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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Notes for Contributors
As part of the submission process, author(s) are required to check that their submissions comply with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to the author(s) that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it currently being considered for publication in another journal or any other forms of publication.

The manuscript is formatted and referenced in accordance with the manuscript guidelines (see following).

Authors must obtain permission to or display the source, credits required for reproducing images, tables, or excerpts from other copyrighted sources.

 

Submitting Your Manuscript

Manuscript should be submitted through the journal submission portal. Author(s) are required to log into the journal website to submit the manuscripts.

Please use the following templates to prepare your submission files:
Noctis Manuscript Template

 

Preparing Your Manuscript

Types of Manuscript: The journal accepts manuscripts in the forms of research papers, theoretical papers, design project reviews, exhibition reviews, and book reviews, discourse all abou creative industries.

Length of Manuscript: Research papers and theoretical papers should be between 4000-6000 words. 

Manuscript Language: Manuscripts are written in English or (Bahasa) Indonesian. Specific Use of terms in other languages must be clearly explained with an appropriate English translation.

Abstract and Keywords: Manuscript should include an abstract of 150-200 words and up to five keywords. 

Layout and Style: Manuscript should be submitted in Microsoft Word document file format (.docx). Manuscript should be typed double-spaced, on A4 portrait document settings, left justified, with no special formatting. 

Title Page: The Title Page should contain the title of the manuscript, the name(s) of the author(s), the affiliation(s) of the author(s,)  address and email of the corresponding author, author(s) biography, and acknowledgement of funding body and other relevant parties (if any), and submitted as a separate file.

Figures and Tables: All figures and tables should be included in the body text of the manuscript. When a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author(s) are required to supply all figures as separate .jpg files at 300 dpi. Tables should be presented as editable texts rather than as images. 

Anonymity: Author(s) are responsible to ensure that the manuscript does not contain any identification of the author(s), except on the Title Page. The citation and references to the authors' own work within the manuscript should be anonymised, for example (Author, 2012). 

References: References should be listed at the end of the document rather than as footnotes. Authors are suggested to use bibliography management tool such as Zotero or Mendeley.

 

The manuscript should adhere to the APA referencing system, referred in the following examples:

Journal Article

Hollis, E. (2018). Unreliable guides: Introducing, mapping, and performing interior. Interiority, 1(1), 21–35. https://doi.org/10.7454/in.v1i1.6

Book

Pallasmaa, J. (2012). The eyes of the skin: Architecture and the senses. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons.

Translated Book

Alberti, L. B. (1988). On the art of building in ten books. (J. Rykwert, N. Leach, R. Tavernor, Trans.). Cambridge, MA, London: The MIT Press. (Original work published 1485)

Book Chapter

Meade, T. (2013). Interior design, a political discipline. In G. Brooker & S. Stone (Eds.), The handbook of interior architecture and design (pp. 394-403). London: Bloomsbury.

Dissertation/Thesis

Stafford, L. (2013). The journey of becoming involved: The experience of participation in urban spaces by children with diverse mobility. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.

Web Page

Griffiths, S. (2017, October 30). Now is not the time to be indulging in postmodern revivalism. Retrieved from https://www.dezeen.com/2017/10/30/sean-griffiths-fat-postmodern-revivalism-dangerous-times-opinion/

Artwork

Ghirlandaio, D. (1480). Saint Jerome in His Study [Painting]. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domenico_ghirlandaio,_san_girolamo_01.jpg

Exhibition Catalogue

Carey, J. (2017). indeterminate duration [Exhibition catalogue]. Melbourne: Neon Parlour.

Peer Review Process

  • Initial Review: The editor evaluates the submitted manuscript to determine if the content is suitable for the journal. The manuscript is also subjected to a similarity check procedure to identify any indication of plagiarism. Manuscripts with contents that are not suitable for the journal or with a high percentage of similarity will be returned immediately to the author(s).
  • Peer Review: Submitted manuscripts that have passed the initial review are subjected to double-blind review, where both authors and reviewers remain anonymous during the review process. Minimum of two reviewers are assigned to evaluate and provide the recommendation for a manuscript. 
  • Decision: The editor makes the final decision on the acceptability of a manuscript based on the comments and recommendation of the reviewers. 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Articles

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Copyright Notice

License and Copyright Agreement
In submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors certify that:

  • They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  • The work described has not been formally published before, except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or overlay journal.
  • That it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere,
  • That its publication has been approved by all the author(s) and by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – of the institutes where the work has been carried out.
  • They secure the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.
  • They agree to the following license and copyright agreement.

Copyright
Authors who publish with NOCTIS JOURNAL agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0)that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. 
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Licensing for Data Publication

NOCTIS JOURNAL use a variety of waivers and licenses, that are specifically designed for and appropriate for the treatment of data:

Other data publishing licenses may be allowed as exceptions (subject to approval by the editor on a case-by-case basis) and should be justified with a written statement from the author, which will be published with the article.

 

Open Data and Software Publishing and Sharing
The journal strives to maximize the replicability of the research published in it. Authors are thus required to share all data, code or protocols underlying the research reported in their articles. Exceptions are permitted but have to be justified in a written public statement accompanying the article.
Datasets and software should be deposited and permanently archived inappropriate, trusted, general, or domain-specific repositories (please consult http://service.re3data.org and/or software repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, Bioinformatics.org, or equivalent). The associated persistent identifiers (e.g. DOI, or others) of the dataset(s) must be included in the data or software resources section of the article. Reference(s) to datasets and software should also be included in the reference list of the article with DOIs (where available). Where no domain-specific data repository exists, authors should deposit their datasets in a general repository such as ZENODO, Dryad, Dataverse, or others.
Small data may also be published as data files or packages supplementary to a research article, however, the authors should prefer in all cases a deposition in data repositories.

 

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