Author Guidelines

Here are author guidelines for Kreator:

  1. The manuscript can be written using English. The author must write an article in accordance with journal format, as in the template of this journal [link].
  2. The article contains the abstract, introduction, method, result and discussion, conclution, acknowledge, and reference list.
  3. The submitted article must be written with a minimum of 6 pages. You can send it by Kreator address at the following [link]. The author must login first to send his an article. The submission guide can be downloaded on the following pages.
  4. The format should follow the manuscript template that contains:
    • TITLE: The title of the article is written using 16 size Arial  letters, capitalized, bold, Align Right, consisting of a maximum of 25 words and describing the contents of the manuscript.
    • AUTHORS: The author's names should be accompanied by the author's institutions, institutions address, and email addresses, without any academic titles and job titles.
    • ABSTRACT: This paper provides a template for preparing papers for electronic production of the Journal of Kreator. A well-prepared abstract enables the reader to identify the basic content of a document quickly and accurately, to determine its relevance to their interests, and thus to decide whether to read the document in its entirety. The Abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory, provide a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and point out major findings and conclusions. The Abstract should be 150 to 250 words in length. The abstract should be written in the past tense. Standard nomenclature should be used and abbreviations should be avoided. No literature should be cited. The keyword list provides the opportunity to add keywords, used by the indexing and abstracting services, in addition to those already present in the title. Judicious use of keywords may increase the ease with which interested parties can locate our article.
    • KEYWORDS: The keyword list provides the opportunity to add 3 to 5 keywords.
    • INTRODUCTION: The introduction should include at least 3 paragraphs containing: (1) Paragraph I contain the background/problems/facts that support the research/study; (2) Paragraph II contains the state of the art/related works which contains at least 5 related previous studies; (3) Paragraph III contains the research position/gap/differentiation and defines the purpose of the research/study.
    • METHOD: Contains how data is collected, data sources and ways of data analysis.
    • RESULT AND DISCUSSION: Results are the main part of scientific articles, containing: final results without data analysis process, hypothesis testing results. Results can be presented with tables or graphs, to clarify the results verbally. Discussion is the most important part of the entire contents of scientific articles. The objectives of the discussion are: answering research problems, interpreting findings, integrating findings from research into existing sets of knowledge and composing new theories or modifying existing theories.
    • CONCLUSION: Contains conclusions and suggestions. Conclusions include answers to research questions. Suggestions refer to the results of the study and take the form of practical actions, mention to whom and for what advice is intended. Written in essay form, not numerical form.
    • ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Authors may give acknowledgement to whom support the fund of the research.
    • REFERENCES:

      References should: (1) Minimum 10 references; (ii) 80% are sourced from reputable journal articles (clear sources and DOI) up to date, maximum in the last 10 years; (iii) 20% comes from sources other than journal articles (books, news portals, etc.); and (iv) Recommended to use the Mendeley reference manager (APA Style).

  5. The table is created with a line width of 1pt and the table caption is placed above the table. Information on tables consisting of more than 2 rows is written using 1 line spacing. The table lines are only horizontal lines while vertical lines are omitted.  
  6. The picture is inserted in the text box and the figure caption is placed below the image. The caption of the image is numbered and the image must be referred to in the text. Captions begin with uppercase letters. Captions of images with more than one line are written using line spacing 1. The image is drawn with a line width of 1pt and should have good contrast quality.

  7. The formula is written separately not in the sentence and equipped with numbering on the right. The formula is written using Microsoft equation.