Author Guidelines

General Guidelines

  1. The guidelines for manuscript writing in BORNEO JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY EDUCATION (BJBE), Universitas Borneo Tarakan, follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Style)
  2. The manuscripts can be written in Bahasa Indonesia or English by considering the correctness of the grammar. Manuscript in English should be written in the past tense
  3. Manuscripts written in English by non-English speakers should be checked by English editors
  4. The manuscripts should be written in MS Word, paper format A4 (210 x 297 mm), single column, and simple layout. The authors are encouraged to utilize MS word facilities to write and edit the manuscript (bold, italics, subscript, superscript, equation, etc)
  5. All the text in the manuscript should be written using Times New Roman
  6. The word count in the manuscript should not exceed 4000 words or about 8-12 pages, including pictures, graphics, and tables
  7. Pictures and tables are used to visualize information in the manuscript that is difficult to explain. The authors should ensure that the pictures are of good quality for printing
  8. The authors will only receive one exemplar of the printed journal in which their manuscript is published. If the authors require more than one exemplar, they should pay a certain amount of money.