Author Guidelines

Submissions

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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, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The document margins is 2.5 cm (1 inch); The text is Times New Roman font; 1.5-spaced; uses a 11-point font; Use bold in manuscript title, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns; 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

Author Guidelines

Instructions for authors

Manuscripts for publication in the Buletin Sumber Daya Geologi may include research articles, review papers, or feature articles related to geological sciences or applied geology, particularly those relevant to the main duties and functions of the Center for Mineral, Coal, and Geothermal Resources. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Preparing your manuscript

Manuscripts should be written in Indonesian or English, following the proper language rules of the chosen language. The title should be centered, written in uppercase letters, and bold. All manuscripts must be accompanied by an abstract in Indonesian and an abstract in English. Foreign terms that cannot be translated should be retained in their original form and written in italic font.

All parts of the manuscript, including the Indonesian and English abstracts, table and figure titles, table footnotes, figure captions, and reference list, must be typed in single spacing in an electronic file format and printed on A4-size HVS paper, using Arial font, size 11 pt, with a maximum length of 15 pages, including tables and figures. The minimum number of references required is 10.

Your manuscript should be written in accordance with the following elements in the following order: title, abstract, keywords, introduction, literature review, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgements, funding statement, references, appendices (as appropriate).

Formatting your manuscript

Use Arial font in size 11 with 1.5 line spacing

Margins should be 2.5 cm (1 inch)

Use bold for your manuscript title, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns

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