Author Guidelines

FIRST AND FOREMOST: There is no strict template for the authors, the authors only focus on the substations in their manuscript that align with our aims and scope. Let the Wasian journal team handle the layout and template once your manuscript has been accepted by the reviewers.

 

ARTICLE TITLE: The article title should be written briefly and clearly, and must pinpointing issues to be raised, does not allow its diverse interpretations, written entirely in capital letters symmetrically. Title of the article should not contain abbreviations that are not commonly used. The main ideas put forward in advance a new article is followed by other explanation.

INTRODUCTION: It should contain (in order) the general background, previous literature review (state of the art) as a basis for claiming a scientific novelty of the article, a statement of scientific novelty, and the research problem or hypothesis. At the end of the preliminary assessment purposes it should be written the article. In the scientific article format is not allowed their review of the literature as well as in the research report, but expressed in previous literature review (state of the art) to demonstrate the scientific novelty of the article.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: In Materials and Methods section it contains the main materials used in the study and the methods used in solving the problems, including methods of analysis. The materials are written here only in the form of the main materials only and must be equipped with the brand and its purity (eg: H2SO4 (Merck, 99 % )). Equipment that is written in this section only contains major appliances equipped with the brand (eg: electric Furnace (Carbolite)). The components supporting equipment need not be written. The series should be the main tool in this section is equipped with a caption. Caption placed to be part of the title of the image (figure caption) is not a part of the image. The methods used in the completion of the research written in this section.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Results and Discussion must be separated. This section contains the results of research findings and scientific discussion. Please write the scientific findings (scientific finding) obtained from the results of research that has been done, but must be supported by sufficient data. Scientific findings are referred to here are not the data of the research results. These scientific findings should be explained scientifically include: What kinds of the scientific findings are obtained? Why did it happen? Why is such a variable trend? All these questions must be explained scientifically and not merely descriptive, if necessary it must be supported by the phenomena of adequate scientific basis. Furthermore, it should be explained also in comparison with the results of other researchers about the same topic. The results of the research and findings must be able to answer the research hypotheses in the introduction.

CONCLUSION: Conclusions describe the response of hypotheses and/ or purposes of research or scientific findings obtained. Conclusions not contain looping of results and discussion, but rather to a summary of the findings as expected in purpose or hypothesis. If necessary, at the end of the conclusion it can be also written things that will be associated with further ideas from the research.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Acknowledgements are mainly addressed to research funders or donors. Acknowledgements can also be delivered to the Parties that support the implementation of research.

REFERENCES: All references referred to in the text of the article must be listed at the References cited at least 25 titles. The refererences cited that comes from his own are a maximum of 5 articles. References should derived from primary sources (scientific journals and amounted to a minimum of 80 % of the total bibliography) published in last 10 (ten) years.

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Instruction to Submit Manuscripts Online

Manuscripts should be submitted through one of the following ways:

  1. Delivering of the manuscript is preferably with Online Submission System in the E-Journal Portal Wasian Journal (https://pub.kehutanan.unismuh.ac.id/index.php/wasian/ ).
  2. The first author is listed as author and /or Reviewers (checking role as Author and/or Reviewer) on the "Register" or address:https://pub.kehutanan.unismuh.ac.id/index.php/wasian/user/register
  3. Once logged in as an Author, click on "New Submission". Stages submit an article consists of five stages, namely: (1) Start, (2) Upload Submission, (3) Enter Metadata, (4) Upload Supplementary Files, (5) and Confirmation.
  4. Under Start, select the Journal Section (Full Article), check all of the checklist.
  5. In the Upload Submission, please upload a manuscript file in MS Word articles in this section.
  6. In the Enter Metadata, enter data all Authors and their affiliation, followed by the title and abstract, and indexing keywords.
  7. In the Upload Supplementary Files, allowed to upload a file data to support or cover letter or other document.
  8. In the Confirmation, please click "Finish Submission" if all the information is correct.
  9. If the Author has difficulties in the process of submission via online system, the manuscripts can also be sent via e-mail to e-mail Editorial Jurnal naufal@unismuh.ac.id or forestry.dep@unismuh.ac.id, however this method is not recommended.

 

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 Microsoft Word document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is double-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 Reviewhave been followed.
  7. Abstracts of 150-250 words (Indonesian and English), Keyword 4-6 words. Manuscripts written in Indonesian with the maximum number of pages to 20 pages, including figures and tables.
  8. Manuscript must be written according to the template of this article in the form of print-ready (Camera ready). Articles should be written in a text field size A4 (210 x 297 mm) and with a format of 4 cm left margin, right margin 3 cm, lower margin 3 cm, and the top margin of 3 cm.
  9. Manuscript must be written with the font Times New Roman 12 pt font size (unless the article title, author name and title abstract), within two spaces (except part of the article title, author name, and abstract) in one column format.
  10. Tables and Figures placed in the group after the text of the referenced tables or figures. Each image must be given the title of the image (Figure Caption) on the bottom of the image and numbered in Arabic numerals followed by the title picture in Indonesian and English. Each table should be titled table (Table Caption) and numbered in Arabic numerals on the top of the table followed by the table's title in Indonesian and English.
  11. The pictures should be printed clearly warranted (font size, resolution and size of the line to be sure printed clearly). Figures and tables and diagrams / schematics should be placed among the groups corresponding column of text, or if too much is placed in the middle of the page. Tables should not contain vertical lines, while the horizontal lines are allowed but only the essentials only.