Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION PREPARATION CHECKLIST

☑ The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
☑ The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
☑ Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
☑ The text is 1.15-spaced; uses a 11-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
☑ The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
☑ If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

 

CONTENT AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Scientific articles that are submitted to SUBSURFACE should be in scope of upstream petroleum energy, geothermal energy, and mineral resources for renewable energy supporting devices. Articles are never published or not being submitted to an other media.

Articles should be written in Indonesia or English, and they must be completed with an Abstract. An article with content and fomat that does not follow this guideline will be ignored by the board of editors and the editors do not have the obligation to send back the article to contributors/authors.

There is no charge for every submission and/or processing articles in this journal, so author doesn't have to pay from articles submit until publish (free charge).

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FORMAT

General. The article including title, abstract, table and figure captions, footnote, and list of references are written in 1.15 spaces as an electronic file and printed in HVS paper of A4 in size. Font used in article is 11-point Times New Roman.

Each page of the article has continuing numbers including pages of figure and table. The investigation result or review ranges from 5 to 20 pages (excluding figures and tables). Detailed composition of the article are as follows:

Title. Article title, each author name, institution name and address of each author, and if necessary a footnote that consists of address, telephone, facsimile, and email for correspondence should be written in the title page. The article title should be bilingual.

Abstract. The abstract should be written in English. The abstract should sum up the article theme including methodology and does not need to contain a detailed summary from each part. The abstract comprises maximum 250 words, 4 - 6 words of keywords should be written below the abstract, singular or compound word.

Introduction. This part must consist of a comprehensive description, so readers will understand and can evaluate the investigation result that has been done without reading another publication/article. The introduction must consist of background, aim and objective, problem, method, investigation location and accessibility, investigation subject, and contextual information (e.g., geological or statigraphical setting).

Literature Review. This part must consist of a brief explanation of existing general information regarding research object and its surrounding context. The explanation must be compiled from published scientific papers, reports, or other form of scientific documents. The source of the information must be cited correctly to avoid plagiarism.

Data and Methodology. This past must consist of description of the data specification including the type, source, and other necessary details. The methodology must explain how the research was conducted to ensure its reproducibility.

Result. The result and analysis are composed of a investigation result as displayed as words, tables and figures. Please use limited graphics if the subject can be displayed as a short explanation. The limitation of using photo will be appreciated. It needs to be displayed if it can describe a better explanation for the investigation result. All of figures and tables should be given continuing numbers and must be referred in the article.

Discussion. The discussion consists of an interpretation of the result and analysis. It should be correlated with an other result having been reported.

Conclusion. They comprise important conclusions of the whole part of the article.

Acknowledgment. This part may describe the source of investigation fund used in the article. this may also give an appreciation to institutions or persons who help in investigation and report writing.

Reference. It must all be cited in the text and support the content; written using modified Elsevier-Harvard (with title) alphabetically. All names of the authors must be written completely without using et al. and numbers.

The article should be completed with supporting figures/maps/graphics/photos. Their attachments must be in Image File (*.jpg or *.png) with minimum 300 dpi in resolution or in inkscape (*.svg) vector format. Permission from the original author is required to display figures and tables that have been published.