Types of Manuscripts

 

ADI Journal of Community Service (ADIMAS Journal) welcomes original scholarly manuscripts focusing on community service, community empowerment, and the application of scientific knowledge and appropriate technology to address societal needs. All submissions must be relevant to the journal's aims and scope and demonstrate a clear academic and practical contribution to community engagement, empowerment, and sustainable development.

1. Original Community Service Articles

Full-length research articles presenting the design, implementation, and evaluation of community service or community empowerment programs. Manuscripts should clearly describe the needs and characteristics of community partners, program objectives, intervention strategies, implementation methods, community participation, evaluation procedures, and measurable outcomes. Findings may be supported by quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches. The discussion should critically examine program effectiveness, contributions, limitations, and potential for sustainability and replication.

2. Community-Based Case Studies

Articles providing an in-depth analysis of a specific community service initiative, partnership, or empowerment program within its local and institutional context. Manuscripts should explain the challenges faced by the community, the rationale for the intervention, the roles of participating stakeholders, implementation processes, achieved outcomes, and lessons learned. Case studies should provide evidence-based practical insights that may inform similar initiatives in other contexts while acknowledging contextual differences and limitations.

3. Applied Methods and Appropriate Technology Articles

Articles describing the development, adaptation, implementation, and evaluation of methods, tools, training models, digital solutions, or appropriate technologies designed to address community needs. Manuscripts should explain the problems addressed, the rationale for the selected approach, the development or adaptation process, implementation procedures, community involvement, and evidence of usability, effectiveness, or practical benefits. Technical descriptions should be accompanied by an evaluation of their contribution to community capacity, productivity, independence, or quality of life.

4. Review Articles

Articles critically reviewing and synthesizing existing scholarly literature on community service, community empowerment, community engagement, and related intervention approaches. Reviews should establish a clear research objective, describe the literature search and selection procedures, and present a systematic or structured synthesis of relevant evidence. Manuscripts should identify research gaps, emerging practices, methodological challenges, and implications for the design, implementation, and evaluation of future community service programs.

5. Short Communications

Concise scholarly articles presenting focused innovations, preliminary evaluations, or specific findings from community service and empowerment initiatives. Manuscripts should clearly describe the community context, objectives, intervention methods, principal findings, and practical implications. Preliminary findings must be explicitly identified, and conclusions should be proportionate to the available evidence and acknowledge the limitations of the reported activities.

General Submission Requirements

All manuscript types must comply with the journal's Author Guidelines, manuscript template, and publication policies. Authors are required to prepare their manuscripts using the journal's official formatting templates. ADIMAS provides manuscript templates in both Microsoft Word and LaTeX formats to facilitate manuscript preparation and ensure consistency in presentation.

Authors may download the official LaTeX Manuscript Template through the following link: Download LaTeX Template.

Submissions must be original, must not have been previously published, and must not be simultaneously under consideration by another journal. Authors are responsible for ensuring compliance with publication ethics, research integrity, and applicable ethical standards. Manuscripts should appropriately acknowledge community partners, funding sources, institutional support, and other contributors, disclose potential conflicts of interest, and report ethical approval and informed consent where applicable.

ADIMAS encourages authors to explain the relevance of their work to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), where applicable. Such contributions should be clearly connected to the identified community needs, intervention activities, and reported outcomes, and should be supported by relevant evidence.

Submissions must demonstrate scholarly analysis and evidence of meaningful community engagement. Activity announcements, promotional materials, and purely descriptive reports of community activities without adequate evaluation, critical reflection, or analytical discussion are not considered suitable for publication.

All submissions undergo initial editorial screening and peer review in accordance with the journal's editorial and publication policies. Editorial decisions are based on relevance to the journal's scope, originality, scholarly significance, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, quality of evidence, and contribution to community service knowledge and practice.