Submissions

Author Guidelines

East Java Economic Journal with p-ISSN 2597-8780 and e-ISSN 2830-2001 is a journal to disseminate the results of academic writings related to the East Java economy to the public. This scientific publication is also a continuation of the annual "East Java Economic (EJAVEC) Forum" accessed on www.ejavec.org, a forum for discussing the development of the East Java economy in the form of paper presentations or scientific papers on various strategic issues that occur in East Java. The characteristics of the East Java Economic Journal are: 1. East Java Economic Journal invites manuscripts on an economics area, but not limited to economic development, finance , monetary, international trade, environmental, energy, public economics, econometrics, microfinance, health economics, and political economics related to the economy of East Java. 2. This journal is published every 6 months, March and September. 3. The number of scientific articles in 1 (one) period of publication is 7 (seven) articles. 4. The person in charge of scientific publications is the Bank Indonesia Representative Office for East Java Province in its management, the Bank Indonesia Representative Office for East Java Province in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Airlangga.

East Java Economic Forum Journal invites manuscripts on empirical economics researches, applied theories and other matters of interest in economics to researchers and practitioners in various strategic issues that occur in East Java. All accepted articles will be published on an open access basis and will be freely available to all readers with worldwide visibility and coverage.

All papers submitted to the journal should be written in a good English or Bahasa Indonesia. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their paper checked before submission for grammar and clarity. The work should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The official language of the manuscript to be published in East Java Economic Forum Journal is Bahasa Indonesia or English.

1. General Author Guidelines

All manuscripts must be submitted to East Java Economic Forum Journal Editorial Office by Online Submission at E-Journal portal address: https://ejavec.id/index.php/ejavec/about/submissions, where author register as Author and/or offered as Reviewer by online. If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email: ejavec.journal@gmail.com

East Java Economic Forum Journal only accepts Original Research Articles to be published. 

2. Manuscript Template

The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the article template: download

3. Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
The journal encourages authors to share the data such as a work file from SPSS, Eviews, Stata, R, and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in a supplementary file of our journal system or an appropriate public repository

4. Reviewing of manuscripts

All manuscripts received by the editor of East Java Economic Forum Journal will be reviewed by peer reviewers according to the field of economics studies (at least 2 people) with a double-blind review policy. The first initial review takes at least 2 weeks up to 1 month. The review process will take at least 15 days to complete for first round. The review process can pass more than one review rounds. The final decision will be taken by the editor-in-chief based on the comments from the reviewers in the editorial board forum.

5. Revision of manuscripts

Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised manuscripts can be sent to editorial office through the Online Submission Interface https://ejavec.id/index.php/ejavec/about/submissions. The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

6. Editorial Office of East Java Economic Forum Journal

All correspondences should be sent to the following Editorial Office:

Rossanto Dwi Handoyo, P.hD (Editor-in-Chief)

Editorial Office of East Java Economic Forum Journal: Kantor Perwakilan Bank Indonesia Provinsi Jawa Timur, Jl. Pahlawan No.105 Surabaya, Jawa Timur , Phone:  +6231-3520011/3520025, Email: ejavec.journal@gmail.com

7. Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

7.1.   The manuscripts represent academic research in empirical economics researches, applied theories and other matters of interest in economics to researchers and practitioners in various strategic issues that occur in East Java. 

The manuscripts should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words excluding tables, pictures, and references. The allowable length of the manuscript is at Editor's discretion; however, manuscript with a length less or exceeding the words may be return to the author(s) for revision before the manuscript is considered by the Editors. 

7.2.   Structure of the manuscripts

• Title. The title should be brief, short, clear, written in English or Bahasa Indonesia, and informative which reflect the article content. The length of the title maximum 12 words. Each word of the title should be started with a capitalized letter.
• Author’s names and institutions. The author’s names should be accompanied by the author’s institutions, affiliation address and email addresses, without any academic titles and/or job title.
• Abstract. The abstract should be less than 250 words. Abstract contains clear statement of the background of the study, the purpose of the study, method, result, and implication, with no references cited.
• Keywords should be 2 to 5 phrases.
• JEL Classification Numbers. Authors should add 1- 3 JEL Classification Number. Information guide for the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) can be found at https://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/jel.php

• Introduction. The introduction describes a brief background of the novelty, state of the arts, and objective (s). It should be written efficiently and supported by references. It should be written without numbers and/or pointers.
• Literature Review. This section explains the theoretical framework that used in this research, a review of the previous research in the area.
• Data and Research Methods. This section describes the data and tools of analysis along with the data and their sources.
• Finding and Discussion. This section explains the results of the study. Data should be presented in Tables or Figures when feasible. There should be no duplication of data in Tables and Figures. The discussion should be consistent and should interpret the results clearly and concisely, and their significance, supported by the suitable literature. The discussion should show relevance between the result and the field of investigation and/or hypotheses. The discussion also should compare the result with previous research.
• Conclusions. This section concludes and provides policy implications, if any, of the study.
• Declarations. In this section, authors should include the following: (1) Authors' contributions; (2) Funding source; (3) Informed consent statement; (4) Availability of data and material; (5) Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI); (6) No conflicts of interest; (7) Acknowledgments.
• References. References in East Java Economic Journal must follow the APA 7th Edition (2020) citation style, which is readily available in reference management tools such as Mendeley or Zotero. Manuscripts will only be accepted if the reference list is properly organized using one of these tools. Authors are required to include a minimum of 15 references, with at least 80% sourced from primary literature, preferably from high-quality, peer-reviewed journals. All references must be reliable, traceable, and indexed in recognized databases such as Scopus or Web of Science. To ensure academic rigor and relevance, cited works should generally be published within the last 10 years, except for foundational or theoretical sources. Furthermore, references Must include the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to verify their originality and accessibility.

Recommendations for references are:

1. Authors are encouraged to have references mainly from primary source (at least 80% of the references), such as research articles in journal, proceedings, working paper, or dissertation.
2. Authors are encouraged to have references that are up-to-date references (at least 80% references dated within the last 10 years).
3. Authors should avoid excessively referencing your own work (self citation).

Journal Article

Autor, D. H., Dorn, D., Hanson, G. H., & Song, J. (2014). Trade adjustment: Worker-level evidence. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4), 1799–1860. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qju026

Book (No DOI required for physical books; edition is included)

Mankiw, N. G. (2021). Principles of economics (9th ed.). Cengage Learning.

Book Chapter (Include page numbers and editor(s) for book chapters)

Krugman, P. R. (2008). Trade and wages, reconsidered. In J. J. Schott (Ed.), The future of trade policy (pp. 73–96). Peterson Institute for International Economics.

E-book (If available, include the DOI. If the e-book version is the same as the print, no format note is needed)

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century (A. Goldhammer, Trans.). Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674369542

Government or Institutional Report

World Bank. (2020). Global economic prospects, June 2020. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1553-9

Dissertation

Smith, J. L. (2018). Monetary policy transmission in heterogeneous agent models (Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University). ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/monetary-policy-transmission-heterogeneous-agent/docview/2123456789/se-2

Unpublished Dissertation

Stewart, Y. (2000). Dressing the tarot [Unpublished master's thesis]. Auckland University of Technology.

Conference Proceedings (Published in a Book)

Bloom, N., Sadun, R., & Van Reenen, J. (2012). The organization of firms across countries. In D. Acemoglu & M. Woodford (Eds.), NBER macroeconomics annual 2012 (Vol. 27, pp. 15–70). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.1086/669169

Website or Online Article

International Monetary Fund. (2023, October 10). World Economic Outlook: Navigating global divergences. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2023/10/10/world-economic-outlook-october-2023

Dataset (Include the organization name as author, year, title in italics, and the URL or DOI)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2023). OECD Economic Outlook No. 113 (database). https://doi.org/10.1787/b2e897b0-en

8. Author Fee (Page Charge)

East Java Economic Journal  is an open access international journal. Since 2017, there is no submission and publication fee in the journal. 

9. User Rights

All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.  We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows:

 Creative Commons Attribution- 4.0 International Public License