Author Guidelines
General guidelines
ARTICLE TEMPLATE
Bahasa Indonesia or English language articles are accepted. Authors are responsible for the language quality in their article, and is strongly recommended to have your manuscript checked by an English language specialist before submission, in order to ensure that the language is acceptable. This journal does not charge any fees for all manuscript types
Authors should provide the following information:
- – Full name
- – Affiliation (where the author was positioned when the research was undertaken – if authors change affiliation before publishing this should be given as a footnote)
- – Address
- – Email address
- – ORCiD, this is not mandatory, but highly recommended for the benefit of authors: unique author identifier that ensures that all your works are correctly attributed to you – see https://orcid.org
- – Clear identification of the corresponding author (who will be responsible for ensuring that the correct version is submitted and that all authors agree to publication and approve any corrections during peer review and after acceptance).
Each article must comprise:
- – An informative title: ensure that it clearly explains what the article is about (not exceed 20 words)
- – An abstract of approximately 150-250 words: this should summarise the article, not simply introduce the topic
- – Between 3-5 key words
- – The main body of text should not exceed 6000–8000 words and should comprise:
- An introduction to the topic, describing the research question being addressed
- Methodology and/or theoretical framework
- Results of the research
- Discussion and interpretation of results obtained
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements, funding, declarations of conflict of interest, authors' contribution, etc.
- References
Text sections may be numbered sequentially for clarity. Introduction, Conclusions, References are not numbered.
Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised. When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM
Paragraph
Use the Normal style with Goudy Old Style font format, font size 10, spacing 1, justify left and right. The first line of the paragraph is indented to the right 0.7 cm. The writing of chapter titles and sub-chapters follows the Style : Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3. Heading 1 is written in capital letters, Heading 2 is written in capital letters at the beginning of a word, while Heading 3 is written in Italic format. Decimal numbers separated by commas, example 2.34. The minimum number of pages is 5, and the maximum is 12.
Formula
Article writing must use the Microsoft Equation facility available on Microsoft Word. Add the equation number on the right side.
Tables and Figures
Tables and figures are placed not far from the text. Each table and figure must be mentioned in the text. Tables and figures are presented in text boxes. Use Caption styles. The contents of the table are written in a format according to the TC_Table_Body style
The information displayed in tables and figures must be readable. Graphics must have axis title. Avoid presenting tables in screenshot image format (jpg/bitmap). Do not put title above the chart. Please follow style of the above graph.
Tables and figures should not be cut off the page. If the table is presented on 2 separate pages, the table located on the second page needs to be given the same title. The size of tables and figures should match the size of one column. If tables or figures are too wide, they can be displayed as wide as the page margin with notes placed at the top or bottom of the page.
Equations
Formulas, equations and their components presented in the text must be written in Equation Editor. The size of basic symbols in equations should correspond to the letter size of the main text – 10 pt; indexes should be in 7 pt, sub-indexes – 6 pt. For more details see the Template of the Manuscript.
Tables
Tables should be created in Word or Excel and should be designed so that they easily fit a regular journal page. Each table should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and mentioned in the main text.
Each table must have an informative caption to describe the table. They may have footnotes if explanations of abbreviations, etc., are required.
Figures
Figures may be supplied within the text file at submission, but on article acceptance they must be supplied as separate files.
Each figure should be numbered sequentially throughout the article and mentioned in the main text. Each figure must have an informative caption to describe the figure.
Please be sure that all figures are at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
Diagrams, charts and schemes: font – Times New Roman from 5 to 8 pt, line thickness – from 0.3 to 2 pt, file formats – *.pdf, *.eps, *.cdr, *.xls, *.xlsx, *.dwg.
Author Contributions and Acknowledgments
Each person who made an intellectual contribution to the research, and the evaluation/analysis and to the writing of the article (see the ICMJE definition of authorship) should be named as an author.
People who contributed to the work (but do not fulfil the authorship criteria) should be listed in the Acknowledgments, along with their contributions. You must ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being named.
Conflict of Interest
Authors must also provide a disclosure statement within the article which will acknowledge any financial, professional, personal interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
Funding
Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as Funding in a separate paragraph as follows:
- For single agency grants:
- This work was supported by the <Funding Agency> under Grant [number xxxx].
- For multiple agency grants:
- This work was supported by the <Funding Agency #1> under Grant [number xxxx]; <Funding Agency #2> under Grant [number xxxx]; and <Funding Agency #3> under Grant [number xxxx].
References
Number of references at least 10 with 30% of them coming from journal articles. The authors are suggested to use references that published in the past 10 years, although it does not rule out the possibility of more than 10 years as long as it is relevant to the research. Use the APA Style. The references have to be cited in the article and arranged alphabetically. All citations in the article must be indicated in the references, and vice versa. Please check if all names and surnames of the authors, also the details (title, year, volume, pages, etc.) in the list of references are correct.
In the text use the following style examples:
Budi, G.S., 2003, Penyebaran kekuatan dari kolom yang terbuat dari limbah karbit dan kapur. Jurnal Dimensi Teknik Sipil 5(2). 99-102.
Hewayde, E, El Naggar, H., Khorshid, N. 2005. Reinforced lime columns: a new technique for heave control. Ground Improvement 9(2): 79 –87
Ermina, R., Nugroho, S. A., Putra, A. I.,2012. Korelasi Parameter Kuat Geser Tanah Hasil Pengujian Triaksial dan Unconfined Compression Strength (UCS), Jurnal Sains dan Teknologi 11(1), 1-10
Muntohar, A.S., 2014. Prinsip - Prinsip Perbaikan Tanah. Yogyakarta: LP3M UMY.
Muntohar, A.S., Rosyidi, S.A.P., Diana, W., Iswanto, 2014, Perilaku Beban-Deformasi Pelat Fleksibel Didukung dengan Kolom-Kolom Eco-SiCC di Tanah Ekspansif, Konferensi Nasional Teknik Sipil 8 (KoNTekS 8), Institut Teknologi Nasional, Bandung, Indonesia, 16–18 Oktober 2014, pp. STR95-STR10
Tonoz, M.C., Gokceoglu, C., dan Ulusay, R., 2003, A laboratory-scale experimental investigation on the performance of lime in expansive Ankara (Turkey) clay, Bulletin Engineering Geology & Environmental 62, 91-106
Supplemental online material
The journal can accept supplementary files that support the submitted article (e.g. audio, movie, or text files: for example a survey questionnaire which is described in the article). Supplemental information should be provided with the submission. It will not be formally reviewed but will be considered to determine whether it is required by the article. Please note that authors take fully responsibility for the content of any supplemental information, and a disclaimer on the supplemental information must clearly state that they have not been formally reviewed.
Data
We encourage all researchers to archive and share their data. Several grant funders now require this, and we believe that it benefits research by enabling other researchers to reuse and reinterpret data for the benefit of all. We encourage all authors to make their data available in suitable repositories (for example FigShare, or other similar repository) where the item will be safely archived and given a unique reference number (DOI or similar), so that it can be cited in the authors' articles. They should then be referenced in the article (see an example ‘Data sets in repositories’ in References).
Reproduction of copyright material
If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.
The reproduction of short extracts of text for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
Publication Ethics
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal reflects the work quality of its author(s) with his/her or their pertaining institution(s). Therefore, it is important for a peer-reviewed journal to have an ethical standard for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author(s), the journal editors, the peer reviewers, and the publisher. Bulletin of Civil Engineering (BCE) is committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint, and/or other commercial revenues have no impact nor influence editorial decisions. In addition, the BCE will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers should this be necessary to the editors.
Duties of the editors
The BCE's editors are responsible for deciding as to which of the articles submitted should be reviewed and published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such a decision. The editor-in-chief must seriously prevent libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual contents without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author(s).
Editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information on a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author(s), reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without a written consent of the author(s). Privileged information or ideas obtained through a peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantages.
Editors should recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication. An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher (or society). Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.
Duties of the reviewers
A peer review assists the editor-in-chief in making an editorial decision and editorial communications with the author(s). Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review research reported in a manuscript, or knows that its prompt review will be impossible, should notify the editor-in-chief and excuse himself/herself from the review process. Any manuscript received for review must be treated as a confidential document.
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author(s) is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by relevant citations. A reviewer should also call to the editor-in-chief's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which he/she has personal knowledge. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without an expressed written consent of the author(s). Privileged information or ideas obtained through a peer review must be kept confidential and not utilized for personal advantages. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest.
Duties of the authors
Authors of a report of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as objective discussion on its significance. Data and citations should be represented accurately in the paper. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Plagiarism takes many forms, from using another’s paper as the author’s own paper to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution), or claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is intolerable.
An author should not in general publish a manuscript describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source(s). Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study, and seen and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission for publication.
All authors should disclose in their manuscripts any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the BCE’s editor-in-chief and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
