General Guidance

  • This guidance applies to full research paper and poster paper submission.
  • The Paper is the author’s original work and free from plagiarism.
  • The Paper has never been accepted and/or presented in a seminar and published in a journal
  • The paper must meet the General Guidelines, Paper Structure Guidelines and Writing Format Guidelines. Paper violating these guidelines may be rejected for further processing – the Paper review process – (considered as never been sent to PROFICIENT 2023).
  • For each paper, there are two files that you must send (upload):
  1. “Title Page” file which contains the Paper Title, Author Name, Abstract and Keywords. This file is created in MSWord format.
  2. “Full Paper/manuscript” file which contains full paper/manuscript which has title, abstract, and keywords, but does NOT contain information about the author or affiliation  (blind paper/manuscript). This file is created in MS Word format.
  • The Paper is submitted via the PROFICIENT 2023 website, by registering on the website first. The Paper is not sent via email address.

Paper Structure Guidance

The Paper submitted to PROFICIENT 2023 must meet the following writing structure: The Paper structure starts from 1) Abstract and Keywords, 2) Introduction, 3) Theoretical Basis, 4). Hypothesis Development (if any), 5) Research Methods, 6) Results and Discussion, 7) Conclusions, Implications, and Limitations of Research, 8) Bibliography, and 9). Appendix.

  1. Abstract: contains research problems, research objectives, methods, results and research contributions. Abstract consists of 150 to 300 words. Keywords: Consists of a maximum of four (4) keywords.
  2. Introduction: contains research background, research motivation, research questions and research objectives.
  3. Theoretical basis: describes the theoretical basis used as a logical basis in developing hypotheses (if any) or research propositions and research models (if any).
  4. Hypothesis Development (if any): contains the research model and all hypotheses proposed in the study.
  5. Research Methods: describes the selection and collection of data, measurement and operational definition of research variables and methods of data analysis.
  6. Results and Discussion: presents the results of data analysis and discussion of these results.
  7. Conclusion, Implications, and Limitations of the Research: provides a summary of the research results, implications, research limitations and suggestions for further research.
  8. Bibliography: presents a list of references cited in the paper.
  9. Appendix: contains research instruments and other additional information.

The Paper must be written in article format, not resembling a thesis.

Writing Format Guideline

  • The Paper is written in English (Highly Recommended for requirements if it will be accepted in the SINTA 2 journal).
  • The Paper is written with 1.5 spacing, A4 Paper.
  • The Paper is written with no more than 2,400 words (10 pages) with Times New Roman font (11-12 font size), including Bibliography and Appendices.
  • The top, bottom, left and right margins are set at 2.5 cm (1 inch).
  • All of the pages including tables, pictures must be numbered sequentially.
  • Tables or images are put in the body of the paper/manuscript, not separated from the body of the paper/manuscript.
  • Reference style References must consist of 80% from relevant and up-to-date primary sources    (such as journal articles or conferences for the last 5 years). References should be written in APA style and using reference management software (Mendeley, Zotero, etc).