Author Guidelines

JLBP: Journal of Law and Border Protection is a peer-reviewed online international journal, published by Immigration Law Study Program, Immigration Polytechnic, Indonesia. JLBP author guidelines as follows:

  1. Authors must ensure that their papers are free of spelling and grammatical errors.
  2. Research articles should not exceed 7,000 – 10.000 words.
  3. The first page of an article should contain the title of the paper, name(s), affiliation(s) of the author(s), email address, and an abstract between 100 to 150 words and not exceeding 250 words.
  4. The first page should also contain three to five keywords.
  5. Equations in the text should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals within simple brackets and aligned against the right margin.
  6. Citations and Bibliography using the Mendeley application with the Turabian 9th Edition Style (footnote).
  7. List of references should show each citation in alphabetical order.
  8. Author should register with the journal before submitting manuscripts.
  9. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. The corrected manuscripts should be submitted within 5 working days.
  10. DOIs in References, when the cited items have DOIs, the authors should add DOI persistent links to the regular references.
  11. The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. All submissions will be checked for plagiarism before being sent to reviewers.