Author Guidelines

Jurnal Riset Sains dan Kimia Terapan (JRSKT) is a scientific journal published continuously two times a year and uses a blind review system. JRSKT accepts original articles dedicated to all chemistry practitioners including physical chemistry, material chemistry, biochemistry, organic chemistry, and analytical chemistry.

The article consists of:

  • Title: specific and effective, with no maximum words.
  • Author’s identity: Author’s full name (without a degree), institutional address (including name institution, address, postal code, city, and country), and author’s email must write fully and clearly.
  • Abstract: it is written in a paragraph that consists of 200 words maximum. The abstract is written sequentially from the background of the study, the objective of the study, methods, results, and conclusion.
  • The keywords must be included on the same page as the abstract. It consists of 3-5 words chosen genuinely to reflect the concept of the article.
  • Introduction: serves the purpose of leading the reader from a general subject area to a particular field of research. It establishes the context of the research being conducted by summarizing current understanding and background information about the topic, stating the purpose of the work in the form of the hypothesis, question, or research problem, briefly explaining your rationale, and methodological approach, highlighting the potential outcomes your study can reveal, and describing the remaining structure of the paper. By introducing and reviewing key sources of prior research in that area to show where gaps exist or where prior research has been inadequate in addressing the research problem.
  • Figure Caption. For example writing “FIGURE 1,” which is the label must be written in capital and bold Times New Roman size 9. If the image has a lot of parts, you can use the labels (a), (b), and so on. 
  • Table Caption. For example, write “TABLE 1,” in the label description table in bold, and capital. Description flat table placed above the middle of the table.
  • Equations should be placed in the middle with his right equation number (flush right). Here are tips on writing an equation in accordance with the template SPEKTRA:
    • Copy, paste, and edit examples of Equation (1) in templates (very are suggested).
    • Manually enter the equation, via the MathType
    • Edit the number of equations.
    • Before you manually enter the equation or edit the number of equations please install the MathType. Please download how to install MathType by accessing http://journal.unj.ac.id/unj/index.php/spektra/equation
  • Methods: it discusses the research design, data collection, data sources such as the population and sample, and data analysis. It is written with sentences in paragraphs, not in sequences using points.
  • Results: it contains the data and information that has been collected. The finding systematically must be supported by charts, tables, figures, or informative illustrations.
  • Discussion: it shows a further explanation about the finding. Compare the finding with another research’s finding and do not repeat what has been written in the finding.
  • Conclusion: it should clearly state the result of the correlated objective (and may also be possible with future direction).
  • Reference cited according to the APA⁷ᵗʰ System are numbered in accordance with the order of references in the research and in accordance with the sequence number in the bibliography. The number is written before the “.” dot. In writing the citations and references, authors are recommended to use reference management software, such as Mendeley or Zotero. The reference must include 80 % of primary sources in the past 10 years. 
  • References: these must be written according to the APA⁷ᵗʰ System, numbered by the order of references in the research, and by the sequence number in the bibliography.

This is an example to write the reference:

[1] J. K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of His Published Book, xth ed. City of Publisher, Country if not USA: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx-xxx.
[2] J. K. Author, “Title of report,” Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, Rep. xxx, year.
[3] Name of Manual/Handbook, x ed., Abbrev. Name of Co., City of Co., Abbrev. State, year, pp. xx-xx.
[4] J. K. Author, “Title of paper,” in Unabbreviated Name of Conf., City of Conf., Abbrev. State (if given), year, pp. xxx-xxx.

  • Some tips to do a final check of your article before it is submitted to SPEKTRA:
    1. Write down your paper using SPEKTRA Manuscript Template.
    2. Make sure you save as Microsoft Word 1997-2003. If you have size problem, you can save as “.docx”.
    3. Create PDF files from your article.

Harvard Style Referencing
JRSKT using SAGE - Vancouver (brackets) style of writing citations and bibliography. Instructions for writing citations and bibliography please download at the following link. 
SAGE - Vancouver Style Referencing

 

Manuscript Assessment Process
Any accepted manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, plus editorial comments. The author is required to revise the manuscript according to reviewer comments and editors. Editor team will process it for later publication. For peer review process diagrams please go to Peer Review Process page.