Language in the Article

The article can be written in Bahasa Indonesia & English. Other languages are welcome, there is going to be the translation cost prior to article publication acceptance notification made by the editor of J-Kesmas.

Format

Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format. We currently do not accept other formats, such as LaTex or PDF files.

Article Length

As a general guideline, manuscripts are typed 1,5 spaced in a quarto paper size (A4), a maximum of 7000 words in length including references, pictures, and tables.

Article Title 

Title of article no more than 15 words Article should be started by the title of the article followed by authors name and affiliation address and abstract

Author Details

All contributing authors’ names should be added, without any academic degree. All authors should be accompanied address, including the name of the institution and email address.

The criteria of authorship are as follows; Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; Final approval of the version to be published; Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Biographies and Acknowledgements

Authors who wish to include these items should save them together in an MS Word file to be uploaded with the submission. If they are to be included, a brief professional biography of not more than 100 words should be supplied for each named author.

Reserach Funding

Authors must declare all sources of external research funding in their article and a statement to this effect should appear in the Acknowledgements section. Authors should describe the role of the funder or financial sponsor in the entire research process, from study design to submission.

Structured Abstract

Authors must supply a structured abstract in their submission that covers:

• Background/Objectives
• Design/Subjects (or Materials)/ Method
• Findings/results
• Conslusion

Keywords

It is recommended three to five keywords with one or two words except for technical terms. The terminology should be listed, in principle, in MeSH (www.nlm.nih.gov/ mesh/MBrowser.html). The first letter of the keyword should be capitalized and the remaining letters lowercased. The delimiter is written with a semicolon (;).

Article Classification

Authors must categorize their paper as part of the submission process. The category which most closely describes their paper should be selected from the list below.

Research Article. This category covers papers which report on any type of research undertaken by the author(s). The research may involve the construction or testing of a model or framework, action research, testing of data, market research or surveys, empirical, scientific or clinical research.

Review Articles: Review articles will only be accepted if invited  by the Editor-in-Chief; therefore, authors who are considering to submit a review article are strongly advised to submit an outline of the proposed review via e-mail to the Editor-in-Chief prior to  writing. If the article is approved, it will then undergo the regular  review process for publication. Review articles follow the general manuscript preparation of original manuscripts but should contain less than 100 references. Additionally, abstract and main text are not necessary to be structured.

Case study. Case studies describe actual interventions or experiences within organizations. They may well be subjective and will not generally report on research. A description of a legal case or a hypothetical case study used as a teaching exercise would also fit into this category.

Short communication: A short communication is a short report of original research that is of exceptional interest or importance in the field of nutritional research and practices, and does not include any preliminary results. A regular review process will be conducted for publication as a short communication in the J-Kesmas. The manuscript for short communication should contain:

• an abstract of no more than 300 words
• no more than 2,500 words (excluding abstract and references)
• no more than five illustrations (figures and/or tables)
• no more than 30 references
• separate sections (Introduction, Materials/Subjects and Methods, Results, Discussion.

Headings

Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the distinction between the hierarchies of headings. 

Notes/Endnotes

Notes or endnotes should be used only if absolutely necessary and must be identified in the text by consecutive numbers, enclosed in square brackets and listed at the end of the article

Figures

All Figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, web pages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted in electronic form. All Figures should be of high quality, legible and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. Graphics may be supplied in color to facilitate their appearance on the online database. Figures created in MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel should be supplied in their native formats. Electronic figures created in other applications should be copied from the origination software and pasted into MS Word template document. Photographic images should be inserted in the main body of the article and of high quality.

Tables

Tables should be typed and included in the main body of the article. The position of tables should be inserted in the text as close to the point of reference as possible. Ensure that any superscripts or asterisks are shown next to the relevant items and have corresponding explanations displayed as footnotes to the table, figure or plate

References

References to other publications must be in APA (American Psychological Association) style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency. The reference list should appear at the end of the article and includes only literature actually cited in the manuscripts. References are ordered alphabetically and chronologically. We strongly recommend authors to use reference tools, such as Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, etc. Herewith are some of the APA-based references format structure:

Printed book: Author, A.A. (Year of Publication). Title of work. Publisher City, State: Publisher.

Online book: Author, A.A. (Year of Publication). Title of work [E-Reader Version]. Retrieved from http://xxxx or doi:xxxx

Journal article in print: Author, A.A. (Publication Year). Article title. Periodical Title, Volume (Issue), pp.-pp.

Journal article online: Author, A.A. (Publication Year). Article title. Periodical Title, Volume (Issue), pp.-pp. doi: xx.xxxx or Retrieved from journal URL

Website article: Author, A.A. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Article title. Retrieved from URL; Article title. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Retrieved from URL

Newspaper in print: Author, A.A. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Article title. Newspaper Title, pp. xx-xx.

Newspaper online: Author, A.A. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Article title. Newspaper Title, Retrieved from newspaper homepage URL

Magazine article in print: Author, A.A. (Year, the month of Publication). Article title. Magazine Title, Volume (Issue), pp.-pp.

Encyclopedia: Author, A.A.. (Publication Year). Entry title. In Encyclopedia title, (Vol. XX, pp. XX). City, State of publication: Publisher.