Submission

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION

The article is the result of research study in public health. Article should be written in English or Bahasa Indonesia.

Manuscript File Formats and Components

All manuscripts should be submitted in Word document format. A template to guide authors in the preparation of the manuscript can be downloaded from here (template).

Research result article consists of : Title, author's name, abstract, key words, introductions, methods, results, discussions, conclusions and recommendations, and bibliography.

Review article consists of  : Title, author’s name, abstract, key words, introductions, contents, closings, and bibliography.

WRITING GUIDE

Title

• Title is written in English or Bahasa Indonesia language and informative, concise, and not too long or short (5 -12 word).
• Consists of the variables under study and describes the content of the manuscript.
• Title does not contain abbreviations or formulas.
• The title page should include the title of the manuscript only. The names of authors should be deleted to ensure double blinding of the paper during the peer review process..

Abstract and Keyword

• Abstract is concisely written, about the most important ideas and contain the problems or research objectives, research method, and research results.
• Written in Indonesian and English language with 150-200 words maximum.
• Keywords contains main words consisting of 3-5 words

Introduction

Introduction is presented in an integrated manner without sub title. It is written in the form of paragraphs with a length of 15-20% of the articles length, and contains:

• Background or research rational
• Theoretical basis (literature review in brief)
• Research objective

Method 

Method is written with a length of 15-20% of the articles length and contain:

• The study design
• Data collection techniques and data sources
• Method of data analysis

Results and Discussion

Results and discussion are presented with a length of 60-70% of the articles length. The results represent a major part of scientific articles containing:

• Results of data analysis
• Results of hypothesis testing
• It can be presented with a table or graph to clarify results verbally
• Discussion is an important part of the entire scientific article. The purposes of the discussion are: answer the research problem, interpret the findings, integrate the findings of research into the existing knowledge, and formulate a new theory or modify the existing theories.
• Serial number that is used is number (1), (2), (3), and so on, do not need to use a composite numbers. Hyphens should not change the serial number.

Closings

• Contain conclusions and recommendations.
• Conclusions contain answers to the research questions
• Recommendations refer to the results of research and practical form of action, specify to whom and for what recommendation intended.
• Written in essay form, not in numerical form.

Bibliography

• Contain literatures that are referenced in the content, arranged alphabetically, and written in the IEEE system.
• Fully written, appropriate with the references in the content
• Only load literatures referenced in the content
• Source of references are 80% from literatures published last 10 years.
• References are at least 80% from research articles in journals or research reports.
• Article should refer to the article published in the KEMAS journal.
• Bibliography format is APA

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) and that's not a work of plagiarism.
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 adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

Copyriht Notice

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, or thesis) that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are NOT required to pay an Article Submission Fee.

Fast-Track Review Fee: 0.00 (IDR)
With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification of the submitted manuscript is guaranteed to take place no later than 2 weeks. However, we do not guarantee that the paper will be accepted for publication in this journal.

Article processing charges (APCs) / Article Publication Fee: 0.00 (IDR)
This journal does not charge any publication fee for the author(s) who have submission date on 2017. Start from 2018, for service improvement, this journal charge the article publication fee for supporting the cost of wide open access dissemination of research results, managing the various costs associated with handling and editing of the submitted manuscripts, and the Journal management and publication in general, the authors or the author's institution is requested to pay a publication fee for each article accepted. The fee covers :

• The standard twelve (12) pages manuscript. For every additional page an extra fee of 0.00 IDR per page will be charged. 
• The payment also included delivery fees of the hardcopy to the corresponding author (by request). 
• DOI registration for each paper. 
• Checking the article similarity by iThenticate; the final result will be send to authors.
• FREE OF CHARGE will be available for paper submission of authors, from minimum two countries.

A waiver or partial waiver of author fees may be decided by the editor in case of lack of funding, excessive length of submitted manuscript or other reasonable reasons provided by the author during the submission. The author should clearly declare that he asks for a waiver in the comments to the Editor box during their submission. A waiver is most likely to be denied if it is not asked in this stage. The waiver will have no effect to the review result.