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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 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.
  • 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 Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Manuscripts should be submitted through the online journal system available at https://jurnal.unej.ac.id/index.php/JCSI/about/submissions. New authors must register as a new user before they can submit their work. Please follow the instructions provided on the submissions page to complete a manuscript submission. If you are willing to review a manuscript based on your expertise, please tick "willing to review" in the online registration. Please also write your expertise in order to help us to assign you with a manuscript that is in line with your expertise.

The Journal of Contemporary Sociological Issues (CSI) invites contributors who focus on human rights issues in Southeast Asia. It is suggested that submissions be between 7,000 and 10,000 words, saved Word files, and formatted in 12 pt. Times New Roman font. The author still may submit a manuscript that is shorter or longer than the word limit and the editor can still review the manuscript if she/he believes the manuscript meets the academic standard of the journal.

The journal does not publish book reviews in a short version, less than 3000 words in length, but authors more welcome to submit book reviews in a longer version.  The journal also welcomes commentary on human rights issues in Southeast Asia from all scholars from any discipline in a short version, approximately 2000 to 4000 words.

Submission of the manuscript to this journal should not have been published previously in academic publications such as books, book chapters, journals in the same language (English), or any other form of academic publications. However, authors are still allowed to submit their manuscript with a certain conditions (1), if less than 50 percent of the manuscript has been published at a conference, workshop, or as a seminar paper. This also implies that if the final version of the manuscript in this submission is the continuation of academic work, the author must state clearly in the manuscript about this work; (2) if the manuscript has been published in other languages rather than English; (3) if the manuscript has been published on an institutional website such as university, company organization website.

Contributors should remove their name from the manuscripts to ensure that the manuscript is anonymous and meets the double blind review process of this Journal. The editor of the Journal usually assigns two reviewers with anonymous identity in order to protect double blind review process and avoid conflict of interest between reviewer and author. It usually takes more than three months for the author to receive feedback from journal reviewers. If the author does not receive any feedback from the journal longer than the time allocated, please kindly send a notification to the editor via email. 

Submissions should be written in English (U.K.) and adhere to the McGill Guide: The Canadian Guide on Uniform Legal Citation. See the link to follow the instructions http://guides.library.queensu.ca/legal-citation. 

We strongly encourage all authors to use ZOTERO, MENDELEY or END NOTE to support citation format requirements. The software will help authors to keep following comments and suggestions or let alone ideas that have been deleted or added by the reviewers. However, if the author is not familiar with the software, the journal will provide a free copy editor to adjust the final manuscript with the journal reference style. This will apply if the editor believes that the manuscript has an outstanding, rich, and complex discussion of the human rights issue. 

It is solely the author’s responsibility to ensure that the manuscripts submitted to CSI are his or her original work and free of plagiarism. In this process, the editor will decide whether the manuscripts pass the plagiarism check. If the manuscript does not pass the plagiarism check, the journal will decline the manuscript but will still allow the author to re-submit the manuscript after major revisions.

All manuscripts will be assessed through a process of blind or double-blind review. CSI, after receiving comments and suggestions from reviewers, retains the right to either accept or reject manuscripts submitted for publication. All accepted articles will be proofread and copy-edited by the Journal's English Language Editor, free of charge to the author.

Due to the number of manuscripts submitted to the CSI, final decisions regarding publications are usually returned at least three months from the date of submission.

All content published by the Journal are made publically available for free, with no charge to either the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to access and download all content and article texts that have been published by this Journal.

CSI does not request payment from authors and does not provide printed text. All published articles can be accessed online for free. 

The Journal allows authors to hold copyright and publishing rights without restrictions.

All inquiries regarding manuscript submission, journal policy, and any other relevant information regarding the journal can be emailed to csi@unej.ac.id or mailed to CHRM2 University of Jember, 6th Floor CDAST Building, Jl Kalimantan 37 Jember East Java Indonesia.