JPPMI | FOR AUTHORS
Instructions for preparing, reporting, and submitting scholarly community engagement manuscripts.
Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pengembangan Masyarakat Indonesia (JPPMI) publishes scholarly articles on community engagement, community empowerment, and evidence-informed community development.
Manuscripts should demonstrate an identified community problem, a systematic intervention, appropriate evaluation, critical interpretation of the findings, and practical implications for sustainability or further development.
Authors must use the current official JPPMI manuscript template. Submissions that do not meet the journal's scope, manuscript structure, technical requirements, or applicable ethical standards may be returned before external peer review.
| Principal manuscript type | Community Engagement Article |
| Manuscript language | Indonesian or English |
| Recommended length | 4,000–7,000 words, excluding references |
| Abstracts | Indonesian and English; maximum 300 words each |
| Keywords | 3–5 per language |
| Reference style | APA 7th edition |
| Peer-review model | Double-anonymous |
| File format | Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) |
JPPMI primarily considers original Community Engagement Articles describing completed programs, interventions, or community development initiatives.
Eligible contributions may include:
Pure laboratory or observational research without substantive community engagement, ceremonial activity reports, proposals without implementation outcomes, and donation-based activities without meaningful evaluation or development contributions are generally outside the journal's scope.
Manuscripts may be written in formal Indonesian or English. Authors must use clear academic language and consistent terminology.
Every manuscript must contain Indonesian and English titles, abstracts, and keywords, regardless of its primary language.
The recommended manuscript length is approximately 4,000–7,000 words, excluding references. Each abstract must contain no more than 300 words, with three to five keywords in each language.
Manuscripts must be submitted as editable Microsoft Word files using the official template. Authors must not alter prescribed page dimensions, margins, fonts, line spacing, heading hierarchy, table formatting, or other template elements without editorial authorization.
JPPMI applies double-anonymous peer review. Authors must prepare two separate manuscript files.
The title page must contain the complete article title, author names, institutional affiliations, countries, email addresses, ORCID identifiers, corresponding-author details, and author-specific declarations.
The review manuscript must contain the complete article without author names, affiliations, contact information, identifying acknowledgments, or other unnecessary identifying information.
Authors must remove identifying information from document properties and use neutral third-person language when citing their previous work. Necessary descriptions of the community setting may remain when scientifically relevant.
Manuscripts must follow the section sequence in the current official JPPMI template.
Required Order: Title → Abstracts → Keywords → Key Message → Introduction → Methods → Results and Discussion → Conclusion → Required Declarations → References.
The title must be concise, informative, and specific. It should reflect the community problem, intervention, target group, or implementation context where relevant. Avoid unsupported claims, excessive abbreviations, and overly general titles.
Provide equivalent abstracts in Indonesian and English, each containing no more than 300 words.
Each abstract should briefly describe:
Abstracts must not contain citations, tables, figures, undefined abbreviations, or exaggerated claims.
Provide three to five keywords in Indonesian and three to five corresponding keywords in English. Select terms that represent the principal intervention, target community, outcome, or community development approach.
The Key Message must concisely explain the main practical contribution of the program, including the problem addressed, intervention, principal outcome, and relevant implication. Follow the format prescribed in the template. Do not include citations, unsupported statements, or claims exceeding the evidence.
The Introduction should describe:
The discussion of background literature should be focused, current, and directly relevant to the proposed community intervention.
The Methods section must provide sufficient detail to understand, assess, and potentially replicate or adapt the community engagement program.
Describe, where applicable:
Clearly distinguish activities performed, immediate program outputs, and outcomes measured. Evaluation indicators and procedures must correspond to the results presented.
Results and Discussion must be presented as one integrated section, consistent with the JPPMI template.
The section should address:
Tables and figures should add information rather than unnecessarily duplicate the narrative. Each important finding should be interpreted in relation to the program objective.
Claims of effectiveness or impact must be proportionate to the intervention design and evidence. A single-group pre-test and post-test, for example, should not be presented as conclusive proof of causality without an adequate design.
The Conclusion must directly answer the program objective and summarize the principal outcomes supported by the results. It should identify practical implications and realistic follow-up or sustainability recommendations without introducing new findings or overstating the evidence.
The final manuscript must contain applicable declarations after the Conclusion:
Where a declaration is not applicable, provide an appropriate statement rather than leaving the section blank. Author-identifying declarations should be included in the separate title page or otherwise withheld from the review file when needed to protect anonymity.
Authors must assess the ethical requirements applicable to their activities before implementation. Routine minimal-risk community engagement does not automatically require research ethics committee approval, but institutional requirements, activity risks, and the nature of the evaluation must be considered.
Formal ethics approval or an authorized exemption determination must be obtained when required by applicable law, institutional rules, funding requirements, or the characteristics of the activity.
When ethics approval was obtained, report the institution, approval reference, and date. When formal review was not required, explain the applicable basis accurately and provide documentation if requested.
Photographs may demonstrate that an activity occurred, but photographs alone do not establish the effectiveness of an intervention.
JPPMI uses the American Psychological Association reference style, 7th edition (APA 7). Authors are encouraged to use reference-management software to maintain consistent citations and bibliographic information.
| Reference style | APA 7th edition |
| Recommended minimum | 20 relevant references |
| Primary scholarly sources | At least 80% |
| Recent sources | Normally at least 80% from the most recent 10 years |
Every in-text citation must correspond to a reference-list entry, and every reference-list entry must be cited in the manuscript.
Include DOIs as active links whenever available. Authors must verify the accuracy and traceability of every reference, including articles suggested by AI-assisted tools.
Fabricated, irrelevant, or unverifiable citations, citation manipulation, and inappropriate self-citation are prohibited. Retracted literature should not be relied upon as valid evidence; any necessary discussion of a retracted article must identify its retracted status clearly.
Authors must provide complete and accurate submission metadata because these records support DOI registration, indexing, discoverability, and correct attribution.
Generative AI tools may support permitted activities such as language improvement, translation, and technical assistance under appropriate human oversight.
AI systems cannot be listed as authors. Human authors remain fully responsible for the scientific accuracy, originality, references, data, analysis, and conclusions of their manuscripts.
AI must not be used to fabricate community participants, program activities, photographs, evaluation results, scholarly references, ethics documents, or other supporting evidence.
All manuscripts submitted under the current policy must include a Generative Artificial Intelligence Declaration stating whether AI was used and, where applicable, the tool and purpose. The prospective declaration requirement applies to submissions from 1 September 2026.
Manuscripts passing initial editorial screening undergo double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
When revision is requested, authors must address the reviewers' and editors' comments accurately and transparently. The revision submission should normally contain:
Authors may provide reasoned explanations when they disagree with recommendations. The Editor-in-Chief or authorized editor retains responsibility for the final editorial decision. Submission and completion of review do not guarantee acceptance.
Authors should verify the following requirements before submitting their manuscript through OJS.
By submitting a manuscript to JPPMI, the corresponding author confirms that all listed authors have approved the work, the information supplied is accurate, and the submission complies with the journal's applicable editorial, ethical, authorship, peer-review, copyright, and open-access requirements.
The corresponding author is responsible for maintaining communication with the journal and coordinating any requested revisions, declarations, permissions, and supporting documentation.
