Submissions

Author Guidelines

The author guidelines have been summarized in a template. Please download the article template

1. Before you submit the manuscript, please read the following information carefully. Please note: Manuscripts that do not strictly follow the visual and reference guidelines will be returned without review. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in immediate desk rejection.

2. Manuscripts have not been published or accepted for publication, or are being considered for publication elsewhere. In addition to the manuscript, a written statement should be attached that clarifies that the article is original and does not contain any elements of plagiarism. To ensure this, we ask that all authors fill out an Integrity Statement and send it along with the manuscript submission through the Integrity Pact column.

3. The article is written in English. The abstract and keywords are only written in English.

4. Manuscript file must be digital. We suggest using OpenOffice or Microsoft Office (2007 or later) with a document extension (.rtf, .doc, or .docx).

5. Faktor Exacta primarily accepts empirical research articles, design studies, and conceptual papers that demonstrate clear scholarly relevance and contribution to the fields of design, visual art, and visual culture.

   Submitted manuscripts should present a well-defined research problem or conceptual focus, a clear methodological or analytical approach, and a substantive contribution to academic discussion in the relevant field. Manuscripts are expected to engage critically with relevant literature, develop a coherent argument, and demonstrate sufficient academic rigor in accordance with the journal's standards.

   Review articles may be considered only on a selective basis. To be eligible for consideration, a review manuscript must show strong relevance to the journal’s scope, substantial critical synthesis of the literature, clear positioning within existing scholarship, and meaningful conceptual contribution. Descriptive summaries of previous studies without clear analytical direction or scholarly contribution are unlikely to be considered for publication.

   Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) and other systematic review formats are not among the journal's publication priorities. Manuscripts that claim to be systematic reviews but do not present a defensible review procedure, including a clear literature search strategy, basis for source selection, and adequate synthesis of findings, may be rejected at the initial screening stage.

   The journal reserves the right to decline manuscripts during the preliminary editorial review if they do not align with the journal’s scope, manuscript priorities, or minimum scholarly standards.

6. The manuscript is written in English using academic language along with standard academic writing structure and composition. Manuscripts are typed single-spaced in A4 paper size, one column, between 3500 and 8000 words in length, excluding references, pictures, and tables.

7. Manuscripts on Faktor Exacta are divided into the following general sections: Title, Authors and Affiliation, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgments, and References.
   - Title:  The title structure consists of Main Variable, Process, Result, and Subject. The title consists of 10-15 words, not including definite manuscript (the) and indefinite manuscript (a, an).
   - The author must fill out the author's profile on the OJS website, which consists of the author and the corresponding author. First, Middle, and Last Name (If author only uses one name, fill the first name and last name with the same name), Gender, Initial, Username, Password, Affiliation (University/or Institution), E-mail, Mailing Address (complete address of affiliation: street name, city, province and zip code), Country and Bio Statement (Department or Faculty). The author must follow the article template.
   - Abstract: The abstract is a summary of the manuscript. It consists of a research objective, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion. Implications or recommendations can be added in the abstract. The abstract must be written in 150 - 250 words
   - Keywords: There are 3-5 keywords from one manuscript.
   - Introduction: The introduction shows what is already known from the previous studies, defines the importance of the study, provides a literature review, states the research gap, and poses the research question.
   - Methods: The methods explain clearly how the author carried out the research.
   - Results and Discussion: This section should be presented as a single, cohesive chapter. It must present the key research results followed by a deep, analytical interpretation within the same flow of discussion. Authors should use a combination of text, tables, and figures to convey findings clearly.
   * Data Presentation: Tables must be in an editable format (not screenshots) with a minimum of 2 rows and 2 columns. Figures must be high-resolution (original files should be provided as supplementary material) and effectively highlight trends, patterns, and relationships.
   * Critical Analysis: The discussion must go beyond mere description. It requires the author's critical assessment of the results in comparison with previous studies and the problematization of the topic using relevant theoretical frameworks. The integration of results and discussion should demonstrate a clear synthesis between empirical evidence and theoretical insights.
   - Conclusions: The conclusions section shows the answer or clarification of the research questions and opportunities for future research
   - Acknowledgments: The authors must acknowledge any sources of funding that supported the research and may acknowledge the outside reviewers of their drafts
   - References: Expect a minimum of 15 references. The reference must consist of 80% relevant, recent primary sources (such as journal or conference articles from the last 10 years). References should be the most recent and pertinent literature. Using literature (more than 20 years ago) may allow at least 20% from total references used in the manuscript. The reference must be written in IEEE style and use reference manager software (EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, etc.).

8. Guidelines for IEEE in-text citations and references are available at https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/. However, some adjustments are made to suit the needs. A quick guide is as follows. The samples below are randomly selected from various sources and are for example purposes only. They are intended neither as ads and promos nor as the Editorial Board’s viewpoint or preferences.

9. Figure, Tables, and Maps
   - Tables and figures in the manuscript are numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, etc.) and written with a caption and the source of the figure and table. The table captions are written above the table, while the figure captions are below the figure. For tables, avoid using horizontal lines. The table must not print screen, include specific numerical values, compare and contrast values, and have a minimum of 2 rows and columns. The figures must be clear (provide the original file as a supplementary file with the manuscript submission) and highlight trends, patterns, and relationships. Figures and tables appear in good resolution and are not printed, screened, or screenshot.
   - Maps can be called a figure (and numbered as such). For all images (line drawings, photographs, maps), please use high-resolution source files: min. 150 dpi for photographs, min 300 dpi for linework images. This is the minimum resolution required for the dimensions in which the images should eventually be reproduced. Please bear in mind that the images themselves should also be high quality (e.g., clear and sharp, with any text in the images sharp and legible). Give the caption and the source of the figure in the main text (exactly at the point where you indicate: ‘Figure x about here’).

10. Plagiarism checks will be conducted for each manuscript using Turnitin with a maximum similarity level of 20%. After that, the manuscript will undergo a double-blind peer review process.

11. Authors are urged to cross-check their manuscripts against these requirements. Manuscripts that do not strictly follow the visual and reference guidelines will be returned without review.