Author Guidelines

WRITING GUIDELINE OF JURNAL MEDIA ELEKTRO

1. Manuscripts submitted consist of 4000 to 6000 words or about 6-10 pages with single spacing and must have an abstract of at least 110 words and a maximum of 200 words. The abstract must explain the topic's significance, theory, and experiment to the discussed issues, objectives, methods, research results, and conclusions.
2. Suppose the manuscript contains an image or schematic. In that case, the allowed image or schema resolution must have a high enough resolution (at least 1000 pixels wide/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher).
3. Image files or schematics with a high enough resolution as far as possible can be included in the manuscript. However, if this is not possible, the image or schematic file with a sufficiently high resolution can be sent separately in a zip archive file and sent as an additional file. Common formats are accepted; however, EPS, TIFF, JPEG, and PDF are preferred.
4. In the abstract, write explicitly in bold: introduction, objectives, methods, results, and conclusions.
5. Under the abstract, write 3-6 keywords and continue with the article's main body with a font size of 10.
6. This journal carries out a peer review process and applies to blind reviews. To facilitate this process, the author's name (without a title), institutional affiliation, and the author's email address will only be displayed on the removable cover sheet.
7. Manuscripts are written using Microsoft Word, font size 11, Times New Roman, right and left margins 25.4 mm, top and bottom margins 25.4 mm with A4 size paper.
8. Write the main body of the manuscript in 2 columns, with the exception of tables and figures. Use a 1 cm first-line indent. However, do not use indentation for the first paragraph after the main heading and the first paragraph after each sub-heading.
9. For research-based manuscripts, the framework used is the introduction (without title and subtitle), methods, results, and discussion of research, conclusions, and bibliography.
10. The title is a maximum of 20 words, written in capital letters, in the middle, in bold, with a font size of 14.
11. The introduction includes the research background, research context, literature review, and research objectives. All introductory sections should be presented in paragraphs, not bullet points, with a proportion of about 15-20% of the overall length of the article.
12. The method consists of explaining the research design, data sources, data collection, and data analysis, with a proportion of about 10-15% of the article's total length, all of which are presented in paragraph form.
13. The results and discussion section explains the results of data analysis to answer research questions and the meaning of the results of this study based on the latest theories and references from related fields. The proportion of this section is 40-60% of the article's total length.
14. The conclusion section summarizes the restatement of the study's initial results.
15. When displaying a table, use only horizontal lines. Place the table number and title above the corresponding table.
16. In-text citations that refer to a particular reference must display a sequence of reference numbers placed in square brackets [ .. ] parallel to the text at the end of the sentence and between spaces before using square brackets [1].
17. Primary references are taken from journals and proceedings with a percentage > 80%
18. References used are at least 15 journals taken from publications of at least the last 5 years with a percentage of >80%.
19. Citations and bibliographies follow the style of the IEEE Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEEE), and a bibliography must be included at the end of the article.
20. The authors are required to use the Reference Management Software to write citations and a bibliography (Mendeley, Zotero, or others). However, EndNote is preferred.
21. The authors are required to use the Plagiarism Check application in every manuscript (Turnitin, iThenticate, or Similarity Check ). However, Turnitin is preferred, with a maximum tolerance of 25%. Terms can be read here.
22. The template must match the article template, which can be downloaded here.

Online Submission Guidelines 

1. The author should first register/join as a JME Scientific Journal WhatsApp Group Chat member through the following address: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CqgxiACv3O5J9uin6RlmnT, or click the Joint WhatsApp Group link on the right side menu on this website.
2. The Author should register as an Author and also as a Reviewer through the following address: https://ejurnal.undana.ac.id/jme/user/register
3. Authors must fill out the form as detailed as possible where the form is marked with an asterisk (*).
4. After filling all the form text boxes, the Author clicks on the "Register" button to proceed with the registration. Therefore, Authors are taken to the online author submission interface where Authors have to click on "New Submission."
5. In the Start New Submission section, click "'Click Here': to proceed to the first step of the five-step submission process". The following are the five steps in the online application process:
   1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: The author must check-mark on the submission checklists. An author should type or copy-paste the cover letter to “Comments for the Editor”.
   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 (.doc/.docx) to be submitted, then click "Upload" button until the file has been uploaded. 
   3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s 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 (If any / Optional), and Ethical Statement 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 Agritech journal, click Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site. 

After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes a status of manuscript review and editorial process.