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. Manuscript 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 which 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 Pact and send it along with the manuscript submission through the Integrity Pact column.

3. The article written in English or Bahasa Indonesia. If the article is in Bahasa Indonesia, then the abstract and keywords are written in Bahasa Indonesia and English. If the article is in English, then the abstract and keywords are only written in English.

4. Manuscript file must be digital. We suggest for use software Open Office or Microsoft Office (2007 or above) with extension document (.rtf, .doc, or .docx).

5. Jurnal Desain prioritizes original empirical research articles and design studies that examine identifiable objects, artefacts, practices, processes, users, environments, or visual and material phenomena relevant to design, visual art, and visual culture.

   Submitted manuscripts must be grounded in a clearly defined research object and supported by systematically collected and analysed evidence. Eligible research objects may include, but are not limited to, visual artefacts, graphic communication, typography, branding, advertising, illustration, photography, film, animation, digital interfaces, products, fashion, interiors, architecture, exhibitions, design processes, creative practices, visual archives, material culture, users, designers, and relevant communities.

   Conceptual and theoretical discussions may be considered only when they are developed through a clearly defined analytical framework and are applied to a specific corpus, case, artefact, or visual, material, spatial, or media-related phenomenon.

   Jurnal Desain does not accept manuscripts whose primary method and contribution consist solely of reviewing previously published literature. This includes Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR), Narrative Literature Reviews, Scoping Reviews, Integrative Reviews, bibliometric studies, and other literature-review-based manuscripts that do not include an original empirical investigation of a relevant design or visual object.

   The use of literature review as one component of an empirical study is permitted and expected. However, literature synthesis, thematic mapping of previous publications, bibliometric analysis, or the classification of earlier studies cannot serve as the sole research evidence or principal contribution of the manuscript.

   Manuscripts that do not present an identifiable empirical research object, an appropriate method of data collection and analysis, or a clear contribution to the journal’s focus and scope may be declined during the preliminary editorial assessment without being sent for external peer review.

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

7. Manuscript on Jurnal Desain 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).
   - Author must fill out author’s profile on OJS website that consists of author and coresponding 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). Author must follow the article template.
   - Abstract: The abstract is a summary of the manuscript. It is consist of research objective, methods, results and discussion, and conclusion. Implications or recommendation 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 show what is already known from the previous studies, defines the importance of the study, literature review, research gap and state 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), effectively highlighting 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 show 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% from relevant and recent primary sources (such as article of journal or conference from last 10 years). References should be the most recent and pertinent literature. Using literature (more than 20 years ago) maybe allowed at least 20% from total references who using in the manuscript. The reference must be written in American Phsychological Association Style 7^th edition and using reference manager software (Endnote, Mendeley, Zotero, etc).

8. Guidelines to American Phsychological Association Style 7^th edition used for in-text citations and references are available at https://www.apastyle.org/. However, some adjustments are made to suit the need. A quick guide as example is stated as follows. The samples below are taken randomly from various sources and 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, so on) and written with caption and source of the figure and table.The table captions are written above the table, while the figure captions below the figure. For tables, avoid using horizontal lines. The table must not print screen, specific numerical values, compare and contrast values, and minimum of 2 row and column. The figures must clear (provide original file as supplementary file in manuscript submission), highlight trends, pattern, and relationship. Figures and tables appear in good resolution and are not print screened and / 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 at the dimensions of which the images should eventually be reproduced. Please bear in mind that the images themselves should also be of high quality (e.g. the images should be clear and sharp and any text in the images should be 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.