Varia Justicia (ISSN 2579-5198) is a peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Studies published by Faculty of Law, Universitas Muhammadiyah Magelang. This journal publishes three times a year. The scopes of Varia Justicia, but not limited to, are: Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Civil Law, Islamic Law, Environmental Law, Human Rights, International Law, and also interconnection study with Legal Studies. Varia Justicia has been indexed by Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), Sinta, IPI, Worldcat, and others.
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.
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 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.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
All authors have significantly contributed to the research
The manuscript is free of plagiarism and has met the publication ethics.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines
Articles have been written in correct English
Authors willing to provide similarity check of manuscript
Authors willing to suggest nominated reviewers, kindly find the template here (https://unimma.link/W4I1)
Author Guidelines
Varia Justicia receives a script of scientific articles within the scope of Legal Studies which includes Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Civil Law, Islamic Law, Environmental Law, Human Rights, International Law, and its derivation from authors who have not been published in other journals;
The substance of the article can be the result of research, critical and comprehensive scientific study which are relevant and current issues covered by the journal;
The manuscript may be submitted directly to the editorial board through the website;
Manuscript typed on A4 paper with margin: upper 3 cm, left 3 cm, right 3 cm, and bottom 3 cm. The script is typed with the spacing of 1.5 spaces with a maximum length of 15 pages with one column format. The contents of the article are written in Times New Roman 12 pt;
The title is not more than 12 words. The title of the article should be informative, specific, concise, and contain keywords that describe the contents of the manuscript in its entirety. The title of the article is written in Times New Roman 14 pt and Bold;
The name of authors is written in Times New Roman 12 pt and Bold without the title and should not be abbreviated. If the author is more than one, then listed in descending order and contains the origin of the agency and e-mail address;
Name of agency and email address wrote sequence starting from the first author with Times New Roman 10 letter and space 1;
Abstracts are written in English. Abstract consists of 1 paragraph maximum 200 words and written with Times New Roman 10 pt. The abstract is not in the form of a summary consisting of several paragraphs but consists of only 1 paragraph that clearly, whole and complete describes the essence of the whole content of the writing covering the background (main issues), research objectives, methods, and results;
Keywords consist of a maximum of 5 words, separated by commas;
The sub-titles are written in capital letters (times new roman 12 pt bold) and without any numbering format;
Introduction: contains background research issues and objectives, literature review relevant to the problem under study (15-20% of the total length of the article)
Research Methods: contains expositions in the form of paragraphs containing time and place of research, design, materials/research subjects, procedures/techniques of data collection, instruments, and data analysis techniques (10-15% of total article length);
Results and Discussion: contains the results of the analysis which is the answer to the problem of research;
Conclusions, suggestions, and recommendations: presented in paragraph form on the research findings;
The Quote using footnote.
The bibliography contains the sources used as references in the study. Referral sources of at least 80% of the literature published in the last 10 years. References used are primary sources of articles that exist in scientific journals or research reports (thesis, dissertation). The bibliography is written alphabetically with Times New Roman 12 font, space 1, special indentation hanging by 0.25" after 12 pt. The rules of writing the bibliography follow the rules of APA (American Psychological Association) as follows: (we recommend to use the reference manager, ie. Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote etc..