Instructions for Authors

Authors should submit only papers that have been carefully proofread and polished. Manuscripts are accepted with the understanding that they are an original or extended version of previously published papers in conferences and/or journals and that, if the work received an official sponsorship, it has been duly released for open publication. Before submission please make sure that your paper is prepared using the Manuscript Template. First, kindly please register as the author and follow these Registration Instructions, and then you should log in to submit your papers. Please don´t forget to tick the author when you make a registration. Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions.

  1. Letter of Statement (downloaded at Letter of Statement form) from the author that the article submitted to Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum is an original work, never published before, not currently sent to other media, and accept to divert the original work of the article to Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum;
  2. This will ensure fast processing and publication. Any papers not fulfilling the requirements based on Author's Guidelines and Review Guidelines or using a different format, will not be processed/ rejected by the editors before further review;
  3. Proof of payment for the publication of a Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum article if it has been declared accepted for publication;
  4. If found indications of plagiarism (above 25%) in the text, the Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum automatically has the right to reject the manuscript;
  5. Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum absolutely does NOT accept manuscript submissions via email;
  6. There is no LoA created by the Editor. LoA is issued only in the form of paper notifications received at the initial stage, namely the submissions queue. Not necessarily accepted submissions review, submissions editing, and publication;
  7. All of the above documents (excluding articles) required are scanned in a PDF and made into 1 (one) send to email file: jurnalcakrawalahukum@unmer.ac.id with the subject being the name author_title;
  8. Articles submitted directly through Online Submissions in the Open Journal System Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum; and
  9. Notification All correspondence and communication are done by: Open Journal System Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum.

Guidelines for Online Submmisions

The author should first register as an Author and/or be offered as Reviewer through the following address: Online Submission.

The author should fulfill the form as detailed as possible where the star-marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, the Author clicks on the “Register” button to proceed with the registration. Therefore, the Author is brought to the online author submission interface where the Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start, a New Submission section, click on ’ Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission processes”. The following are five steps in the online submission process:

  1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e. Original Research Articles or Review Articles. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists.
  2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click the Upload button. 
  3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detailed authors metadata should be entered including the marked corresponding author. After that, the manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.
  4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary files should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter, the proofread evidence, and the Signed Statement Letter of Scientific Form. Therefore, click on the Browse button, choose the files, and then click on the Upload button.
  5. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission: The author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum, click the Finish Submission button after the document is true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site. 

After this submission, the Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes the status of the manuscript review and editorial process.