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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 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, RTF, or WordPerfect 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, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Reviewhave been followed.

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Submitting Article to BERITA SEDIMENTOLOGI

We would like to appreciate and thank you for considering to submit an article to BERITA SEDIMENTOLOGI. We welcome various types of articles such as research paper, review articles, short communications, discussions and replies, field trip reports and book reviews.

In order to speed up the review process and to maintain the quality of our publications, please follow the guidelines below:

  1. Article should be submitted in English and there is no limitation on the length of the article.
  2. Please use Times New Roman font, 12pt, justified, 1.5 spacing and a single column throughout your article.
  3. The head of the article consists of Title, Author, the Author’s institution and corresponding authors information (email address). The first letter of the title should be using capital letter and the rest should be in lower case unless for geographical locations or formation names. For Author Name, please include first and last names, in bold. Please add 1 blank line each between the title and author and the author and institution. From the author's institution to the abstract title, please use double blank lines.
  4. Abstract heading should be all capital and bold. The Abstract length is maximum 300 words. Please use 1 blank line before a new paragraph in the abstract.
  5. Level 1 to Level 3 headings are shown the example (pp. 2-3). Please add 1 blank line before a new heading or a new paragraph throughout the article body. No blank line is necessary after new a heading and the first line in the paragraph.
  6. When writing million years ago in the body text, please use Ma instead Mya. If you want to say a duration, for example 8 million years, then please use 8 my and not 8 Ma. To write a range, for example 16 to 10 million years ago, please use 16–10 Ma and not 16-10 Ma nor 16—10 Ma.  
  7. Figures should be mentioned in the text (in ascending order) and should be written as Fig. 1 or quoted as (Fig. 2), and not bold nor italic. Please provide figure captures in a separate section, for example after the reference section.
  8. Please submit us with high quality JPEG images of the figures, clearly numbered in the file names. If you are not able to provide us JPEG images, then pdf files are good enough although they are not ideal.
  9. Cited references in the text follow the author and year system (Harvard Style), see example. Please ensure to re-check the reference list so that they are consistent with the body text.

 

Tittle of the article, bold, first letter capital and the rest in lower case

FirstName LastName1 and FirstName LastName2

1Institution No. 1, City, Country

2Institution No. 2, City, Country

Corresponding author: email address

 

ABSTRACT

Abstract should not be longer than 300 words and should not contain references. We suggest your abstract to contain a short version of introduction to the paper, research question, paper objectives, main method to solve the problem and main summary of the results. Abstract is not a re-write of any part of your main articles. It is not just a copy and paste of several paragraphs from your article and put them together in the abstract.

Please put 1 blank line spacing above every new paragraph of your abstract and continue with a left indent on the new sentences. After ending the abstract, please put 1 blank line before you type the keywords.

Keywords: please provide 3-5 keywords about your paper

 

INTRODUCTION

The first level heading such as Introduction is written by using the following font: Times New Roman, 12pt, bold. Figure can be written as Fig. and followed by number, for example Fig. 1 and so on, in normal font (not bold nor italic). The Introduction section should include research question/problem statement, objectives of the paper, review of previous work (literature) and how this work is going to be different to previous work. After the last paragraph and before the next first level heading, please add 1 empty line break (press Enter twice).

 

GEOLOGICAL SETTING

Tectonic Setting of East Java Basin

The second level heading should be written as above, using Times New Roman, 12pt, bold. The first letter of each word in the second heading should use capital letter, except for the words such as: of, and, to and from. No spacing break needed from the first to second level heading. Add 1 empty line break after the last paragraph and before starting the next paragraph (press Enter twice).

 

Cited references in the text should follow the author and year system (slightly modified Harvard Style). If the cited reference is written by a sole author, use: Wight (1994) or (Wight, 1994); for 2 authors: Wight & Budianto (2002) or (Posamentier & Allen, 1993); and for more than 2 authors: Nichols et al. (1991) or (Nichols et al., 1991). Examples of how to write the cited references (for the reference list) are given at the end of this guideline. The cited references should be organized in alphabetical order of the first author’s last names. In this guideline, examples of how to write the references are given for journal articles, article in proceedings, online materials, books and an article within a book.

 

Regional Stratigraphy

Kujung Formation

The third level heading should be written in Times New Roman, 12pt, italic font and the first letter of each word in the heading uses a capital letter.

 

DATA AND METHODS

Data and methods section is essential to provide information about the amount of data and the workflow used in the research. Clear explanation about the methodology may also help the readers to repeat your research workflow in the future.

 

RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION

This section contains the results of you work and your analysis/interpretation. The name of this section is not necessarily as suggested above, you can also change the section title as applicable to your work and research topics. Some authors may want to add discussions into this part as well as part of the analysis.

 

CONCLUSIONS

This section is used for the conclusion or summary of your article. You can also call it Concluding Remarks if you don't want to put conclusion. We suggest that you don't just copy and paste any paragraph from your body text to write this section.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It is advised to acknowledge the contribution of people who make it possible for you to complete the research and to write of your article but not included in the author list.

 

REFERENCES

Nichols, G., Kusnama & Hall, R., 1991. Sandstones of arc and ophiolite provenance in backarc basin, Halmahera, eastern Indonesia. In: Morton, A.C., Todd, S.P. & Haughton, P.D.W. (Eds.), Developments in Sedimentary Provenance Studies, Geological Society Special Publication No. 57, pp. 291-303. (This is an article within a book or a Special Publication)

 

Kombrink, H., 2026. Frontier exploration — Are we seeing a revival? GEOExPro Magazine. Accessed online at https://geoexpro.com/frontier-exploration-are-we-seeing-a-revival/  on  8 July 2026. (This is an online material)

 

Posamentier, H. & Allen, G., 1993. Application of sequence stratigraphy concept in Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan. Proceedings 25th IPA Convention & Exhibition, Jakarta, p. 109–119. (This is an article from a proceeding)

 

Wight, B., 1994. A practical approach to sequence stratigraphy. Oxford Press University, Oxford, 245 pp. (This is a book)

 

Wight, B. & Budianto. A., 2002. Seismic stratigraphy of Kujung Formation, East Java Basin. Journal of Geological Society, 20 (8), 45–65. (This is a journal article)

 

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In submitting the manuscript to BERITA SEDIMENTOLOGI, the authors certify that:

  • They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  • The work described has not been formally published before, except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or overlay journal.
  • That it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  • That its publication has been approved by all the author(s) and by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – of the institutes where the work has been carried out.
  • They secure the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.
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