Jurnal Media Hukum Universitas Tompotika Luwuk
Jurnal Media Hukum Universitas Tompotika Luwuk invites authors to submit original scholarly manuscripts that contribute to the development of legal science, legal research, and legal practice. The journal welcomes manuscripts addressing legal issues at the national, regional, and international levels.
All submitted manuscripts must meet the following requirements:
The manuscript must be original, academically sound, and relevant to the journal's focus and scope.
The manuscript must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication in another journal.
The manuscript must be written in Bahasa Indonesia or English, subject to the journal's applicable language policy.
Authors must follow the journal's manuscript template and formatting requirements.
All sources, quotations, legal provisions, court decisions, and other materials must be properly cited.
Authors must ensure that their manuscripts are free from plagiarism, fabricated data, falsified information, and other forms of research misconduct.
All authors must meet the journal's authorship criteria and approve the final manuscript before submission.
Any financial support, relevant conflicts of interest, and other required declarations must be disclosed.
Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's official submission system or other channel designated by the editorial team.
The journal considers the following types of scholarly contributions, subject to its editorial policy:
Research articles based on normative legal research, empirical legal research, or socio-legal studies.
Conceptual articles addressing legal theories, principles, doctrines, and legal developments.
Review articles critically examining existing legal literature and scholarly debates.
Case law analyses examining judicial decisions and the application of legal principles.
Legislative and regulatory analyses addressing laws, regulations, and legal policies.
Comparative law studies examining legal systems and practices across different jurisdictions.
Authors are required to prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the following recommended format, unless a different specification is provided in the journal's official template.
Paper size: A4.
File format: Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx).
Font: Cambria, 12 pt.
Line spacing: 1.15
Text alignment: Justified.
Manuscript length: Approximately 4,000–8,000 words, including references, subject to editorial requirements.
Headings and subheadings must be organized consistently.
Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively and provided with clear titles or captions.
Foreign terms should be italicized where appropriate.
Authors should use the journal's official template whenever one is available. The editorial team may return manuscripts that do not comply with the required format for revision before peer review.
Research articles should generally follow this structure:
The title must be concise, informative, and accurately reflect the subject of the research. It should identify the central legal issue or research problem without unnecessary abbreviations.
The manuscript must include the full names of all authors, their institutional affiliations, and the corresponding author's email address. Academic titles should be omitted from the author names unless otherwise required by the journal's template.
The abstract should briefly explain the research background, objective, method, principal findings, and conclusion. It must be clear, self-contained, and understandable without requiring readers to consult the full article.
For manuscripts written in Bahasa Indonesia, an English abstract should also be provided, and vice versa, if required by the journal.
Authors should provide three to five keywords that represent the main concepts, legal issues, and subject matter of the article. Keywords should be relevant and avoid unnecessary repetition of the title.
The introduction should explain the research background, identify the legal problem, describe the relevant state of the art, and establish the novelty or contribution of the research. It should conclude with a clear statement of the research questions or objectives.
The research method must be explained clearly and consistently with the research questions.
For normative legal research, authors should identify the legal approach or approaches used, such as statutory, conceptual, case, historical, or comparative approaches, and explain the legal materials and analytical methods employed.
For empirical legal research or socio-legal studies, authors should describe the research design, data sources, data collection procedures, and analytical methods. Relevant ethical considerations must also be addressed.
This section should present the research findings and provide a critical, logical, and well-supported analysis of the legal issues under investigation. Arguments should be supported by relevant legislation, judicial decisions, legal doctrines, scholarly literature, empirical evidence, or other authoritative sources.
The discussion should demonstrate how the findings answer the research questions and contribute to the development of legal scholarship or practice.
The conclusion should directly answer the research questions and summarize the principal findings. It should not merely repeat the discussion. Recommendations may be included where they are supported by the findings and relevant to legal development, policy, or practice.
All works cited in the manuscript must appear in the reference list, and every entry in the reference list must be cited in the manuscript. Authors should prioritize relevant and authoritative primary legal materials and scholarly publications.
Authors must follow the citation and referencing style specified in the journal's official template. The journal should identify one consistent citation system for all submissions, including rules for legal materials.
References may include:
Books and academic monographs.
Articles published in scholarly journals.
Legislation and regulations.
Court judgments and judicial decisions.
Research reports, official documents, and other authoritative publications.
Relevant scholarly sources available online.
Authors must provide sufficient bibliographic information to allow readers to identify and verify the cited sources. Citations must accurately represent the original sources and must not be used to mislead readers or artificially increase citation counts.
Reference management software, such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote, may be used to improve consistency and accuracy.
Authors submitting manuscripts to Jurnal Media Hukum Universitas Tompotika Luwuk must comply with recognized standards of publication ethics and academic integrity.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that:
The manuscript is original and appropriately acknowledges the work of others.
All sources, quotations, data, and legal materials are accurately represented.
No data, evidence, or research findings have been fabricated or falsified.
Authorship reflects genuine scholarly contributions.
All relevant conflicts of interest and sources of funding are disclosed.
The manuscript has not been submitted simultaneously to another journal.
Any required research permissions or ethical approvals have been obtained.
Corrections to errors identified after submission or publication are communicated promptly to the editorial team.
The journal may conduct similarity checks and investigate suspected publication misconduct. Appropriate editorial action may be taken in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policies.
Authors who use artificial intelligence tools in preparing a manuscript must ensure that the submitted work remains accurate, original, and academically responsible.
AI tools must not be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy of the manuscript, the validity of its arguments, the reliability of its citations, and compliance with publication ethics.
Where AI tools have been used in ways that materially contribute to manuscript preparation, research, data analysis, or the production of figures and other content, authors must disclose the use in accordance with the journal's applicable policy. AI-generated references, quotations, legal provisions, and case citations must be independently verified.
Authors should submit their manuscripts through the journal's official online submission system, if available, and complete all required submission steps.
Before submission, authors should ensure that:
The manuscript follows the journal's author guidelines.
The manuscript is relevant to the journal's focus and scope.
All authors have approved the final version.
The corresponding author has the authority to communicate with the journal on behalf of all authors.
Required declarations and supplementary documents have been provided.
The manuscript is not under consideration elsewhere.
Authors should retain a copy of the submitted manuscript and monitor communications from the editorial team.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to an initial editorial assessment to determine their relevance, originality, completeness, and compliance with the journal's requirements.
Manuscripts that pass the initial assessment may be sent for peer review in accordance with the journal's stated review policy. Authors may be requested to revise their manuscripts in response to editorial or reviewer comments.
A request for revision does not guarantee acceptance. The final publication decision rests with the authorized editor based on the manuscript's academic quality, the review reports, and the journal's editorial standards.
Authors must address reviewers' and editors' comments carefully and provide a revised manuscript within the deadline communicated by the editorial team.
Where appropriate, authors should submit a response document explaining how each comment has been addressed. If an author disagrees with a recommendation, the response should provide a clear academic justification.
Accepted manuscripts may undergo copyediting, language editing, and proofreading. Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of the final proof, including author names, affiliations, citations, references, tables, and figures.
Authors must comply with the journal's copyright, licensing, and open-access policies as stated on its official website.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted materials when required. Any reuse of third-party images, tables, figures, or substantial excerpts must comply with applicable copyright law and the relevant license terms.
The applicable copyright ownership and publication license must be clearly stated by the journal before publication.
Authors are expected to notify the editorial team promptly if they discover a significant error in a submitted or published manuscript.
The journal may publish a correction, an expression of concern, or a retraction where warranted by the evidence and in accordance with its publication ethics policies.
Readers and members of the academic community may submit evidence-based comments or raise concerns about published articles through the journal's designated communication channels.
By submitting a manuscript to Jurnal Media Hukum Universitas Tompotika Luwuk, authors acknowledge that they have read and agree to comply with these guidelines and the journal's applicable editorial and publication ethics policies.
The journal reserves the right to return manuscripts for technical correction, request additional information, reject manuscripts that do not meet its requirements, and take appropriate action in cases of suspected publication misconduct.
Authors are encouraged to consult the journal's official website for the latest manuscript template, submission procedures, publication fees, copyright terms, and other applicable requirements before submitting their work.
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