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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • 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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Papers submitted for publication must conform to the following guidelines:

  1. The article submitted should be based on research--be it library or fieldwork or other kinds of researches in the last two years, discuss the themes of musical aspects of Indonesian performing arts, aspects of traditional music of the archipelago; sound, voice, tone, system, organology, etc. texts and musical contexts of Indonesian performing arts, traditional music and socio-cultural context, ethnomusicology, and anthropology of music, and have not been previously published;
  2. Papers should write in Bahasa Indonesia or English, between 15-20 pages (>3000 words), must be typed in one-half spaced on A2-paper size, using book antiqua font 12 for contents and font 22 for titles and sub-titles;
  3. Writing guidelines:
    1. The title no more than 12 words
    2. Full name(s) of the author(s) must be stated, along with his/her/their institution and complete address, including email addres;
    3. All submission must include a 150-200 word abstract (in English and/or Indonesian);
    4. Structure of the papers consist of Introduction; Method, Result and Discussion; Conclusion; and Bibliography.
    5. All submission should be in; Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format;
  4. When a source is cited for the first time, full information is provided: full name(s) of author(s), title of the source in italic, place of publication, publishing company, date of publication, and the precise page that is cited. For the following citations of the same source, list the author’s last name, two or three words of the title, and the specific page number(s). The word ibid. may be used, but op.cit., and loc.cit. are not. Bibliographical reference must be noted in footnote and bibliography according to Paraguna style.
  5. The article should present bibliography which entails primary sources--books, manuscripts, interviews, or observation--and updated secondary sources from books or peer reviewed journals
  6. The style and format, including the structure of article, footnotes, bibliography, should follow those of Journal of Paraguna
  7. The template of Journal of Paraguna article in word document format is available for download here
  8. Download Manual Guide here

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  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. 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 acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. 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.

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