author guidelines

Author Guidelines

All papers submitted to the journal should be written in good English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their papers checked before submission for grammar and clarity. English language and copyediting services can be provided by MREJ. The work should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. 

  1. General Author Guidelines

All manuscripts must be submitted to MREJ Editorial Office by Online Submission at the E-Journal portal address: https://journal.uir.ac.id/index.php/JPM/submissions, where the author registers as Author and/or offered as Reviewer online. If authors have any problems with the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email: mrej@journal.uir.ac.id

the type of manuscript acceptable for publication is Original Research Articles. 

  1. Manuscript Template

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template.

  1. Reviewing of Manuscripts

At least two peer-reviewers independently review every submitted paper. The publication, amendment, or rejection decision is based on their reports/recommendations. If two or more reviewers consider a manuscript unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors within three months of the submission date.

  1. Revision of Manuscripts

Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised manuscripts can be sent to the editorial office through the Online Submission Interface. The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered new submissions. 

  1. Guideline for Online Submission

The author should first register as Author and/or be offered as a Reviewer through the following address: https://journal.uir.ac.id/index.php/JPM/about/submissions

The author should fulfill the form in as detail 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 an online author submission interface where 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 process”. 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, Review Articles, or Short Communication. 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, and Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement 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 MREJ, click the Finish Submission button after the documents are 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.

  1. Author Fee (Page Charge)

MREJ is an open access international journal. Based on Editorial Team policy, no publication fees to publish a manuscript at MREJ.