Authors Guideline

Jurnal Venus   |   Editorial Policies
Author Guidelines
Requirements for preparing, formatting, submitting, revising, and publishing manuscripts in Jurnal Venus.
 
Before You Submit
Authors must ensure that the manuscript complies with the Focus and Scope, journal template, publication ethics, peer-review policy, research-integrity requirements, and referencing standards of Jurnal Venus before submission. Manuscripts that are outside the journal's scope, lack sufficient scholarly contribution, do not demonstrate a clear research gap or novelty, or fail to meet essential technical requirements may be rejected during the initial editorial screening without external peer review.
Submission Overview
Language
Manuscripts must be written in clear academic English.
Length
Research manuscripts should contain at least 10 pages.
References
Minimum 20 relevant references, with approximately 80% from the most recent five years where appropriate.
Referencing Style
APA 7th edition using Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, or another reliable reference manager.
A. General Requirements
  1. The manuscript must be original, scientifically sound, relevant to the Focus and Scope of Jurnal Venus, and written in clear academic English.
  2. The manuscript must not have been previously published and must not be under consideration by another journal at the time of submission.
  3. Research manuscripts should contain at least 10 pages and must be prepared using the official Jurnal Venus template.
  4. The manuscript must include abstracts in English and Bahasa Indonesia, each containing approximately 100–250 words, followed by 3–5 relevant keywords.
  5. The manuscript must demonstrate a clear research problem, research gap, novelty, analytical contribution, and relevance to maritime scholarship or professional practice.
  6. Manuscripts that consist primarily of descriptive internship reports, routine operational reports, or case descriptions without sufficient theoretical, methodological, or analytical contribution may be rejected during desk review.
  7. In-text citations and the reference list must follow APA 7th edition. Authors must use a reference-management application such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote.
  8. Manuscripts are subject to similarity and originality screening in accordance with the Jurnal Venus plagiarism policy before or during editorial evaluation.
  9. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the manuscript has been carefully proofread and is free from significant grammatical, typographical, bibliographic, and factual errors.
B. Manuscript Format
Manuscripts must be prepared in Microsoft Word using Times New Roman, 11 pt, single spacing, on A4 paper. Page margins, heading styles, tables, figures, citations, and other formatting elements must follow the official Jurnal Venus template. Authors should avoid excessive subsection fragmentation and should maintain a clear and coherent academic structure.
C. Structure of the Manuscript
1. Title
The title must be concise, informative, specific to the study, and preferably no longer than 15 words. For manuscripts submitted in English, the primary article title entered into OJS must be the English title and must be identical to the title appearing in the manuscript and final galley.
2. Author Information and Metadata
Provide each author's full name without academic or professional titles, institutional affiliation, department or study program where applicable, country, and valid email address. Clearly identify the corresponding author. ORCID should be provided where available. The names, order of authors, affiliations, article title, abstract, and keywords entered in OJS must be identical to those appearing in the submitted manuscript and final published galley.
3. Abstract and Keywords
The abstract should clearly and concisely state the research background or problem, objective, method, principal findings, and conclusion or significance. Abstracts must be provided in English and Bahasa Indonesia and should contain approximately 100–250 words each. Provide 3–5 specific and relevant keywords separated by semicolons. Keywords entered into OJS must match the keywords in the manuscript.
4. Introduction
The introduction must explain the background and significance of the research, identify the central problem, synthesize relevant recent literature, and clearly establish the research gap and novelty. Authors should explain how the present study differs from or advances previous work and should refer to relevant national and international research. The research objective should be stated clearly at the end of the introduction.
5. Methods
The methods section must provide sufficient information to evaluate the scientific validity of the research and, where appropriate, enable replication. Describe the research design, setting, population and sample or informants, sampling procedures, instruments or materials, variables or research focus, data-collection procedures, analytical methods, and relevant ethical procedures. Previously published methods should be appropriately cited.
6. Results and Discussion
Results must be presented clearly and directly in relation to the research objectives. Tables, figures, graphs, and other visual materials may be used where necessary and must be numbered, titled, referred to, and interpreted in the text. The discussion must go beyond description and provide analytical interpretation of the findings.
What: How do the findings answer the research questions or objectives?
Why: What scientific, theoretical, or operational interpretation explains the major findings?
Comparison: How do the findings compare with relevant national and international studies?
Contribution: What is new, important, or practically useful about the findings?
The discussion must clearly address the contribution, novelty, implications, and limitations of the study. Merely repeating numerical results or describing routine operational conditions without critical analysis is insufficient.
7. Conclusion and Recommendations
The conclusion must directly answer the research objectives and summarize the principal scholarly or practical contribution of the study without merely repeating the abstract or results. Relevant theoretical or practical implications, limitations, recommendations, and directions for future research may be included where appropriate.
8. References
Research manuscripts must include at least 20 relevant references. Priority must be given to primary scholarly sources and reputable national and international journal articles. Approximately 80% of references should have been published within the most recent five years, where appropriate to the topic. Older sources may be used when they are seminal, foundational, regulatory, or otherwise essential to the study.
Authors are responsible for verifying the accuracy and existence of every reference. DOI information must be included and verified whenever available. References that cannot be verified, contain incorrect journal titles, duplicate records, fabricated bibliographic information, or irrelevant sources may result in the manuscript being returned or rejected. Every source cited in the text must appear in the reference list and every listed reference must be cited in the manuscript.
9. Declarations
The final manuscript must include the following declarations, where applicable:
  • Author Contributions: a clear statement describing each author's contribution to the research and manuscript.
  • Conflict of Interest: disclosure of any financial, professional, institutional, or personal interests that could influence the work; if none exist, this should be stated.
  • AI Usage Statement: disclosure of any permitted use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in preparing the manuscript, in accordance with the Jurnal Venus AI Usage Policy. AI tools may not be listed as authors.
  • Ethical Approval: studies involving human participants, personal data, or other activities requiring ethical approval must provide the relevant ethics information where applicable.
  • Funding: authors should identify the source of research funding or state that no specific funding was received, where applicable.
D. Tables, Figures, and Supporting Materials
Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively, provided with concise titles or captions, and referred to in the manuscript text. Visual materials must be readable, relevant, original or appropriately licensed, and of sufficient quality for publication. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted materials.
E. Initial Editorial Screening
Before external peer review, submitted manuscripts are screened by the editorial team. The screening includes compliance with the journal's Focus and Scope, manuscript template, minimum reference requirements, reference and DOI accuracy, originality and similarity, ethical declarations, academic writing quality, research gap and novelty, methodological adequacy, and metadata completeness.
Important: Manuscripts that fail to meet essential requirements may be returned for technical correction or rejected at the desk-review stage. Only manuscripts that pass the initial editorial screening proceed to independent peer review.
F. Submission and Publication Notes
  1. Manuscripts must be submitted in Microsoft Word format through the official Jurnal Venus online submission system.
  2. Authors must enter complete and accurate metadata into OJS, including title, abstract, keywords, all authors, author order, affiliations, countries, and corresponding-author information.
  3. Manuscripts that pass initial editorial screening are evaluated by at least two independent reviewers through the journal's double-blind peer-review procedure.
  4. Jurnal Venus does not offer a fast-track review or guaranteed acceptance/publication service. All manuscripts follow the standard editorial and peer-review process.
  5. Submission, peer review, article processing, and publication are currently free of charge in accordance with the Jurnal Venus Article Processing Charges policy.
Final Submission Checklist
Before submitting, authors should confirm that the manuscript is within the Focus and Scope of Jurnal Venus; follows the official template; is written in academic English; demonstrates a clear research gap, novelty, and analytical contribution; contains complete and consistent author metadata; includes English and Bahasa Indonesia abstracts and 3–5 keywords; contains at least 20 relevant references; uses predominantly recent journal literature where appropriate; includes verified DOI information where available; follows APA 7th edition; has been checked for originality and language quality; and includes the required ethical, conflict-of-interest, author-contribution, funding, and AI-use declarations where applicable.