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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.
  • The author(s) must be an Undergraduate Law Student(s) from the Faculty of Law UGM (S-1 program) proven with a Student Identity Card or an active member of a Asian Law Students’ Association Local Chapter under ALSA National Chapter Indonesia (S-1 Programme Student) proven with a Student Identity Card and ALSA Local Chapter Membership Decree (SK Keanggotaan) of your respective universities
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The submission of articles must be accompanied by a statement of originality (surat pernyataan keaslian berkas)
  • The submission of articles must be accompanied with Student Identity Card and ALSA Local Chapter Membership Decree (SK Keanggotaan) of your respective universities (only for member of a Asian Law Students’ Association Local Chapter under ALSA National Chapter Indonesia except ALSA LC UGM)
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

ASIAN LEGAL REFORM JOURNAL WRITING THERMS

Starting from our 2024 issue, Asian Legal Reform Journal is interested in submissions focusing on examining the role of law in social changes, economic, science and technology, and environmental. Asian Legal Reform Journal also opens opportunities for authors to answer legal struggles that occur in Asia in general.

While we accept monodisciplinary research in law, we also highly encourage multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research as long as a strong variable in the research is still a law analysis as per the scope and focus explained above.

This year (2024), the theme of the Asian Legal Reform Journal is The Role of Law in Strengthening The Economic Sector and Social Welfare in Indonesia with sub-themes consisting of:

  1. Business Law;
  2. Tax Law ;
  3. Labour Law;
  4. Law & Technology;
  5. Environmental Law; and 
  6. Agrarian Law.

 

ARTICLE SUBMISSION

  1. The article manuscript is written on A4 paper (210 mm x 297 mm) consisting of 3.000 up to 10.000 words and use Times New Roman font with 12 pt and 1.5 spacing with a normal margin;
  2. Article titles must be brief and clear (article titles are recommended to contain 10-15 words);
  3. The author's name and e-mail address must be included in the article manuscript;
  4. Articles must contain an Abstract in 100-200 words and 3-5 keywords to provide a brief overview of the overall concept of the article; 
  5. The minimum reference consists of 5 (five) books and 10 (ten) journals;
  6. Article writing must consist of:
    a. Introduction, which consists of background and research problem (20%);
    b. Analysis, this chapter contains legal analysis, theoretical studies, and concept development (60%);
    c. Conclusions and/or Suggestions (10%); and
    d. Supporting instruments such as footnotes are essential in an article for descriptive presentation to give derivative explanations that are not directly or indirectly related to the topic of the Article (10%). The use of footnotes shall refer to the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition referencing system as shown in Chicago Style Guide or Mimbar Hukum;
  7. Further provisions regarding the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition referencing system (full note), it is recommended to use a citation machine (Mendeley, Zotero, etc.);
  8. References that have been cited must be included in the Bibliography at the end of the article. The provisions for the order and writing of the Bibliography must also comply with the citation requirements of the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition (full note) referencing system;
  9. The bibliography can be classified by reference type and ordered alphabetically;
  10. When referring to the Article in the regulation, the first letter of the word 'article' is written in capital letters (“Article”);
  11. Rule abbreviations are given to the writing style of the author and depend on the jurisdiction in which the rule was issued. The writing style of each type of rule should be used consistently throughout the script. The recommended form for Indonesian legislation is “Law No. 11/2020” or “MA 55PK/Pid/1996”; and
  12. Straightforward language, writing rules, and good and correct grammar are the main points of the article.

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CITATION GUIDELINES

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

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • 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 acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • 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.

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