Author Guidelines

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Manuscripts are typed in the Microsoft Word program, Arial letters, size 12 fnt, with spaces 1.15 printed on A4 paper with a maximum of 12 pages.
  2. Articles written in Indonesian or English. Systematic return of research results is the title, author, abstract return of keywords, introduction, methods, results and discussion, conclusions and reference list.
  3. The title of the article in Indonesian is a maximum of 14 words, while in English a maximum of 12 words. Titles are printed with capital letters in the middle of the font size 14 fnt.
  4. The name of the author of the article is included without an academic degree, approved by the original institution / position / field agreed, and placed below the article title.
  5. Systematics of Writing:
  6. Abstracts and keywords are written in Indonesian and English, abstract length is a maximum of 200 words, while keywords are 3-5 words. The minimum abstract contains the title, objectives, methods and results of the study.
  7. Introduction contains background, research context, results of literature review, and research objectives, 15 - 20% of the total length of the article.
  8. The method contains research designs, data sources and data collection techniques, and data analysis techniques, with a length of 10-15% of the total articles.
  9. The results and discussion contain exposure to the results of the research analysis. The discussion contains the meaning of results and comparison with the theory and / or results of previous studies which are 40 - 60% of the length of the article.
  10. The summary conclusions of the results of the discussion are presented in paragraph form.
  11. Acknowledgments: Aimed at funders with research contract numbers, thanks are also addressed to individuals who make meaningful contributions to research, data processing and article review without rewards from the author.
  12. Bibliography: Bibliography is the final part of the paper, written in alphabetical order following APA Style (http://www.apastyle.org/). It is recommended to use referral manager (mendeley). The composition includes: author's name, publication year, paper title or textbook, journal name or publisher, and page.

 

Here are some examples of how to write bibliography according to APA Style.

  1. Referrals and citations are written using enclosed referral techniques, eg (Davis, 2003: 47)
  2. A reference list of at least 80% in the form of the last 10 years, in the form of primary sources (research articles in journals) and library book.

Examples:

Anderson, D.W.; Vault  V.D.,: & Dickson, CE.1999. Problems and Prospects for Decades Ahead: Competency Based Teacher Education. Berkeley: McCutchan Publishing Co.

Andersin. 2002. PENGARUH PENCERMARAN LINGKUNGAN TERHADAP KEJADIAN MALARIA PADA ANAK. Berkeley , XX (2): 31-38

 

Peer Review Process

The research article submitted to this online journal will be single blind reviewed by reviewer. The accepted research articles will be available online following the journal peer-reviewing process. Language used in this journal is Indonesia.

The reviewers involved in Medika Hutama: Jurnal Kesehatan consist of several health sciences both from Yayasan Pendidikan Medika Indonesia and from other universities who become partners (Peer Reviewer). 

All papers submitted to Medika Hutama: Jurnal Kesehatan undergo single blind peer review by two reviewers. In the single-blind review process, the reviewers know the identity of each author. This enables unbiased and accurate review of the manuscript.

After a manuscript is submitted, it is reviewed by a receiving editor of the Editorial Board. If the manuscript passes the first editorial review, it is sent to reviewers for single-blind peer review.

The reviewers are selected on the basis of their area of expertise and interests, if the reviewer accepts the offer to review the manuscript, they will be sent the complete manuscript.

Please provide an objective critical assessment of the manuscript about the concept of the study, relevance in relation to current scientific knowledge, scientific content, language, and grammar. You will be asked to make a recommendation for publishing the manuscript. Please provide reasons for your recommendations.

If you believe that the manuscript needs changes for improvement before it is accepted for publication, please make the suggestions on how to improve it. If the comments are negative please help the authors in improving their manuscript by explaining weaknesses in scientific content or language. Any offensive language in the comments cannot be tolerated.

Based on the reviewer's comments the assigned editor will take a decision about the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript. The editor may decide to: 1) accept the manuscript without revisions, 2) invite authors to resubmit the manuscript after minor or major revisions while the final decision is kept pending, or 3) reject the manuscript.