PROCURATIO: Jurnal Manajemen & Bisnis welcomes scholarly manuscripts that contribute to the advancement of management and business knowledge. Authors are required to follow these guidelines to ensure that submissions meet the journal's standards for academic quality, clarity, consistency, and publication ethics.

Manuscripts should be original, clearly structured, methodologically sound, and supported by relevant scholarly literature. Authors are encouraged to use the official journal template and check their manuscript carefully before submission through the journal's Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

1. General Manuscript Formatting

Authors should prepare their manuscripts using the official PROCURATIO article template. Unless otherwise specified in the template, the following formatting requirements apply:

Authors should maintain consistent formatting throughout the manuscript. The official article template takes precedence if it specifies a different layout or formatting requirement.

2. Article Title and Author Information

The article title must be clear, concise, informative, and engaging. It should identify the main issue or subject of the research and contain no more than 15 words. Use sentence case and avoid unnecessary abbreviations, unexplained acronyms, and overly broad expressions.

The title should be written in Garamond, 14 pt, bold, centered, and single-spaced, following the official template.

List each author's full name below the title, followed by the author's institutional affiliation, university or organization, city, and country. Author names should use Garamond, 12 pt, bold, while affiliations should use Garamond, 10 pt, italic.

Identify the corresponding author with an asterisk (*) and provide a valid email address. Ensure that author names, affiliations, and the order of authors are accurate and consistent with the OJS submission metadata.

3. Abstract and Keywords

The abstract must contain 200–300 words and summarize the study in a clear, self-contained manner. It should enable readers to understand the research purpose, approach, principal findings, implications, and original contribution without reading the full article.

The abstract should be organized using the following elements:

Use the labels above to structure the abstract. Avoid citations, lengthy background explanations, undefined abbreviations, and information that is not supported by the article.

Provide 3–5 keywords immediately after the abstract. Keywords should represent the main concepts, variables, methods, or research context and should support the discoverability of the article. Avoid repeating the entire title as keywords.

Specify the appropriate paper type, such as Research Paper or Review Paper.

4. Article Structure

Research articles should be organized logically and use informative section headings. The structure below is recommended for empirical research; review papers may use headings appropriate to their review methodology and analytical approach.

4.1 Introduction

Introduce the research context, relevant real-world phenomena, and the problem motivating the study. Support the background with credible and current data where appropriate. Identify the theoretical or practical gap, state the research problem and objectives, and explain the study's significance and novelty. The introduction should establish why the research matters and how it contributes to existing knowledge.

4.2 Literature Review and Hypothesis Development

Critically discuss relevant theories, concepts, and previous empirical findings. Define the key constructs or research concepts and identify consistent, contradictory, or underexplored findings in the literature. Explain how the current study extends existing knowledge. For quantitative studies, develop hypotheses or research propositions with clear theoretical justification. A conceptual framework or research model may be included where appropriate.

4.3 Methods

Describe the research design and procedures in sufficient detail to support evaluation and, where appropriate, replication. Explain the research approach, study setting, population and sample or participants, sampling technique, data sources, data collection procedures, instruments, and analytical methods. Discuss validity, reliability, trustworthiness, or other quality-assurance procedures as relevant to the methodology. Identify analytical software and its version when applicable. Authors should also disclose relevant ethical approval and consent procedures where required.

4.4 Results and Discussion

Present the main findings in a logical sequence that corresponds to the research objectives, questions, or hypotheses. Use tables, figures, or other visual material when they improve clarity. Interpret the findings rather than merely repeating numerical results. Compare the results with relevant theories and prior studies, explain similarities or differences, and discuss the theoretical and practical implications. Clearly distinguish empirical evidence from interpretation and speculation.

4.5 Conclusion

Summarize the principal findings and explain how they answer the research objectives or questions. Highlight the main contributions and implications without repeating the full results section. Acknowledge important limitations and, where appropriate, provide focused recommendations for future research or practice. Do not introduce new results or unsupported claims in the conclusion.

4.6 References

Include a complete list of all works cited in the manuscript. References must follow APA 7th edition style, be arranged alphabetically by the first author's surname, and contain sufficient bibliographic information to identify each source. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference entry, and every reference entry must be cited in the text.

5. Article Type and Publication Information

Authors should identify the appropriate manuscript category during submission. The journal may classify manuscripts as research papers or review papers, subject to the journal's scope and current submission requirements.

Editorial history and publication details, including received, revised, and accepted dates, volume, issue, page range or article identifier, and electronic ISSN, are managed by the editorial office. Authors should not insert assumed dates, volume numbers, page ranges, or other publication metadata into the manuscript. These details will be added or verified by the editorial team as appropriate.

The journal's copyright and licensing statement should be applied in accordance with the journal's current Copyright and License Policy. Authors should not alter the official license wording or publication footer in the journal template.

6. Referencing and Citation Style

PROCURATIO uses the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition, citation and referencing style. Authors should prioritize relevant, credible, and up-to-date sources, including peer-reviewed journal articles that directly support the research argument.

• Use author–date citations consistently throughout the manuscript.
• Include DOI links in the format https://doi.org/xxxxx when available.
• Ensure author names, publication years, titles, journal names, volume, issue, page ranges, and DOI information are accurate.
• Use reference management software such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote to support consistency.
• Verify that all cited sources are listed in the references and that the reference list contains no uncited entries.

Authors are encouraged to cite recent literature where relevant, while retaining foundational works necessary to explain established theories and concepts. Any specific requirements concerning the proportion or age of references should be followed only when explicitly stated in the journal's current policy.

7. Tables, Figures, and Illustrations

Tables and figures should improve the clarity of the manuscript and communicate information that is relevant to the research objectives. All tables and figures must be numbered consecutively and referred to in the text.

Avoid unnecessary duplication between the main text, tables, and figures. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material when required and for providing appropriate attribution. Ensure that visual materials remain legible when displayed in the final publication format.

8. Publication Ethics and Originality

Submitted manuscripts must be original and must not be published previously or simultaneously submitted to another journal, except where the journal's policies explicitly permit otherwise. Authors must acknowledge the work of others through accurate citations and disclose relevant conflicts of interest, funding sources, and contributions as appropriate.

Authors must not fabricate, falsify, or misrepresent research data, results, or sources. Any use of third-party text, data, images, instruments, or other materials must be appropriately cited and used with permission where required. Authors should follow the journal's policies on plagiarism, research misconduct, authorship, conflicts of interest, corrections, and retractions.

Where research involves human participants or personal data, authors should report relevant ethical review, consent, and data-protection procedures in accordance with applicable standards and regulations.

9. Final Submission Checklist

Before submitting through OJS 3, authors should confirm that their manuscript meets the following requirements: