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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Author guidelines of Al-Isnad apply as follows:

  1. The article must be scientific, either based on the empirical research or conceptual ideas. The content of the article have not published yet in any Journal, and should not be submitted simultaneously to another Journal. Article should not be part of fully one chapter of the theses or dissertation.
  2. Article must be in the range between 10-20 pages, not including title, abstract, keywords, and bibliography
  3. Article consisting of the various parts: i.e. title, the author s name(s) and affiliation(s), abstract (100-250 words), Keywords (maximum 5 words), introduction, description and analysis, conclusion, and bibliography.
  • Title should not be more than 12 words
  • Author s name(s) should be written in the full name without academic title (degree), and completed with institutional affiliation(s) as well as corresponding address (e-mail address).
  • Abstract consisting of the discourses of the discipline area; the aims of article; methodology (if any); research finding; and contribution to the discipline of areas study. Abstract should be written in English.
  • Introduction consisting of the literature review (would be better if the research finding is not latest than ten years) and novelty of the article; scope and limitation of the problem discussed; and the main argumentation of the article.
  • Discussion or description and analysis consisting of reasoning process of the article s main argumentation.
  • Conclusion should be consisting of answering research problem, based on the theoretical significance/conceptual construction
  • All of the bibliography used should be written properly as well as recommended tools.
  • Bibliography at least 10 libraries in writing, with details of the 80% issue last 5 years and from the primary reference.

4.Citation™s style used is Chicago Manual Style 17 (full-note)

Paper Structure

  1. Title
    • The Title is Written in Capital Letters at Each Word's First Letter, except for Conjunctions.
    • The title should be concise, effective, and informative, with a maximum length of 16 words¸ including the conjunctions.
    • Font Times New Roman 16 Bold, 1 space
  2. Author Identity
    • The manuscript is completed by the author's identity which includes: Author name without academic title (Times New Roman 12 in bold), author's institutional affiliation, institution address, and e-mail (Times New Roman 11, 1 space).
    • The student-author's institutional affiliation is his or her study institution.
    • The multi-authorship paper's name order must be agreed upon by all authors, usually based on the amount of contribution and participation in conducting the research and writing the report. All authors are sharing equal responsibility for the content of the article.
  3. Abstract
    • The abstract is written briefly and factually, covering research objectives, methods, results, and conclusions.
    • The abstract is written bilingually in English and Indonesian, ranges from 120 - 200 words in one single paragraph in Times New Roman 12 italic typed single-spaced.
  4. Keywords
    • Keywords consist of 4 - 5 words or phrases.
    • Keywords are typed in italics, separated by semicolons (;)
  5. Introduction
    • "Introduction" is written in a capital letter on its only first letter, 1,15 spaced and bold.
    • The introduction should contain the background to the problem; hypothesis (if any), objectives, and research methods (if not in a separate section).
    • The introduction should not be too extensive, about 2 pages 1.15 spaces, and refers to some literature that is the basis for theoretical framework or research rationale.
  6. Research Method
  7. Discussion and Result
    • Sections and subsections are written in a capital letter on its only first letter, 1,15 spaced and bold.
    • Should be in accordance with the needs of the discussion.
    • The citation technique adheres to the CMS (Chicago Manual Style) citation system in Times New Roman 10 font, see for more details on the technical guidelines and the manuscript template.
  8. Conclusion
    • "Conclusion" is written in a capital letter on its only first letter, 1,15 spaced and bold.
    • The conclusion should be the answer to the research question, and not expressed in statistical sentences.
  9. References
    • "References" is written in a capital letter on its only first letter, 1,15 spaced and bold.
    • The literature included in the reference list contains only the sources cited or quoted in the article.
    • The reference list should consist of at least 14 sources; 60% of which comes from primary sources (journal articles of the recent 5 years).
    • Adheres to the CMS (Chicago Manual Style) citation system in Times New Roman 12. For details, see the technical guidelines and the template.

Technical Guidelines

  1. Quotation
    • The quotation in the manuscript should not be too long.
    • Direct quotations of less than five lines are written italics between complete quotation marks within the paragraph.
    • Direct quotations of five lines or more are written in separate paragraphs without quotation marks. The writing position is given a straight indent with the first line of the paragraph.
    • Indirect quotation, namely quoting a text which is abstracted and written in its own sentence, is written as part of a paragraph without quotation marks. It is better to use this kind of quotation within the manuscript.
    • Excerpts from the Qur'an and Hadith are written in Arabic letters according to the original text, including punctuation, using Font Times New Arabic 16 in bold. The verses of the Qur'an are written complete with the name and number of the surah and the number of the verse, while the Hadith is written complete with the sanad and comes with a footnote containing: Name of the book, volume, chapter, hadith number, and page.
    • In particular, the quotation of incomplete verses of the Qur'an, given three-dot marks before and/or after. Example:
    • حَنِيفًا ۚ فِطْرَتَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا ۚ لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِخَلْقِ اللَّهِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ الدِّينُ الْقَيِّمُ… …
    • There is no need for footnotes to quote verses from the Al-Quran because the name and number of the surah, as well as the verse number, have been written in the verse being quoted.
  2. Citation (Footnotes) and References
    • Adheres to the CMS (Chicago Manual Style) citation system, Times New Roman 10, as examples here:
    • Book: Author's name [without rank and title], Book title in italic type, print/edition [if any], volume / series [if any] (Place / city of publisher: publisher name, year published), page number. Books edited by editors are followed by "ed." without brackets after writing the name. If the book is written without a publisher city, type "n.c."; without publisher type "n.p."; if without the publication year, type "n.d.". If the publication year is Hijriyah year, type "H." after the mention of the year.
    • Article: Author name [without rank and title], Article title, Journal or publication name and edition in italics, (If applicable: Publisher place / city: Publisher name, Year published, page number).
    • If you want to mention the previous source again, you must mention part of the author's name and followed by the part of the book name in question. The reference source comes from Arabic, written in Latin characters based on transliteration guidelines by changing the font to Times New Arabic 14.
    • It is highly recommended to use a standard citation application such as Zotero, Mendeley, Endnote, etc. to make it easier to maintain its consistency.
  1. In writing the citation s would be better and suggested to use software of citation manager, like Mendeley, Zotero, End-Note, Ref-Works, Bib-Text, and so forth, with following standard of Turabian (full-note).

    6. Article must be free from plagiarism
  2. To submit an article, please register. Fill the password by yourself. Then click 'user home' and click 'new submission' at the end of author.

  3. Authors will be sent notifications of the receipt of manuscripts and editorial decisions (whether the articles are accepted or not) by e-mail. Manuscripts that are not published will not be returned to the authors.

 

AUTHOR FEE

Al-Isnad: Journal of Islamic Civilization History and Humanities wil not charge anything to author to the author for submission fee or publication fee.

 

COMMITMENT TO ANTIPLAGIARISM

All submitted manuscripts will double-checked for plagiarism using at least two anti-plagiarism softwares. The submitted manuscripts written under the same 100% or less condition as other published manuscripts would be blacklisted and its authors would be reported to Moraref committee.

 

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