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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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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

A. General Requirements 

  1. Originality. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Urban Sociology (JUS) must be original works that offer clear novelty and a significant contribution to sociology, particularly urban sociology.
  2. Exclusive submission. The manuscript has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The similarity index must not exceed 15%.
  3. Article types. JUS publishes (a) research articles based on field or literature studies, (b) theoretical or methodological articles, (c) policy studies and analyses of social phenomena, and (d) book reviews.
  4. Language. Manuscripts may be written in English or Indonesian; English is preferred. Manuscripts in English must be professionally proofread before submission.
  5. Length. Research articles: 5,000–8,000 words. Book reviews: 2,000–3,500 words. These limits exclude the abstract and references. Footnotes should be avoided; incorporate explanations into the main text.
  6. Template. Manuscripts must be prepared using the official JUS template (Cambria 11 pt, 1.15 line spacing, A4 paper, 2.5 cm margins). Manuscripts that do not follow the template will be returned to the authors without review.
  7. Submission. Manuscripts are submitted online through the OJS at https://journal.uwks.ac.id/sosiologi/about/submissions. Authors must submit two files: (a) a full manuscript and (b) an anonymized manuscript with all identifying information removed.
  8. Peer review. All manuscripts undergo initial editorial screening, followed by double-blind peer review by at least two independent reviewers who are experts in the field.
  9. Editing. The editors reserve the right to edit manuscripts for clarity and style without altering their substance.

 B. Manuscript Structure

  1. Title. A maximum of 15 words; concise, specific, and informative; preferably without abbreviations.
  2. Authors. Full names without academic degrees or titles, followed by affiliation (department, faculty, university, city, country) and ORCID iD. The corresponding author must provide an institutional e-mail address and full postal address. The editorial office communicates only with the corresponding author.
  3. Abstract. A single paragraph of 150–200 words (100–150 words for book reviews), without citations or abbreviations. It must contain the background and purpose, methods, main findings, originality, and implications of the study. Manuscripts by Indonesian authors must include abstracts in both English and Indonesian.
  4. Keywords. 3–5 keywords or phrases, separated by semicolons, in English and Indonesian.
  5. Body of a research article:
    • Introduction: background and urgency of the problem, a critical synthesis of recent literature (state of the art), the research gap, a novelty statement, and research objectives or questions.
    • Theoretical framework: may be merged with the Introduction.
    • Methods: research design and setting, selection of participants or data sources, data collection and analysis, trustworthiness, and research ethics. Informants must be anonymized using codes.
    • Results.
    • Discussion: interpretation of findings against theory and previous studies, with the theoretical contribution stated explicitly.
    • Conclusion: answers to the research questions, contributions, limitations, and recommendations for future research, written in prose rather than lists.
    • Acknowledgments (optional).
    • Declarations: author contributions (CRediT), funding, conflict of interest, ethics approval and informed consent, data availability, and use of generative AI.
    • References.
  6. Body of a book review: book information (author, title, publisher, year, pages, ISBN, and cover image), Introduction, Overview of the Book, Critical Evaluation, Contribution to Urban Sociology, Conclusion and Recommendation, Declarations, and References. The reviewed book should have been published within the last three years.
  7. Tables and figures. Numbered consecutively and cited in the text, with sources stated. Table captions are placed above the table and figure captions below the figure. Figures must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

C. Citations and References

  1. Citations and references follow the APA Style, 7th edition. Direct quotations include page numbers, e.g., (Storey, 2003, p. 20).
  2. Research articles must include at least 30 references, of which at least 80% are peer-reviewed journal articles published within the last ten years, including international journals.
  3. The use of a reference manager (Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote) is mandatory.
  4. References are listed alphabetically and include DOIs whenever available. Titles in languages other than English are followed by an English translation in square brackets.
  5. Examples:
    • Journal article: Sassen, S. (2016). The global city: Enabling economic intermediation and bearing its costs. City & Community, 15(2), 97–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12175
    • Book: Storey, J. (2003). Teori budaya dan budaya pop [Cultural theory and popular culture]. Qalam.
    • Translated book: Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space (D. Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). Blackwell. (Original work published 1974)
    • Book chapter: Surname, A. (YYYY). Title of the chapter. In B. Editor & C. Editor (Eds.), Title of the book (pp. xx–xx). Publisher. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx
    • Thesis or dissertation: Adie, S. F. R. (2017). Gaya hidup penggemar budaya pop Korea di Surabaya [The lifestyle of Korean pop culture fans in Surabaya] [Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya].
    • Report or website: Statistics Indonesia. (YYYY). Title of the report. https://www.bps.go.id/xxxx

Copyright Notice

Copyright :

Authors who publish in the Journal of Urban Sociology agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright of their articles. Copyright is stated on each published article as “© YYYY The Author(s).”
  2. Authors grant the Journal of Urban Sociology the right of first publication. The work is simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
  3. Authors may enter into separate, non-exclusive arrangements for distributing the published version of the article, provided that its initial publication in the Journal of Urban Sociology is acknowledged and the DOI is cited. Examples include depositing it in an institutional repository, an academic social network, or a government database, or republishing it in a book.
  4. Authors are encouraged to share their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on personal websites) before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges and earlier, greater citation of the published work.
  5. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any third-party material (figures, tables, photographs, or long quotations) included in the article, and must acknowledge the source appropriately.

Licence :

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