Jurnal Utilitas, click Finish Submission button after the documents is true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgement by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site.

After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes status of manuscript review and editorial process.