AUTHOR GUIDELINES

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Author Guidelines at a Glance
Article type	A report of a community service activity in science and technology.
File format	Microsoft Word (.docx), written in the official template.
Language	Indonesian. The abstract is provided in English and in Indonesian.
Paper and margins	A4 paper, one column. Margins of 2 cm at the top and bottom and 3 cm on the left and right.
Font and spacing	Times New Roman 10 pt, single spacing, justified text.
Title	Indonesian, bold, Times New Roman 15 pt, no more than 15 words.
Authors	Fewer than five authors, written without academic titles.
Abstract and keywords	150 to 200 words in one paragraph, in English and in Indonesian, with 3 to 5 keywords.
Main sections	A. Introduction, B. Implementation and Method, C. Results and Discussion, D. Closing, E. References.
References	At least 15 references that are not older than 10 years, in APA style, each with a DOI link.

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1Page Layout and General Formatting

Item	Requirement
Paper size	A4.
Margins	Top 2 cm, bottom 2 cm, left 3 cm, right 3 cm.
Columns	A single column for the whole article.
Font	Times New Roman throughout the article.
Main text	10 pt, single spacing, justified. The first line of a paragraph is not indented.
Section headings	Capital letters, bold, 10 pt, single spacing, with 10 pt of space before the heading. The sections are marked with the letters A to E.
Subheadings	Bold, 10 pt, without a letter or a number.

Size	Used for
15 pt	The title of the article (bold).
10 pt	Author names (bold), affiliations, email addresses, abstracts, main text, section headings and subheadings (bold), equations, and the reference list.
9 pt	Table titles and figure captions, centered.
8 pt	The text inside tables, footnotes, subscripts, and superscripts.

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2Title and Author Information

Element	Format
Title	Written in Indonesian, in bold, in Times New Roman 15 pt. The title has no more than 15 words. Abbreviations and acronyms should not be used in the title unless this cannot be avoided.
Author names	Bold, 10 pt, centered, and written without academic titles. A superscript number links each name to an affiliation. The corresponding author is marked with an asterisk.
Affiliations	10 pt and centered. Each affiliation gives the study program, the faculty, the name of the institution, the city, and the country. Authors who share the same affiliation share one line, for example 1,3.
Email addresses	10 pt and centered. The line starts with the word Email, followed by the address of each author with the same superscript as the name.
Number of authors	Fewer than five authors.
Submission metadata	Please add the names of all authors in the metadata of the submission in the online system. The names and their order must match the manuscript.

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3Abstract and Keywords

Each manuscript has two abstracts. The English abstract comes first, followed by the Indonesian abstract. Each abstract is written in one paragraph of 150 to 200 words, with single spacing and 10 pt of space before the heading. The abstract summarizes the problem of the partner, the solution that was offered, the method of the activity, the main results, and the conclusion.

Element	English abstract	Indonesian abstract
Heading	Abstract, bold and italic, centered, 10 pt	Abstrak, bold, centered, 10 pt
Content	Italic, justified, 10 pt	Regular type, justified, 10 pt
Keywords	Keywords: 3 to 5 keywords, separated by commas, in italics	Kata Kunci: 3 to 5 keywords, separated by commas

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4Structure of the Manuscript

The main text has five sections, which are marked with the letters A to E. Because the manuscript is written in Indonesian, the headings are written as they appear in the template.

AIntroduction

BImplementation and Method

CResults and Discussion

DClosing

EReferences

Letter	Heading in the template	Meaning and main content
A	PENDAHULUAN	Introduction. The situation analysis, the problem of the partner, and the solution that is offered. It has no subheading.
B	PELAKSANAAN DAN METODE	Implementation and Method. The location, the time, the participants, the methods, and the material.
C	HASIL DAN PEMBAHASAN	Results and Discussion. The main part of the article, with the outputs of the program as indicators of success.
D	PENUTUP	Closing. The conclusion (Simpulan) and the suggestions (Saran), each written as a subheading, and the acknowledgements (Ucapan Terima Kasih) if there are any.
E	DAFTAR PUSTAKA	References. See sections 9 and 10.

4.1 A. Introduction

The introduction mainly contains the situation analysis, the problem of the partner, and the solution that is offered. It is written without a subheading.

Element	What to write
Situation analysis	The analysis depends on the target community. It can describe all the problems that the partner community faces in social, cultural, religious, health, quality of service, or community life aspects. It can also describe the potential and the business opportunities of the partner in terms of resources, production, and business management.
Priority problem	On the basis of the situation analysis, determine the priority problems of the partner community. They must be specific and concrete, and they must truly be the priority problems of the partner.
Solution offered	Describe the science and technology, the goods, or the services that are offered to solve the problem of the partner, and the work procedures that support the realization of the solution.
Steps and partner participation	Explain the activities that show the steps of the solution to the problem, and describe how the partner takes part in carrying out the activities.
Planned outputs	Describe the types of outputs that were planned, in production, in management, or in other forms, such as products or goods, services, or other types of output.

4.2 B. Implementation and Method

This section explains the implementation and the method of the community service. The description of the implementation covers the location, the time, the background of the participants, and the number of participants. The description of the method covers the methods that were used and the material that was delivered. Choose one of the methods below, or combine several of them.

No.	Method	Description
1	Training	Training in goods or services, diffusion of science and technology, substitution of science and technology (renewable science and technology), or simulation of science and technology.
2	Continuing education	Education that is carried on over a period of time.
3	Awareness raising	Raising awareness of a problem and improving the understanding of it.
4	Consultation, mentoring, or mediation	Consultation with the partner, mentoring of the partner, or mediation.

Please avoid dividing this section into lower level subheadings. If this cannot be avoided, write the subheadings in the way that is shown for the Results and Discussion section.

4.3 C. Results and Discussion

This is the main part of the article, and it is usually the longest part. The results of the community service that are presented here are the clean results. The process of data analysis does not need to be presented. Tables and graphs can be used to make the presentation of the results clearer, and every table and graph must be given a comment or a discussion.

The discussion in the article has three aims.

No.	Aim of the discussion
1	To show how the solution that was offered was implemented to overcome the problem of the partner.
2	To show the outputs of the implementation of the solution as indicators of the success of the program.
3	To explain the factors that support or inhibit the implementation of the program.

The discussion puts emphasis on describing the outputs of the program. These can be products, goods, or services that are produced by the partner, and they serve as the indicators of the success of the program. To answer the problem of the partner, the results of the community service must be measurable. This can be done through a questionnaire, a pretest and a posttest, observation of the product that was made, the response of the partner, and other means.

In some articles, it is unavoidable that the results are organized under subheadings. In the template, the matters that cannot be separated from the article are written in this way, and they are described in sections 5 to 10 below. A subheading is written in bold, in 10 pt, without a letter or a number.

4.4 D. Closing

The closing contains a conclusion and suggestions, each of which is written as a subheading. The acknowledgements are sometimes included in this part.

Subheading in the template	What to write
Simpulan (Conclusion)	A summary of the results and the discussion that refers to the problem of the partner. On this basis, describe the factors that supported and the factors that inhibited the activity.
Saran (Suggestions)	Suggestions that are based on an analysis of the strengths and the weaknesses of the activity, or of what has and has not been achieved, and on the continuation of the activity.
Ucapan Terima Kasih (Acknowledgements), if there are any	Thanks to parties who helped, for example the sponsor of the community service. Please avoid excessive expressions of thanks.

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5Abbreviations and Acronyms

Abbreviations that are already common, such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc, and rms, do not need to be spelled out. An acronym that is created by the author must be explained. For example: the learning model MiKiR (interactive, collaborative, and reflective multimedia) can be used to train problem solving skills.

Abbreviations and acronyms should not be used in the title of the article unless this cannot be avoided.

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6Units

Please follow these rules when you write units in the article.

1. Use SI (MKS) or CGS units as the main units. SI units are preferred.
2. Avoid combining SI units with CGS units, because this can cause confusion when the dimensions of an equation are no longer equivalent.
3. Do not mix abbreviated units with units that are spelled out. For example, use "Wb/m²" or "webers per square meter", and do not write "webers/m²".

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7Equations

Write equations in Times New Roman or in the Symbol font. If the article has several equations, number them in sequence as (1), (2), and so on, and place the number at the far right of the line. Use italics for variables and bold type for vectors.

Illustration of the layout. The variables a and X are in italics, and B is written in bold as a vector.

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8Figures and Tables

Tables	Figures
The title of a table is placed above the table.	The caption of a figure is placed below the figure.
Refer to a table specifically in the text, for example as Table 1.	Refer to a figure specifically in the text, for example as Figure 1.
The title is centered, in Times New Roman 9 pt. The label (Table 1.) is in bold.	The caption is centered, in Times New Roman 9 pt. The label (Figure 1.) is in bold.
The text inside the table is set in 8 pt, as in the template.	Use a text box in Microsoft Word to hold the image or the graph. The result is more stable when the format changes or the page shifts than when the figure is inserted directly.

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9Quotations and Citations in the Text

A scientific article presents the ideas of other people to strengthen and enrich the ideas of its author. The ideas that were stated earlier by other people are cited, and the sources are listed in the reference list. The ideas of other people are presented indirectly, that is, in the words of the author.

A citation has two functions. It acknowledges that the author has borrowed an idea and has not copied it, and it tells the reader who the source of the idea is and where it comes from. A citation contains the surname of the author, the year in which the source was written, and, if needed, the page number from which the information was taken. Only the surname of the author is used.

Situation	Format	Example
One author, citation at the end of the sentence	(Surname, Year)	Scientific writing is factual writing that gives knowledge to other people (Riebel, 1978).
With a page number	(Surname, Year:page)	(Riebel, 1978:15)
Author named in the sentence	Surname (Year)	According to Riebel (1978), scientific writing is factual writing.
Two authors of the same work	Joined by the word "dan" (and)	(Riebel dan Roger, 1980)
Two or more different works	Separated by a semicolon	(Riebel, 1978; Roger, 1981)
More than two authors	The first author, followed by "dkk." (and others)	(Susanto dkk., 1994)

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10Reference List (Daftar Pustaka)

The reference list is the list of works that the author read while preparing the article and then used as references. The list must be complete and must agree with the citations in the text. Every source in the list must really be cited in the text, and every source that is cited in the text must be in the list. To show the quality of a scientific article, the list must contain enough sources. The list is arranged alphabetically.

Item	Requirement
Format	Times New Roman 10 pt, single spacing, with a hanging indent of 1 cm for each reference.
Types of sources	National or international journals, electronic articles, books, theses, and proceedings.
Age of the sources	Not older than 10 years, counted from the current year.
Number of references	At least 15 references.
Style	APA style.
DOI link	Every reference is given with a DOI link (reference linking).
Reference manager	Please use a reference manager, such as Mendeley or Zotero, to write the citations and the reference list.

The patterns below show how the types of sources are written in APA style. The words in italics are written in italics in the reference.

No.	Type of source	Pattern
1	Journal article	Surname, A. B., Surname, C. D., & Surname, E. F. (Year). Title of the article. Name of the Journal, volume(issue), page range. https://doi.org/xxxxx
2	Article with no named author	Title of the article [Editorial]. (Year). Name of the Journal, volume(issue), page range. https://doi.org/xxxxx
3	Chapter in a book	Surname, A. B., & Surname, C. D. (Year). Title of the chapter. In E. E. Editor & F. F. Editor (Eds.), Title of the book (2nd ed., pp. page range). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxx
4	Book with personal authors	Surname, A. B., & Surname, C. D. (Year). Title of the book (2nd ed.). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxx
5	Book or report with an organization as author and publisher	Name of the Organization. (Year). Title of the work. https://doi.org/xxxxx. When the organization is both the author and the publisher, the publisher is not repeated.
6	Paper in proceedings	Surname, A. B. (Year). Title of the paper. In Title of the proceedings (pp. page range). Publisher. https://doi.org/xxxxx
7	Thesis	Surname, A. B. (Year). Title of the thesis [Master's thesis, Name of the University]. Name of the repository. https://doi.org/xxxxx

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11Header and Footer of the Template

The template already contains the header and the footer. The header of the first page shows the name and the website of the journal, the ISSN, the volume, the number, the pages, the DOI, and the dates of submission, acceptance, and publication. The header of the other pages shows the names of the authors, the abbreviation of the journal, the volume, the number, the year, and the pages. The footer shows the license statement (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) and the page number. The values that are shown as xx are completed by the editorial office, so please leave the header and the footer unchanged.

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12Submission Checklist

Please check the following points before you submit your manuscript.

Done	Point to check
☐	The manuscript is written in the official ABDIKAN template and is saved as a .docx file.
☐	The page is A4 with one column, and the margins are 2 cm at the top and bottom and 3 cm on the left and right.
☐	The title is in Indonesian, in bold, in 15 pt, and has no more than 15 words.
☐	There are fewer than five authors. All of them are entered in the metadata of the submission, in the same order as in the manuscript, and the corresponding author is marked with an asterisk.
☐	The English abstract and the Indonesian abstract each have 150 to 200 words in one paragraph, with 3 to 5 keywords.
☐	Sections A to E are in the correct order, and the introduction has no subheading.
☐	The results are measurable, and every table and figure is referred to and discussed in the text.
☐	Table titles are above the tables, figure captions are below the figures, and both are centered in 9 pt.
☐	Equations are numbered, units follow the rules in section 6, and acronyms are explained.
☐	Every citation is in the reference list, and every reference in the list is cited.
☐	There are at least 15 references in APA style, none older than 10 years, each with a DOI link, and written with a reference manager.
☐	The manuscript was checked for similarity, for example with Turnitin, in line with the Plagiarism Policy.
☐	All text in red in the template, which consists of instructions, has been deleted.

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