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Author Guidelines

TOPIC/FOCUS

The journal is published annually in Bahasa Melayu, English or Arabic languages. The published articles as well as comments, research reports, book reviews, conference papers and others are in Islamic studies as well as in other fields written from Islamic perspectives. In order to encourage academic brainstorming, we are soliciting your contributions throughout the year.

NUMBER OF AUTHORS

All authors should contribute significantly to the article. For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used “Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; methodology, X.X.; software, X.X.; validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; formal analysis, X.X.; investigation, X.X.; resources, X.X.; data curation, X.X.; writing—original draft preparation, X.X.; writing—review and editing, X.X.; visualization, X.X.; supervision, X.X.; project administration, X.X.; funding acquisition, Y.Y. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.”, please turn to the CRediT taxonomy for the term explanation. Authorship must be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work reported.

The journal only allows one submission per author at any one time. If another manuscript is submitted when there is already one in the system, the second manuscript will be rejected.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Manuscript structure

Title of the Manuscript

Title translation

  Authors and Full address (indicate the corresponding author and email)  

ABSTRACT

All manuscripts must be accompanied with a 200 and 250-word abstract. The title “ABSTRACT” is in Times New Roman, font size 12 while the contents of the abstract are in font size 10. Make sure your abstract is in single spacing and is justified. If your article is in Bahasa Melayu, an English title, abstract, and keywords are also required. Place these after your Bahasa Melayu abstract.

Keywords: State five keywords and italicize. Also in Times New Roman, font size 10.

INTRODUCTION

The introduction title and content should be in Times New Roman, font size 12. The lenght of an article should be between 5000 – 7000 words (excluding abstract, references, tables and figures). Your article may be returned to you if these requirements are not met.

The first paragraph in each section should be left-aligned and each following paragraph should be indented. Text should be single-spaced with no space between paragraphs.

LITERATURE REVIEW OR RESEARCH BACKGROUND

The reference writing in the text is refer to the ‘Penulisan Tesis Gaya UKM’ (accessible online). Subheadings are left-aligned.

a. For lower level headings, use a, b, c

METHODS

Writing methods should be reasonable. Pilot studies are discouraged.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

If your article contains quotations,the quote is indented once, left and right. The following is an example of the format:

Menurut sebahagian daripada mereka, undang-undang Islam perlu mengutamakan kebebasan dan keperluan manusia. Mekanisme pelaksanaannya pula mesti berbeza apabila diketengahkan ke dalam masyarakat yang berbeza. Dalam mengukur keberadaan pemikiran ini pada pemikiran perserta sebanyak tiga subtema telah dibentuk iaitu, relativisme, hak kebebasan bersuara dan hak kesaksamaan bertindak. Informan Y15, berpendapat:

While Islam is used to justify discrimination against women and reverse the gains made in law reform, under civil law, women of other faiths are granted more and equal rights to men. The government seem to be loudly pronouncing that in the name of Islam, Muslim women are inferior and should be discriminated against and in the name of modernity, democracy and human rights, non-Muslim women should be treated as equals to men. How can this abuse of religion to justify discrimination against women be ever acceptable? (Informant Y15).

Dalam hal ini, menurut mereka, perhatian dan inayah Allah ini adalah satu kurniaan besar kepada manusia walaupun dikenali sebagai makhluk yang banyak kelemahan dan penyelewengan daripada tujuan dijadikan. Ia desebut berulang kali dalam firman-firman Allah SWT.

Tables should be centered, with titles located at the top of the table. Font style and size are Times new Roman 10 for both table title and table contents. Please make sure your tables are legible and do not exceed page margins.

Example of table formatting:

Jadual 1: Apakah jenis pusat rawatan alternatif yang dirujuk

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Place any acknowledgement here.  For example, This work was supported by the Research Fund provided by xxxxxxxxxx.Avoid identifying any of the authors prior to the review

AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTIONS

The following statements should be used “Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; methodology, X.X.; software, X.X.; validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; formal analysis, X.X.; investigation, X.X.; resources, X.X.; data curation, X.X.; writing—original draft preparation, X.X.; writing—review and editing, X.X.; visualization, X.X.; supervision, X.X.; project administration, X.X.; funding acquisition, Y.Y. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.”, please turn to the CRediT taxonomy for the term explanation. Authorship must be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work reported.

REFERENCES

All cited references must appear and ordered alphabetically in the list of references at the end of the manuscripts.

Example:

Adib, S.M.. 2004. From the biomedical model to the Islamic alternative: A brief overview of medical practices in the contemporary Arab world. Social Science and Medicine 58(4): 697-702.

Astin, J.A. 1998. Why patients use alternative medicine: Results of a national study. JAMA 279(19): 1548-1553.

Azaizeh, H., Saad, B., Cooper, E., & Said, O. 2010. Traditional Arabic and Islamic medicine: A re-emerging health aid. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 7(4): 419–424.

Khadher Ahmad & Mohd Farhan Md Ariffin. 2013. Pengubatan alternatif berteraskan Islam: Analisis perkembangan dan hala tujunya di Malaysia. Jurnal ILIM: Institut Latihan Islam Malaysia 6: 55-87.

Mohd. Farhan Md Ariffin, Khadher Ahmad, Nor Izati Samsudin, Mohamad Zaim Isamail & Muhammad Ikhlas Rosele. 2013. Seni perubatan alternatif di Malaysia: Analisis permasalahan metode rawatan. Global Journal al-Thaqafah (GJAT) 3(2): 79-90.

Mohd Farhan Md. Ariffin, Khadher Ahmad, Muhammad Ikhlas Rosele &

Mohamad Zaim Isamail. 2016. Rawatan kesihatan berasaskan perubatan alternatif Islam: Persepsi masyarakat di Malaysia. Jurnal Rampak Serantau 23(6): 1-30.

Language

The journal accepts manuscripts written in Malay, English or Arabic.

Quotations

Quoted words, phrases and sentences should be enclosed in double quotation marks. Quotations within quotations and glosses should be enclosed in single quotation marks. Quotations may be either run in or in the case of quotations which are four lines or longer (or more than 40 words) – set off from the text as block quotations.

Italic

Italicize non-English terms or phrases in manuscripts written in English and italicize non-Malay terms or phrases in manuscripts written in Malay.

Paper Selection and Publication Process

1. Submission Acknowledgement – Manuscripts are to be submitted through the online submission function. You will receive an email of acknowledgment from the editorial team within 48 hours.
2. Basic Review - The editor or production editor determines whether a manuscript fits the journal’s aim and scope. Then, the manuscript is checked for its similarity index by Turnitin.
3. Notification of Acceptance - Successful submission will receive an acceptance email from islamiyyat@ukm.edu.my. Unsuccessful submissions will also receive email advice.
4. Peer Review - We use a double-blind system for peer-review. Both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. A manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two academic experts. 
5. Editorial Decision - The decision to accept or reject a manuscript is based on suggestions from members of the editorial board and the suggestions of reviewers.
6. Notification of the result of the review to the corresponding authors by E-mail.
7. Online Publication - Manuscripts will be shortly published online upon final approval by the editorial board.

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. 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).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. 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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
7. I understand that all manuscript will go through similarity check using appropriate software.

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