Rural and Development (JR&D)

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Author Guidelines

JR&D received manuscripts in Bahasa Indonesia and English. 

TITLE

The title is an opportunity to attract the reader’s attention. Remember that readers are the potential authors who will cite your article. Identify the main issue of the paper. Begin with the subject of the paper. The title should be accurate, unambiguous, specific, and informative. It should be written clearly and concisely.

Author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s)

A manuscript should include the main author and co-authors, with full names of the authors and co-authors (no abbreviations), a play address (or addresses), and email addresses, and clearly dis. Each address should be preceded by a numerical superscript corresponding to the same superscript after the name of the author concerned. Give an asterisk (*) in the contact person for correspondence.

ABSTRACT

Written in English and the Indonesian language. The number of words in the abstract is 150 to 200. An integrated and independent abstract consists of an introduction and objectives, methods, results, conclusions, and suggestions. The abstract is written as a single paragraph without this header. In the abstract, there are no references, and non-standard or unusual abbreviations should be avoided. But, if necessary, abbreviations should be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. 

Keywords are no more than 5 words or phrases in alphabetical order that have not been used in the title.

INTRODUCTION 

The introduction includes background information on the issue or problem, as well as the urgency and justification for activities (research or service). The activity objectives and problem-solving plans are presented in this section. Relevant literature review and hypothesis development (if any) are included in this section.

The introduction is written using 750 to 1000 words.

RESEARCH METHODS

Research methods are written in 600 to 800 words, describing the activity design, scope, or object, main materials and tools, location, data collection techniques, operational definitions of research variables, and analysis techniques.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This section presents the research results. Research results can be supplemented with tables, graphs (pictures), and/or charts. The discussion section presents the results of data processing, interprets the findings logically, and relates them to relevant reference sources.

CONCLUSION

The conclusion provides a concise summary of the research results and discussion.

SUGGESTION

Suggestions include brief input on the research results and discussion, providing further direction for related research or activity service. Articles may or may not include suggestions (optional).

ACKNOWLEDGMENT (if any)

Intended for parties who assist in research, especially parties who fund research and parties who contribute as data sources in research.

REFENCES
The bibliography is written in Times New Roman 11pt, 1 space. Writing the bibliography uses a reference management application (such as Mendeley, Endnote, Zotero, etc) with the American Psychological Association (APA) 7^th edition system which is equipped with a DOI and/or URL address. Please ensure that any references cited in the text are also in the reference list (and vice versa). Every reference cited in the abstract must be provided in full. All references mentioned must be written alphabetically from A to Z.

This template can be download in here

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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. 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.
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.

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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 4.0 International 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).

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