Submissions

Author Guidelines

INJECT (Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication) is published by the Faculty of Da'wah, UIN Salatiga, twice a year (June and December). It publishes articles on media communication, political communication, cultural communication, new media and communication technologies, public relations, cross-cultural communication, organizational communication, communication research, social communication, public communication, and da'wah and religious communication. Articles may be written by researchers, academics, practitioners and observers of communication.

On this page: General guide · Writing format · Article structure · Section by section · References · Tables and figures · Required statements · Authors and affiliations

1. General guide

1. Submit all manuscripts through the INJECT online submission system.
2. If the article is accepted, copyright is assigned to INJECT as the publisher (see Copyright Notice). The corresponding author signs the Ethics Statement, Authorship Agreement and Copyright Transfer Form, scans them and sends them to [email protected].
3. The article must be original and must not be published in, or under review by, another journal or proceedings.
4. The article contributes new findings, ideas or opinions, built on current primary references from the last ten years. State the novelty clearly in the Introduction (for example: "few studies have examined…; the novelty of this research is…").
5. Articles should be empirical studies. Sharp critical analysis and synthesis are prioritized.
6. Every article goes through double-blind peer review by qualified reviewers in the field (see Peer Review Process).
7. The article follows the INJECT template. The editors may adjust the writing style without changing the meaning or quality of the article.
8. Articles based on primary data or experiments include the questionnaire or other instruments as a supplementary file.
9. Authors send the data-processing results, tables and original image files when the editor asks for them.
10. Possible review outcomes: accepted with minor revisions; major revisions required; suggested for another, more suitable journal; or rejected.

2. Writing format

• Language and length: English, 5,000–6,000 words.
• Font and spacing: Calisto MT 12 pt. Single spacing for the abstract; 1.5 spacing for the body and references. Indent paragraphs by 1 cm.
• Page: A4, margins left 4 cm, top 4 cm, right 3 cm, bottom 3 cm.
• Headings: Calisto MT 12 pt, bold, capitalized, left-aligned.
• Tables: title above the table, left-aligned, as in the template.
• Figures: title below the figure, centred, as in the template.

Use the INJECT article template.

3. Article structure

Title; author names (without academic titles) and affiliations; abstract; keywords; Introduction (no sub-sections); Method; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; required statements; References. The literature review and previous studies belong in the Introduction or in the Discussion. Results and Discussion are two separate chapters.

4. Section by section

Title

• At most 15 words, in capital letters, without abbreviations.
• Calisto MT 16 pt, bold, single spacing.

Authors

• At most five authors.
• Names without academic titles; affiliation and email written clearly.
• Calisto MT 12 pt, single spacing.

Abstract

• States the purpose, the data or object of research, the method, and the results or conclusion.
• 150–250 words, in English.
• Calisto MT 12 pt, single spacing.

Keywords

• Three to five keywords in English that reflect the article's concepts or variables.
• Separated by semicolons, each starting with a capital letter. Example: Keywords: Communication; Religion; Culture.

Introduction

• The state of the art: background, motivation, theory and objectives of the study, written as paragraphs.
• Citations follow APA style (author–date in the text).

Method

The research design: method, data and data sources, data collection, data analysis and measurement of variables, written as paragraphs.

Results

The results of the empirical or theoretical study, presented systematically, critically and informatively. Tables and figures are used only to support substantial information (for example statistical tests or model results).

Discussion

A separate chapter after the Results. It argues the relevance of the results in relation to theory, previous research and empirical facts, and shows the novelty of the findings.

Conclusion

The conclusion, the new findings or theory, and directions for future research.

5. References

• At least 25 references for research articles and 50 for literature review articles.
• APA style, 7th edition.
• References from the last 10 years; about 80% primary sources from national and international journals.
• Use a reference manager such as Mendeley, Zotero or EndNote.

6. Tables and figures

Research articles include at least three tables or figures that present the data and findings (for example a research flow diagram in the Method section, and tables or diagrams of the findings). Figures are submitted as image files (JPG/PNG), not Word shapes. Decorative photos and screenshots of software output do not count; rebuild output as tables. Every table and figure is cited and explained in the text.

7. Required statements

After the Conclusion and before the References, every article includes:

1. Author Contributions: what each author did (see Authorship).
2. Funding: the funder and grant number, or "This research received no external funding."
3. Conflict of Interest: see the Conflict of Interest Policy.
4. AI Statement: whether and how AI tools were used (see the AI Policy).
5. Data Availability Statement: see the Data Availability Policy.
6. Ethical Approval (research involving human participants): the number and year of the ethical clearance from the relevant ethics committee or, for low-risk research, the authors' statement of compliance with research ethics and informed consent.

8. Authors and affiliations

Write the full name of every author without academic titles. Write each affiliation in full: department, institution, city, country, plus the corresponding author's email, marked with an asterisk (*). In the submission metadata, enter given and family names separately; an author with a single name enters it in both fields.