Submissions

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.

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.

Author Guidelines

Before submitting, please read the full Author Guidelines at https://journal.undiknas.ac.id/index.php/commusty/guidelines and prepare your manuscript using the COMMUSTY article template. Manuscripts that do not follow the guidelines will be returned to the authors before review.

Key requirements:
Manuscripts are written in English and are original, unpublished, and not under consideration by another journal.
Manuscripts are prepared in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) using the journal template, 7–15 pages including references.
The abstract is 150–250 words, followed by 3–5 keywords.
Research articles follow the structure: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, and References.
Citations and references follow APA Style, 7th edition. At least 80% of the references are published within the last 10 years, with DOIs included where available.
The similarity index (Turnitin) does not exceed 20%.
For double-blind review, author names, affiliations, and acknowledgements are removed from the manuscript file and entered only in the submission metadata.
Any use of generative AI tools is disclosed in accordance with the Generative AI Policy.

Accepted manuscripts are subject to a publication fee of IDR 300,000, payable only after acceptance. See Author Fees: https://journal.undiknas.ac.id/index.php/commusty/author_fees

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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), which allows others to share and adapt the work with an acknowledgement of its authorship and initial publication in this journal, provided that adaptations are distributed under the same license.
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