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Author Guidelines

The Moestopo Journal of International Relations (MJIR) publishes research in international politics, international political economy, world politics, area studies, security studies, and diplomacy, with a particular interest in the international politics of the Global South, and especially in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Manuscripts must be original, must not have been published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration by another journal.

Language

Manuscripts may be submitted in English or Indonesian. Whichever language is used, the title is written in the language of the manuscript, and every submission must provide the abstract and keywords in both English and Indonesian. English text should be of a standard suitable for an international readership; authors are encouraged to have the manuscript language-edited before submission.

Length

A research article should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, excluding references.

What a manuscript must contain

MJIR does not impose a fixed sequence of headings; authors organise the analysis as the argument requires. Every research article must nevertheless contain the following elements. Manuscripts missing them are returned at editorial screening without external review.

  1. Title — sentence case, maximum 15 words, in the language of the manuscript. Titles in full capitals are not accepted.
  2. Authors — full names without academic titles; institution, city, and country for each author; email address for the corresponding author. Authors are encouraged to supply an ORCID identifier.
  3. Abstract — 200–250 words in both English and Indonesian, a single paragraph without citations, stating the purpose, the approach or method, the principal findings, and the contribution.
  4. Keywords — four to six in each language, separated by semicolons.
  5. Introduction — the problem and why it matters, what the existing literature has established, the gap this article addresses, the research question, and the argument advanced.
  6. Analytical or theoretical framework — the concepts and theory applied, and why they suit the problem.
  7. Sources and method — where the evidence comes from, the period covered, how cases were selected, and how the material was analysed. Research using interviews must state how participants were selected and how consent was obtained.
  8. Analysis — the substance of the article, engaging explicitly with the literature identified in the introduction. Arrange under thematic or IMRaD headings, as the argument requires.
  9. Conclusion — what the article establishes, its limitations, and what follows for research or policy.
  10. Declarations — as set out below.
  11. References.

Formatting

  • Microsoft Word only: .doc or .docx.
  • A4 paper; margins 2.5 cm on all sides; Times New Roman 12 pt; 1.5 line spacing, abstract single-spaced.
  • Maximum three levels of heading.
  • Tables and figures numbered consecutively, each with a title and a source note, placed where they belong in the text. Tables must be supplied as editable text, not as images. Figures must remain legible in greyscale.
  • Follow the MJIR article template, available from the journal homepage.

Citations and references

  • APA 7th edition, author–date, for in-text citation and the reference list.
  • Use of a reference manager such as Mendeley or Zotero is expected.
  • Footnotes may be used sparingly for substantive digression, never for bibliographic citation.
  • A research article should cite at least 25 sources.
  • At least 80 per cent of references must be primary sources — peer-reviewed articles, scholarly monographs, or primary documents such as treaties, official statistics, archival material, and government or organisational records.
  • At least 80 per cent of references should have been published within the preceding ten years, except where older work is cited for theoretical or historical reasons.
  • Include the DOI of any reference that has one.
  • Every work cited must appear in the reference list, and every entry in the list must be cited in the text.

Declarations

The following must appear at the end of the manuscript, before the references. Each is required; where one does not apply, say so rather than omitting it.

  • Author contributions — for multi-author manuscripts, describe each author's contribution using the CRediT taxonomy.
  • Conflict of interest — declare any financial, professional, or personal interest that could be seen to influence the work, or state that none exists.
  • Funding — identify any funder and grant number, or state that no external funding was received.
  • Data availability — state where supporting data can be obtained, or state that the article draws on publicly available sources requiring no separate deposit.
  • Ethical approval — research involving human participants, including interviews and focus groups, must confirm that informed consent was obtained and identify the approving body where one was required.
  • Use of artificial intelligence — declare in accordance with the journal's Artificial Intelligence Policy.

Review, ethics, and other policies

The following apply to every submission and are set out in full under Editorial Policies, which authors should read before submitting: the Peer Review Process, Publication Ethics, Plagiarism Check, the Artificial Intelligence Policy, Corrections, Retractions and Expressions of Concern, and Complaints and Appeals.

Two points bear repeating here. Every manuscript is screened with Turnitin before review, against the similarity threshold stated in the Plagiarism Check policy. And because review is double-anonymised, the manuscript file must not identify the authors: remove names and affiliations from the text, cite your own earlier work in the third person, and clear personal details from the document's file properties.

 

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 (.doc or .docx) format.
  3. References include a DOI where one exists, and a URL where the source is available online only.
  4. The text uses 1.5 line spacing and 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. The manuscript has been prepared for double-anonymised review: author names and affiliations have been removed from the text, self-citations are written in the third person, and personal details have been cleared from the file properties of the document.
 

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-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share and adapt the work, provided derivative works carry the same licence, with an acknowledgement 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 acknowledgement 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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