Author Guidelines

CONTENT AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Scientific articles that are submitted to Jurnal Geofisika should be the results of a research or a review in either geosciences or applied geosciences subject. The submitted article must not be published or submitted to another journal/proceeding. It can be written in English or Bahasa Indonesia. However, the abstract must be completed in both languages. The article must strictly follow the journal template. An article with content and format that does not follow this guideline may be rejected by the board of editors and returned to the author. There is no charge for every submission and/or processing article in this journal.

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FORMAT

General. The article including title, abstract, table and figure captions, footnote, and list of references are written in single space with two columns as an electronic file and printed in HVS paper of A4 in size. The font used in the article is 12-point Times New Roman. Each page of the article has continuing numbers including pages of figures and tables. The research result or review ranges from 8 to 20 pages (excluding figures and tables). The detailed composition of the article is as follows:

Title. Article title, each author name, institution name, and address of each author, and if necessary a footnote that consists of address, telephone, facsimile, and email for correspondence should be written on the title page.

Abstract. The abstract should be written in English and Bahasa Indonesia. The abstract should sum up the article theme including methodology and does not need to contain a detailed summary from each part. The abstract comprises maximum of 300 words, 4 - 5 words of keywords should be written below the abstract, singular, or compound word.

Introduction. This part must consist of a comprehensive description, so readers will understand and can evaluate the research result that has been done without reading another publication/article. The introduction must consist of background, aim and objective, problem, method, research location and accessibility, research subject, and geological or stratigraphical setting.

Result and Analysis. The result and analysis are composed of a research result as displayed as words, tables, and figures. Please use limited graphics if the subject can be displayed as a short explanation. The limitation of using photos will be appreciated. It needs to be displayed if it can describe a better explanation for the research result. All figures and tables should be given continuing numbers and must be referred to in the article.

Discussion. The discussion consists of an interpretation of the result and analysis. It should be correlated with another result having been reported.

Conclusion. They comprise important conclusions probably also including recommendations and future works within the whole part of the article.

Acknowledgment. This part may describe the source of the research fund used in the research. this may also give an appreciation to institutions or persons who help in research and report writing.

Reference. It must all be cited in the text and support the content; written using citation managers such as Zotero or Mendeley is strongly recommended with modified Harvard System alphabetically. All names of the authors must be written completely without using et al. and numbers.

Supporting Figures and Tables. The article should be completed with supporting figures/maps/graphics/photos. Their attachments must be in Image File (*.jpg) with a minimum of 300 dpi in resolution or scalable vector graphic (*.svg). Figures and tables must be put at the beginning or at the end of each page. Permission from the original author is required to display figures and tables that have been published.

Proofread Manuscript. The English-written manuscript must be 'spell-checked and 'grammar-checked before submission. Authors are suggested to use an online proofreading site such as www.grammarly.com to fix the basic typo issues or professional proofreading services to improve the readability of the article.