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Author Guidelines

SYSTEMATIC WRITING

• First part: title, authors, abstract
• Main part: introduction, literature review, develop a hypothesis
• Ending part: acknowledgment (if any), symbols description (if any), and references

TITLE AND AUTHOR

• The title is written by capital words (Title Case/Capital Each Word), bold, with a font of Cambria 14, single space, and center text
• The authors name placed under the title and written without a degree. It starts with a capital word and italic (avoid using “by” before the author's name). Author sequence is a first author then followed by second author etc
• Institution address and email written under authors name with a font of Cambria 11

ABSTRACT

• The abstract is written in  English , which contain an introduction, how the study was conducted, the results, etc
• The maximum words in the abstract are no more than 250-300 words and written with single space
• Justify text with a font of time news roman 11
• The abstract using format structured abstract

1. Background
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion

• Every section has to write in bold
• Keywords consist of 3 – 5 words, the word “Keywords” also has to write in bold

GENERAL RULES OF PUBLICATION MANUSCRIPT

• Every section in a manuscript is written with a font of time news roman 12, using capital words and bold
• First sentence a new paragraph is written with indent-first line 0.75 cm, and there is no space between paragraphs
• The content of the manuscript is written with a font of time news roman 12 without using bold
• Words from a foreign language are written italic
• Every numeral words have to write in a number, except at the beginning of paragraph and integers that less than ten Tables and pictures must have a clear description and serial number. Numbering use center text format and placed above the table and for a picture, it placed below

REFERENCES

Reference format using APA. All literature that put in references must contain in a manuscript. Literatures preferred from the last 10 years and 80% from journals. The Style can download here

Reference must use management references like Mendeley or Zotero and following the style Jurnal Contagion and the template

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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. 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.
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 Review have been followed.

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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. 
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (USD)
Authors are required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Fast-Track Review: 84.00 (USD)
With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript is guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks. Fast track does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted as it will still go through the scientific process.

Article Publication: 67.00 (USD)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.

If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.