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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 is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration by another journal.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect document format and follows the journal template.
  • All author names, affiliations, corresponding-author email addresses, and metadata have been entered completely and accurately in OJS.
  • Where available, references include DOI or URL and have been prepared consistently in Harvard Style.
  • The manuscript follows the Author Guidelines, including title, abstract, keywords, structure, figures, and references.
  • For double-anonymous review, the manuscript file has been anonymized and does not contain author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or other identifying information.
  • The manuscript includes statements on author contributions, conflicts of interest, funding, and ethics approval or ethical compliance when relevant.
  • Any use of generative artificial intelligence has been disclosed in accordance with the Artificial Intelligence Use Policy.
  • The manuscript includes headed statements for Author Contributions, Funding, Conflict of Interest, AI Use Declaration, and Data Availability before the References, and the Data Availability statement says where the data can be accessed or why they cannot be shared.

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Teras Jurnal: Jurnal Teknik Sipil publishes original research articles and scholarly studies in civil engineering that fit the journal's focus and scope. Manuscripts must not have been published previously or be under consideration elsewhere.

Manuscript requirements

  1. Manuscripts must be written in clear Indonesian or English.
  2. Titles must be concise, specific, no more than 16 words, and reflect the principal finding or research focus.
  3. Provide complete and consistent author names, affiliations, institutional addresses, corresponding-author email addresses, and ORCID iDs when available.
  4. Provide Indonesian and English abstracts, each no more than 150 words, covering background, objective, method, key results, and conclusion.
  5. Provide 4-6 specific and relevant keywords.
  6. Manuscripts should include an introduction, literature review/state of the art, research gap or novelty, methods, results and discussion, conclusion, and references.
  7. Manuscripts should be 10-15 A4 pages, single-spaced, in 12 pt Times New Roman. Titles use 14 pt bold Times New Roman.
  8. Figures must be JPEG/PNG at a minimum of 300 dpi. Number and caption tables and figures, and place them close to the relevant discussion.
  9. Use Harvard Style consistently. Prioritize recent primary references and include DOI or URL when available.

Integrity and transparency

  1. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of data, citations, figures, tables, and references. Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and duplicate submission are not acceptable.
  2. Each author must make a substantive contribution. A contributor statement is required in the manuscript.
  3. Manuscripts must include conflict-of-interest and funding statements, or state that none exists.
  4. Research involving humans, animals, or sensitive data must state ethics approval or ethical compliance when relevant.
  5. Use of generative artificial intelligence must be disclosed in line with the Artificial Intelligence Use Policy. Artificial intelligence cannot be listed as an author.

Submission process

Authors submit manuscripts through TERAS OJS, complete all metadata, and follow the submission checklist. Manuscripts outside the scope or not meeting formatting or ethical requirements may be returned before review. Eligible manuscripts proceed to peer review under the journal policy.

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Authors retain copyright and grant Teras Jurnal the right of first publication. Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Authors may distribute the published version with acknowledgment of its first publication in Teras Jurnal.

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