Submissions

1. Article Types

SIBOOK Journal primarily publishes Original Research Articles. The journal also considers Review Articles that provide a clear and substantial scholarly contribution within the journal's Focus and Scope.

The structure described in these guidelines applies primarily to original research articles. Review articles may adapt the internal structure where scientifically appropriate, while maintaining clear objectives, rigorous analysis, scholarly contribution, methodological or analytical transparency, and well-supported conclusions.

2. General Requirements

Before submitting a manuscript, authors must ensure that:

• the manuscript is original and has not been published in substantially the same form elsewhere;
• the manuscript is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal;
• the manuscript falls within the Focus and Scope of SIBOOK Journal;
• all listed authors meet the journal's authorship criteria and have approved the submitted manuscript;
• all necessary ethical approvals, informed consent, permissions, and research documentation have been obtained where applicable;
• references, quotations, data, tables, figures, and other scholarly materials have been checked for accuracy;
• relevant funding, conflicts of interest, author contributions, ethics information, data availability, and AI use have been transparently declared;
• the manuscript follows the journal's Article Template and applicable editorial policies.

Manuscripts may be written in Indonesian or English. Authors are responsible for ensuring clarity, consistency, academic language, grammar, and readability throughout the manuscript.

3. Double-Blind Review Preparation

SIBOOK Journal applies a double-blind peer-review process. Authors must therefore ensure that the manuscript file submitted for review does not contain information that unnecessarily reveals the identity of the authors.

Author names, institutional affiliations, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, and other required author information must be entered accurately in the OJS submission metadata and included in the final manuscript after acceptance according to the journal's production workflow.

Authors should also remove identifying information from file properties, acknowledgements, or other sections when necessary during anonymous review.

4. Title

The article title must be concise, specific, informative, and accurately represent the principal subject, variables, relationship, approach, or important finding of the study.

Authors should avoid unnecessarily broad titles, unexplained abbreviations, excessive punctuation, and information that does not contribute to understanding the substance of the article.

Research location should normally not dominate the title unless the location itself is scientifically important to the research question or interpretation of the findings.

For manuscripts written in Indonesian, the title should be provided in Indonesian and English according to the journal template. Manuscripts written entirely in English may use an English title.

5. Authors and Authorship

Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made substantial scholarly contributions to the work and who accept responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the published article.

• Author names must be written consistently and without academic, professional, or religious titles.
• All listed authors must approve the submitted manuscript and the final version intended for publication.
• Guest, honorary, gift, and ghost authorship are not acceptable.
• Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately rather than listed as authors.
• Changes in authorship after submission must have a legitimate reason and may require written agreement from all affected authors and approval from the Editorial Team.

6. Affiliations and Author Metadata

Author information entered in OJS must be complete, accurate, and consistent with the information presented in the final article.

Each author's affiliation should identify, where applicable:

• institution or organization;
• faculty, department, or unit where relevant;
• city;
• country.

The corresponding author must provide an active email address. Authors should also provide an ORCID identifier where available.

Institutional affiliations must represent genuine organizational relationships and should not be replaced by job descriptions, academic degrees, or professional titles.

7. Abstract

The abstract must be clear, concise, informative, and understandable without requiring the reader to consult the full article.

For original research articles, the abstract should summarize:

• the background or key research problem;
• the objective of the study;
• the essential research methods;
• the principal findings;
• the main conclusion or implication.

The abstract should emphasize actual research findings rather than provide an extended literature review or discussion.

Citations and references should normally not be included in the abstract.

An English abstract is required. For manuscripts written in Indonesian, authors should provide both Indonesian and English abstracts in accordance with the journal template.

8. Keywords

Authors should provide 3–5 keywords that accurately represent the principal concepts, variables, population, method, or scholarly subject of the article.

Keywords should support accurate indexing and discoverability. Authors should avoid unnecessarily repeating words already obvious from the journal title and should select terms that reflect the actual scholarly content of the article.

9. Introduction

The Introduction must establish the scholarly context of the study and clearly demonstrate why the research is necessary.

To ensure a strong scholarly contribution, the Introduction should develop the following logical sequence:

1. Research Context and Problem: explain the important scientific, educational, or community problem addressed by the study.
2. State of the Art: critically summarize relevant and current previous research, theories, or evidence directly related to the study.
3. Research Gap: explicitly identify what remains unresolved, inconsistent, insufficiently studied, or methodologically limited in previous research.
4. Novelty or Scholarly Contribution: explain clearly how the present study addresses the identified gap and what new knowledge, evidence, approach, interpretation, model, or practical contribution it offers.
5. Research Objective: conclude the Introduction with a clear statement of the research objective, question, or hypothesis where applicable.

The Introduction should not consist only of general background information. Authors must demonstrate a meaningful connection between previous scholarship, the identified research gap, the contribution of the study, and its objective.

10. Methods

The Methods section must provide sufficient information to allow readers to understand how the research was conducted and to evaluate the validity, appropriateness, and reproducibility or credibility of the research process.

Authors should describe, where applicable:

• research design or methodological approach;
• research setting, context, and period;
• population, participants, informants, documents, or data sources;
• sampling or participant-selection procedures;
• sample size and its justification where relevant;
• research instruments and measurement procedures;
• validity, reliability, trustworthiness, or quality-assurance procedures appropriate to the methodology;
• data-collection procedures;
• variables, indicators, or analytical categories where applicable;
• data-processing and analysis procedures;
• statistical or analytical software and relevant versions where appropriate;
• ethical approval, informed consent, or exemption information where applicable.

Qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, action research, literature-review, and other methodological approaches should report methods appropriate to their respective research traditions.

Methods must not be described so briefly that readers cannot understand how the findings were produced.

11. Results

The Results section must present the principal findings clearly, logically, and in direct relation to the research objectives or questions.

Authors should:

• present findings based on the actual research data;
• organize results according to the research objectives or analytical framework;
• report relevant quantitative or qualitative evidence;
• use tables and figures only when they improve understanding;
• avoid unnecessary duplication between text, tables, and figures;
• avoid presenting unsupported claims as research findings.

Results should provide sufficient factual or empirical evidence to support the subsequent analysis, discussion, and conclusion.

12. Discussion

The Discussion must go beyond repeating or merely describing the results. Authors are expected to provide critical analysis and scholarly interpretation of the findings.

A strong Discussion should:

• explain the meaning and significance of the principal findings;
• interpret findings in relation to the research objectives;
• connect the findings with relevant concepts, theories, or previous research;
• critically compare the findings with relevant and current studies, identifying agreements, differences, extensions, or contradictions;
• explain possible reasons for important similarities, differences, or unexpected findings;
• demonstrate how the findings address the research gap identified in the Introduction;
• clearly explain the novelty or contribution of the findings to knowledge, educational practice, policy, or community development where relevant;
• discuss relevant theoretical or practical implications;
• acknowledge important limitations without unnecessarily undermining the contribution of the research.

A Discussion consisting only of descriptive findings without interpretation, comparison with previous scholarship, or critical synthesis is considered insufficient.

13. Conclusion

The Conclusion must directly answer the research objective or research question and should be supported by the findings presented in the article.

The conclusion should:

• state the most important findings concisely;
• clarify the principal scholarly contribution of the study;
• avoid simply repeating the abstract or discussion;
• avoid introducing new data that were not presented previously;
• include implications, recommendations, or directions for future research where scientifically justified.

Extended literature review or new discussion should not be introduced in the Conclusion.

14. Tables and Figures

Tables, figures, charts, photographs, and other visual materials must be relevant, accurate, legible, and directly support the scholarly content of the manuscript.

• Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively.
• Each table and figure must have a clear and informative title or caption.
• Sources must be acknowledged where material is adapted or reproduced.
• The same information should not be unnecessarily repeated in both a table and a figure.
• Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted third-party materials where required.
• Manipulation of images or visual data in a way that misrepresents research findings is prohibited.

15. Acknowledgements

Authors may acknowledge individuals, institutions, organizations, communities, or other parties that provided legitimate assistance but do not meet the criteria for authorship.

Authors should obtain permission before identifying individuals in the Acknowledgements where appropriate.

16. Funding Statement

Authors must disclose all relevant financial or institutional support for the research and publication.

Where funding was received, provide the funder's name and grant or project number where applicable.

Example:

This research was supported by [name of funding organization] under Grant No. [number].

If the research received no specific external funding, authors may state:

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

17. Author Contributions

Manuscripts with multiple authors must provide a transparent statement describing the contributions of each author.

Contributions may include, where applicable: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, data collection, formal analysis, validation, visualization, writing of the original draft, review and editing, supervision, project administration, and other substantive scholarly roles.

Authors may use the CRediT contributor roles where appropriate.

Example:

Author Contributions: A.A. conceptualized the study and developed the methodology; B.B. collected and analyzed the data; A.A. and B.B. interpreted the findings and prepared the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.

18. Conflict of Interest

Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, professional, personal, or other interests that could reasonably be perceived as influencing the research, interpretation, or publication of the manuscript.

If no relevant conflict exists, authors should state:

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

19. Ethics Statement

Research involving human participants, animals, vulnerable populations, identifiable personal information, or other ethically sensitive material must comply with applicable ethical standards, institutional requirements, and relevant laws.

Where formal ethics approval is required, the manuscript must state:

• the name of the ethics committee or approving institution;
• the approval or reference number where available;
• relevant informed-consent information where applicable.

Where formal ethical approval is not required, authors may be asked to explain the applicable exemption or ethical basis for the study.

Authors must protect participant confidentiality and must not publish personally identifiable information without appropriate legal and ethical justification and consent.

20. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Disclosure

Authors must comply with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy of SIBOOK Journal.

Artificial Intelligence systems cannot be listed as authors. Human authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, citations, analysis, and scholarly content of the manuscript.

Authors must disclose the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies when such tools have materially contributed to the preparation, generation, analysis, modification, or presentation of scholarly content.

Example:

During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used [name of AI tool] for [specific purpose]. The authors reviewed, verified, and revised the resulting content and take full responsibility for the final manuscript.

AI-generated references, data, findings, quotations, or other scholarly information must not be used without independent verification. Fabricated or unverifiable AI-generated references constitute a research-integrity concern.

21. Data Availability Statement

Authors should provide a Data Availability Statement describing whether and how the data supporting the findings of the study may be accessed, where appropriate.

The statement may indicate that data are:

• available in a public repository;
• available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request;
• subject to ethical, privacy, confidentiality, legal, or institutional restrictions;
• not applicable because no new dataset was generated or analyzed.

Examples:

The data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

or

Data are not publicly available because they contain information subject to participant confidentiality and ethical restrictions.

22. References

References must be relevant, accurate, traceable, and sufficiently comprehensive to demonstrate the scholarly basis and state of the art of the research.

Authors should follow the following reference standards:

• Each article should normally contain at least 15 scholarly references.
• Authors should prioritize primary scholarly sources, particularly peer-reviewed research articles and other original research outputs.
• As a journal quality target, more than 80% of references should be primary sources where appropriate to the subject and article type.
• Authors should prioritize current scholarship. As a journal quality target, more than 80% of references should normally have been published within the most recent 10 years.
• Older seminal, foundational, historical, legal, theoretical, or otherwise scientifically necessary sources may be cited where their use is clearly relevant and justified.
• References must directly support the statements for which they are cited.
• Unnecessary self-citation, coercive citation, citation manipulation, and irrelevant citation are not acceptable.
• DOI identifiers should be provided where available and must be checked for accuracy.
• Authors must never invent, approximate, guess, or provide hypothetical DOI identifiers.
• Every source cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and every item in the reference list must be cited in the text.

Authors must use the citation and reference style prescribed in the official SIBOOK Journal Article Template. A single reference style must be applied consistently throughout the manuscript.

Authors are encouraged to use reference-management software such as Mendeley, Zotero, or equivalent tools. Reference-management software does not replace the author's responsibility to verify every citation and bibliographic entry.

23. Permissions and Third-Party Material

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted photographs, figures, tables, research instruments, documents, datasets, illustrations, or other third-party material when permission is legally required.

Appropriate attribution and rights statements must be provided for third-party material that is not covered by the article's open-access license.

24. Author Responsibility

Submission of a manuscript to SIBOOK Journal indicates that the authors accept responsibility for the accuracy, originality, integrity, authorship, ethical compliance, references, data, declarations, and scholarly content of the work.

Authors are expected to cooperate with editors during peer review, revision, copyediting, proofreading, and any legitimate post-publication investigation or correction.

The Editorial Team may request supporting documentation, clarification, raw or supporting data where appropriate, ethical approval information, authorship confirmation, reference verification, or other information necessary to assess scholarly and publication integrity.

25. Related Policies

Authors should also consult:

• Editorial Policies
• Peer Review Process
• Publication Ethics and Research Integrity
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy
• Copyright and Licensing
• Download Article Template