The Indonesian Journal of Chemical Research (IJCR) is an electronic journal that publishes recent studies in chemistry fields. The types of articles published in this journal include research articles, review articles and short communication. This journal covers some topics, including:
Inorganic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Computational Chemistry
Biochemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Food and Medicinal Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry
Material Chemistry
Peer Review Process
IJCR is an electronic journal published by the Department of Chemistry, Indonesian Islamic University. All manuscripts submitted to this journal (Indonesian Journal of Chemical Research) must follow this journal's Focus and Scope and Author Guidelines.
The submitted manuscripts must be original work, never been published in other journals and not being assessed/considered in other journals. In addition, the manuscripts must contain novelty appropriate to the focus and scope of this journal. All manuscripts submitted to this journal must be written in good English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their papers checked before submission for grammar and clarity. International Science Editing and Asia Science Editing can provide English language and copyediting services. The work must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism content. All authors suggest using plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking (please use Turnitin or iThenticate to check the similarity). Editors will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal by using Turnitin or iThenticate software. The submitted manuscripts to this journal will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 (two) or more expert reviewers from Peer-reviewers Team. The reviewers give valuable scientific comments improving the contents of the manuscript. Sometimes (if required), a third peer-reviewer is needed to give critical comments to the submitted manuscript. The review process used in this journal is a blind review system. Editor solely makes the final decision of manuscript acceptance in Chief/Regional (Handling) Editor (together with Editorial Board if required) according to reviewers' critical comments. The final decision of the manuscript is solely based on the Editor's final review, which considers peer-reviewers comments (but not solely by the Reviewer).
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange. All articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication, and Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium are permitted.
The benefits of open access for authors are :
Free access for all users worldwide
Authors retain copyright to their work
Increased visibility and readership
Rapid publication
No spatial constraints
The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) or submission charges.
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 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
Authors are advised to prepare their paper strictly according to the instructions set below. Because of the formatting errors or due to consistency reasons, the manuscript will not be accepted, both for evaluation and possible further editorial process.
The manuscript can be presented either in Bahasa or in English. The length of the manuscript is no longer than 15 pages. The paper should be prepared in a single coloumn format. The body of the manuscript should include Title, Authorship (names and affiliations), Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Result and Discussion, Conclusion and acknowledgment (if any) and References.
The author should fulfill the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, Author clicks on Register button to proceed the registration. Therefore, Author is brought to online author submission interface where Author should click on New Submission. In the Start, a New Submission section, click on Click Here: to go to step one of the five-step submission process. The following are five steps in online submission process:
Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e. Original Research Articles or Review Article. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists.
Step 2 Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click the Upload button.
Step 3 Entering Submissions Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including the marked corresponding author. After that, manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.
Step 4 Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter, and Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement Form. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the files, and then click on Upload button.
Step 5 Confirming the Submission: Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Eksakta, click Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submissions progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site.
After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes the status of manuscript review and editorial process.
The example of structure is as follow:
Manuscript title in IJCR
(Title in Indonesian/English)
Author 1a, Author 2b, Author c
a. Address of Author 1, email b Nama dan alamat instansi penulis 2, email c Nama dan alamat instansi penulis 3, email
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).