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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.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 10-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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Guide for Authors

The following is a guide for authors who intend to submit their paper to the al-Irsyad: Journal of Islamic and Contemporary Issues (IJICI). Submitting manuscripts in the correct format and in compliance with the requirements will expedite the review process and prevent undue delay in publication. The publisher reserves the right to reject or return manuscripts that are not prepared according to the stipulated guidelines.

The guide is available here: Author Guidelines and Transliteration. For the article's template, kindly use this: Malay and English, or Arabic.

Note: If you are having a problem downloading either file, send an email to alirsyad@kuis.edu.my and we shall send the guide to your email.

 

Submit Manuscript

It is important that manuscript preparation is done according to the Guidelines for Authors. We reserve the right to immediately reject or withdraw a submission that does not adhere to the author's guidelines. Manuscripts should be submitted through OJS at http://al-irsyad.kuis.edu.my/index.php/alirsyad/login

Selection Criteria

IJICI is a masked or blind peer-review journal and the general guidelines for the acceptance for publication of a submitted manuscript are outlined as follows:

Relevance
IJICI has a special focus on Islamic Studies, and on contemporary Islamic issues. Contributions that display theoretical rigour especially work that links the particularities of Islamic discourse in the enterprise of knowledge and critique in the humanities and social sciences are also acceptable.

Standard and Criteria

Manuscripts that exhibit most of the following characteristics meet the selection criteria for publication:

  • Content: Original research with significant findings that contribute to the discipline that also commands a general interest.
  • Presentation: Systematic and well-organized prose whereby an argument flows and is easily comprehensible.
  • Language: Simple, lucid and highly intelligible to a general intellectual audience. There should be minimal usage of specialized terms, jargon or technical language; if unavoidable, an explanatory note to follow in parentheses.

Peer-Review Process

The submitted manuscript goes through the review process that takes between three and four months. Masked review is practised whereby both contributors and reviewers are unknown to one another.

Convention: Fidelity to house-style
Manuscripts that are not accepted for publication include those that are too elementary, poorly written and/or poorly organized, incoherent, too specialized in scope, unduly technical, or excessively long. Such papers that are rejected are promptly returned to the author.

The Editor-in-Chief will have the first initial review of the paper on its suitability and relevance often consulting with members of the Editorial Panel. If appropriate, reviewers have identified again through consultations with the Editorial Panel and/or the International Advisory Board. Once review reports are received, the contents are noted by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Panel.

If the review reports are unfavourable, the Editor-in-Chief in discussion with the Editorial Panel decides whether an outright rejection is advisable or to seek another reviewer before the final decision is made. In the event of rejection, the author of the paper is promptly notified. If the reviews are encouraging, the author is also promptly notified; the review reports are enclosed for the author to undertake revisions in line with the reviewers’ comments and suggestions.

The revised paper when received by the Editor-in-Chief will again be evaluated to ensure that all issues raised by the reviewers have been addressed. If deemed necessary, the revised paper is forwarded to the reviewers for another reading. When all quarters are satisfied, the author is notified that his/her paper has gone through the review process and is now accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the journal.

Review of Manuscript

IJICI practices double-blind academic review; both author and reviewer are unknown to one another. Every submitted manuscript, if deemed appropriate, will go through a review process that involved a minimum of one reviewer to a maximum of three reviewers. The number of reviewers is at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the Editorial Panel. The review may be lengthy but all efforts are made to ensure that an outcome is made known to the author at the soonest possible time. Delays are often commonplace as reviewers are working academics with heavy work commitments. Patience on the part of the authors is greatly appreciated.

Malay

The editor of the IJICI is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

English

The editor of the IJICI is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Arabic

The editor of the IJICI is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

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