Author Guidelines

Please note that by submitting a manuscript here, you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author, and the Journal may retain your email address to communicate with you about the submitted manuscript. This communication includes the process of review and publication.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

LENTERA HUKUM welcomes the contribution of manuscripts on contemporary legal discourses in the light of theoretical, doctrinal, multi-disciplinary, empirical, and comparative studies. Manuscripts may comprise articles (7,000-12,000 words), commentaries (4,000-6,000 words), and book reviews (1,000-1,500 words).

FORMAT AND STYLE
Authors are invited to follow the journal's technical guidelines and style sheet, which may be downloaded by clicking here. Authors are also encouraged to download our journal's citation style, Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (McGill Guide), from Zotero.

GUIDELINES FOR ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES

Most scientific papers are prepared according to a format called IMRAD. The term represents the first letters of the words Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, And, Discussion. IMRAD is simply a more 'defined' version of the "IBC" [Introduction, Body, Conclusion] format used for all academic writing. IMRAD indicates a pattern or format rather than a complete list of headings or components of research papers.

The guidelines, including the template, can be downloaded here.

GUIDELINES FOR BOOK REVIEWS
Please include:
1. At the beginning of the review, the book information: author(s), title, place, date, number of pages, ISBN.
2. The review should begin with a brief overall description of the book.
3. Matters that may be considered in the body of the review.
4. The average review should be 1,000 - 1,500 words.
5. The strengths and weaknesses of the book.
6. Comments on the author's style and presentation.
7. Whether or not the author's aims have been met.
8. Errors (typographical or other) and usefulness of indices.
9. Who would the book be useful to?
10. Would you recommend readers to purchase the book?

SUBMISSION
All submissions should be made online.* Please go to https://jurnal.unej.ac.id/index.php/eJLH/submissions.

* Please upload source files such as .rtf, .doc and .docx, and not .pdf files.

* Paper or email submissions are not accepted.

Due to a very high number of manuscripts submitted to this journal, we usually need at least three months before our decision whether manuscripts are accepted or rejected for publication. However, all authors are advised to submit manuscripts earlier than three months from the regular date of publication as it is our standard by which all articles should pass rigorous reviews before the publication. 

LANGUAGE EDITING PRE-SUBMISSION
Language editing, mainly if English is not your first language, can be applied. However, the authors must ensure that the journal editors and reviewers fully understand the academic content of your paper. Please note that edited manuscripts will still need to undergo peer-review by the journal. All non-English manuscripts will be translated into English for publication.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS
All manuscripts submitted to this journal undergo a selection and assessment process by the Editorial Board members. The journal applies this process as the preliminary selection to determine whether the manuscripts have conformed to the submission guidelines of the journal, including the writing guideline, focus, and scope, and that they are of excellent academic quality. Manuscripts that have conformed such criteria, and if they are judged suitable for this publication, will be peer-reviewed.

Desk Review. At the desk review stage, the examination of manuscripts is to ensure that they have met the writing guideline, focus, and scope with excellent academic quality. If they do not meet these conditions, the authors will get feedback, and they will have an opportunity to revise their manuscript according to the given criteria. However, there is also the possibility that the Editorial Board will directly reject the manuscript.

Screening for Plagiarism. Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed. Each author has the responsibility to ensure that the manuscript submitted to this journal is original and plagiarism free. However, the editorial board will scrutinize the manuscript before the official review process started, which uses the Turnitin tool. The result of manuscript screening should be less than 25% similarity. Editors have the right to decline the submission when it is found that the manuscript is detected with plagiarism.

Plagiarism includes:
(a) the word for word plagiarism (the author uses the words of other authors (exactly) without mentioning the source);
(b) plagiarism over the source (the author uses the idea of others without giving enough recognition (without mentioning the source expressly); and
(c) plagiarism of authorship (the author acknowledged as the author of the paperwork of others).

Double-blind Peer Review. The review process applies the double-blind peer review method, in which case neither authors nor reviewers know each other’s identities. When the manuscript has passed the desk review stage, editors will deliver manuscripts to two reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The task of reviewers is to assess originality, clarity of presentation, contribution to the field/science. The final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely decided by the editors according to reviewers' comments. Typically, reviewers will do the review process within three weeks. Manuscripts that did not successfully pass the desk review process will not proceed to this stage.

Reviewer’s Decision. The reviewers will provide the following recommendations:
1. Accepted (the manuscript is acceptable for publication);
2. Accepted with minor revisions (the manuscript is acceptable for publication after it undergoes a revision in response to the reviewers’ concerns);
3. Accepted with major revisions (substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, the main theory used and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised); or
4. Rejected (the manuscript is not acceptable for publication, or the given reviews relate to fundamental issues).

The final decision of manuscript acceptance is solely decided by the Editorial Board by taking into account reviewers' comments.

Revision Stage. Once the manuscript has been received with notations of minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the author with a review summary form. For manuscripts accepted with major revisions, authors are allotted three weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, one week is allotted for revision. When returning the revised manuscript, the author is required to fill in and attach the review summary form. 

Final Decision. At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Editorial Board to ensure that the author has revised in response to the reviewers’ concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary.

Proofread. Once the manuscript has been deemed acceptable by the Editorial Board, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality.

Publication Confirmation. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content follows the author’s writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.