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Author Guidelines

All manuscript submitted to e-Bangi Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities has not been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. 

What type of research does e-Bangi publish?

• The scope: e-Bangi publishes research spanning social and behavioral sciences, and the humanities. We do not publish engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, or medical research.
• Articles types: e-Bangi publishes original findings or empirical articles (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods), literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, theoretical articles, and methodological articles. E-Bangi does not consider the following types of articles: brief reports, essays, case studies, and book reviews

What Ethical Standards must e-Bangi manuscripts meet?

e-Bangi recommends that authors follow the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Authorship guidelines. Please read the guidelines and note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.

Language Quality

e-Bangi welcomes manuscripts written either in English language or Bahasa Malaysia. When writing for e-Bangi, please write clearly and concisely. Avoid passive voice, run-on sentences, and unnecessary jargon or idioms. Use active voice, appropriate transitions, and parallel construction where possible. 

To prepare manuscripts in English, authors may refer APA Style and Grammar. Consider using website such as Grammarly to help you improve and edit your writing. 

What should my manuscript include?

For the preparation of the manuscript, authors are required to use the style template. Authors are required to follow the guideline in the style template and format the manuscript accordingly before submission. Please note that note that manuscripts not conforming to this template may be returned:

• Manuscripts should be written in either English or Malay languages.
• Manuscripts should be around 4000 at minimum and 6000 at maximum.
• Manuscripts should comprise 3 main sections as follow:

1. Front: Title, Author list, Affiliation, Correspondent Author’s e-mail, Abstract, Keywords
2. Body: Introduction, Methods and Instruments, Results, Discussion and Conclusion
3. Closing: Acknowledgement, Conflicts of Interest, References and Supplementary Materials.

• All these sections should appear in all manuscript types
• There is a specific Microsoft Word style template to follow when submitting your manuscript in Word

Microsoft Word Template guidelines

• Authors are advised to follow the style template to prepare the manuscripts.
• Authors are encouraged to follow exactly the styles and details prepared in the template, including:

1. Paper Size and Margins: Manuscripts must be prepared in a size A4 (i.e. 210 x 297 mm) with 1cm margins on all four sides.
2. Font Size and Type: 16-pt Times New Roman for the title, and 12-pt Times New Roman for author list, abstract, keywords, email, body and closing sections.
3. Line Spacing: single spacing throughout the paper. Add space before new subtitle or section heading. No space between paragraphs
4. Paragraph Indentation: the first paragraph after a subtitle or section heading is not indented. Every succeeding paragraph should be indented.
5. Pagination: The page number appears on top right of the page. Do not change.
6. Header and Footer: Do not change.

The checklist for the manuscript criteria

Introduction

1. Is the research questions clearly stated?
2. Is a coherent case made for why the research question is important?
3. Are the most relevant pieces work cited?

Method

1. Have the methods been describes clearly enough to allow others to repeat them?
2. Are they most appropriate way to answer teh research question?
3. If humasn or animal were involved, is ethis approval reported and in your opinion is the research ethical? is infomred consent neccesary and reported? 

Results

1. Are results reported for all experiments/analyse described in the methods?
2. Are any results reported for which methods have not been described?
3. Are they presented clearly and consistently (e.g. do the figures and text match up?)

Discussions

1. Does the interpretation reasonably reflect the results or have the authors 'gone beyond the data'?
2. Are the potential limitations presented? if not, point them out.
3. Do the results conflict with those of other researchers and have potential explanations been proposed?
4. Has the research question been answered?

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.

1. Authors must make sure that manuscript submitted to the journal is within the scope of social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

2. Authors must make sure that a manuscript submitted to the journal has not been published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

3. Authors are encouraged to do a plagiarism check before submitting a manuscript to the journal. A similarity score of below 15% would probably indicate that plagiarism has not occurred.

4. Authors are required to follow the guideline in the style template and format the manuscript accordingly before submission.

5. Acknowledgement and Declaration of Conflict of Interest sections in the manuscript are COMPULSORY.
6. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts by using the online submission system. To submit a manuscript please click here.

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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan
MALAYSIA

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