Associate Editor's report

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ATOM INDONESIA JOURNAL Associate Editor's Report

Article No. : 493

Title of Paper : Isotopic Characterization of Precipitation, Inflow and Outflow of Lake Toba as a First Assessment of Lake Water Balance Study

Associate Editor Name : Comment on Descriptions

Criteria Evaluation

Associate editor's evaluation

Yes No Comments

1. Originality of the article

 Free of plagiarism/similarity

(max 20 %) v

 New article/not yet Published (presented/in proceeding max 30

%)

v 2. Related to nuclear/atomic science

and technology v

3. Reference

 The number of references 10-20 for non-review articles, 25+ for review articles

v x

21 references may be one too many for a non- review article. Please reduce the number of references.

 The use of recent references 80 %

(maximum 5 years ago) v 17 of 21 = 81 %

 Type of the references (primarily,

secondary etc.) 85 % from journal x

17 of 21 = 81 %. Please note that Procedia is not considered as journal. Please add references from journals or reduce the ones from other sources.

 DOI (digital object identifier)

reference (traceable) x No DOIs are given.

 Reference style standard: Elsevier

numeric without title v

However, some references ([16], [20]) do not seem to be named properly and need to be corrected.

 When reference has more than 3

authors, write only 3 name, et al. x

Not followed for [3], [5], [7], [8], [9], [12], [13], [14], [15], [17], and [18], where all authors are named. Please correct those references.

 Article follows the Atom Indonesia

template and guidelines x

Please do not use all-capital letters for the article's title.

Please do not italicize units.

Please follow SI convention in writing quantities and units, including percentages. SI brochures are available from

http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/

among others, at least

http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochu re_8_en.pdf in particular.

 Table (clear, without vertical line) v

 Figure (clear, min 300 dpi) x

As placed on the article, the resolution of Fig. 1 is only about 135 × 148 pixels/in², while for Fig.2 it is about 96 pixels/in. Please use higher-resolution

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images.

Final recommendation:

1. Continue review process [ ] 2. Return to the author [ v ] 3. Reject [ ]

Comments:

The article should be returned to the authors to allow for the necessary improvements to be made.