Author Guidelines

Bestindo’s Multidisciplinary Journal has been indexed in the Google Cendekia. The Editorial Board of the Bestindo’s Multidisciplinary Journal invites you to submit your manuscript to be published in this journal. Examples of writing articles can be seen. H E R E

The procedure for writing the title, name, and address of the author

  1. The title of the article is a maximum of 12 words, with the font in Times New Roman, in 18pt (not in bold), and using capital letters at the beginning of each word (according to PUEBI rules).
  2. The author's name (written without an academic degree) should be written in Times New Roman font, 11 pt in size, and space 1. If the article has a correspondence author, the name of the corresponding author must be written first with a mark (*), followed by the second, third, and so on. Between the author one and the second author, separated by a comma (,), The author's name must be written in full without any abbreviations.
  3. For affiliation, it is written in the following order: name of the study program, faculty, and campus in Times New Roman font, size 10pt, and space 1;
  4. For e-mail, write down all the author's e-mail addresses; if there is a correspondence author, simply fill in the correspondence author's email.
  5. The distance between the title and the author's identity is 2 line spaces.
  6. General Guidelines for Manuscript Text
  7. The manuscripts that are sent are the results of research that have never been published in any publication medium, which is strengthened by filling in the form of a statement of authenticity. H E R E
  8. The manuscript is typed using Microsoft Word on A4 paper with 3cm top-bottom-right-left margins and 1 cm spacing, with a minimum number of pages of 10 and a maximum of 12 pages.
  9. The manuscript is written systematically, as follows: (a) the title of the manuscript; (b) the author (without an academic degree); (c) the author's institution (consisting of study programs, faculties, and institutions); (d) the author's email; (e) abstracts and keywords; (f) introduction; (g) research methods; (h) results and discussion; (i) conclusions; (j) bibliography.
  10. Subtitles (such as introduction, research method, results, discussion, and conclusion) may not be numbered. Subtitles are written in capital letters and bold, size 12pt, and center-aligned.
  11. Words in foreign languages are written in italics. All numbers are written in Arabic numbering format, except for new sentences.
  12. All figures and tables included in the document must be adjusted to the order of 1 column or the full size of one piece of paper with dots (.), bold print, and must be accompanied by a sentence that refers to the figure or table.
  13. Submissions do not contain plagiarism. The editorial board will reject manuscripts that contain plagiarism above 25%.
  14. Manuscripts that do not match the template will be immediately returned to the author before the review process.

Manuscript Content Guidelines

  1. Manuscript title: The title of the manuscript must be informative, be written briefly, and be written clearly. The title must represent the issue to be discussed. Article titles are not allowed to contain non-general abbreviations.
  2. Abstracts: Abstract should be written in English, no more than 250 words and stated in one paragraph. Abstract consists of backgound, purpose, material and methode, result and conclution. The author’s name (capital at the beginning and writing begins with the last syllable then followed by the first, second, etc., which is written abbreviated), publication year, manuscript title and journal name are listed before abstract content with layout as reference. Keywords are listed under the abstract, maximum 5 words.
  3. Introduction: The introduction describes the background of the problem being resolved, issues related to the problem being resolved, and reviews of previous studies by other researchers that are relevant to the research being carried out. The introduction is written in Times New Roman, with a size of 10 points.
  4. Research Methods: This section explains clearly the materials and equipment used as well as the methods used. The research method contains the method design used to solve the problem, research procedures, research variables and analysis of research data.
  5. Results and Discussion: This section presents and discusses clearly and completely the research results achieved based on its objectives. The description of the results can be equipped with complete tables and clear illustrations (black and white graphs, pictures or photos) on a separate page. Results and discussion should be written as a series presented separately or combined. Long discussions should be divided into several subheadings. The discussion mainly explains why and how the research results occurred and does not just re-express the results obtained in sentence form, does not repeat them again.
  6. Conclusion: Conclusion should clearly indicate the results obtained and their advantages and disadvantages. The conclusion is in the form of a paragraph, it cannot be in the form of points or bullets or numbering.
  7. Bibliography: The bibliography that is listed is at least 10 and only contains references that are referred to as written manuscripts, not just those listed. The bibliography is written in the order in which the references appear in the manuscript, not in alphabetical order.
  8. Reference: references are written using the APA system format (with URL or DOI).

Guidelines for writing citations and references

References are written using the APA system format (including URLs and DOIs), where the composition of the references used is a minimum of 80% of primary references (journals, proceedings) and a maximum of 20% of secondary references (textbooks) published in the last 10 years using Mendeley, Endnote, Zotero, etc.