PROSIDING: THE 6th BORNEO UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC FORUM (BUAF)

AUTHOR GUIDELINE

Full paper submission follows the guideline below:

  1. Articles are written in English, Arabic, or Indonesian and have never been published or sent to any journal or proceeding.
  2. The length of the article should be 10–15 pages of A4 or 3000–4500 words. It should be sent in an editable version as a Microsoft Word (.Doc or .Docx) or Rich Text Format (.Rtf) and use standard typography (Garamond, 1.5 spacing, 12 pt, A4 size paper, top margin 3 cm, bottom 3 cm, left 3 cm, right 3 cm).
  3. The article is written by the following systematics:
    • Title: 14pt Garamond, bold, spasi 1, spacing after 6 pt. The title of the article in English, Arabic, Indonesian, Malay or Thai should clearly describe the article and written in brief and informative words, no longer than 15 words.
    • Author’s name (accompanied by institutional afiliation and e-mail address): 12pt Garamond, bold. The name of the author in the article is listed without an academic degree, accompanied by the name of the institution, and the e-mail. If the manuscript is written by more than one person, the e-mail listed is only that of the main author.
    • Abstract (accompanied by keywords): 11pt Garamond, bold, spasi 1, spacing before 12 pt, after 2 pt. The abstract should be a concise paragraph with no more than 150–250 words written in two languages (Arabic/English and Indonesia) if possible. It should include a brief description of the paper, methodology, and a summary of key findings with 3–6 keywords. Keywords represent the field of expertise of the author, novelty, issues, and the tools of analysis.
    • Introduction: The introduction delivers the background of the issue and helps the reader to get into the context of the article. In this section, the author must state the writing objectives and the novelty of the article.
    • Method: Includes basic explanations of method, data collection, location and time of research, type of research, analysis, and interpretation of data. State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
    • Results/findings and discussion: Results/Findingsshould highlight the findings rather than providing the detailed research results. Discussion must answers the problems, interprets the research results and the findings into the already known knowledge, confirms and/or contrasts with the research of other researchers, constructs the new theory, and/or modifies the previous theory. Discussion must also contain the implications of both theoretical and implementation results.
    • Conclusion: must be able to answer the research objectives/questions and is presented in paragraph form rather than bullet points.
    • References.
  1. All texts are reviewed anonymously by double-blind reviewers appointed by the committee based on their area of expertise. The article writer must revise the manuscript based on recommendations/suggestions from reviewers and/or editors.
  2. Reference and quotation using Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition reference technique.
  3. The reference list is recommended using reference management tools (Zotero or Mendeley). The reference list is arranged alphabetically referring to Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition