Manuscript Types

BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan 

BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan publishes scholarly manuscripts that contribute to the advancement of environmental health sciences, environmental epidemiology, environmental risk assessment, sanitation, environmental management, and related public health disciplines.

The journal welcomes original, evidence-based, and methodologically rigorous manuscripts that provide meaningful contributions to scientific knowledge, environmental health practice, public health protection, and evidence-based policy development.

Submitted manuscripts must demonstrate scientific relevance, originality, methodological quality, and clear implications for understanding, preventing, or controlling environmental factors that affect human health.

The journal considers the following manuscript types:

1. Original Research Articles

Original research articles present original empirical findings from studies addressing environmental health problems, environmental exposures, sanitation, environmental epidemiology, environmental toxicology, waste management, food safety, vector control, occupational environmental health, and related disciplines.

These manuscripts may employ quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, observational, experimental, quasi-experimental, laboratory-based, or other scientifically appropriate research designs.

Research may include environmental quality monitoring, environmental health risk assessments, water and sanitation investigations, air pollution studies, environmental microbiology, waste treatment technologies, environmental exposure assessments, and evaluations of environmental health interventions.

Submissions must clearly describe the research objectives, study design, research setting, population and sample where applicable, sampling procedures, data collection methods, research instruments, analytical techniques, results, and interpretation of findings.

Original research articles must demonstrate scientific novelty, methodological rigor, reliable data analysis, and meaningful contributions to environmental health knowledge, practice, or policy.

2. Review Articles

Review articles provide critical and comprehensive evaluations of existing scientific literature addressing specific issues in environmental health sciences and related fields.

These manuscripts should synthesize current scientific knowledge, critically examine available evidence, identify inconsistencies and research gaps, and propose directions for future research or environmental health interventions.

Relevant topics may include environmental pollution and human health, climate change and environmental health risks, environmental sanitation, emerging environmental contaminants, environmental toxicology, vector-borne diseases, waste management, food safety, and environmental health technologies.

Authors must establish a clearly defined review objective, provide a coherent analytical framework, and use relevant, credible, and up-to-date scientific references.

Review articles should present critical analysis and meaningful scientific interpretation rather than simply summarize previously published studies.

The conclusions must reflect the strength and limitations of the available evidence and identify potential implications for environmental health practice, research, or policy.

3. Systematic Literature Reviews

Systematic literature reviews provide structured, transparent, and reproducible syntheses of scientific evidence addressing clearly formulated research questions in environmental health and related disciplines.

These manuscripts may investigate environmental exposure and disease relationships, the effectiveness of sanitation interventions, environmental health risk factors, pollution control strategies, vector management, waste treatment technologies, or other relevant topics.

Submissions must clearly describe the review methodology, including:

1. The research question and review objectives.

2. The literature search strategy and electronic databases consulted.

3. The eligibility and exclusion criteria.

4. The study selection and screening procedures.

5. The data extraction methods.

6. The assessment of methodological quality or risk of bias, where applicable.

7. The procedures used to synthesize and interpret the evidence.

8. The limitations of the included studies and the review process.

Authors are expected to follow recognized reporting guidelines, particularly the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA 2020), where applicable.

Systematic reviews should provide sufficient methodological information to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and critical evaluation.

The manuscript must present a balanced interpretation of the available evidence and identify implications for environmental health practice, policy development, and future scientific investigations.

4. Meta-Analysis Articles

Meta-analysis articles quantitatively combine findings from multiple independent studies using appropriate statistical methods to address specific research questions in environmental health sciences.

These manuscripts may examine relationships between environmental exposures and health outcomes, evaluate environmental risk factors, compare the effectiveness of sanitation or pollution control interventions, or investigate other issues relevant to environmental health.

Submissions must describe the literature identification and selection procedures, data extraction methods, statistical models, and analytical techniques used to combine study findings.

Authors must report relevant statistical information, including pooled effect estimates, confidence intervals, heterogeneity assessments, and sensitivity analyses where appropriate.

Potential publication bias or small-study effects should be evaluated when methodologically feasible.

Meta-analysis articles must explain the rationale for combining the selected studies and assess whether differences in study design, exposure measurements, populations, or outcome definitions may influence the findings.

Authors are expected to follow relevant reporting guidelines, including PRISMA 2020, and should describe the strengths and limitations of the available evidence.

The interpretation of pooled results must be scientifically justified and should consider their implications for environmental health risk assessment, disease prevention, environmental management, and public health policy.

5. Case Reports

Case reports describe individual cases, environmental incidents, or specific situations that provide significant scientific or educational insights into environmental health problems.

These manuscripts may address unusual environmental exposures, contamination incidents, occupational or community environmental hazards, environmental poisoning, sanitation failures, vector-related health risks, or other events with meaningful implications for human health.

A case report should provide a clear description of the environmental health problem, relevant background information, exposure circumstances, environmental conditions, assessment procedures, laboratory or field investigation findings, and any interventions or control measures undertaken.

When the report involves an individual affected by an environmental exposure, relevant clinical information and health outcomes may be included when necessary to explain the environmental health implications.

The discussion must explain the scientific significance of the case, compare the findings with relevant literature, and identify practical lessons for environmental health assessment, prevention, or management.

Case reports should demonstrate clear scientific originality or educational value and should not consist solely of routine descriptions of common environmental conditions without meaningful analytical contributions.

Authors must protect personal confidentiality, obtain informed consent when required, and comply with applicable institutional ethical requirements.

When the manuscript includes an individual clinical case, authors are encouraged to follow the CARE (CAse REport) reporting guidelines, where applicable.

6. Case Series

Case series describe multiple related cases, environmental exposure events, or environmental health incidents that share similar characteristics, risk factors, or outcomes.

These manuscripts aim to identify relevant patterns, describe emerging environmental health problems, document unusual exposure circumstances, evaluate environmental risk factors, or generate hypotheses for future research.

Case series may address groups of individuals affected by environmental contamination, repeated environmental incidents, clusters of environmentally associated diseases, occupational exposure events, or comparable environmental health situations across multiple locations.

Submissions must clearly describe the case selection criteria, environmental conditions, exposure characteristics, investigation procedures, analytical methods, and observed outcomes.

Authors should explain similarities and differences among cases and discuss their relevance to environmental health surveillance, environmental management, public health protection, or preventive interventions.

Where applicable, manuscripts should include relevant environmental monitoring findings, laboratory results, exposure assessment data, or other objective evidence supporting the reported observations.

Authors must discuss methodological limitations, including potential selection bias, incomplete data, limited generalizability, and the absence of comparison groups when relevant.

Case series must comply with applicable ethical requirements, including protection of personal information, informed consent when required, and appropriate institutional ethical approval or determination.

General Submission Requirements

All manuscripts submitted to BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan must be original, scientifically relevant, and consistent with the journal's focus and scope.

Submitted manuscripts must comply with the following requirements:

1. Originality: Manuscripts must present original scholarly contributions and must not have been published previously or be under consideration by another journal, except for permitted prior dissemination that has been appropriately disclosed.

2. Journal Scope: Manuscripts must address environmental health sciences or related disciplines, including environmental epidemiology, environmental health risk assessment, environmental management, environmental health technology, environmental toxicology, water and sanitation, waste management, vector control, food safety, environmental-based diseases, or environmental health aspects of disaster management.

3. Language: Manuscripts must be written in clear, accurate, and academically appropriate English.

4. Manuscript Preparation: Authors must follow the journal's Author Guidelines concerning manuscript structure, formatting, word limits, tables, figures, references, and submission procedures.

5. Research Ethics: Research involving human participants, identifiable personal information, biological materials, or other ethically sensitive research activities must comply with applicable ethical standards and institutional requirements. Ethical approval, exemption, or other appropriate institutional determination must be reported when relevant.

6. Data Integrity: Authors must ensure the accuracy, reliability, and appropriate presentation of research data, including environmental measurements, laboratory findings, statistical results, and other scientific evidence.

7. Reporting Guidelines: Authors should follow recognized reporting guidelines appropriate to their study design, including CONSORT for randomized trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and CARE for clinical case reports, where applicable.

8. Authorship and Contributions: All listed authors must meet the journal's Authorship Criteria and provide an accurate statement describing their individual contributions.

9. Plagiarism and Similarity Screening: All manuscripts are subject to originality screening and must comply with the journal's applicable Plagiarism Policy.

10. Artificial Intelligence Disclosure: Authors must disclose the substantive use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in accordance with the journal's AI policy.

11. Conflicts of Interest and Funding: Authors must disclose relevant financial or non-financial conflicts of interest and identify funding sources when applicable.

12. Editorial and Peer Review: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial editorial screening and peer review. The editorial team may request clarification, additional information, methodological improvements, or manuscript revisions when necessary.

BANUA reserves the right to determine the most appropriate manuscript category and to request revisions, reclassification, or additional supporting information when required.

Manuscripts that fall outside the journal's scientific scope or fail to meet its methodological, ethical, or editorial requirements may be declined.

The final decision regarding manuscript suitability and publication rests with the Editorial Board of BANUA: Jurnal Kesehatan Lingkungan.