JURNAL INDO-ISLAMIKA • MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION & SUBMISSION

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Jurnal Indo-Islamika

Guidelines for preparing original, theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, ethically responsible, and academically significant manuscripts on Islamic studies, lived Islam, Muslim societies, and contemporary religious transformations.

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Before Submitting Your Manuscript

Jurnal Indo-Islamika, published by the Graduate School of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia, welcomes original research articles and other scholarly contributions that advance critical and interdisciplinary understanding of Islam and Muslim societies.

The journal focuses on the transformation of lived Islam, particularly in Indonesia, and examines how Islamic values, religious authority, knowledge traditions, institutions, and social practices are negotiated, interpreted, and transformed within historical, cultural, political, and contemporary settings.

Relevant areas include Islamic thought, religious authority, Islamic law and maqāṣid-based reform, digital Islam, interreligious relations, gender and Islam, Islamic social finance, halal governance, pesantren and Islamic education, and the interaction between Islam and local cultures.

The journal encourages interdisciplinary approaches drawing on Islamic studies, sociology, anthropology, history, law, political science, media studies, cultural studies, and critical social theory.

Submitted manuscripts must demonstrate a clearly defined scholarly problem, critical engagement with relevant literature, an appropriate methodological or analytical approach, evidence-based arguments, and an identifiable contribution to existing knowledge.

The journal prioritizes original research articles. Review articles, conceptual papers, book reviews, and field-based studies may also be considered in accordance with the journal's Article Types and editorial policies.

Authors are required to follow the official manuscript template, publication ethics, and submission requirements.

Key Manuscript Requirements

1. General Manuscript Requirements

Jurnal Indo-Islamika accepts manuscripts written in standard academic English. Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

All manuscripts must address topics within the journal's Focus and Scope and comply with applicable standards of research ethics, publication integrity, and scholarly communication.

Author Information: Authors must provide their full names without academic titles, complete institutional affiliations, countries, email addresses, and corresponding-author details. Institutional information should include the department or faculty, university or institution, city, and province or region where applicable. ORCID iDs are encouraged.

Author names, affiliations, correspondence details, and author order must be consistent with the metadata entered into the Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Title: The title should clearly communicate the principal research topic, problem, or analytical focus. It should avoid unnecessary abbreviations, overly broad expressions, and claims that exceed the scope of the research. Titles should accurately represent the article's scholarly contribution.

Manuscript Header: Authors must use the official manuscript template. Journal publication metadata, including volume, issue, publication month, page numbers, and DOI, will be finalized during editorial production. Authors should not independently assign this information.

Manuscript Types: The standard structure below applies primarily to original research articles and field-based studies. Review articles and conceptual papers may adopt a suitable analytical structure where justified by their scholarly objectives. Book reviews follow requirements determined by the editorial team.

All manuscript types must maintain academic coherence, analytical rigor, and transparent scholarly argumentation.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

2. Structure of the Manuscript

Original research articles should follow the prescribed sequence of sections to establish a coherent relationship between the research problem, objectives, methods, findings, discussion, and conclusions.

The standard structure consists of:

For manuscripts employing historical, textual, philosophical, conceptual, or critical interpretive approaches, the organization of methodological and analytical subsections may be adapted where necessary without compromising the transparency and rigor of the research.

2.1 Abstract

The abstract must be written in English, contain 150–250 words, and be presented in a single paragraph without subheadings, citations, tables, figures, or unexplained abbreviations.

The abstract should accurately reflect the content of the manuscript and communicate the following elements:

The abstract must emphasize the study's actual findings and contribution. General claims, unsupported assertions of novelty, and statements that are not demonstrated in the manuscript should be avoided.

Keywords: Provide 3–5 relevant keywords or key phrases that represent the central concepts, research objects, or analytical perspectives of the study. Keywords must be written in lowercase and separated by commas. Avoid unnecessary repetition of words already appearing in the title.

2.2 Introduction

The Introduction must establish the scholarly context of the study and explain the significance of the research problem within Islamic studies and relevant interdisciplinary academic debates.

The background should be supported by credible evidence, appropriate primary sources, and relevant scholarly literature.

Authors must critically engage with previous research to identify established knowledge, competing interpretations, theoretical debates, methodological limitations, and unresolved questions.

The Introduction should address the following components:

Research Background: Explain the academic context, principal issue, and significance of the research problem. Contextual information should support the formulation of the problem rather than merely provide a broad historical or descriptive overview.

Review of Previous Studies: Critically examine relevant national and international scholarship. The discussion should identify significant arguments, methodological approaches, findings, limitations, and areas of disagreement.

Research Gap: Clearly establish what remains insufficiently explained, theoretically contested, methodologically underdeveloped, or empirically unresolved within the existing literature.

Novelty and Scholarly Contribution: Explain how the study extends, challenges, refines, or reconstructs existing knowledge. Novelty may arise from original evidence, critical reinterpretation, theoretical development, methodological innovation, or a meaningful contribution to a scholarly debate.

Research Questions and Objectives: Explicitly formulate the central research problem or questions and state the objectives of the study, preferably toward the end of the Introduction.

For studies involving Islamic texts, religious authority, jurisprudence, or intellectual traditions, the Introduction should situate the research within relevant academic discussions rather than relying exclusively on doctrinal assertions or descriptive presentations of religious teachings.

Authors should demonstrate the distinction between established scholarly interpretations, contested academic arguments, and the original position developed in their study.

A separate Literature Review section is not required when the relevant theoretical perspectives and scholarly debates can be adequately integrated into the Introduction.

2.3 Method

The Method section must explain how the study was designed, how evidence or research materials were selected, and how the findings or interpretations were developed.

The methodological explanation must be sufficiently transparent to enable readers to assess the appropriateness, credibility, and analytical rigor of the research.

Jurnal Indo-Islamika welcomes diverse methodological approaches appropriate to Islamic studies and interdisciplinary research, including qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, historical, textual, philological, ethnographic, comparative, and conceptual approaches.

The methodological explanation should include, where relevant:

Research Design: Identify the research approach, design, methodological orientation, and rationale for its selection.

Research Context: Explain the geographical, institutional, social, cultural, historical, or intellectual context relevant to the investigation.

Research Subjects or Sources: Identify participants, informants, communities, institutions, manuscripts, Qur'anic commentaries, hadith collections, archival records, legal documents, or other primary and secondary sources.

Selection Procedures: Explain participant recruitment, sampling techniques, case selection, manuscript selection, document inclusion criteria, or the procedures used to establish the research corpus.

Data Collection: Describe interviews, observation, archival investigation, document analysis, textual examination, surveys, or other appropriate procedures.

Analytical Framework: Explain the theoretical perspectives, interpretive framework, analytical categories, and procedures used to examine and interpret the evidence.

Research Quality: Describe appropriate procedures for ensuring methodological rigor, such as triangulation, source criticism, reflexivity, analytical transparency, reliability, validity, or trustworthiness.

For research involving Qur'anic studies, tafsīr, hadith, or classical Islamic intellectual traditions, authors should identify the relevant primary texts, editions, commentaries, interpretive traditions, and analytical procedures.

For historical and archival studies, authors should explain source selection, contextualization, authenticity assessment, and interpretation.

For ethnographic, sociological, or field-based studies, authors should clearly describe the research setting, participant selection, data collection, researcher positionality where relevant, and data analysis.

For conceptual or theoretical research, authors must explain the selection of scholarly materials, the conceptual framework, and the analytical procedures used to evaluate competing arguments or develop theoretical propositions.

Research Ethics: Studies involving human participants must explain applicable ethical approval, informed consent, confidentiality, and participant-protection procedures. Research involving religiously sensitive information, vulnerable communities, or confidential institutional records requires particular attention to ethical safeguards.

Authors must not claim methodological rigor solely by naming a research approach. The manuscript should demonstrate how the approach was systematically implemented.

2.4 Results and Discussion

The Results and Discussion must be presented as one integrated main section, with appropriate subheadings organized according to the research questions, principal themes, analytical categories, or dimensions of the findings.

The section should demonstrate a clear progression from evidence to interpretation and from interpretation to scholarly contribution.

Results: Present the principal findings systematically and accurately. Findings must be supported by relevant evidence, including empirical data, interview excerpts, ethnographic observations, historical documents, textual analysis, or other research materials appropriate to the methodology.

For research involving classical and contemporary Islamic texts, findings should demonstrate how interpretations emerge from the selected sources and analytical procedures.

Authors should distinguish between primary textual evidence, the interpretations advanced by previous scholars, and their own analytical conclusions.

Avoid unnecessary repetition, excessive presentation of raw data, and unsupported generalizations.

Discussion: Critically interpret the findings in relation to the research questions, theoretical perspectives, and existing scholarly literature.

Authors should explain how the findings support, extend, challenge, qualify, or differ from previous research.

The discussion must go beyond describing religious practices, summarizing textual content, or repeating established scholarly positions.

It should develop a coherent academic argument by examining underlying mechanisms, historical or sociocultural contexts, conceptual implications, alternative interpretations, and relevant limitations.

For studies of lived Islam, authors are encouraged to explain how religious values, authority, identities, and social practices are negotiated and transformed within particular contexts.

For studies involving Islamic law, religious interpretation, or intellectual history, the discussion should critically examine the relationship between primary sources, interpretive traditions, historical circumstances, and contemporary scholarly debates.

Scholarly Contribution: Authors must explicitly demonstrate what the findings contribute to knowledge. Contributions may be theoretical, empirical, conceptual, methodological, or interpretive, depending on the research design.

Where relevant, discuss implications for Islamic scholarship, religious institutions, social practices, education, law, public policy, or future research.

Authors should acknowledge relevant limitations and avoid conclusions that exceed the available evidence.

The discussion must demonstrate analytical depth, scholarly engagement, and a reasoned interpretation of the findings rather than merely affirming predetermined normative positions.

2.5 Conclusion

The Conclusion must directly address the research objectives or questions and synthesize the principal findings of the study.

It should present the central scholarly argument emerging from the Results and Discussion and clearly explain the significance of the research.

Authors should emphasize the study's original contribution to Islamic studies or relevant interdisciplinary scholarship.

The contribution may involve new empirical knowledge, theoretical refinement, reinterpretation of Islamic texts or traditions, methodological development, or a deeper understanding of religious and sociocultural transformations.

Where relevant, authors may briefly explain the implications of their findings for future research, scholarly debate, institutional practices, or policy development.

Significant methodological or contextual limitations may also be acknowledged.

Avoid simply repeating the abstract, restating the findings without synthesis, introducing new evidence, or making unsupported recommendations.

2.6 Acknowledgments (if applicable)

Authors may acknowledge institutions, funding bodies, research assistants, archival institutions, community organizations, translators, or other individuals who provided meaningful assistance but do not meet the criteria for authorship.

Acknowledgments should be concise, accurate, and relevant to the research.

Individuals should not be acknowledged without appropriate permission, particularly where identification could compromise confidentiality or participant protection.

Financial support should also be disclosed in the Funding declaration when applicable.

2.7 Declarations

Authors must provide transparent and accurate information concerning authorship, competing interests, research ethics, and the use of artificial intelligence.

Additional declarations concerning funding and research data should be included according to the nature of the study and the journal's relevant policies.

2.8 References

References must provide a credible scholarly foundation for the research background, theoretical framework, methodology, findings, interpretation, and scholarly contribution.

All in-text citations and reference-list entries must follow the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition consistently.

Authors are expected to:

Scholarly Relevance: Include references directly relevant to the research questions, methodological approach, analytical framework, and principal arguments.

Academic Credibility: Prioritize peer-reviewed scholarly literature, academic books, primary documents, and other verifiable academic sources.

Recent Scholarship: Engage with relevant recent international scholarship while retaining foundational theoretical works and important classical sources.

Primary Sources: For Islamic studies, use appropriate primary sources such as Qur'anic texts, hadith collections, classical and contemporary tafsīr, legal texts, historical manuscripts, archival documents, and other authoritative research materials where relevant.

Critical Engagement: Use references to establish academic arguments, evaluate competing perspectives, and contextualize original findings rather than merely increasing the number of citations.

Bibliographic Accuracy: Verify author names, publication years, article titles, journal names, volume and issue numbers, page ranges, publishers, DOIs, and URLs.

Citation Consistency: Ensure that all sources cited in the manuscript appear in the reference list and that all reference-list entries correspond to in-text citations.

DOI and Persistent Links: Include DOI links where available using the standard format https://doi.org/xxxxx.

References must be arranged alphabetically and formatted consistently according to APA 7th edition.

Illustrative reference formats include:

Authors should consult the official APA 7th edition guidance for the appropriate citation of classical religious texts, translated books, archival records, legal materials, and other specialized sources.

The journal does not prescribe a fixed numerical minimum of references in these guidelines. The adequacy of the reference list is assessed according to the nature of the study, the depth of scholarly engagement, and the relevance and credibility of the cited literature.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Mendeley, Zotero, or equivalent reference-management software to ensure accurate and consistent referencing.

2.9 Arabic Transliteration and Romanization

Arabic terms, names, titles, quotations, and references must be transliterated consistently throughout the manuscript.

Jurnal Indo-Islamika refers authors to the Arabic romanization conventions provided by the Library of Congress. Authors are encouraged to follow the ALA-LC Arabic Romanization system consistently, including the use of diacritical marks where required.

The principal transliteration conventions include:

Hamzah and ʿAyn: Hamzah (ء) and ʿayn (ع) must be distinguished using the appropriate romanization symbols.

Tāʾ Marbūṭah: The transliteration of tāʾ marbūṭah (ة) depends on its grammatical context and the applicable ALA-LC conventions.

Authors should ensure consistency in the transliteration of Arabic personal names, book titles, technical concepts, and classical Islamic terminology.

Widely established English spellings of geographical names, institutions, and historical figures may be retained where appropriate, provided that the manuscript remains consistent.

Qur'anic and Hadith References: Qur'anic citations should identify the relevant sūrah and verse numbers. Hadith citations should provide sufficient bibliographic information to identify the collection and specific narration where possible.

Authors must distinguish between quotations from primary texts, published translations, and their own translations or interpretations.

Translations, editions, manuscripts, and classical scholarly works should be cited with sufficient precision to make the sources verifiable.

For detailed Arabic romanization guidance, consult the official Library of Congress resource: Library of Congress – Romanization Tables.

3. Tables, Figures, and Supporting Materials

Tables, figures, diagrams, conceptual frameworks, maps, and other supporting materials should strengthen the presentation and interpretation of the research.

All materials must be accurate, relevant, and appropriately integrated into the manuscript.

Authors must:

1. Number tables and figures consecutively in the order in which they appear.
2. Provide clear titles, captions, explanatory notes, and source information where appropriate.
3. Refer to and discuss each table or figure within the manuscript.
4. Present relevant research data clearly without unnecessary duplication between text and visual materials.
5. Identify whether a figure or table is original, reproduced, or adapted from another source.
6. Obtain necessary permission when reproducing copyrighted materials not covered by an applicable reuse license.
7. Ensure that all images, archival reproductions, and supporting materials comply with relevant ethical and legal requirements.
8. Protect participant identities and sensitive information in photographs, fieldwork materials, interviews, and supplementary documents.

For research involving conceptual or theoretical models, diagrams must accurately represent the analytical framework and relationships discussed in the manuscript.

For historical, textual, and archival studies, images or reproductions of manuscripts must include appropriate source identification and relevant archival information.

Tables and figures should be placed near their first discussion in the manuscript, following the official journal template.

Supplementary materials may be submitted when necessary to support methodological transparency, research verification, or the presentation of additional evidence.

4. Submission and Editorial Requirements

All manuscripts must be submitted through the official Jurnal Indo-Islamika online submission system.

Submitted manuscripts undergo initial editorial screening to evaluate their relevance to the journal's Focus and Scope, originality, academic quality, methodological rigor, technical preparation, and compliance with publication ethics.

Manuscripts considered suitable for further evaluation proceed through a double-blind peer review process involving two qualified reviewers. A third reviewer may be appointed when reviewer evaluations differ significantly or additional expert assessment is required.

Editorial decisions are based on the manuscript's scholarly quality, originality, evidentiary support, methodological adequacy, and contribution to knowledge.

Before submitting, authors must ensure that:

1. The manuscript is original, unpublished, and not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere.
2. The topic falls within Jurnal Indo-Islamika's Focus and Scope.
3. The manuscript follows the prescribed structure, language standards, and official journal template.
4. The research problem, gap, objectives, methods, principal findings, and scholarly contribution are clearly articulated.
5. The manuscript demonstrates critical engagement with appropriate scholarly literature and relevant primary sources.
6. All citations and references follow APA 7th edition and contain accurate, verifiable bibliographic information.
7. Arabic terminology and transliteration are consistent throughout the manuscript.
8. All tables, figures, primary documents, and supplementary materials are appropriately presented and acknowledged.
9. Ethical requirements, funding disclosures, conflicts of interest, and applicable research declarations have been addressed.
10. Any use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools has been disclosed according to the journal's AI Policy.
11. The submitted review file does not reveal author identities, including identifying information in the document body, acknowledgments, and file properties, where applicable.
12. All authors have approved the manuscript, agreed to the author order, and accepted responsibility for their respective scholarly contributions.

Manuscript Revision: Authors receiving a revision decision must submit a revised manuscript and a clear, point-by-point response addressing the reviewers' and editors' comments within the specified deadline.

Revisions should respond substantively to scholarly and methodological concerns rather than merely making superficial textual changes.

The editorial team may request additional revisions, clarification, or supporting information where necessary.

Final acceptance remains the responsibility of the editorial team and is subject to the journal's established editorial standards and publication policies.

5. Publication Policies and Author Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, reliability, and ethical integrity of their manuscripts.

Jurnal Indo-Islamika adheres to principles of responsible scholarly publishing, transparent editorial decision-making, independent peer review, and appropriate management of research integrity concerns.

The journal operates as an open-access publication and currently does not impose article processing charges (APCs), submission fees, or other publication-related fees.

Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, subject to applicable licensing conditions and third-party material restrictions.

Authors should consult the following official journal policies before submission:

Journal Information and Manuscript Preparation

Research Integrity and Editorial Policies

Publication and Access

Manuscript Template

Authors must prepare manuscripts using the official Jurnal Indo-Islamika manuscript template.

Reference Management Software

Authors are encouraged to use internationally recognized reference management tools:

For additional citation guidance, consult APA Style – Reference Examples.

Online Submission

Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's official submission platform.

Editorial Contact: indoislamika@uinjkt.ac.id

Jurnal Indo-Islamika is committed to advancing critical, interdisciplinary, and methodologically rigorous scholarship that deepens academic understanding of Islam, Muslim societies, religious authority, and the transformation of lived Islamic practices in Indonesia and beyond.

JURNAL INDO-ISLAMIKA

Graduate School, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

P-ISSN 2088-9445 | E-ISSN 2723-1135