Content And General Requirements
Scientific articles that are submitted to Buletin Geologi should be articles as research results or reviews about geoscience subjects in either science or applied science. Articles are never published or not being submitted to another media. Articles should be written in English or Bahasa Indonesia and they must be completed with Abstract in both languages. An article with content and fomat that does not follow this guideline will be ignored by the board of editors and the editors do not have the obligation to send back the article to contributors/authors. There is no charge for every submission and/or processing articles in this journal.
FORMAT
General. The article including title, abstract, table and figure captions, footnote, and list of references are written in single space with two columns as an electronic file and printed in HVS paper of A4 in size. Font used in article is 12-point Times New Roman. Each page of the article has continuing numbers including pages of figure and table. The research result or review ranges from 5 to 20 pages (excluding figures and tables). Detailed composition of the article are as follows:
Title. Article title, each author name, institution name and address of each author, and if necessary a footnote that consists of address, telephone, facsimile, and email for correspondence should be written in the title page.
Abstract. The abstract should be written in English and Bahasa Indonesia. The abstract should sum up the article theme including methodology and does not need to contain a detailed summary from each part. The abstract comprises maximum 300 words, 4 - 5 words of keywords should be written below the abstract, singular or compound word.
Introduction. This part must consist of a comprehensive description, so readers will understand and can evaluate the research result that has been done without reading another publication/article. The introduction must consist of background, aim and objective, problem, method, research location and accessibility, research subject, and geological or statigraphical setting.
Result and Analysis. The result and analysis are composed of a research result as displayed as words, tables and figures. Please use limited graphics if the subject can be displayed as a short explanation. The limitation of using photo will be appreciated. It needs to be displayed if it can describe a better explanation for the research result. All of figures and tables should be given continuing numbers and must be referred in the article.
Discussion. The discussion consists of an interpretation of the result and analysis. It should be correlated with an other result having been reported.
Conclusion. They comprise important conclusions probably also including recommendations and future works within the whole part of article.
Acknowledgment. This part may describe the source of research fund used in the research. this may also give an appreciation to institutions or persons who help in research and report writing.
Reference. It must all be cited in the text and support the content; writen using citation manager such as Zotero is strongly recommended with modified Harvard System alphabetically. All names of the authors must be written completely without using et al. and numbers.
The article should be completed with supporting figures/maps/graphics/photos. Their attachments must be in Image File (*.jpg) with minimum 300 dpi in resolution or scalable vector graphic (*.svg). Figures and tables must be put at the begining or the end of each page. Permission from the original author is required to display figures and tables that have been published.
