Reviewer Guidelines

To improve the quality of our journal publications, we cordially invite experts to become reviewers for the Bumantara: Literature Journal. Your support and contributions will be invaluable and constructive to our publication, ensuring that published manuscripts are of high quality and standard.

Qualifications:

Prospective reviewers must hold a Master's or Doctoral degree.

The research field must be relevant to literary research and literature teaching.

Have strong experience as a reviewer in scientific journals.

Have published articles in reputable and cited journals.

When reviewing a manuscript, reviewers should pay attention to the following:

Presentation

Does the manuscript present a cohesive argument? Are the ideas presented clearly?

Writing

Does the title reflect the content of the manuscript? Is the writing concise and easy to follow?

Length

Which parts of the manuscript need to be elaborated/deleted/shortened/condensed/combined?

Title

Does the title reflect the content of the manuscript in a concise, clear, and engaging manner?

Abstract

Does the abstract meet the five elements of research: background, objectives, methods, findings, and contributions/implications?

Introduction

The introduction should briefly include:

- The background of the research should indicate the research gap to be addressed.

- The literature review should provide theories relevant to the research and should guide and support understanding to answer the research questions.

- The originality of the work should be explained.

- The research objectives should be presented in narrative form with effective sentences.

- Hypothesis development (if using quantitative methods) should be based on the theoretical review and expressed in a one-way direction (if possible).

Methods

The methods should comprehensively cover all procedures (not only explaining the definitions of terms but also how the research was conducted).

The research variables, research subjects, research instruments (names, item numbers, and reliability coefficients) should be identified.

The data analysis techniques used should be described.

Sufficient information to provide recommendations or guidelines for further research is recommended to facilitate other researchers in replicating the study with similar results.

Results

This section describes the research results. Use tables and figures if necessary. The data presented should be processed (not raw data) and presented in tables or figures with supporting descriptions. The tables, graphs, or figures should explain the analysis. The results should answer the research questions and/or hypotheses.

Discussion

The author explains the research results and provides an analysis of how they relate to previous or current literature. The author should provide substantial meaning to the analysis and compare it with findings from relevant literature.

The author explains the implications of the research.

The author should discuss the strengths and limitations of their research. This section should not be a repetition of the results section.

Conclusion

This section presents the main conclusions of the research.

The conclusion should be presented in an effective sentence based on the results and discussion in paragraph form (not in bullets or numbering).

The conclusion presents the research findings as a synthesis of the data analysis and discussion. It should highlight new findings that contribute to the development of literature and its teaching.