Editorial Sections and Accepted Manuscript Types

ACSR maintains exactly two OJS editorial sections. Both sections accept manuscripts written in English only, but use distinct manuscript templates and review instruments.

• Article: Accepts Research Paper and Literature Review Paper manuscripts. Both types use the Advances in Research Master Manuscript Template and are assessed using the standard scholarly review form.
• Community Partnerships and Impacts: Accepts Community Service Article manuscripts using the New ACSR Template Submission. These manuscripts are assessed using the dedicated Community Partnerships and Impacts Review Form containing 11 assessment components.

Research Paper: Original research using a defensible quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, experimental, quasi-experimental, longitudinal, cross-sectional, comparative, archival, case-based, computational, or other appropriate research design. The manuscript must demonstrate suitable scholarly grounding, transparent methods, credible evidence, and a substantive contribution.

Literature Review Paper: A critical scholarly synthesis supported by an explicitly identified, transparent, and justified review approach. Eligible approaches may include narrative, integrative, systematic, scoping, structured, bibliometric, meta-analytical, theory-oriented, or concept-oriented reviews where the actual methods and evidence support the stated design and contribution.

Community Service Article: A documented account of community engagement, partnerships, service-learning, community-based interventions, collaborative implementation, program evaluation, and demonstrated community outcomes or benefits.

Select the section corresponding to the manuscript's principal purpose and evidence. Research designs, analytical techniques, datasets, software, and review approaches do not create additional sections or independent manuscript categories. Community Service Articles belong to Community Partnerships and Impacts. All fields expressly recognized in the current ACSR Aims & Scope have equal scholarly standing.

Manuscript Format and Templates

• Language and file: Clear, consistent academic English; editable Microsoft Word .doc or .docx. PDF does not replace the required editable manuscript files.
• Page layout: A4, single column, Calisto MT 11 pt for the main text, and single spacing, following any more specific instructions in the applicable template.
• Title: No more than 20 words, accurately representing the manuscript's subject and contribution.
• Abstract and keywords: A structured abstract of no more than 200 words and 1–6 relevant keywords.
• References: APA 7th edition; at least 25 references, with at least 80% drawn from journal articles. Prioritize relevant scholarship from approximately the last ten years; older seminal works may be included when theoretically or methodologically indispensable.

Article section: Use the Advances in Research Master Manuscript Template, retain the structure applicable to Research Paper or Literature Review Paper, and remove unused instructions and example text.

Advances in Research Master Manuscript Template ↗

Community Partnerships and Impacts: Use the New ACSR Template Submission designated for Community Service Articles. Do not replace this template with the general Research Paper or Literature Review Paper template. The submission-template reference is provided below; authors should confirm that the file obtained is the current community-service template designated by the Editorial Office.

ACSR Community-Service Submission Template Reference ↗

Both sections: Prepare a separate Title Page & Author Information Form containing the author details and applicable publication declarations. Ensure that the journal name, section, and manuscript type accurately identify the ACSR submission.

Title Page & Author Information Form ↗

Structured Abstract

Write the abstract in English using the structure required by the applicable template. The complete abstract must not exceed 200 words.

• Research Paper: Purpose; Research Methodology; Results; Research limitations/Implications; Originality.
• Literature Review Paper: Purpose; Review Methodology; Findings; Research limitations/Implications; Originality.
• Community Service Article: Purpose; Implementation Method; Results and Discussion; Implications, following the designated community-service template.

State the objective, actual method or implementation approach, principal findings or outcomes, and supported contribution. Avoid unnecessary detailed coefficients, p-values, test statistics, model-fit indices, bibliometric counts, or other numerical outputs. Do not overstate significance, generalizability, effectiveness, sustainability, or community impact.

Research Paper Structure

Research Papers normally follow Introduction → Review of Literature → Research Methodology → Results and Discussion → Conclusion, using the applicable master template.

• Introduction: Establish the state of the art, scholarly context, research problem, gap, novelty, objectives or questions, significance, and intended contribution. Explain how the research responds to the identified problem.
• Review of Literature: Critically evaluate and synthesize theories, concepts, and prior evidence. Identify agreements, disagreements, unresolved questions, and gaps. Develop an appropriate framework, model, propositions, or hypotheses where justified.
• Research Methodology: Describe the actual design, context, units of analysis, population, sampling or case selection, data sources and collection, measurements, analytical procedures, software, validity or reliability considerations, and ethical safeguards where applicable.
• Research Results: Report empirical evidence accurately and transparently, including material findings that do not support the proposed hypotheses. Tables, figures, and analytical outputs should support the findings without unnecessary repetition.
• Discussion: Interpret findings in relation to the problem, conceptual foundation, prior scholarship, and relevant context. Explain expected and unexpected results, contributions, limitations, and supported theoretical, methodological, practical, managerial, or policy implications.
• Conclusion: Answer the objectives, identify the principal contribution and implications, acknowledge material limitations, and provide focused future-research directions without reproducing the abstract or detailed results.

Where Results and Discussion share a principal heading, retain distinguishable subsections for Research Results and Discussion. Methodology explains what was done; Results reports the evidence; Discussion interprets its meaning; and Conclusion states what the study establishes.

Literature Review Paper Structure

Literature Review Papers normally follow Introduction → Review Methodology → Review Findings / Literature Synthesis → Discussion → Conclusion.

• Introduction: Establish the scholarly problem, review context, state of the literature, gap, objectives or questions, significance, and intended contribution.
• Review Methodology: Identify and justify the actual review approach. Explain how literature was identified, selected, organized, evaluated, and synthesized. Report databases, searches, eligibility criteria, screening, duplicate handling, analytical methods, and software where genuinely applicable.
• Review Findings / Literature Synthesis: Present meaningful themes, concepts, theoretical perspectives, evidence patterns, debates, methodological developments, or gaps. Move beyond descriptive study-by-study listings.
• Discussion: Explain what the literature establishes, remaining contradictions and limitations, how the synthesis develops or challenges existing knowledge, and the implications supported by the evidence.
• Conclusion: Answer the review objectives, synthesize principal insights, clarify originality and contribution, acknowledge limitations, and provide a focused future-research agenda.

Describe procedures actually performed. Claims of systematic searching, PRISMA use, scoping review, bibliometric analysis, meta-analysis, or another specialized design must be supported by the reported methods and records. Bibliometric mapping or descriptive classification alone is insufficient without substantive synthesis and interpretation.

Community Service Article Structure

Community Service Articles must follow the New ACSR Template Submission. Use its headings and instructions to report the community setting, program rationale, implementation, participation, evaluation, outcomes, and supported implications.

• Introduction: Explain community needs or problems, participating communities and partners, objectives, rationale, and intended contribution. Describe community involvement in identifying needs and developing the initiative where applicable.
• Literature Review: Present relevant scholarly, conceptual, institutional, or practice-based foundations supporting the initiative and its relationship to existing community-engagement knowledge.
• Implementation Method: Describe the setting, target participants, collaborating partners, stages, materials, activities, instruments, evaluation procedures, permissions, and ethical safeguards. Report only activities actually undertaken.
• Results and Discussion: Present implemented activities, participation, relevant documentation, evaluation findings, observed outcomes, and evidence of contribution. Interpret these in relation to objectives, needs, and relevant literature.
• Program Evaluation and Sustainability: Explain evaluation procedures, outcome indicators, limitations, follow-up arrangements, community capacity, and sustainability or continuation considerations supported by evidence, following their placement in the designated template.
• Conclusion: Summarize achievement of objectives, suitability of the approach, documented outcomes, benefits, limitations, and recommendations. Use concise paragraphs rather than bullet points; no more than 250 words is recommended. Do not include citations, tables, or figures in this section.
• Acknowledgment and References: Recognize relevant partners and contributors while preserving anonymous review, and provide references supporting the rationale, implementation, evaluation, and discussion.

Distinguish implemented activities, measured outcomes, participant feedback, anticipated benefits, and longer-term impacts. Claims of effectiveness, sustainability, behavioral change, or community transformation must not exceed the available evidence. Assessment uses the dedicated 11-component Community Partnerships and Impacts Review Form.

Two Required Files at Initial Submission

• Blinded Manuscript: Title, abstract, keywords, manuscript type, main text, tables, figures, and references, without author names, affiliations, email addresses, identifying acknowledgements, revealing document properties, or other author-identifying information. Use the template for the selected editorial section.
• Separate Title Page & Author Information Form: Article title, selected section and manuscript type, manuscript identifier where assigned, author names without academic titles or ranks, complete affiliations, email addresses, corresponding-author information, ORCID details, CRediT contributions, funding, conflicts of interest, ethics and consent, data availability, acknowledgements, third-party permissions, originality and authorship declarations, and applicable AI-use disclosure.

The corresponding author's ORCID is required; other authors should provide an ORCID where available. Author names, order, affiliations, and other information entered in OJS must agree with the Title Page.

Keep identifying declarations outside the Blinded Manuscript while retaining sufficient non-identifying methodological, implementation, and ethics information for assessment. Do not combine the two files. A separate author statement letter is not a third mandatory file in the normal initial-submission workflow unless specifically requested by the Editorial Office.

Tables, Figures and Language

Tables and figures must be relevant, accurate, readable, numbered separately and consecutively, and placed near their first substantive discussion. Place titles above the corresponding items and sources, notes, and explanatory information below, following the applicable template. Ensure consistency between visual materials, numerical results, terminology, and narrative claims.

Figures should be clear and publication-ready; at least 300 DPI is recommended for raster images. For Community Service Articles, the designated template requires photographs and images at a minimum of 300 DPI in JPEG (.jpg) format. Use relevant activity documentation, avoid repetitive images, and do not include selfie, wefie, or deliberately posed photographs of subjects facing the camera.

Obtain necessary permissions for reproduced or adapted tables, figures, photographs, instruments, datasets, and other third-party materials. Identifiable participant photographs and records require applicable consent, confidentiality safeguards, and publication permission.

Use clear academic English, coherent paragraphs, consistent terminology, and appropriate grammar. Language editing must preserve the scientific meaning, actual activities, evidence, data, and conclusions. Remove template instructions and unused example content before submission.

References and Citation Integrity

Use APA Style, 7th edition, with author-date citations and a complete reference list. The minimum reference count does not replace the requirement for relevant, credible, and substantively used scholarship. Literature Review Papers must use a sufficiently broad and defensible evidence base appropriate to their objectives and methods.

Reconcile citations and references in both directions: every cited work must appear in the reference list, and every reference-list entry must be cited in the manuscript. Verify names, years, titles, journal names, volumes, issues, pages or article numbers, DOIs, URLs, and other bibliographic details. Provide DOI information where available.

Every reference must be genuine, traceable, relevant, and accurately represented. Fabricated, fictitious, hallucinated, materially inaccurate, misleading, or unverifiable references are not permitted. Sources must actually support the claims for which they are cited. Reference-management software may assist preparation but does not replace author verification and responsibility.

Originality, Authorship and Declarations

The corresponding author must confirm, on behalf of all authors, that the work is original, has not previously been published as a journal article, is not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere, accurately attributes third-party work, and has been approved by all listed authors in the agreed authorship order. Disclose earlier public versions, overlapping work, and relevant prior dissemination to the Editorial Office.

Authorship must reflect genuine contributions and responsibility for the work. Honorary, guest, gift, or unsupported authorship is inappropriate. Report author contributions using the CRediT contributor-role framework, accurately reflecting the contributions actually made.

Complete applicable declarations concerning ethics approvals, institutional or organizational authorization, informed consent, publication consent, community-partner permissions, instrument-use permissions, data availability, confidentiality, funding, conflicts of interest, acknowledgements, AI assistance, and third-party materials. Supporting documentation may be requested.

Ethics approvals, consent statements, permissions, authorization numbers, funding, community participation, data-access claims, author contributions, and other declarations must never be invented or inferred where they do not exist. State non-applicability truthfully where appropriate. Identifying declarations belong in the separate Title Page during anonymous review.

Generative AI

AI systems cannot be authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility for originality, accuracy, ethical compliance, or the scholarly record. Human authors remain accountable for all manuscript content, research or implementation methods, data, analysis, interpretations, outcomes, citations, references, and conclusions.

Disclose substantive generative-AI assistance accurately through the designated Title Page or declaration process. Independently verify AI-assisted text, calculations, citations, summaries, figures, code, and interpretations before inclusion. AI assistance does not justify fabricated evidence, references, activities, outcomes, or declarations.

Do not upload confidential information, identifiable participant data, unpublished third-party materials, or other protected content to external systems where appropriate authorization, confidentiality, and data protection cannot be assured. Consult the journal's Publication Ethics requirements.

Peer Review, Revision and Point-by-Point Response

Submissions undergo initial screening for scope, section and manuscript type, template compliance, anonymization, originality, contribution, methodological or implementation adequacy, integrity, citation accuracy, and essential submission requirements. Manuscripts with substantial deficiencies may be returned for correction or declined without external review.

Eligible manuscripts proceed to double-anonymous peer review, normally involving at least two independent reviewers. Research Papers and Literature Review Papers use the standard scholarly review form; Community Service Articles use the dedicated 11-component form. The separate Title Page remains outside the blinded review file.

When revisions are requested, submit the revised blinded manuscript and a point-by-point response to every substantive editorial and reviewer comment through the designated OJS revision workflow. Identify the amendment and relevant section or page. Where a suggestion is not adopted, provide a respectful, evidence-based explanation.

Submit revisions within the timeframe stated in the decision. A revision invitation does not guarantee acceptance. Reviewer recommendations are advisory; final scientific-editorial responsibility remains with the responsible academic editor and, where applicable, the Editor-in-Chief. Editorial decisions are independent of APC payment, ability to pay, or waiver eligibility.

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Open Access, APC and Publication Schedule

ACSR provides immediate Open Access without subscription charges. Authors retain copyright, and published articles use the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), subject to attribution requirements and applicable third-party rights.

The standard APC is IDR 750,000 per accepted manuscript when at least one author has an institutional affiliation in Indonesia. A full waiver / IDR 0 applies when all authors are institutionally affiliated exclusively outside Indonesia. Eligibility follows institutional affiliation rather than nationality, citizenship, birthplace, or residence. The same policy applies to both editorial sections.

No APC is payable before final scientific-editorial acceptance. APC or waiver administration begins only after acceptance. Where payment applies, the Editorial Office issues an official invoice with authorized instructions. ACSR does not charge mandatory submission, peer-review, page, color-figure, language-editing, or separate withdrawal fees. Consult the authoritative APC Policy for reviewer discounts, eligibility verification, payment security, historical invoices, withdrawal, and refunds.

ACSR publishes one volume per year with exactly two regular numbered issues: No. 1 September–February and No. 2 March–August. The September–February period spans two calendar years. Both editorial sections follow the same publication schedule.

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Submission Preparation Checklist

• The manuscript is original, written in clear academic English, and not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere.
• The subject fits the current Aims & Scope, and the correct section and manuscript type have been selected.
• The manuscript uses the correct section-specific template and meets the title, abstract, keyword, layout, structure, and reference requirements.
• The Blinded Manuscript and separate Title Page are prepared as editable DOC or DOCX files, with identifying information removed from the blinded file and its document properties.
• Methods, activities, data, results, outcomes, tables, figures, citations, references, and DOI details have been checked for accuracy and consistency.
• Applicable ethics approvals, consent, community or institutional permissions, instrument permissions, and third-party rights have been obtained and reported accurately.
• The Title Page includes verified author details, corresponding-author ORCID, CRediT contributions, and applicable funding, conflicts, data availability, acknowledgements, and AI disclosures.
• All authors approve the manuscript and authorship order, accept responsibility for the work, and have reviewed the journal's ethics, licensing, privacy, and APC policies.
• The uploaded files and OJS submission metadata agree, including the title, author names and order, affiliations, abstract, and keywords.

Submit through OJS and Contact

Formal submissions must use the official ACSR OJS platform. Manuscripts sent only through personal email, WhatsApp, or other messaging channels do not constitute formal submissions.

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Journal and administrative support: Questions concerning submission, templates, OJS access, editorial correspondence, APC administration, and publication procedures may be directed to Muslim Muslim, Managing Editor, at advancesresearch@gmail.com.

Academic editorial matters: Scientific-editorial questions may be referred to Muhammad Ridwan Manulusi, Editor-in-Chief, through the official Editorial Office.

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