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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

To maintain the academic quality and consistency of articles published in SOCILIB: Journal of Social and Library Sciences, authors are strongly encouraged to read and follow these author guidelines carefully. The manuscript template can be downloaded from the journal website.

General Guidelines

  • Manuscripts must be original works and must not have been previously published or simultaneously submitted to other journals.

  • Articles should be written in English or Bahasa Indonesia using a formal academic writing style.

  • SOCILIB adopts the APA 7th Edition style for in-text citations and references.

  • Authors are strongly encouraged to use reference management software such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote to ensure consistency in citation and referencing.

  • Submissions should be based on rigorous qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods research, as well as well-structured conceptual or critical analyses relevant to social sciences and library sciences.

  • Survey-based studies should include the data collection instrument as an appendix.

  • Case study-based research should clearly explain the relevance and potential generalizability of the findings to broader social or institutional contexts.

Submission Preparation Checklist

Before submitting, authors must ensure that:

  • The manuscript has not been published or submitted elsewhere.

  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

  • All references include URLs or DOIs where available.

  • The manuscript follows the formatting and stylistic requirements outlined in these Author Guidelines.

  • All identifying information has been removed from the manuscript file if submitted to a blind peer-reviewed section.

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Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with SOCILIB agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication.

  • Published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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