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Author Guidelines

1. All manuscripts submitted to IJDM for publication will be checked for plagiarism using the Turnitin software. If editors or peer reviewers detect plagiarism, the authors will be informed and requested to rephrase the text or provide necessary citations. The manuscript will not be eligible for review and publication if the Turnitin report shows a more than 20% similarity index. Please direct any questions to the editorial assistant at: ijdm@usk.ac.id
2. All articles must be written in English, have an abstract between 200 and 250 words, and have three to five keywords related to the article. The entire article content should have a total of 3,000 to 7,000 words. We highly recommend that non-native authors have their articles proofread before submitting them.
3. The article title should be a maximum of 14 words and summarize your paper's main idea or ideas.
4. Author details should include the names of all authors and their affiliations. An email address is required for the corresponding author only.
5. To prevent misconduct in authorship, IJDM only allows a maximum of seven authors per article starting in 2022. Each author's contribution to the article must be stated in the cover letter, which should be uploaded as a supplementary file into the OJS during article submission. Download the cover letter template Here.
6. For all types of papers, the abstract should provide concise information about the article's content, such as the background, the problem, and the purpose addressed in the study; the methods used; the main findings; and the conclusions. The abstract should be complete and not include results or other parts not presented in the article. It should not contain points and numbering, figures and figure numbers, mathematical expressions, or references.
7. The introduction should explain the context, the key problem the author argues for, and why it is important. A detailed explanation should be addressed to the purpose of the work and its significance. The author should cite the key and current state of research findings as references and carefully review them. Citation to unrelated work is firmly not recommended.
8. Depending on the type of paper, the author may add additional subsections, which should highlight an essential part of the section related to the studied problem in the article. It is unnecessary unless the author needs this section to clarify further the problem or previous studies and/or highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses.
9. Finally, briefly address the work's aim and/or main finding and highlight the principal conclusions. It is commonly understood that the introduction section is deemed comprehensible to scientists outside the particular field of research attended by the author.
10. The methods section should describe the methods used in sufficient detail, especially for new methods and protocols. Well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. The author should add subsections and sub-subsections so that other scientists can be convinced that the work is replicable upon the published results.
11. The results section should concisely describe the results obtained in the study and their interpretation. The author may add subsections and sub-subsections if necessary.
12. The discussion section should discuss the results and interpretation of the problem statement in the introduction. The author may discuss their findings with previous studies, implications, and future research directions. The discussion could be very specific upon the finding of the research and/or not limited to the broad context of the discipline.
13. The conclusion should synthesize and draw conclusions about the application of the method to the data, result, and discussion. The conclusion should sum up the study's significance and the argument presented in the article.
14. Acknowledgements (optional): In this section, the author may acknowledge any support, such as funding and the expert's name that the author discussed in the manuscript.
15. References should follow the APA 7 style. Please ensure that all references are in APA 7 style and that only names/references mentioned in the text/article are listed in the References section. 
16. Appendices, if included, should be identified as Appendix A, Appendix B, etc., and any formulae, equations, tables, and figures within them should be given separate numbering. For Tables, the title should be 10 pt, and the content size is 10 pt; for Figures, the title size should be 10 pt, and the content size, if any, is 10 pt.
17. The full text should be submitted as a Word document (.doc or .docx) following these guidelines:

• Title: Calibri Light, 18 pt, bold, aligned left
• Author name(s): Calibri Light, 12 pt, left, individual names separated by commas
• Affiliation and contact information: Calibri Light, 10 pt
• Abstract: Not more than 250 words, Calibri Light, 9 pt, justified
• Keywords: Calibri Light, 9 pt, italic, separated by commas
• Headings and subheadings: Heading - Calibri Body, 12 pt, bold, left; Subheading - Calibri Light, Italic, 10 pt, justified
• Please leave a space between headings and subheadings.
• References should be listed in APA 7th edition style, and all references in the end list should be cited in the main text.
• Please use the Template provided for the Author(s) to ensure consistency and convenience.

After submission, the corresponding author will receive an email of confirmation within 1-2 weeks. If no confirmation is received, the submission may have been missed. There is no submission charge at this stage. The paper will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, which may take 3-4 months, and the result will be communicated via email. Upon acceptance, the author pays a publication fee to the journal. The fee can be found at http://jurnal.usk.ac.id/IJDM/about/editorialPolicies#custom-1. Once published, the corresponding author will receive email notification of the e-journal in PDF format, available for free download on the journal's webpage.

The entire process, from submission to publication, typically takes 3-6 months, with an average of 4 months.

As part of the submission process, authors must confirm their compliance with the following:

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration for publication elsewhere
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word document format (PDF format cannot be accepted)
• URLs for references have been provided, where available
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are appropriately placed within the text
• The text adheres to the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed journal section, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. Authors are also permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during submission, as it can lead to productive exchanges and earlier and greater citation of published work. However, once a manuscript has been reviewed by the International Journal of Disaster Management, it cannot be submitted to another scientific journal.

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format. PDF format cannot be accepted
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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).
4. However, authors are not allowed to send their manuscript to another scientific journal once it has been decided to be reviewed by reviewers at the International Journal of Disaster Management

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