AUTHOR GUIDELINE

1. General Author Guidelines

Authors must submit their manuscripts by registering first and logging in as an author through the following URL address:

ONLINE SUBMISSION

If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email:

jmic.sci@umi.ac.id

Three types of manuscripts are acceptable for publication: Original Research Articles, Short Communication, Review Articles (not preferable).

2. Manuscript Template

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template format: download here 

3. Revision of manuscripts

Manuscripts sent back to the authors after revision should be returned to the editor without delay. The revised manuscript should be uploaded to the Online Submission Interface in the "Upload Author Version" from Review task window. The revised manuscript returned later than three months will be considered as a new submission and will be reviewed again by other peer-reviewers.

Editorial Office of Journal of Microbiology Science

All correspondences should be sent to the following Editorial Office:

Herwin, S.Farm., M.Si (Editor in Chief)

Editorial Office of Journal of Microbiology Science, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Muslim Indonesia

Jl. Urip Sumohardjo km. 5, Kampus II UMI, 3rd Floor Laboratory of Pharmacy Building, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia 90231, Telp.: +622328980617

Email: jmic.sci@umi.ac.id

4. Guideline for Online Submission

An author should first register as Author Role and may be offered as Reviewer through the following address: 

ONLINE SUBMISSION

The author should fulfill 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, the Author is brought to an online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. 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: The author must check-mark on the submission checklists. An author should type or copy-paste Covering Letter in Letter to Editor.
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 (.doc/.docx) to be submitted, then click "Upload" button until the file has been uploaded. Do not upload a cover letter and other supplementary files here.
Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including the marked corresponding author. After that, the manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords and references.
Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file "Author Agreement Forms" hould be uploaded. 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 Journal of Microbiology Science, click Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment 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 and log in as an author. 

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

5. Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

According to Engelmore and Morgan, manuscript content should, in general, be organized in the following order: 

    • Title; 
    • Authors Name; 
    • Authors Affiliation; 
    • Abstract; 
    • Keywords; 
    • Introduction; 
    • Materials and Methods; 
    • Results and Discussion; 
    • Conclusions; 
    • Acknowledgments (optional); and 
    • References. 

For specific information on technical information about the content of the manuscript, see and use the Journal template