ATOM INDONESIA JOURNAL
Author’s Responses toward 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
Comment on Descriptions
Criteria Evaluation
Associate editor's evaluation
Author’s Responses
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.
It has been corrected as suggested. Current references: 19
The use of recent references
80 % (maximum 5 years ago) v 17 of 21 = 81 % 17 0f 19= 89%
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.
It has been corrected as suggested. 17 of 19 ref=
89%
DOI (digital object identifier)
reference (traceable) x No DOIs are given. DOI has been included at the
end of each reference
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.
It has been corrected. But Ref# 19 is still without page number because its status now still “in production”
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.
It has been corrected as suggested.
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/publicati ons/si-brochure/ among others, at least
http://www.bipm.org/utils/commo n/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf in
It has been corrected as suggested.
particular.
Table (clear, without vertical
line) v All five tables have vertical lines.
Table 3 does not appear to exist.
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 images.
It has been corrected as suggested. The two figures now have resolution 300 dpi.
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.
