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Author Guidelines

  1. Article submitted has never been published and will not be published in any media.
  2. Article written for Komunikasiana: Journal of Communication Studies  includes article of research results in the field of communication studies.
  3. Article length 5,000 – 8,000 words (all inclusive) and no numbering. Papers must NOT exceed 8,000 words.
  4. Articles must be written in English. The manuscript shall adjust the Author Guidelines.
  5. Systematic articles of research results are title, author's name (accompanied by institutional address and e-mail address), abstract (accompanied by keywords), introduction, methods, results and discussion, conclusions, and references.
  6. The title of the article is no more than 15 words.
  7. The name of the author in the article is listed without an academic degree, accompanied by the institution or university name, city, country, e-mail of the author, placed under the title of the article. If more than one person writes the manuscript, the e-mails listed are only the e-mail of the main author (correspondence author).
  8. Abstract 150-200 words long, accompanied by 3-5 words keywords. must clearly describe the objectives, methods, results, and conclusions.
  9. The introduction to the research article contains the background, research context, results of the literature review, and research objectives. All introductory parts are integrated present in the form of paragraphs.
  10. The method section contains paragraphs about the research design, data sources, data collection techniques, and data analysis.
  11. The research and discussion section contains an explanation of the results of the analysis relating to the research objectives. The discussion contains an analysis of the results and discussion with theories and similar research results.
  12. The conclusion section contains answers to the writing objective and is presented in paragraph form rather than bullet points.
  13. This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The author must revise the manuscript based on recommendations/ suggestions from reviewers and/ or editors.
  14. The reference list only contains the sources referenced in the article, and all sources referenced must be listed in the reference list. The article must include at least 40 references. At least 80% of the references should be derived from recent journal articles published within the last 10 years and 20% from other reliable sources such as books, websites, and other trustworthy sources.
  15. References and quotation must default to the 7th edition of APA style guide. Examples of the inclusion of sources in the direct quote are accompanied by information about the page number where the citation came from. Example: Prell (2013) or (Prell, 2013).
  16. The reference list is recommended using reference management tools (Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, or others). The reference list is arranged alphabetically referring to APA Style 7th edition.

 Examples of citation and reference formatting are provided below

 Citation format

 Single author: (Villeneuve, 2016)

 Two authors: (Varsha & Verma, 2025)

 Three or more authors: (Chaudhri et al., 2025)

Journal Article

Chaudhri, V., O’Connor, A., & Tankovski, E. (2025). NGO strategic communication approaches to CSR institutionalization: pathways of resistance, reform and (mutual) reinforcement. Journal of Communication Management, 29(5), 39–55. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-07-2024-0108.

 

Book

Calero, H. H. (2005). The Power of Nonverbal Communication: How You Act is More Important Than What You Say. Silver Lake Publishing.

 

Book Section

Roushdy-Hammady, I. (2011). Saving or Drowning? The Paradox of Attempting Ethics in International News and Communication. In A. G. Nikolaev (Ed.), Ethical Issues in International Communication (pp. 87–102). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306844_6.

 

Conference Proceedings

Varsha, K. M., & Verma, A. (2025). Voice and Speech in Parkinson’s Disease: Advancements in Early Diagnosis and Treatment. In A. Kumar, A. Swaroop, & P. Shukla (Eds.), Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks. Springer Nature Singapore.

 

Web Page

Rahman, D. F. (2021, November 9). Consumer confidence, retail sales recover from Delta impact. The Jakarta Post. https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2021/11/09/consumer-confidence-retail-sales-recover-from-delta-impact.html.

 

Film

Villeneuve, D. (2016, September 1). Arrival [Video recording]. Paramount Pictures.

 

Statute

JLaw of The Republic of Indonesia Number 32 of 2002 on Broadcasting, Pub. L. 32 (2002).

 

Thesis

Suheri. (2022). Propaganda as Strategic Communication of Indonesian Islamist Extremists on Facebook During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Universitas Gadjah Mada.

 

Newspaper Article

Ghifari, D. (2025, December 29). Profound budget policy changes failed to lift growth in 2025. The Jakarta Post.

 

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).
  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 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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, copyright of the article shall be assigned to Komunikasiana: Journal of Communication Studies and published by Dakwah and Communication Faculty of UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau as publisher of the journal.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors automatically transfer the copyright to the journal and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY SA) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate permission for 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 acknowledgement 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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