Author Guidelines

Carefully read the submission guidelines as follows:

  1. General Requirements The minimum standard requirements of Excellent Midwifery Journal must be:
  • Written in English.
  • The length of the submitted paper is at least 6 pages and no more than 10 pages. Editors will evaluate if the paper needs to exceed 15 pages.
  • Use of a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote for reference management and formatting, and choose APA style.
  • Make sure that your paper is prepared using the Excellent Midwifery Journal paper template.
  1. Structure of The Manuscript The manuscript must be prepared and is suggested to follow this structure:
  • Title. The title of the paper is a maximum of 15 words, without Acronyms or abbreviations.
  • Abstract. The Abstract has a maximum of 250 WORDS; No citations; State in the abstract the primary objective, research design, methodology, main outcomes and results, and the conclusions.
  • Section structure. Authors are suggested to present their articles in the section structure: Introduction - Method - Results and Discussion – Conclusion. For literature review articles, use the following structure: Introduction - Background of the study/Related Work - Research Method - Results and Discussion - Conclusion - Limitations and future works - References.
  • References. Expect a minimum of 25 references, primarily with a minimum of 80% journal articles that are reputable and not more than 5 years old.

Here is the explanation:

  • Has the manuscript been adjusted to the latest template?
  • Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion, and Conclusion must be written separately.
  • Do not use Bullets / Numbering in the manuscript.
  • The manuscript length is between 6 - 10 pages.

TITLE AND AUTHOR INFORMATION

  • The title must be written briefly, describing the content and contribution of the manuscript.
  • The title should not use abbreviations or acronyms unless they are standard.
  • The title consists of a maximum of 14 words.
  • All authors must be listed in the manuscript and also in the OJS system.
  • One of the authors who communicates via the OJS system is designated as the corresponding author.
  • All authors must include their email in the manuscript and the OJS system.
  • Affiliation information is written in 1 line in the text, at minimum showing the institution's name and country.
  • The entire manuscript title is written in lowercase, except for the first letter of the Title.
  • The place and time of the research do not need to be included in the title.

ABSTRACT AND KEYWORDS

  • The abstract consists of 200 to a maximum of 250 words.
  • The abstract is structured, consisting of: Background, Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusion.
  • The number of keywords is a minimum of 3 words, separated by semicolons, and should not be fragments of the title.
  • All keywords must be written in the abstract.
  • Keywords are arranged alphabetically.
  • The combination of all keywords should represent the content, contribution, or purpose of the text.
  • Keywords can be research subject categories. Avoid using adjectives as keywords in the text.

INTRODUCTION

  • Must explain the research context/object and focus, following the scope of the title.
  • Must explain why this research is important.
  • This includes existing research gaps, explaining the unique differences between this research and similar previous studies.
  • Must have an explicitly written research objective/contribution.
  • To support the ongoing research, the researcher must review, discuss, and provide several previous studies. In this case, a minimum of 3 recent previous studies from within the last 5 years.
  • The length of this section is between 300 - 700 words.

METHOD

  • Must cite sources that assisted the author in selecting the method.
  • Must explain how data was obtained, processed, and analyzed.
  • The procedure must be written chronologically and clearly (research framework).
  • The author must write how the results will be measured, tested, and evaluated.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

  • Research results are written in a logical order, following the research flow in the research method section.
  • Research results are presented in narrative/textual form, tables, or figures (graphs or diagrams). Avoid displaying raw data. All tables, figures, and graphs must be detailed and their descriptions explained.
  • The discussion, explanation of results, and in-depth analysis must be written.
  • A comparison of the results with other studies must be written.
  • Study limitations or threats to validity must be written.

CONCLUSION

  • Provide a summary of the main findings.
  • Provide the research contribution.
  • Provide the research implications.
  • Provide the research limitations.
  • Provide suggestions for future research.
  • The manuscript's contribution and the answer to the research questions must be explicitly stated.
  • The conclusion must be written in a single, complete paragraph.

REFERENCES

  • Always use an automatic citation tool to manage your references (Mendeley). Ensure you have double-checked the citation metadata; automatic citation tools often have metadata errors.
  • Use Mendeley to create Citations & References / Bibliography. Use the APA (APA Style) citation style.
  • Ensure all information related to the reference is written completely (e..g., Who, Where, and When). Check the primary source for this information. Write the journal name without abbreviations. Please include the DOI if available.
  • Cite a minimum of 25 references. A minimum of 80% must come from reputable International journal articles / conferences. A minimum of 80% must have been published within the last 5 years.
  • More than 80% of references must come from credible sources, e.g.: ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Springer Link, Scopus, Clarivate Analytics, and nationally accredited Indonesian journals (SINTA 1/2).

TABLES AND FIGURES

  • Must use the appropriate format for displaying figures and tables as per the Template.
  • Figures or graphs must be very clear, so they do not depend on the text.
  • The minimum image resolution is not specified (must be high-resolution), but it must be clear when published online (color) or printed (black and white).
  • Images must not have copyright issues.
  • All figures and tables must be referenced in the manuscript.
  • The maximum number of figures and tables is 10 each. Provide a reason to the editor if you need to display more than the recommended amount.

LANGUAGES

  • There should be no spelling errors, typos, or grammatical errors. You can use tools like Grammarly or recommendations provided by MS Word for language checking.
  • Use direct and short sentences. Long sentences do not make writing more professional; they only confuse the reader.

Please contact the editorial team for any problems.

Other: DOI activation is done 1 year after the article is published. The Publisher makes this policy to avoid any demands for objections to published articles, so that if there are objections, the publisher will not have difficulty removing digital traces from the DOI Indexer or database.

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 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, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • 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, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Double Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with Excellent Midwifery 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-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment 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 acknowledgment 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 (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

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  1. Submit your article according to the template and author guidelines (Word file). Attach the Turnitin check result (max 20%). [When submitting, create an 'FR' code in the prefix];
  2. Take a screenshot of your Submission and send it to WhatsApp at [Journal WhatsApp Contact];
  3. Wait for the section editor's response through the WhatsApp contact mentioned above;
  4. After this, we send it to the Fast Review editor and reviewer to check its suitability with the template and author guidelines.
  5. If it is not appropriate, we will ask the author to correct it. If it is appropriate, then a Letter of Acceptance (LOA) is given to the Author.
  6. This process takes 1 week per review cycle from our side. The total time depends on how long you take to return the revision.
  7. The Fast-Track Review guarantees that the article is not rejected; if it is not appropriate, we will ask the author to fix it.
  8. Reviewer comments in this program are not justifications of wrong or right, but rather provide input and suggestions for the improvement of your article.
  9. Publishing will be carried out if the article is correct according to the quality standards we require.