General requirements and points to note

1. Any manuscript submitted to Interdependence Journal of International Studies should not have been published elsewhere, or sent to other journals, or be under another publisher’s consideration until there is notification from Interdependence Journal of International Studies.
2. All authors are required to sign the Agreement of Licence Transfer once they submit their manuscript to Interdependence Journal of International Studies. By signing the agreement, the copyright is attributed to this journal to protect the intellectual material for the authors. The authors are allowed to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium, and in any circumstances to adapt with an appropriate credit to the work. Sharing through repository or personal blog or media is allowed as it can increase the impact of the article.
3. All the business of this journal is conducted through the websites and the editorial team will only communicate to the corresponding author, considered as the representative of the authors of the submitted work.
4. All manuscripts submitted to Interdependence journal of International Studies will be reviewed anonymously by peer-reviewers who have an expertise on the issue or perspective of the manuscript.
5. Plagiarism issue may arise when the author, after using another person’s work, claims to be the source of the material. However, similarities might happen due to inappropriate citation or in case where the paraphrase was not well stated. To avoid any plagiarism issues, we suggest to authors to screen their papers using plagiarism screening tools such as Turnitin or Grammarly Premium. Interdependence journal of international relations will not proceed with the submission subject to this issue and will return it to be fixed and resubmitted. Interdependence journal of international Studies might also reject it without further consideration if it notices that it was done intentionally (see plagiarism policy for further information).

 

Manuscript Preparation Guidelines
1. Articles in Interdependence journal of international relations can be published in Indonesia and English
2. The length of an article should be 4000 to 6000 words (including abstract and research methodology as well as references). It should be sent in editable version such as a Microsoft Word (.Doc or .Docx) and use a standard typography (Times New Roman, 1,15 spacing, 12 pt. or use the article template). Organize titles and subtitles using a clear hierarchy. Please do not use more than three levels of headlines. Avoid the use of bullet points or numerated explanations.
3. The title of the article should clearly describe the article. Type in brief and informative words. Use uppercase to the initial letter of the main words only with no longer than 14 words.
4. The abstract should be a concise one paragraph with no more than 200 words written in two languages (Indonesia and English) if possible. It should include a brief description of the paper, methodology, and the summary of key finding with 3-6 keywords. Keywords represent field of expertise of the author, novelty, issues, and the tools of analysis.
5. The introduction delivers the background of the issue and helps the reader to get into the context of the article. In this section the author must state the writing objectives and the novelty of the article.
6. Literature Review should compare and evaluate preceding works on the subject so that the author’s article will be novel and unique.
7. Methods of Research inform how the research was conducted and what data collection or analysis methods was used.
8. Result and Analyses elaborate the data to make the work understood. Authors may use figures, tables and diagrams to help them provide comprehensive explanations.
9. Conclusion contains the summary of the article and key findings.
10. Acknowledgement should be limited to providers of financial support and people who contributed directly in the making of the article or during the research.
11. Figures, Tables, Diagrams must have title and sources and provided in numerical order. Any tables or figures being published again after an initial publication must be clearly stated as an adapted or reprinted material.
12. Endnotes are allowed in this journal to clarify, compare, or give a critical contention that makes the analyses more advanced.
13. References is a list of referred sources arranged in American Psychological Association (APA) style sixth edition as the example below shows and is presented alphabetically and chronologically. The editorial team recommends that authors use the reference manager tools such as Mendeley, Zotero, EndNotes, and etc. They should priorities recent research, going for books of the last 10 years and journal articles of the last five years in conjunction with other relevant primary sources.

 

Reference System
a. This journal is using American Psychological Association (APA) Referencing System. APA is an ‘author/date’ and ‘in-text’ system. Therefore in your citation which is in-text citation, consist of the author(s) surname, year of publication and all of them written inside round brackets.

Example : (Morgenthau, 1948) and (Sagan & Waltz, 1981)

b. However, you can use APA system in the way of paraphrasing. Citation in paraphrasing requires only year of publication in round brackets and the name of author outside of the round brackets.

Example :

Morgenthau (1948) describes realism as……
Sagan and Waltz (1981) argue that nuclear weapon……

c. Although APA System doesn’t require page number when you cite and paraphrase other’s work, it is strongly suggested that you include page number in your citation especially when you are dealing with complex or long documents.

Example :

(Morgenthau, 1948, p.25) and (Sagan & Waltz, 1981, pp.131-132)
Morgenthau (1948, p.25) describes realism as……

Please note that the letter “p” above is a contraction of “page”. Use “pp” if the page that you are dealing with is more than one page.

d. Secondary Sources: Basically APA System discourages the use secondary source, except the original or main source is unavailable. Secondary source is information you find in one source but the information in it is from another source and you are unable to locate and find the original source. However if you want to cite a secondary source, cite the source that read, but include the name of author which the source you unable to find.

Example :

(Morgenthau, 1948 as cited in Sagan & Waltz, 1981)
Morgenthau (1948, as cited in Sagan & Waltz, 1981) describe realism as……

e. All the in-text citation should be listed at the end of your work as reference list or bibliography. The purpose of the reference list is to contain all the information needed by your work’s reader.

There are rules of making reference list in APA System and the rules should be followed as below:

For a journal article, follow this order
i. Author(s). The surname is followed by first name initials.
ii. Year of publication in round brackets
iii. Article Title
iv. Journal title in italics
v. Volume of journal in italics
vi. Issue of journal
vii. Page range of article
viii. DOI as hyperlink
ix. The first line of reference should be left adjusted. Subsequent line is indented 5-7 spaces

Example :
Waltz, K. (2017). Global Security: New system approach. Sage Journal of Security Studies, 15(2), 56-77. https://doi.org/12345/chg.e5327

For a book, follow this order
i. Author(s). The surname is followed by first name initials.
ii. Year of publication in round brackets
iii. Book title in italics
iv. Edition in round brackets if the book is not first edition
v. Publisher
vi. The first line of reference should be left adjusted. Subsequent line is indented 5-7 spaces

Example :
Ferguson, M.G. & Townsend, H.S. (2010). Global Political Disorder (3rd ed.). Routledge Publisher

For a webpage on a website, follow this order
i. Author(s). The surname is followed by first name initials. Author(s) may be organization or corporate body
ii. Date in round brackets (year, month day). Use as exact as possible
iii. Title in italics
iv. Website name
v. URL
vi. The first line of reference should be left adjusted. Subsequent line is indented 5-7 spaces

Example :
Johnson, S. (2019, March 26). Demonstration in South Africa ends in violence: Government must prioritize human rights. ABCNews. https://www.abcnews.com/demonstration-in-southafrica-ends-in-violence/actual/files