Submissions

Author Guidelines

This is a summary. The full rules are in the Author Guidelines, which are the only authoritative version, together with the Lingkar Article Template and the Author Statement Form.

Scope: original research and review articles within the Objectives and Scope.
Manuscripts are written in English and prepared in the current Lingkar Article Template, with a maximum of 20 pages including tables, figures, and references.
References follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (author-date), and meet the requirements in Section 5.1 of the Author Guidelines.
Every manuscript includes an AI Writing Statement (Generative AI Policy), and the signed Author Statement Form is uploaded as a supplementary file.
Authors submit with their names; the editorial office prepares the anonymised file for double-blind review.
There is no charge for submission or peer review. A publication fee of IDR 500,000 is invoiced only after acceptance (Publication Fees).

Submission Preparation Checklist

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 format, is written in English, and uses the official Lingkar Article Template.
The manuscript follows the Author Guidelines (article structure, formatting, and a maximum length of 20 pages including tables, figures, and references).
All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The reference list contains at least 20 references, and at least 75% of all references are articles in reputable journals.
In-text citations and the reference list follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (author-date), and DOI or URL links are provided where available.
The manuscript includes an AI Writing Statement after the Acknowledgements, stating the AI tools used or confirming that none were used.
The signed Author Statement Form has been uploaded as a supplementary file.
The authors understand that a publication fee of IDR 500,000 applies only after acceptance.

Copyright Notice

Authors who submit to Lingkar: Journal of Environmental Engineering agree to the following terms.

Copyright and license. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. The published article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), which allows others to share and adapt the work, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors and the journal, changes are indicated, and any adaptation is distributed under the same license.
Further distribution. Authors may make separate, non-exclusive arrangements for distributing the published version (for example, depositing it in an institutional repository or including it in a book), provided that the initial publication in this journal is acknowledged and the article's DOI is cited.
Originality and permissions. Authors confirm that the manuscript is original, has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration by another journal. Authors confirm that they hold, or have obtained, permission to reproduce any third-party material (figures, tables, images, or data) included in the manuscript, and that such material is clearly credited.
Responsibility. Authors are responsible for the content of the manuscript, including the accuracy of data and references and the declaration of any use of generative AI, in line with the Author Guidelines and the journal's publication ethics.

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Effective date: 22 July 2023. Last revised: October 2026.

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