Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts to this journal. All submissions will be initially assessed by the editorial team to determine whether they align with the journal's aims and scope. Manuscripts that meet the scope will undergo a peer review process before a final decision is made regarding acceptance or rejection.

Before submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included in their manuscript, such as photos, documents, and datasets. All authors listed on the submission must consent to being identified as authors. Where applicable, the research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the country in which the study was conducted.

An editor may desk reject a manuscript if it does not meet the minimum quality standards. Authors should ensure that the study design and research argument are well-structured and articulated. The title should be concise, and the abstract should stand alone. This will increase the likelihood that reviewers will agree to evaluate the paper. Once you are confident your manuscript meets these standards, please use the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Type of Articles

1. Original Articles
   There is no word limit for original articles, but it is preferred for shorter, more concise manuscripts (3000 words). The manuscript should not exceed 5000 words, including abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, conclusion, and references. The main criteria for manuscript acceptance are quality, originality, clarity of manuscript reporting, and implications of research results in mental and psychosocial health. Manuscripts should mainly use the most recent reference sources.

2. Review Articles
   The article review critically assesses evidence from various relevant data sources related to mental health and psychosocial. Article reviews must follow the writing guidelines to provide implications and reviews in cognitive and psychosocial health. Article review manuscripts should be no more than 7000 words, including abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, conclusion, and references. A more concise manuscript (4000 words) is recommended, with a maximum number of 100 scientific references.

Manuscript Preparation

The manuscript must be written in English (American or British English is acceptable, but it should not be a mixture of the two). The editorial boards will review manuscripts first. Every article submitted to the Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health Journal will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin before publication, with a maximum of 20% authenticity. The main manuscript must be submitted as a Word document (.doc) file. The manuscript must include the following:

A. Title Page

1. Title
   The article’s title must describe the manuscript’s main content, be informative, precise, and concisely written in no more than 12 words. Abbreviations should be avoided in the title. The manuscript must include a running title with a maximum of 5 – 6 words.

2. Author Name
   Full Name without a degree and academic degree. The author’s name is followed by a superscript number (1, 2, 3, etc.), which refers to the author’s affiliation. An asterisk is included on the author who is designated as the co-responding author.

3. Affiliates for Every Author
   The author's name must be accompanied by a full affiliate address consisting of department, institution, city, and country.

4. Corresponding author
   The manuscript must include the address of the author acting as the corresponding author at the bottom of the page. Name, affiliation, email address, phone/fax number.

5. Author’s Contribution
   We encourage authors to include each author’s contribution to the manuscript for transparency. The author’s contribution statement must be written by the role of each author which includes conceptualization, ideas, formulation of research objectives and objectives as a whole, preparation, development or design of research methodology, validation of research activities, results, or outputs, statistical analysis or synthesis of research results, conducting research processes including investigation of research results and data collection, research data management activities and process supervision research, preparation of manuscripts including writing manuscript drafts, review and editing manuscripts. Each author can have more than one role.

6. Author Replacement
   Authors should carefully consider the list and order of authors who contributed to the manuscript before submitting it. The addition, deletion, or rearrangement of the author’s name in the list must be done before the manuscript is accepted and may only be done with the approval of the Journal Editor. All members must approve and sign changes (including those to be added or removed), accompanied by a letter of willingness to change, and sent to the journal Editor. Once the manuscript is accepted, the editor will consider the author’s additions, subtractions, and rearrangements.

B. Main Text

1. Abstract
   Structured abstracts are written concisely. Abstract of no more than 250 words consists of background, methods, results, and research conclusions containing research contributions to mental and psychosocial health. Abstract is followed by 4 to 7 keywords. Keywords must not contain abbreviations. Keywords are written alphabetically. Avoid citing references, tables, and images in the abstract.

2. You Have to Know/Main Points
   You Have to Know/Main Points is an added section of this journal, but authors are strongly encouraged to include highlights in the main text. This section aims to make it easier for your article to be found by researchers or search engines. The section consists of three to 5 points – short points that contain the goals, new findings of your research, and their implications for mental and psychosocial health.

3. Text
   The manuscript is typed in a 1-column format on A4-size paper, using a Times New Roman font of 12 pt (except for the article’s title, font 14 pt) with a normal margin (1 inch). Article writing begins with Arabic numerals
   1. Introduction,
   2. Methods,
   3. Results,
   4. Discussion,
   5. Conclusion.
   Sub-sections follow the numbering of each section. For example, the participants’ subtitle in the methods section is 2.1. 2.2. procedures, etc. This numbering applies to lower subheadings, e.g., 2.1.1, 2.2.2. Only the first letter of the first word in each title uses capital letters (sentence case). Abstract, Acknowledgement, and references do not begin with Arabic numerals.

4. Introduction
   Explain the background of the problem, the importance of the research, a brief literature review that is directly related to previous research or findings that need to be developed, and conclude with an explanation of the purpose of the research.

5. Methods
   Make sure that the work can be repeated according to the details provided. This section contains technical information from the study that is presented. Therefore, readers can conduct research based on the techniques presented. Specific material and equipment are required. The study approach, procedure, and data analysis method must be presented thoroughly and clearly.

6. Results and Discussion
   The results are written in detail, and the objectives and hypotheses are described and answered. The discussion should focus on why and how the research findings can occur, and expand on the findings that can be applied to other issues relevant to the research results. At the end of the discussion, the researcher needs to state the limitations of the study.

7. Conclusion
   Conclusions should be drawn based on the findings of the research results and focus on the study's objectives. The conclusion consists of one paragraph explaining the implications of your research results on developing mental and psychosocial health knowledge and practice.

8. Declaration of Interest
   All authors are required to disclose whether or not any conflicts of interest have the potential to affect their work. If there is no conflict of interest, the author must declare no conflict of interest as follows: "Declaration of Interest: All authors declared there is no conflict of interest."

9. Acknowledgement
   Acknowledgement is an optional part after the conclusion. Contributors (colleagues, institutions, or institutions) who assist the author's efforts and do not meet the requirements as an author and are not mentioned as an author should be acknowledged. Describe their contribution to the article/work.

10. Funding
    Identification of all parties providing support funding sources for this work/article, both research funders and grant numbers (if any), must be provided for each funding source.

11. Table and Figure
    Tables and figures should be well prepared. The table is creamed in an editable format. The table should be able to convey key observations to the reader. Any information provided in the table should no longer be repeated in the text, but the text should focus on the importance of the study's main findings. Give the table an appropriate title and the necessary images and captions in the footnotes. The maximum number of tables is 5, and the number of images is a maximum of 3 in 1 manuscript. Avoid using vertical lines on the table. Make sure that each table and image is mentioned in the text.

12. Abbreviation
    The use of abbreviations in text should be minimized. Each abbreviation should be introduced and defined at the beginning of its use (abstract, text, table, or image), and then used consistently thereafter throughout the text.

13. Ethical Consideration
    In original research, the author must state in the manuscript that informed consent has been obtained from all research subjects. Research must always pay attention to ethical principles.

14. Referensi
    The script uses a reference manager (Mendeley/EndNote/Zotero, etc). Most of the references used are up-to-date references and come from reliable sources. All references in the text should be in the references section, and vice versa. The journal uses the Vancouver reference style. In the text, references are quoted using Arabic numerals in superscript without parentheses. Meanwhile, in the reference list at the end of the document, complete details are written with Arabic numbers according to the references in the text.

The following is an example of writing literature according to the Vancouver style:
Journal:

1. Windarwati HD, Budiman AA, Nova R, Ati NAL, Kusumawati MW. The Relationship between Family Harmony with Stress , Anxiety , and Depression in Adolescents. J Ners. 2020;15(3).

2. Bachtiar A, Windarwati HD, Keliat BA, Ismail RI, Ati NAL, Sulaksono AD, et al. The fight against stigma : Multilevel stigma interventions in schizophrenia. J Public health Res. 2020;9(4):417–22.

Book:

1. Stuart GW. Prinsip dan Praktik Keperawatan Kesehatan Jiwa Stuart. 1st ed. Keliat BA, editor. Indonesia: Elsevier Ltd; 2016.

2. Windarwati HD, Rizzal AF, Mukaromah I, Oktaviana W, Ati NAL, Sulaksono AD. Panduan Praktis : Rapid Respons dan Penanganan Dini Aspek Psikososial Terhadap COVID-19. Depok: Infermia Publishing; 2020. 1–44 p.