Author Guidelines

 

Article Submission Guidelines

  1. The article must be scientific, either based on empirical research or conceptual ideas. The content of the article has not been published in any journal and should not be simultaneously submitted to another journal. The article should not be part of a single chapter of a thesis or dissertation.
  2. The article should be between 15-20 pages long, not including the title, abstract, keywords, and bibliography.
  3. The article should consist of various parts: i.e., title, author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), abstract (200-250 words), keywords (maximum 5 words), introduction, description and analysis, conclusion, and bibliography.
    • The title should not be more than 15 words.
    • The author(s) name(s) should be written in full without academic titles (degrees), and should be completed with institutional affiliation(s) as well as corresponding address (e-mail address).
    • The abstract should consist of the discourse of the discipline area; the aims of the article; methodology (if any); research findings; and contributions to the discipline of study. The abstract should be written in English.
    • The introduction should include a literature review (preferably with research findings not more than ten years old) and the novelty of the article; the scope and limitation of the problem discussed; and the main argumentation of the article.
    • The discussion or description and analysis should consist of the reasoning process of the article’s main argumentation.
    • The conclusion should address the research problem based on theoretical significance/conceptual construction.
    • All bibliographies used should be written properly.
  4. The citation style used is the Chicago Manual Citation Style 16th, and should be written in the body note model (author(s), year, and page(s)), following the examples below:
    • Book
      • In the bibliography: Tagliacozzo, Eric. 2013. The Longest Journey: Southeast Asian and the Pilgrimage to Mecca. New York: Oxford University Press.
      • In the citation: (Tagliacozzo 2013, 89-90)
    • Edited Book(s)
      • In the bibliography: Pranowo, M. Bambang. 2006. Perkembangan Islam di Jawa. In Menjadi Indonesia 13 Abad Eksistensi Islam di Bumi Nusantara, edited by Komaruddin Hidayat and Ahmad Gaus AF, 406-444. Jakarta: Mizan dan Yayasan Festival Istiqlal.
      • In the citation: (Pranowo 2006, 408)
    • E-book(s)
      • In the bibliography: Sukanta, Putu Oka, ed. 2014. Breaking the Silence: Survivors Speak about 1965-66 Violence in Indonesia (translated by Jemma Purdey). Clayton: Monash University Publishing. Accessed from link, March 31, 2016.
      • In the citation: (Sukanta 2014, 5-6)
    • Journal Article
      • Printed Journal
        • In the bibliography: Reid, Anthony. 2016. Religious Pluralism or Conformity in Southeast Asia's Cultural Legacy. Studia Islamika 22, 3: 387-404.
        • In the citation: (Reid 2016, 400-404)
      • E-Journal
        • In the bibliography: Crouch, Melissa. 2016. Constitutionalism, Islam and the Practice of Religious Deference: The Case of the Indonesian Constitutional Court. Australian Journal of Asian Law 16, 2: 1-15. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2744394 accessed March 31, 2016.
        • In the citation: (Crouch 2016, 5)
  5. In writing citations, it is advisable and suggested to use citation management software, such as Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote, RefWorks, BibTeX, etc., following the standards of Chicago Manual Citation Style 16th.
  6. The Arabic transliteration standard used is International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. For detailed transliteration, see link.
  7. The article must be free from plagiarism; attach evidence (screenshot) showing that the article has been verified through anti-plagiarism software, but not limited to plagiarism checkers (plagramme.com).