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Walisongo Law Review (Walrev) is published twice a year. Articles published in this journal are the results of empirical research in law, including private laws, public laws, administrative laws, philosophy of laws, comparative law, criminal laws, international laws, law and economics, sociology of law and legal anthropology, living law and many others.

This journal has specifications as a medium of publication and communication of legal science ideas derived from theoretical and analytical studies, as well as research results in the field of legal science.

Editors invite experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts in law to write a research article in this journal. Articles should be original, research-based, unpublished and not under review for possible publication in other journals. All submitted papers are subject to review of the editors, editorial board, and blind reviewers. Submissions that violate our guidelines on formatting or length will be rejected without review.

Online Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts must be sent online to the online portal of Walisongo Law Review on page http://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/walrev

Steps for submitting Manuscripts:

• The author registers as an author (checking the author role) on the "Register" section on the page http://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/Psikohumaniora/user/register
• After the author logs in as an Author, click  "New Submission".
• The stages of article submission consist of 5 stages:

1. In the Start section, check all checklists, then click save & continue.
2. In the Upload Submission section, please upload the article manuscript file in MS Word in this section. After that, click save & continue.
3. In the Enter Metadata section, enter the data of all authors and affiliates. If the author is more than one person, please click "add author", then fill in the author's data like the first author, and so on. Next, fill in the title, abstract, keywords, research methods, and bibliography in each of the available columns.
4. In the Upload Supplementary Files section, it is permissible to upload supporting files or cover letters or other documents.
5. In the Confirmation section, please click "Finish Submission" if all data is correct.

General Instructions

1. Articles are formatted according to the writing pattern of the scientific journal. Writing articles follow the rules set out in Publication Manual of the American Sosiological Association (ASA). Please use Mendeley or Zotero reference management software, turn on “the American Sosiological Association (ASA).”
2. The article is an original work (no plagiarism) and has never been published in a journal printed/online.
3. During the review and editing process, or after the article is published, it may not be registered in another journal.
4. Sent articles to editors via submission Open Journal Systems (OJS) on https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/walrev/user/register
5. Articles typed in Georgia (11 pt) with 1.15 spacing in Microsoft Word format with a page size A4 (210 x 297 mm). The length of the article ranged 5.000-8.000 words or about 17-20 pages, including pictures, graphs, and tables (if any).
6. The article is written in Indonesian or English using grammatical rules. In general, the English article is in the past tense.

Particular Instructions

1. The article is the result of empirical research in law.
2. Because of the "Blind Review" system, the author hoped not to include the name, the name, and address of the institution and email address in the cover of the article. The author's name, the name of the institution, as well as the email address listed at the time of registration on the OJS author. To facilitate communication should include an active mobile number.
3. The content and systematics of articles written using the format presented in a narrative essay in the form of a paragraph, without numbering in front subtitles, and should include these components:

• >> Title, provided that: a) the title is the formulation of a brief discussion of content, compact, and clear. May use the title of creative and attract readers (maximum 14 words). b) the title is written in English and Indonesian. c) the title is typed in bold, use capital letters for each beginning of a word, except for conjunctions and prepositions.
• >> Abstract written in English and Indonesian. Abstract is the essence of the subject of the whole article. Abstract written in one paragraph within one space, with a maximum length of 200 words. Abstract presented briefly and clearly, it must contain four (4) elements, namely: Reasons for the selection of topics or the importance of the research topic, the aims of the research, research methods, and finding of the results.
• >> Keywords contains basic words in the study, can be drawn from the research variables, characteristics of the subjects, and the theory of the referenced (minimum three words or combinations of words, written in alphabetical order).
• >> Introduction contains background of the problems, objectives and benefits of the research, the literature review, and concludes with the hypothesis (number of pages approximately 20%).
• >> Method contains the identification of the variables, the research subjects, research instruments and methods of research including used data analysis techniques (the number of pages approximately 20%).
• >> Results show exposure data analysis, consisted of descriptive statistics, test results of the assumptions and results of hypothesis testing are presented sequentially or integrated (number of pages approximately 20%).
• >> Discussion contains an explanation of the results of research associated with the results of previous studies, critically analyzed and linked to relevant recent literature (page number approximately 30-40%).
• >> Conclusions and suggestions answers from the research objectives written concise, clear, and compact based on the results of research and discussion (approximately 1 page).
• >> Bibliography contains reference sources written alphabetically and chronologically, Referral sources are published literature in the last 10 years (especially of the journal). Referral preferred are the primary sources in the form of books, reports (including dissertation), or research articles in scientific journals and magazines. It is suggested to use Mendeley or Zotero as a reference manager at styling the citations and the bibliography.

The Example of Compiling a Bibliography

(a) Example of journal articles

Indrawan, Jerry. 2015. “Relevansi Sistem Pertahanan Negara (Sishanneg) Dengan Konsep Keamanan Nasional Terkait Ancaman Disintegrasi Bangsa Di Papua.” Jurnal Polinter: Kajian Politik Dan Hubungan Internasional 1(1):84–96.

(b) Examples of reference from magazines

Setyadi, Arief. 2014. “Jokowi Harus Hati-Hati Susun RUU Kamnas.” Okezone. Retrieved from [https://nasional.okezone.com/read/2014/12/11/337/1077713/jokowi-harus-hati-hati-susun-ruu-kamnas]

(c) Example of citation from unpublished thesis or dissertation

Rosikin. 2010. “Proses Penyidikan Tindak Pidana Penyalahgunaan Senjata Api Oleh Anggota TNI Di Denpom IV/4 Surakarta.” Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.

(d) Example of citation from book

Hermawan, Yulius Purwadi. 2007. Transformasi Dalam Studi Hubungan Internasional: Aktor, Isu Dan Metodologi. Jakarta: Graha Ilmu.

(e) Example of citation from a book with editor

Hogg, M. A. 2003. Social identity. Dalam M. R. Leary & J. P. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of self and identity (p. 462-479). New York: Guilford.

(f) Example of citation from the published electronic book

Shotton, M. A. (1989). Computer addiction? A study of computer dependency [DX Reader version]. Downloaded from: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/index/asp.

(g) Example of citation from electronic book unpublished

O'keefe, E. (n.d.). Egoism & the crisis in Western values. Downloaded from: https://www.onlineoriginals.com/showitem.asp?itemID=135

message Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

assignment Copyright Notice

The copyright of the received article shall be assigned to the journal as the publisher of the journal. The intended copyright includes the right to publish the article in various forms (including reprints). The journal maintains the publishing rights to the published articles. Authors are allowed to use their articles for any legal purposes deemed necessary without written permission from the journal with an acknowledgment of initial publication to this journal.

assignment Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

monetization_on Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission (Free of Charge): 0.00 (IDR)
Walisongo Law Review (Walrev) does not charges any submission or publication fees. No fees incurred for article processing: submission, neither reviewing the articles. Under the aforementioned condition, we are waiving in full for authors that need to this journal. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.