Submissions

Author Guidelines

Effective for submissions from 9 November 2026. Manuscripts submitted earlier are processed under the previous guidelines. Please read all nine sections before submitting. Manuscripts that do not follow these guidelines are returned to the authors at the desk review stage.

Downloads: Article Template 2026 (.docx) | Title Page Template (.docx) | Related policies: Policies | Publication Ethics

1. General requirements

Scope: original research with a multidisciplinary approach in Management and Business, Visual Communication Design, Social Engineering, or Computer Science.
Article types: Research Article, Case Study, and Review Article (systematic literature review or bibliometric analysis).
Language: Indonesian or English. The abstract and keywords are written in both English and Indonesian.
Originality: the manuscript has not been published and is not under consideration by another journal. Similarity must not exceed 20% (excluding quotations and the reference list); see the Plagiarism Check policy.
Template: all manuscripts must use the ELANG Article Template 2026 (A4, Cambria). The recommended length is 4,000–8,000 words excluding references.
Authorship: every author must have contributed according to at least one CRediT role and must have approved the final manuscript. The list of authors may not be changed after review without the written consent of all authors and the Editor-in-Chief.

2. Files to upload

ELANG uses double-anonymous peer review. Every submission must contain three files; OJS will not accept a submission if one is missing.

File (OJS component)	Content	Sent to reviewers?
Anonymized Manuscript	The full manuscript in the template without author names, affiliations, e-mail, acknowledgements or funding. Remove identifying information from the file properties. Self-citations are written in the third person.	Yes
Title Page and Declarations	Completed Title Page Template: authors in order, affiliations, e-mail, ORCID, CRediT roles, acknowledgements, funding, and any identifying details of anonymized declarations.	No, editor only
Similarity Report (Turnitin)	Full Turnitin report, maximum 20% excluding quotations and references.	No

In the Contributors step of OJS, enter all authors in the same order, with the same names and affiliations as in the Title Page. Every author entered receives a confirmation e-mail.

3. Manuscript structure

Research Article: Title, Abstract/Abstrak, Keywords, 1. Introduction, 2. Method, 3. Results and Discussion, 4. Conclusion, 5. Declarations, References.

Case Study: the same structure, with the Method section describing the case, its context, why it was chosen and how the result was evaluated. A case study that only builds an application or system without evaluation is outside the scope and will not be reviewed.

Review Article: the Method section must state the protocol (for example PRISMA 2020), databases, search string, period, inclusion and exclusion criteria, screening results (a flow diagram is recommended) and analysis tools. The Results present the synthesis, not a list of summaries of individual papers.

Results and Discussion must interpret the findings and compare them with previous studies. Where possible, include a quantitative comparison table (study, method, data or context, metric, result) as shown in the template.

Conclusion answers the objective, states the main findings, the theoretical and practical implications, the limitations and recommendations for future research. It is written in paragraphs, not bullet points.

4. Title, abstract and Introduction

Title: concise and informative, no more than 14 words, without abbreviations.
Abstract/Abstrak: one paragraph of no more than 250 words in each language, containing background and problem, objective, method, main findings with key figures, and conclusion or implication. No citations.
Keywords: 3–5 keywords or phrases, separated by semicolons, in both languages.
Introduction follows four moves: (1) context – the problem and why it matters; (2) research gap – what previous studies have and have not resolved, supported by citations to those studies rather than only the authors’ opinion; (3) objective – the aim or research question; (4) contribution – what is new compared with previous work. The contribution may be written as a paragraph or a list.

5. Declarations

Section 5 of every manuscript contains seven declarations. Declarations 5.1, 5.3, 5.5 and 5.7 are written in the Anonymized Manuscript in anonymous form. Declarations 5.2, 5.4 and 5.6 are written in the Title Page and are moved into the article by the editor after acceptance. Details that would identify the authors (such as the name of the ethics committee, a repository link that shows author names, or the nature of a conflict of interest) are written in Title Page section F.

Declaration	Requirement	Where
5.1 Use of generative AI	State that no generative AI was used, or name the tool and version, the purpose, the sections concerned, and that the authors reviewed the output and take full responsibility. AI tools cannot be authors. AI-generated or AI-edited figures must also be disclosed in the caption.	Manuscript
5.2 Author contributions	CRediT taxonomy (14 roles): Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.	Title Page
5.3 Conflict of interest	“The authors declare no conflict of interest” or a description of any financial, personal or institutional relationship that could influence the work.	Manuscript (identifying details in Title Page)
5.4 Acknowledgements	People or institutions that helped but do not meet authorship criteria.	Title Page
5.5 Data availability	One of five statements: (a) openly available in a repository; (b) available from the corresponding author on reasonable request; (c) included in the article or supplementary files; (d) not publicly available, with the reason; (e) no new data created or analysed. Use an anonymous link during review.	Manuscript
5.6 Funding	Funder, grant number and role of the funder, or “This research received no external funding.”	Title Page
5.7 Ethical approval	One of four statements: (a) approved by an ethics committee, with approval number and informed consent; (b) exempted by an ethics committee, with the reason; (c) not required because only anonymized public or secondary data were used; (d) not applicable (no human participants, personal data or animals). Research that collects data from people (surveys, interviews, user testing) must state how informed consent was obtained and how personal data were protected.	Manuscript (committee name in Title Page)

6. Tables, figures and equations

Every table and figure is cited in the text before it appears and numbered consecutively (Table 1, Figure 1).
Table titles are placed above the table; tables use horizontal lines only. Figure titles are placed below the figure.
Figures must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi and remain readable in grayscale. State the source of any figure or table that is not the authors’ own work.
Equations are numbered consecutively, right-aligned in parentheses, and every symbol is defined.

7. References

Citation style: APA 7th edition, for example (Davis, 1989), (Yudha et al., 2022); reference list in alphabetical order with a hanging indent.
Minimum 25 references. At least 80% must be primary sources (journal articles, conference papers, research reports) and at least 80% must be published within the last 10 years.
Include the DOI for every source that has one. Every reference must be cited in the text and every citation must appear in the reference list.
Use a reference manager (Mendeley, Zotero or EndNote). Avoid citing Wikipedia, blogs and unpublished student theses.

8. Review process and timeline

Full details are in the Peer Review Process policy.

Stage	Description	Time
Desk review	The editor checks administrative completeness, scope, integrity and initial quality. Result: sent to review, returned to the authors for correction, or rejected.	Result within 7 days
Peer review	Double-anonymous review by at least two reviewers who are independent of the authors.	Reviewers respond to the invitation within 1 week and complete the review within 4 weeks
Revision	Authors revise and upload a response to every reviewer comment.	2 weeks
Decision and publication	The editor makes the final decision. Accepted articles are copyedited, laid out with the information from the Title Page, and published in the nearest issue (No. 1 in July, No. 2 in January).	–

9. Submission checklist

The manuscript uses the ELANG Article Template 2026 and falls within the focus and scope.
Three files are ready: Anonymized Manuscript, Title Page and Declarations, and Similarity Report (maximum 20%).
The Anonymized Manuscript contains no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding or identifying file properties.
The title has no more than 14 words; the abstract/abstrak has no more than 250 words in each language; there are 3–5 keywords.
The Introduction states the context, a gap supported by literature, the objective and the contribution.
The Discussion compares the results with previous studies.
All seven declarations are completed in the manuscript or the Title Page.
There are at least 25 references in APA 7th style, at least 80% primary and at least 80% from the last 10 years, with DOIs where available.
All authors in OJS have the same order, names and affiliations as in the Title Page.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements. Please read the Author Guidelines.

The manuscript is original, has not been published, and is not under consideration by another journal.
The manuscript uses the ELANG Article Template 2026 and fits the focus and scope (Management and Business, Visual Communication Design, Social Engineering, Computer Science).
I will upload three files: Anonymized Manuscript (without any author identity), Title Page and Declarations, and Similarity Report (Turnitin, maximum 20% excluding quotations and references).
The number, order, names and affiliations of the authors entered in OJS are exactly the same as in the Title Page, and all authors have approved the submission.
The seven declarations (generative AI, CRediT, conflict of interest, acknowledgements, data availability, funding, ethical approval) are completed in the manuscript or the Title Page.
The manuscript has at least 25 references in APA 7th style, at least 80% primary sources and at least 80% from the last 10 years, with DOIs where available.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in ELANG: Journal of Interdisciplinary Research retain the copyright of their articles and grant the journal the right of first publication. Articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, which allows anyone to share and adapt the work, including for commercial purposes, provided that the original work is properly cited and adaptations are distributed under the same license.

Transition statement: this policy applies to articles submitted from 9 November 2026. Articles published earlier may show a different copyright line on their PDF; they remain available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, and their authors may reuse their work under the same terms.

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