Author Guidline

TEMPLATE FOR MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

This template is designed to assist Author in preparing manuscript. Please read and understand the author's guidelines for the preparation manuscript. The author who submits a manuscript to the editors should comply with the author's guidelines and template. If the submitted manuscript does not comply with the guidelines or using a different format, it will be rejected by the editorial team before being reviewed. The editorial team will only accept a manuscript that meets the specified formatting requirements. Language used in this journal is English.

Authors should submit only manuscripts that have been carefully proofread. The manuscript is a scientific paper from research results or conceptual ideas. The scope of the journal is not limited to Criminal Law, Civil/Business Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and International Law; legal studies addressing contemporary legal issues and developments may also be published in this journal.

The Lex LATA Journal is a peer-reviewed journal published by Faculty of Law Sriwijaya University two times a year in June, and December. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Lex LATA is available in print and online version.

GUIDELINE FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION

Author should first register as Author and/or is offered as Reviewer through the following address:

Author should fulfil the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, Author clicks on 'Register' button to proceed the registration. Therefore, Author is brought to online author submission interface where Author should click on 'New Submission's. In the Start a New Submission section, click on 'Click Here': to go to step one of the five-step submission process'. The following are five steps in online submission process:

Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of journal, i.e. Original Research Articles or Review Article. Thus, author must check-mark on the submission checklists.

Step 2 - Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click Upload button.

Step 3 - Entering Submission's Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including marked corresponding author. After that, manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.

Step 4 - Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter, and Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement Form. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the files, and then click on Upload button.

Step 5 - Confirming the Submission: Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Lex LATA journal, click Finish Submission button after the documents is true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgement by email and will be able to view the submission's progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site.

After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at anytime by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes status of manuscript review and editorial process.

ARTICLE FORMAT

The sequence of manuscripts following:

  1. Title: The title is Preferably Not More Than 14 Words.
  2. Abstract: The abstract is preferred, and the text is between 150-300 words. The abstract should be clear, concise, and descriptive. This abstract should provide a brief introduction to the problem and the objective of the paper, followed by a statement of the methodology if the manuscript is based on a research report, and a brief summary of the results.
  3. Keywords: Maximum of 5 words.
  4. Introduction: The introduction should be clear and provide the issue to be discussed in the manuscript. Before the objective, authors should provide an adequate background, and very short literature survey in order to record the existing conditions, to show which is the best of previous research, to show the main limitation of the previous research, to show what you want to achieve (to solve the limitation), and to show the scientific merit or novelties of the paper. At the end of the paragraph, the author/s should end with a comment on the significance concerning identification of the issue and objective of the research. The manuscript written by the author whose English is a second language needs to be proofread. Ignoring this requirement results in the rejection of the manuscript. The references in the article use bodynote/endnote (Samawati, 2026).
  5. Method (for Original Research Articles): This method is written descriptively and should provide a statement regarding the methodology of the research. This method is, as much as possible, to give the reader an idea.
  6. Analysis and Discussion: The analysis or results of the research should be clear and concise. The results should summarise (scientific) findings rather than providing data in great detail. Please highlight differences between your results or findings and the previous publications by other researchers.
  7. Conclusion: The conclusion contains a description that should address the problem(s) raised and the objectives of the research. Provide a clear and concise conclusion. Do not repeat the Abstract or simply describe the results of the research. Give a clear explanation regarding the possible application and/or suggestions related to the research findings.
  8. Reference: References and bodynote/endnote at the end of the manuscript should be written in Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition (full note). They could be cited from books, journal articles, laws, and other references. Cite only items that you have read and written on body-notes/endnotes. Please use Reference Manager Applications like EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, etc. (Mendeley is preferred).
  9. Word Limit: The word limit for the submission is 4000-10000 words.