Author Guidelines

Manuscripts must be submitted using the Online Submission System on the TINSIKA after registering as an Author in the "Register" section. The author(s) can find the online submission procedures at the end of this guide.

The author(s) shall use the manuscript template provided by TINSIKA as the following address:

Author submission, as well as article processing and publishing, is free of charge. Readers can read and download any full-text articles free of charge.

General Instructions

Authors who submitted a manuscript to the JTSiskom journal must follow the instructions below. If the manuscript does not comply with this guide, it will be returned to the author without further review. An out-of-scope article will also be rejected.

General requirements in writing a TINSIKA manuscript are as follows:

  1. The author(s) must use the TINSIKA journal template for manuscript format conformity.
  2. The manuscript should be written in good Indonesian or English ;
  3. The manuscript should be written with correct spelling and grammar, effective sentences, and coherent paragraph arrangements;
  4. An English manuscript must be grammatically correct and should be professionally edited before submission or read by a native English-speaking language. You may use a professional English grammar checker application using standard academic settings;
  5. The submitter must complete all authors' names, affiliation(s), and their email addresses in the submission metadata;
  6. The manuscript should be written with A4 (210 x 297 mm) page size and with a left margin of 25 mm, a right margin of 20 mm, a lower margin of 20 mm, and a top margin of 30 mm;
  7. The manuscript of Research Articles must be organized of IntroductionResearch MethodsResults and Discussion, and Conclusion (IMRAD). Review articles layout should follow the same format and specifications as for the standard papers except that their main text organization need not follow the IMRAD;
  8. Each figure must be clear and has a good resolution. The image and its embedded text must be able to be printed clearly;
  9. Each table should not contain vertical and horizontal lines, except horizontal lines in the heading and bottom of the table;
  10. Each figure and table must have a caption and title corresponding to its representation; 
  11. A small figure or table can be placed in any column of the two-column format, while a larger one can be placed in the center of the page (single-column format);
  12. Each graph should be untitled, have clear x and y axes along with the axis titles (including units, if any), no grid, and no wall;
  13. The presentation of each algorithm should follow the algorithm format as in the IEEE article;
  14. Each presentation of tables, figures, graphs, and algorithms should be explained in paragraph sentences. Use an appropriate label to refer to a presentation, for example, ... as presented in Table 1.
  15. Each equation should be written using the Equation Editor in MS Word or Open Office. Equations are not allowed to be embedded in the manuscript as images. The parameters used in the equations must be explained in the paragraph; 
  16. The manuscripts shall conform with proper SI usage (International System of Units) and the basic principles concerning quantities and units;
  17. References or citations are using the IEEE-like format (numbering). Citing a reference can be written using numbering surrounded by square brackets, for example [1]. Citing more than one reference can be written with separate square brackets, for example, [2], [4], [5], [7]-[9];
  18. A citing reference using author name can be written using the author's last name and mentioning the reference number, for example, as stated in Widianto [2], Widianto and Rochim [3], and Widianto et al. [4].
  19. A management reference application, such as MendeleyZotero, or Endnote, should be used by authors when citing a reference and creating the bibliography in the manuscript;