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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.

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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 Microsoft Word (docx) document file format.
  • This paper is entirely the work of the authors and all content drawn from the work of other authors has been fully and appropriately referenced.
  • Anyone who has made a contribution to this paper is either listed as an author or their contribution is properly acknowledged elsewhere in the paper.
  • All necessary permissions for any text, pictures, diagrams, tables and figures in the paper which have been reproduced from other works have been obtained from the relevant copyright holders and the authors indemnify the publishers if any action arising from this not being the case.
  • Artwork source files have been provided at the appropriate size and resolution.
  • The manuscript title is short and informative.
  • Author names and their affiliations have been provided.
  • One author has been designated as corresponding author.
  • The abstract can be read as stand-alone text and does not exceed 300 words.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • All the data has been acquired in keeping with recognized ethical research practices.
  • All references mentioned in the References list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
  • I/we the author/s understand that i.we retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • I/we The author declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
  • I/We hereby warrant that this work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty.
  • I/We are aware of the UMSIDA plagiarism policy.
  • Article title and abstract should be in English

Author Guidelines

Manuscript Types

ACOPEN exclusively accepts Original Research Articles that present original, significant, and methodologically rigorous contributions to legal scholarship, particularly in the fields of Legal Studies and Human Rights.

Submitted manuscripts may employ normative or doctrinal, empirical, socio-legal, comparative, or interdisciplinary legal research approaches. All research approaches must demonstrate methodological rigor, analytical depth, and a clear contribution to the advancement of legal knowledge.

Each manuscript must clearly identify the research problem, establish its scholarly contribution, explain the research methodology, and present findings supported by critical legal analysis, relevant evidence, and well-founded arguments.

ACOPEN does not accept review articles, book reviews, opinion papers, or manuscripts that merely describe legal provisions without substantial original analysis or meaningful scholarly contributions.

All submissions must comply with the journal's Author Guidelines, Publication Ethics, and Peer Review Policies to ensure academic integrity, research originality, and publication quality.

We provide our authors flexibility in formatting their manuscripts. Therefore, we do not use any specific template. However, author require to obey this following rules:

1. Title in English and Indonesia, within 8-12 Words. The manuscript title is short and informative.
2. The abstract is in English and can be read as stand-alone text and does not exceed 300 words.
3. We accept article in any length. we do not impose any limit on article length or the number of tables and figures.
4. For citation and references, please use Vancouver system (author-number system). See this (wikipedia) for example. However, please use square bracket for citation rather than superscript. Use of reference manager (Zotero, Mendeley, or End Note) is preferable.
5. Your references is within 15-30 references (more than 30 is allowed for review article type). Website reference allowed only if the URL is permanent, and not more than 10% of the references. You can use perma.cc, archive.today, or archive.org to permanent your URL.
6. Please insert the fund name and contract number, if available.
7. Languange of the article is English, Indonesia, Malay, or Arabic. However, article title, and abstract must be in English. The article sections in sequence are introduction, literature review (if any), methods (if any), results (if any)and discussion (if any), conclusions, acknowledgment (if any), funders (if any), conflict of interest statements, and references.

In general, author can make the following template as an example:

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