Author Guidelines

General Instructions
Medika Trada (JTEMP): The Journal of Biomedical Engineering of Politeknik Bina Trada Semarang is a multidisciplinary journal published by LPPM, Politeknik Bina Trada Semarang, focusing on results that encompass papers and manuscripts from various fields of science. Articles proposed for publication in the Medika Trada Journal (JTEMP) must be original works that have not been published in any other scientific magazines/journals. Articles can be written in Indonesian or English using proper and correct writing conventions.
The article is written in manuscript form in MS Word with A4 page size (210 x 297 mm) with a left margin of 25 cm, top margin of 30 cm, right margin of 20 cm, and bottom margin of 20. The article is written in a single-column format with the simplest possible text layout. It is recommended to only use the writing facilities provided in MS Word (bold, italics, subscript, superscript, equation, etc.) and not to use other facilities not available in MS Word (embedded graphic design, embedded symbols, embedded equations, etc.). All sections of the text in the manuscript are written using the Times New Roman 11 pt font and single spacing.

Special Instructions
The manuscript begins with the Title, Author's Name, Author's Address, Abstract, and Keywords, followed by the main sections consisting of Introduction, Research Method (Model Development), Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgments, List of Notations (if any), References, and Appendices (Figures and Tables). In manuscript writing, figures and tables are not presented together with the text in the main sections but in the Appendices, each accompanied by a serial number and the name of the figure or table. The serial number and name of the figure are written at the bottom of the figure, while the table number and name are written at the top of the table. Please ensure that the quality and size of the images presented are large enough to produce good print quality (one page for one image). Please do not frame the images. This will make it easier for the editorial team to edit and format the text to be presented.

Title
The title should be a maximum of 20 words, using Times New Roman font, size 14, bold, and centered.

Author's Identity
Full name of the author, not abbreviated, and without title. The author's name is written without degrees and positions. Below the name, the full name of the author's institution is written, along with the author's email address and affiliation.

Abstract
An abstract is a brief overview of the entire article or scientific paper, containing four components: (1) Problem and objectives; (2) Methods used; (3) Results and Discussion; and (4) Conclusion and Recommendations. The abstract is written in two languages, namely Indonesian and English. Additionally, the abstract is written in one paragraph without footnotes or bibliographic citations, single-spaced, and contains a maximum of 200 words in Indonesian, accompanied by keywords. The abstract in English is adjusted accordingly.

Introduction
The introduction outlines the background of the problem being addressed, the issues related to the problem being solved, and includes the State of The Art (a brief review of literature or previous research in 1-2 paragraphs) with the aim of justifying/strengthening the statement of novelty, significance, scientific contribution, or originality of this article, and it should include references to articles from journals within the last 10 years. Do not include the title of the article in the writing of the article's purpose. In the introduction, there is no need to use subheadings. The length of the text in the introduction is a maximum of 2 pages, single-spaced, Times New Roman 11.

Research Methodology
Including the type and approach of the research, location and time, research subjects, procedures for data/information collection techniques, data analysis techniques, and the cycle. Number of pages: 1-1.5 pages, single-spaced, 11 Times New Roman font.

Results and Discussion
Including the presentation of obtained data/information and analyzing data/information according to the purpose of writing the article. In the description of the Results and Discussion, subheadings can be used according to the issues being discussed. Subheadings are written in bold. The description of the Results and Discussion must be supported by references. The discussion must be focused. If the article conducts an experiment, the results should ideally be presented in the form of graphs or tables. The captions for images, graphs, or charts should use the Times New Roman font, Bold, with a font size of 11 and be centered below the image, while the table captions should be centered above the table. Each Figure or Table must be given an identification number for its title or caption, for example: "Table 1. Frequency Distribution...". All text within the image/table must be clearly readable, it must not be blurry. Each image/table must be referenced in the text, and the reference method must not use location (e.g., below, above, the following, etc.). First, refer to the Table/Image in the text, then place the table or image. In the Table, there should not be any horizontal lines in the table content, only in the heading and the bottom line. Each Figure or Table must be numbered sequentially without including the chapter number (Table 1, not Table 4.1).
Each equation must be numbered. The description of symbols in the equations should be written in a descriptive paragraph, not as an item list like in book writing. For example: "P represents pressure (atm), m represents mass (g), ….."

Conclusion and Suggestions
The conclusion must clearly indicate the results obtained, the advantages, and the disadvantages. The conclusion is a synthesis of the alignment between the problem, objectives, and results. The conclusion adequately addresses and aligns with the research problem or objective. Implications or suggestions may be added (not mandatory). It is better to write it in paragraph form, not in the form of an item list/numbering.

Bibliography
The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order. Everything referenced in the article must be listed in the bibliography, and everything listed in the bibliography must be referenced in the article. The primacy of the reference literature, a minimum of 70 percent must come from primary literature/scientific journals (for exact sciences), or 50 percent from primary literature/scientific journals for social humanities. Books containing theoretical concepts may be used as references, but a maximum of only 30 percent (for exact sciences) or 50 percent (for social humanities) is allowed. The number of references in the bibliography must be at least 10 references (specifically for health sciences, at least 15 references).