Diksi: Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya publishes original research-based and conceptual articles on languages, literature, and their teaching. These guidelines take you through the three stages of publishing with us: before submission, submission, and after submission. Please read them together with the two Diksi manuscript templates (with author details, and anonymised), which contain guidance boxes for every section. Manuscripts that do not follow the templates will be returned to the authors without review.

Part A. Before Submission

1. Check the scope and article type

Diksi publishes articles on languages (linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, translation), literature (literary criticism, literary history, comparative literature, oral and regional literature, children’s literature), and their teaching (language and literature education, materials, assessment, and technology in language learning).

2. Use the templates correctly

• Download both templates from the journal website: the Manuscript Template with Author Details and the Anonymised Manuscript Template.
• Text in blue boxes is guidance: read it, follow it, and delete every blue box before submission.
• Text highlighted in yellow and enclosed in [square brackets] is a placeholder: replace it with your own content and remove the highlight.
• Keep the format: Times New Roman 11 pt, single spacing, justified, A4. Level 1 headings are in capitals and bold; Level 2 headings are bold italic. Headings are not numbered.
• Do not fill in Article history or Citation (APA Style); the editor completes them.
• Complete the pre-submission checklist at the end of the template, then delete it.

3. Language and style

• Write in clear academic English, using one spelling convention (British or American) consistently. Have the manuscript proofread before submission.
• Italicise non-English words that have not been naturalised in English and give an English gloss at first use, e.g., tembang (traditional sung poem); italicise titles of literary works, e.g., Saman.
• Give data excerpts from texts or informants a source code, e.g., [N1/p.23] or [Inf-3], explained in the Method.
• Use the past tense for methods and results, and the present tense for established knowledge and implications.

4. Manuscript structure

5. Closing statements

• Acknowledgements: funders (with grant numbers), institutions, and informants who are not authors.
• Author Contributions (CRediT), e.g., “A.B.: conceptualisation, methodology, writing – original draft; C.D.: data collection, formal analysis.”
• Funding: the funder and grant number, or “This research received no external funding.”
• Conflict of Interest, e.g., “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”
• Ethical Approval and Informed Consent: for research involving people; “Not applicable” for text-based studies.
• Data Availability: where the corpus, transcripts, instruments, or data can be accessed.
• Declaration of Generative AI Use: the tool, version, and purpose, if any (see the Generative AI Policy).
• In the anonymised manuscript, keep only Conflict of Interest, Ethical Approval (masked), Data Availability, and Generative AI Use; put the others on the title page.

6. Citations, references, tables, and figures

• Follow APA 7th edition (apastyle.apa.org). Citations: (Madya, 2011); (Tabachnick & Fidell, 2007); three or more authors: (Thomas-Hunt et al., 2003) from the first citation; direct quotations with page numbers, e.g., (Tobias & Duffy, 2009, p. 23).
• Use the family (last) name; for Indonesian names use the last part of the name, e.g., (Nurgiyantoro, 2013); for single names use the full name, e.g., (Sudiati, 2016).
• Include at least 20 references; at least 80% must be journal articles, preferably from the last 10 years, and up to 20% may be other credible sources. Include DOIs as https://doi.org/…; do not include the publisher’s location.
• Every citation must appear in the reference list and vice versa. Use Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote with the APA 7th style.
• Number tables and figures and cite them in the text. Table titles go above tables and figure titles below figures. Tables have no vertical lines. Figures must be at least 300 dpi.

7. Prepare files for double-anonymous review

1. Anonymised manuscript (from the Anonymised Manuscript Template): no author names, affiliations, emails, ORCID iDs, acknowledgements, author contributions, or funding. Cite your own work in the third person; mask your institution and research site; remove personal data from the file properties.
2. Title page (from the Manuscript Template with Author Details): all author details and all closing statements.
3. Supplementary files (optional): instruments, transcripts, or corpus data, anonymised where needed.

8. Ethics and originality

• The manuscript must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.
• Similarity must not exceed 20% overall and 1% from any single source (excluding references). See the Plagiarism Policy.
• Research involving people requires informed consent and, where applicable, ethical approval.
• All authors must meet the authorship criteria and approve the submission.

9. Pre-submission checklist

1. Both templates are used, and all blue boxes, yellow highlights, and square brackets are removed.
2. The title is ≤ 13 words; the abstract is 150–200 words; there are 3–5 keywords.
3. The Introduction states the gap, novelty, and research questions or aim.
4. The Method describes the design, data sources, instruments, and analysis.
5. The Discussion compares findings with previous studies; the Conclusion answers the research questions.
6. Tables and figures are numbered, titled, and cited in the text.
7. There are at least 20 APA 7 references, at least 80% journal articles, with DOIs, all cited in the text.
8. Similarity is ≤ 20% overall and ≤ 1% per source.
9. All closing statements are complete.
10. The manuscript is anonymised, and a separate title page has been prepared.
11. All authors have ORCID iDs and have approved the submission.

Part B. Submission

1. Register as an Author at journal.uny.ac.id/index.php/diksi, or log in.
2. Start: choose the section, confirm the submission checklist, and use Comments for the Editor to request an APC waiver if needed.
3. Upload: the anonymised manuscript as “Article Text”, the title page, and any supplementary files.
4. Metadata: enter the title, abstract, and keywords exactly as in the manuscript; add all co-authors with affiliations, countries, emails, and ORCID iDs; add the references.
5. Finish: check everything and click “Finish Submission”. You will receive an acknowledgement email.

Part C. After Submission

Appeals

Authors may appeal a decision to the Editor-in-Chief within 30 days, giving specific reasons. See the Peer Review Process page.

Copyright and licence

Authors retain copyright and grant Diksi the right of first publication. Articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence.