Author Guidelines

DRAFT LENGHT6000–7000 words (including references)

FormatMS Word, Times New Roman, A4

Citation STYLEAPA, suggest using Mendeley/Zotero

PlagiarismeUnder 20%

PUBLISHTwice in a year (May & November)

Rejection: Manuscripts can be rejected if not aligned with the journal's focus and scope. Authors will be informed via OJS message or email.

The title must be concise, specific, and informative. It should reflect the main variables, topic, or issue discussed in the article. Avoid non-standard abbreviations, rhetorical sentences, or overly general titles (e.g. "A Study of Culture"). If the article reports empirical research, use a title that shows the focus (e.g. concept/phenomenon + context).

Technical format: Times New Roman, 14 pt, bold, centered, sentence case (only first word and proper nouns capitalized), not italicized.

Below the title, list the full name(s) of the author(s) without academic titles (e.g. "Ahmad Zaki" not "Dr. Ahmad Zaki, M.Hum."). Each author must have an affiliation that includes department/study program, faculty, university, and country.

Example:
Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, Indonesia

Provide institutional or affiliation-based email (not preferably free email if institutional email is available). If there are multiple authors, indicate the corresponding author with an asterisk (*) or by adding "Corresponding author:" label.

Order: 1) Author name(s) → 2) Author affiliation(s) → 3) Author email address(es)

The abstract must be written in a single paragraph, 150–250 words, in English (and may be accompanied by an Indonesian abstract depending on the journal policy). It should briefly and clearly state:

• Background/Purpose: why the study was conducted or what problem it addresses.
• Method: research design, data sources, and analysis approach (briefly, not too technical).
• Results: main findings or key outcomes.
• Conclusion/Significance: what the findings mean or their contribution to the field.

Do not include citations, tables, figures, or undefined abbreviations in the abstract.

Format: Times New Roman, 12 pt, italic, single-spaced.

Provide 3–5 keywords (words or short phrases) that represent the core concepts of the article. Keywords are used for indexing and searching in databases, so choose terms that are common in your field. Write them in alphabetical order and separate with commas.

Example: Arabic Philology, Cultural Transmission, Islamic Manuscripts, Sundanese Islam

The introduction (max. ±1000 words) should build the context of the study. It should not only tell "what" the topic is, but also "why this research is important" and "what gap in the literature it wants to fill."

The introduction should normally contain:

• Background of the study: describe the phenomenon, issue, or debate in Islamic studies/humanities that becomes the entry point.
• State of the art / literature review: briefly show previous studies (journals, books, reports) and what they have found.
• Gap analysis: point out what is missing, underexplored, or needs re-examination (methodological gap, theoretical gap, contextual gap).
• Research objectives / questions: clearly state the main purpose or research question(s).
• Significance: explain the academic and/or practical contribution of the paper.

Use up-to-date references (preferably last 10 years) and follow APA 6th for in-text citations.

This section (±500 words) explains how the research was conducted. The description must be proportional to the type of manuscript (empirical, qualitative, quantitative, historical, philological, content analysis, etc.).

It should generally include:

• Research design/approach: e.g. qualitative descriptive, case study, historical research, discourse analysis, library research, or mixed methods.
• Data sources: primary sources (manuscripts, archives, interviews, field observations) and/or secondary sources (books, journal articles, previous research).
• Data collection techniques: observation, documentation, interviews, text mining, artifact reading, etc.
• Data analysis: explain how the data were processed and interpreted (e.g. Miles & Huberman model, content analysis steps, philological verification, thematic coding).
• Theoretical framework: if the study uses a certain theory (e.g. hermeneutics, cultural studies, postcolonialism), mention it here or at least link it to the analysis stage.

The method must be clear enough so that another researcher can replicate or at least understand the research procedure.

This is the core part of the article (can be up to ±5000 words depending on the depth of the study). It should not only present data, but also interpret it in relation to the research question and previous studies.

Structure this section clearly:

• Results: present findings in a logical order (thematic, chronological, or by research question). Use tables or figures only when they help clarification.
• Discussion: interpret the meaning of the findings — why the result is like that, what it implies, how it confirms or differs from previous literature.
• Link to theory: relate findings to the theoretical/conceptual framework used in the introduction.
• Scholarly positioning: show how your findings contribute to Islamic and humanities studies (new data, new interpretation, new comparison, new model, or Indonesian/Nusantara context enrichment).

Avoid repeating data already shown in tables/figures. Every citation in this part must appear in the reference list.

The conclusion (±350 words) summarizes the main findings in line with the research objectives. Do not introduce new data or new citations here.

The conclusion should:

• Restate the research purpose briefly.
• Summarize the key findings or arguments.
• Mention the implications (theoretical, practical, or contextual for Islamic/humanities studies).
• Optionally add limitations of the study and suggestions for future research.

All works cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and all items in the reference list must be cited in the text. Use APA 7th edition style. At least 60% of the sources should be from journal articles, and preferably within the last 10 years, except for classical or historical sources which are essential to the topic.

Examples:

• Achilov, D., & Sen, S. (2017). Got political Islam? Are politically moderate Muslims really different from radicals? International Political Science Review, 38(5), 608–624. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512116641940
• Sardar, Z., Serra, J., & Jordan, S. (2019). Muslim Societies in Postnormal Times: Foresights for Trends, Emerging Issues and Scenarios. International Institute of Islamic Thought. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10kmcpb
• Winter, C. (2020). Making Sense of Jihadi Stratcom. 13(1), 10.