Manuscript Types and Requirements

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Manuscript Types and Requirements

Scholarly reporting of community engagement, empowerment, and sustainable community development.

About Manuscript Contributions

Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pengembangan Masyarakat Indonesia (JPPMI) publishes scholarly articles that document, evaluate, and critically discuss the implementation and outcomes of community engagement, community empowerment, and community development programs.

Manuscripts should demonstrate a clearly identified community problem, an appropriate intervention, meaningful collaboration with community partners, systematic implementation, and evidence of program outcomes.

The journal primarily considers scholarly community engagement articles. The categories below describe the areas of contribution accepted within this principal article type and do not automatically constitute separate manuscript types.

Principal Manuscript Type

Community Engagement Article

A scholarly article describing a community-based program or intervention, supported by a clear implementation approach, appropriate outcome evaluation, and critical discussion of its contribution, limitations, and implications for community development.

1. Eligible Areas of Community Engagement

JPPMI welcomes interdisciplinary contributions addressing practical community needs, including the following areas.

AREA 01

Community Empowerment and Participation

Participatory community development, capacity building, institutional strengthening, community leadership, and empowerment initiatives designed in response to identified local challenges.

AREA 02

Community Education, Training, and Mentoring

Educational outreach, literacy improvement, vocational skills, professional training, mentoring, and other learning initiatives with documented participation and appropriate evaluation.

AREA 03

Appropriate Technology and Innovation

Implementation, adaptation, transfer, and evaluation of appropriate technologies, digital applications, practical innovations, and community-oriented solutions that address local needs.

AREA 04

Community Health and Well-Being

Health promotion, nutrition education, disease prevention, environmental sanitation, family health, health literacy, and community-based initiatives supporting improved well-being.

AREA 05

Local Economy and Entrepreneurship

Community-based entrepreneurship, small-business capacity building, local product development, economic empowerment, financial literacy, and initiatives supporting sustainable livelihoods.

AREA 06

Environment, Agriculture, and Sustainability

Sustainable agriculture, food security, environmental management, waste utilization, community resilience, and responsible natural-resource-based development programs.

2. Essential Reporting Requirements

Manuscripts must provide sufficient information to allow readers and reviewers to understand the community problem, the activities undertaken, the evaluation approach, and the outcomes achieved.

Component Expected Information
Community Needs Clearly identified problems supported by a needs assessment, baseline information, or other relevant evidence.
Community Partners Description of the setting, target beneficiaries, partner institutions, and their relevant roles.
Program Objectives Specific aims that respond to the identified needs and can be assessed through appropriate indicators.
Intervention Methods Activities, implementation stages, resources, procedures, timelines, and forms of community participation.
Evaluation Methods Outcome indicators, measurement instruments, evaluation periods, analytical procedures, and limitations of the assessment.
Results and Outcomes Findings supported by appropriate quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method evidence, with claims proportionate to the observations.
Discussion Critical interpretation, comparison with relevant literature, contextual influences, strengths, and limitations.
Sustainability Realistic prospects for continuation, community ownership, adaptation, replication, or follow-up activities.

3. Evaluation and Evidence of Outcomes

JPPMI expects authors to evaluate the activities they report using indicators that are appropriate to the program's objectives and implementation context.

Depending on the nature of the intervention, evaluation may include:

  • Changes in knowledge, skills, or practical competencies.
  • Changes in attitudes, practices, or participation.
  • Adoption or use of an introduced technology or innovation.
  • Community partner feedback and qualitative accounts.
  • Changes in organizational capacity or service delivery.
  • Evidence of program implementation, outputs, and follow-up activities.
  • Other measurable or adequately documented outcomes relevant to the intervention.

Evaluation methods should be described transparently. Authors must distinguish immediate outputs from demonstrated outcomes and avoid claiming long-term effectiveness, causality, or sustainability without adequate supporting evidence.

4. Manuscript Preparation Requirements

Manuscripts may be submitted in Indonesian or English and must follow the current JPPMI manuscript template and Author Guidelines.

Authors must prepare accurate titles, abstracts, keywords, manuscript sections, tables, figures, citations, references, and applicable publication declarations.

When required by the current journal template, authors must provide:

  • Bilingual article titles, abstracts, and keywords.
  • Ethics approval or an appropriate explanation where formal review was not required.
  • Informed consent and consent for publication, where applicable.
  • Author Contributions statement.
  • Funding and Conflict of Interest statements.
  • Data Availability Statement.
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence Declaration.
  • Acknowledgments, where relevant.

Detailed formatting, recommended manuscript length, abstract limits, reference style, and other technical requirements are established in the current Author Guidelines and official manuscript template.

5. Tables, Figures, and Community Documentation

Tables and figures must contribute to the clarity and interpretation of program implementation or evaluation findings.

Photographs may be used to document actual community engagement activities, provided that identifiable individuals have given appropriate consent for publication and relevant third-party rights are respected.

Authors must not use staged or AI-generated documentation to misrepresent activities, participants, or results. Photographs alone are generally insufficient evidence to support claims of program effectiveness.

6. Submissions Outside the Journal's Scope

JPPMI does not normally consider manuscripts that lack a meaningful community engagement or development component.

Examples include:

  • Conventional laboratory, observational, or experimental research without substantive community engagement.
  • Descriptive activity reports without clear objectives, implementation methods, or meaningful evaluation.
  • Reports consisting mainly of ceremonial events, donations, or distribution of goods without a demonstrable empowerment or development component.
  • Project proposals that describe planned activities but provide no implementation results.
  • Promotional content or unsupported claims concerning products, interventions, or community benefits.
  • Manuscripts with fabricated activities, participants, evaluation data, or documentary evidence.

Suitability is assessed according to the manuscript's actual scholarly contribution rather than its title, institutional program label, or funding category.

7. Editorial Assessment and Peer Review

Submitted manuscripts first undergo editorial screening to assess scope, completeness, originality, ethical compliance, and minimum reporting quality.

Eligible manuscripts proceed to double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise.

Authors may be requested to revise the manuscript and provide a point-by-point response to reviewer and editor comments.

Final editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit, the credibility of reported implementation and evaluation, peer-review assessments, applicable journal policies, and editorial judgment.

8. Editorial Assessment Principle

JPPMI prioritizes the relevance of community needs, the quality of program implementation, the appropriateness of evaluation methods, and the credibility of documented outcomes.

The number of activities, participants, photographs, or collaborating institutions does not by itself establish scholarly quality or program impact.

Manuscripts should provide transferable knowledge, critically reflect on implementation challenges, and present conclusions consistent with the evidence collected.