Author Guidelines

Journal of Constitutional Law Society (JCLS) is an international journal in the field of constitutional law. JCLS also does not rule out accepting scientific articles on State Administrative Law, Government Science, Political Science, International Relations, as long as the scientific studies are related to the development and progress of constitutional law and State Administrative Law. The journal will be published twice a year in March and September. JCLS opens opportunities for experts, academics, researchers, practitioners, state administrators, non-governmental organizations, and observers of constitutional law and State Administrative Law to submit their manuscripts at any time. Based on the above criteria and submitted manuscripts must comply with the author’s guidelines as listed below.

Submission

Manuscripts must be submitted online. Authors need to create an account to submit their manuscripts.

Guideline

  1. Manuscripts should be written in English.
  2. The authors who are not native speakers of English need to seek the assistance of a native speaker to proofread their articles before submitting them to the committee, or can contact our partners in language speakers https://penranslate.id .
  3. Manuscripts submitted must be original scientific writings and do not contain elements of plagiarism.
  4. Submitted manuscripts have not been published elsewhere. The manuscripts are also not under consideration in any publishers.
  5. The length of the manuscripts including foornotes are around 8000-10.000 words.
  6. Manuscripts are written on A4 paper with normal margins, Bookman Old Style font, spaces and written in standard and correct grammatical language, download the article templates to avoid mistakes in writing in our journal.
  7. Main headings, sub-headings, and sub-sub-headings of the article should be numbered in the manuscript with the following example :
    1. Main Heading
    2. Main Heading
      1. Sub-heading
      2. Sub-sub-heading
        1. Sub-heading
        2. Sub-heading
          1. Sub-sub-heading
          2. Sub-sub-heading
  8. The following is the structure of the journal :
  1. Title
    • The title of the manuscript must be specific and concise, no more than 10 words, the title must describe the problem and the content of the article comprehensively.
    • It is typed by using Bookman Old Style 14, alignment: center text, upper case.
  2. Identity
    • The identity covers the author’s name, affiliation and institutional address, and the e-mail address.
  3. Abstract
    • The abstract should be written vividly, full and complete which describes the essence of the content of the whole writing in one paragraph.
    • Font: Bookman Old Style, font size: 12, alignment: justify. Space: 1, Margin: Normal.
    • Total words: No more than 200-250 words.
  4. Keywords
    • Preceded by the word “Keyword” in bold and italic style (Keywords).
    • Font: Bookman Old Style, font size: 12, font style: italic, alignment: justify, lower case.
    • Selected keywords have to denote the concept of the article in 3-5 terms (horos).
  5. Body
    • The body of the manuscript should cover introduction, method, analysis and discussion, and conclusion.
    1. INTRODUCTION: It presents a clear information concerning the issue that will be discussed in the manuscript. The background of the article is presented in this section. The end of the introduction should be finished by stating the signification and the objective/aim of the article.
    2. METHOD: It is an optional section for articles which are based research.
    3. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION: Analysis and discussion are presented continuously. It provides the elaboration of the result of your article.
    4. CONCLUSION: This section is the most important section of your article. It cotains the overall explanation of your article. It should be clear and concise.
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