Article Types

All submissions must be relevant to the JKKI's Focus and Scope and must demonstrate originality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, analytical depth, scientific relevance, and transparent reporting. Manuscripts must not have been published previously and must not be under consideration by another journal.

Authors must select the correct article type during submission. A manuscript may be returned for technical revision or declined during editorial screening when the selected article type does not correspond to the study design, manuscript structure, scientific content, or reporting approach.

1. Original Research Article
An Original Research Article presents complete findings from an empirical study using quantitative, qualitative, experimental, observational, simulation-based, or mixed-methods approaches. The manuscript must address a clearly defined research question and provide a substantive contribution to public health, community health, primary healthcare, nursing, epidemiology, pharmacy, health management, environmental/occupational health, nutrition, or related disciplines within the journal scope.

Eligible research approaches
  • Community-based participatory research and community empowerment studies
  • Primary healthcare and health service delivery studies
  • Epidemiological studies (cross-sectional, cohort, case-control) in population settings
  • Public health policy, health-system, and operational research
  • Nursing practice, community nursing, and patient/family-centered care studies
  • Clinical and community pharmacy, pharmaceutical care, and rational drug use studies
  • Maternal, reproductive, child, and adolescent health studies
  • Environmental, occupational, and workplace health assessments
  • Community nutrition, food programs, and health promotion interventions
  • Qualitative studies exploring community health experiences, health behaviors, or health literacy
  • Mixed-methods studies addressing complex public health challenges
 
Required manuscript structure
  • Title
  • Structured abstract
  • Keywords
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments, when applicable
  • Author contributions
  • Funding statement
  • Conflict-of-interest declaration
  • Ethics approval and informed-consent statement, when applicable
  • Data-availability statement
  • References
  • Tables, figure legends, and supplementary materials, when applicable
Methods reporting
The Methods section must provide sufficient information to permit scientific evaluation, reproducibility, and, where applicable, replication. Authors should describe the study design, setting (e.g., specific community, primary healthcare center/Puskesmas, village, workplace, or school), study period, participants or data sources, eligibility criteria, sampling procedures, sample-size calculation, variables, interventions or exposures, outcomes, measurement instruments, validity and reliability procedures, data collection, quality control, analytical methods, statistical software and version, and ethical approval.
 
For community health intervention or health promotion studies, authors must clearly describe the intervention design, implementation context, and participant engagement. Statistical methods must be appropriate for the study objectives and data structure. Authors should report measures of effect, uncertainty estimates, confidence intervals, assumptions, missing-data procedures, and model diagnostics when relevant. Reliance solely on p-values without effect estimates and scientific interpretation is discouraged.
 

2. Case Report and Community Case Series

A Case Report or Case Series presents a detailed description of a rare, novel, or highly educational public health, community health, or clinical scenario with strong community implications. Given the broad nature of community health, case reports must offer substantial educational value, highlight a novel community-based diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive approach, describe an unusual disease outbreak or cluster in the community, or illustrate an innovative health program implementation.
 
Minimum case report requirements
  • A clear description of the community, public health, or primary care presentation
  • Relevant demographic, environmental, or social determinants of health context
  • Diagnostic workup, community assessment, or public health investigation
  • Management interventions, health program implementation, and outcomes
  • A focused discussion highlighting the novelty, educational value, and implications for community health practitioners or policymakers
  • Strict adherence to patient and community anonymity and confidentiality
 

3. Review Article

A Review Article synthesizes and critically evaluates existing evidence relevant to public health, community health, primary healthcare, nursing practice, epidemiology, community pharmacy, health policy, or related fields. Review manuscripts must use a transparent and reproducible methodology, present a clearly defined review question, and explain how evidence was identified, selected, evaluated, and synthesized.
 
Eligible review approaches
  • Systematic review
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Scoping review
  • Umbrella review
  • Rapid review with a clearly justified methodology (highly relevant for emerging public health or outbreak contexts)
  • Other structured evidence-synthesis designs approved by the editors
 
Minimum review requirements
  • A clearly formulated review objective or research question
  • A justified review design
  • Explicit eligibility criteria
  • Clearly identified information sources
  • A complete and reproducible search strategy
  • A transparent study-selection process
  • Clearly described data-extraction procedures
  • Critical appraisal or risk-of-bias assessment when applicable
  • Appropriate qualitative or quantitative evidence-synthesis methods
  • A study-selection flow diagram
  • Compliance with the relevant PRISMA guideline or extension
  • Protocol registration information when available
 
Narrative reviews that do not explain their search, selection, and synthesis methods are generally not considered unless specifically invited by the editorial team.
 

4. Reporting Standards

Authors must prepare manuscripts in accordance with the reporting guideline appropriate to the study design. The relevant checklist and flow diagram should be submitted as supplementary files when required.
 
  • CONSORT for randomized controlled trials
  • STROBE for observational studies
  • PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • PRISMA-ScR for scoping reviews
  • CARE for case reports and case series
  • COREQ or SRQR for qualitative studies
  • STARD for diagnostic-accuracy studies
  • TRIPOD for prediction-model studies (e.g., disease risk or health outcome models)
  • CHEERS for health-economic evaluations
  • SQUIRE for healthcare-quality-improvement studies
  • TIDieR for detailed reporting of interventions (e.g., specific community health protocols, health promotion programs, or nursing interventions)
  • EQUATOR Network guidelines for other specific study designs
 

5. Research Ethics and Publication Integrity

Research involving human participants, identifiable personal data, biological specimens, or animals must comply with applicable ethical standards and receive approval from an authorized ethics committee (e.g., Health Research Ethics Committee) before the study begins. The manuscript must state the name of the approving institution, approval number, approval date, and informed-consent procedures.
 
For community-based research, public health surveillance, or studies involving vulnerable populations (e.g., children, pregnant women, marginalized communities), authors must clearly state how ethical approval was obtained, ensuring that community engagement and cultural sensitivities were respected. Retrospective studies using anonymized health records or community registry data must include a formal ethics waiver or approval statement.
 
Clinical trials and community intervention trials must be registered in a publicly accessible trial registry before participant enrollment. Authors must disclose all sources of funding, institutional support, financial relationships, and nonfinancial interests. Authorship must reflect substantial scholarly contributions and comply with accepted international authorship criteria (e.g., ICMJE).
 

6. General Writing Requirements

  • The manuscript must be written in clear, concise, and academically appropriate English (or Indonesian, depending on the journal's specific language policy).
  • The title must accurately represent the study design, population, community/public health intervention, or principal topic.
  • The abstract must accurately summarize the purpose, methods, principal results, and conclusion.
  • Keywords should use recognized scientific or indexing terminology (e.g., MeSH terms related to public health, community health, or nursing).
  • The Introduction should establish the scientific context, research gap, rationale, and study objective within the public or community health framework.
  • The Results section must present findings objectively and without unnecessary interpretation.
  • The Discussion should interpret the findings in relation to previous public/community health evidence, policy or operational implications, strengths, and limitations.
  • The Conclusion must be supported directly by the results and must not overstate causality, effectiveness, or generalizability.
  • Tables and figures must be self-explanatory, appropriately numbered, and cited in the manuscript text.
  • Abbreviations must be defined at first use and used consistently (e.g., PHC, CHC, NCDs, SDH, Puskesmas).
  • Generic names should be used for medicines unless a trade name is scientifically necessary.
  • International System of Units (SI) should be used wherever applicable.
  • References must be relevant, accurate, traceable, and formatted according to the journal requirements.
  • Authors must verify all references, digital object identifiers, statistical values, and factual statements before submission.
 

7. Manuscripts Generally Not Considered

  • Manuscripts outside the current Focus and Scope (e.g., purely clinical hospital-based studies without a community, public health, or population-level component).
  • Routine case reports without a substantial educational, novel, or public-health contribution to community or primary healthcare.
  • Community-service reports (e.g., Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat) or general health promotion activities without a defined scientific research design.
  • Incomplete studies or preliminary reports without adequate scientific justification.
  • Fragmented publication or unnecessary division of one study into multiple manuscripts (salami slicing).
  • Purely descriptive manuscripts without sufficient analytical or scholarly contribution.
  • Studies with inadequate methodological information.
  • Reviews without a transparent evidence-search and study-selection method.
  • Manuscripts without adequate ethical documentation when ethical review is required.
  • Manuscripts with unverifiable, fabricated, manipulated, duplicated, or substantially inconsistent data.
  • Manuscripts containing plagiarism, inappropriate authorship, undisclosed competing interests, or redundant publication.
  • Manuscripts that make causal claims unsupported by the study design.
  • Manuscripts whose conclusions are not supported by the reported findings.

Before preparing and submitting a manuscript, authors should review the Focus and Scope, the Author Guidelines, the applicable reporting guideline, and all submission requirements. Failure to comply with the journal requirements may result in the manuscript being returned for correction or declined during editorial screening.