Submissions

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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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

All manuscripts must be submitted to HABITAT Editorial Office by Online Submission at E-Journal portal address: Author Guidance, where author should 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: habitat@ub.ac.id.

The following documents should accompany the manuscripts submitted by online through online submission interface (as supplementary files):

  1. Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) form originally (scan the document after signed) [download the CTA form here]
  2. A covering letter outlines the basic findings of the paper and their significance.

Reviewing of manuscripts

All manuscripts are reviewed by an editor and members of the editorial team or qualified international reviewers. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible, and the journal strives to return reviewers comments to authors within four weeks. The editorial board will re-review manuscripts that are accepted pending revision.

Revisions 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 (http://habitat.ub.ac.id/index.php/habitat/index). The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

Guidelines for Online Submission

Author should first register as Author and/or is offered as Reviewer through the following address: http://habitat.ub.ac.id/index.php/habitat/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions.

Author should fill the form as detail as possible where the asterisk marked form must be entered. After all form textboxes were 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Step 3 “ Entering Submissions 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Step 5 “ Confirming the Submission: Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to BCREC journal, 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 submissions progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site.

After this submission, Author who submits the manuscript will receive a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Author is able to track his submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes status of manuscript review and editorial process.

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