Author Guidelines

ACTA SOLUM JOURNAL

The Acta Solum Journal is a journal that publishes research results in the field of soil science (soil physics and conservation, soil mineralogy, soil chemistry and fertility, soil biology and biochemistry, genesis, and soil classification, land survey and evaluation, and environmental management) and other aspects related to soil as plant growth media. Scientific articles sent for publication in Acta Solum are articles that have never been published or are being considered for publication in other journals.

Submitted manuscripts are reviewed by outside experts or editorial board members of Acta Solum. This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.

Steps in the process are as follows:

A. Article Components

1. The front page (cover sheet); which contains information about the date the article was submitted, the author's name and institution, address, e-mail address, article title, number of text pages, number of tables, and number of images.

2. Page title; the title must be informative and cannot exceed 18 words. Under the title followed by the name of each author (written in full, except for names consisting of more than 2 words, then the middle name is abbreviated. Example: Andy M. Murray), the name of the institution and address of each author, and the email address of the correspondent author (author correspondence is indicated using an asterisk (*) in the author's name).

3. Abstract; is a summary of all articles that contain background research, research objectives, how research is conducted (research methods), the main research results and conclusions and made in Indonesian. It is also possible to add one or two sentences to discuss the results of the research or convey the implications of the research results obtained. Abstracts are not permitted for libraries and cannot exceed 250 words, and in the last line of abstracts add 5 (five) keywords or phrases arranged alphabetically.

4. Introduction; includes background research and has referred / cited several previous studies as well as a statement why this research was conducted (research gap). The purpose of the research is also mentioned in this section.

   Tips: The introduction has referred to at least 5 previous studies and the objectives of the study are clearly outlined at the end of the introduction.

5. Materials and Methods; is a description of how this research was conducted, where the description of the research was carried out in as much detail as possible so that others could repeat the same research. In this section it is also explained whether the research carried out is a laboratory or field experiment or a laboratory-field combination or exploratory research.

6. Results and Discussion; the results of the study must be explained clearly and concisely, with narratives that refer to the results of the study in the form of tables or figures or a combination of table-figures. In the discussion section discussed similarities or differences in the data of current research results with data from the results of previous studies, and the uniqueness of research results. And if possible, add an explanation of the results of the study.

7. Conclusions; is a brief description of the results and discussion that is stand alone.

8. Acknowledgments; contains thanks to those who helped carry out the research until the publication of this article in the journal. For example, people who fund research, help with the analysis of research parameters to help correct article manuscripts.

9. Bibliography; All references cited in the article text must be contained in the bibliography and arranged in alphabetical order by the author. The system used for library writing in the article text is the author of the year, where the first written is the name of the first author and the year of publication in parentheses. Example: (Pratama, 2017) or Pratama (2017) or Allen and Jones, 2014 or Allen and Jones (2014). Use the name of the first author and "et al." if the cited article is written by more than 2 (two) authors. If citations are carried out on 2 (two) or more articles then the order of libraries in parentheses starts from the oldest year (Newton et al., 2007; Allen and Jones, 2014; Pratama, 2017).

Example of Bibliography Writing

Journal Articles

Alwi, M.K., Razie, F., Kurnain, A. 2023. Hubungan ketersediaan fosfor dan kelarutan Fe pada tanah sawah sulfat masam. Acta Solum 1(2), 61-67. https://doi.org/10.20527/actasolum.v1i2.1839

Pratama, D. 2017. Effect of nitrogen-fixing microbial applications on nitrogen availability and mustard growth in peatlands. Journal of Tropical Lands 26 (2), 13-19.

Newton, L., Johnson, G.H., Stewart, L., Blake, J. K. 2007. Adsorption-desorption behavior of dissolved organic carbon by soil clay fractions of varying mineralogy. Geoderma 280, 47-56.

Qian, K., Ma, X., Wang, Y., Yuan, X., Yan, W., Liu, Y., Yang, X., Li, J. 2022. Effects of vegetation change on soil erosion by water in major basins, Central Asia. Remote Sensing 14(21), 5507.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14215507

Saidy, A.R., Mariana, Z.T. 2006. Changes in pH in tropical peat due to carbon mineralization. Agroland Journal 12 (2), 128-132.

Book, Book Chapter or Proceedings

Payne, R. 2008. A Guide to Anova and Design in Genstat. VSN International, Hempstead, UK.

Rhoades, J.D. 1982. Cation exchange capacity. In: A.L. Page, D.R. Keeney (Eds.), Methods of Soil Analysis Part 2: Chemical and Microbiological Properties. American Society of Agronomy-Soil Science Society of America Inc., Madison WI, pp. 363-375.

Nelson, D.W., Sommers, L.E. 1996. Total carbon, organic carbon and organic matter. In: D.L. Sparks (Ed.), Methods of Soil Analysis Part 3: Chemical Methods. Soil Science Society of America-American Society of Agronomy Inc., Madison WI., Pp. 961-1011.

Thesis, Thesis or Dissertation

Megawati. 2005. Response of rice plant growth (Oryza sativa L.) and chemical properties of tidal land due to oil palm empty fruit bunches ash. Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, Unlam, Banjarbaru.

Nursyamsi, D. 2008. The release of potassium is fixed by the addition of oxalic acid and cations to increase potassium available to plants in soils dominated by smectite clay minerals. Dissertation of the Doctoral Program in Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor.

B. Text Format 

• Draft journal articles made in A4 paper size with left, right, top and bottom margins of 3 cm each. The letters used are normal and plain fonts (for example Times New Roman, Arial and others).
• For making tables, please use the table function and don't use the spreadsheet function. Horizontal lines are given in lines.

Table 1. Example of a table used in Acta Solum

No. Sampling Location for Peatland Use

1. Saprik Rice Field Peat
2. Kalampangan Hemik open land
3. Fiberglass Rice Field
4. Lamandau Secondary Fibric Forest

• For making tables, please use the table function and don't use the spreadsheet function. Horizontal lines are given in lines.

Figure 1. Correlation between N-NH3 emissions and temperature.

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