AUTHOR GUIDELINES

  1. General Author Guidelines

    Articles submitted for publication must adhere to the following guidelines:

    • Articles should be original, unpublished, and not under review for possible publication in other journals.
    • Articles submitted should be based on research, whether library-based, fieldwork-based, or other scholarly research methods.
    • Articles must be submitted in English or Indonesian.
    • Articles should be approximately 7,000–12,000 words (excluding references and bibliographies). Manuscripts must use Jamia2014 font, size 12, with 1.15 spacing on A4 paper, and margins of 3 cm on all sides.
    • All submissions must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file formats. Other formats, such as LaTeX files or PDFs, will not be accepted.
    • Articles must include the following components: 1) title in English and Indonesian; 2) author name(s) (without academic titles), affiliation(s), and email address(es); 3) abstract in English and Indonesian; 4) keywords in English; 5) introduction; 6) discussion; 7) conclusion; and 8) bibliography.
    • Each submission must include the full name of the author(s), institutional affiliation, and a valid contactable email address. A maximum of five authors is permitted per article.
    • All submissions must include an abstract of 150–250 words.
    • Tables or diagrams must be sequentially numbered, with the title and number placed above them. Tables should be centered on the page, with single-spaced content and bold headings.
    • Figures must be included in the electronic manuscript in JPG or PNG format.
    • Foreign words or phrases should be italicized. Arabic–Latin transliteration must follow the style of the Al-Usroh.
    • The bibliography must consist of relevant primary sources (such as books, manuscripts, interviews, or observations) and updated secondary sources from books or peer-reviewed journals.
    • Bibliographical references must appear in both footnotes and the bibliography, following the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (Notes and Bibliography). The bibliography must be arranged alphabetically.

    Examples of Footnote Style

    1. Muhammad Latif Fauzi, Aligning Religious Law and State Law: Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java (Boston: Brill, 2023), 7.
    2. Bernard Adeney-Risakotta, “Traditional, Islamic and National Law in the Experience of Indonesian Muslim Women,” in Narratives of Muslim Womanhood and Women’s Agency (United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018), 82–97.
    3. Fauzi, Aligning Religious Law and State Law, 9.
    4. Wahbah Al-Zuḥailī, Al-Fiqh al-Islamī wa Adillatuhu, vol. 8, no. 5 (Damsyik: Dār Al-Fikr, 1985), 125.
    5. Abdulmajeed Hassan Bello, “The Punishment for Adultery in Islamic Law and Its Application in Nigeria,” Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 13, no. 2–3 (October 2011): 166–82.
    6. Muhammad Lutfi Hakim and Khoiruddin Nasution, “Accommodating Non-Muslim Rights: Legal Arguments and Legal Principles in the Islamic Jurisprudence of the Indonesian Supreme Court in the Post-New Order Era,” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 11, no. 2–3 (July 25, 2023): 288–313.
    7. Bello, “The Punishment for Adultery in Islamic Law and Its Application in Nigeria,” 167.
    8. “Marriage Law No. 1 of 1974,” Article 1.
    9. “Indonesian Constitutional Court Decision No. 30-74/PUU-XII/2014.”
    10. Sri Sangdatun, Judge of the Wonosari Religious Court, October 27, 2022.

    Examples of Bibliography

    • Adeney-Risakotta, Bernard. “Traditional, Islamic and National Law in the Experience of Indonesian Muslim Women.” In Narratives of Muslim Womanhood and Women’s Agency, 82–97. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018.
    • Al-Zuḥailī, Wahbah. Al-Fiqh al-Islamī wa Adillatuhu. Vol. 8, no. 5. Damsyik: Dār Al-Fikr, 1985.
    • Bello, Abdulmajeed Hassan. “The Punishment for Adultery in Islamic Law and Its Application in Nigeria.” Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 13, no. 2–3 (October 2011): 166–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/1528817X.2012.733132.
    • Fauzi, Muhammad Latif. Aligning Religious Law and State Law: Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java. Boston: Brill, 2023.
    • Hakim, Muhammad Lutfi, and Khoiruddin Nasution. “Accommodating Non-Muslim Rights: Legal Arguments and Legal Principles in the Islamic Jurisprudence of the Indonesian Supreme Court in the Post-New Order Era.” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 11, no. 2–3 (July 25, 2023): 288–313. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwad004.
    • “Indonesian Constitutional Court Decision No. 30-74/PUU-XII/2014.”
    • “Marriage Law No. 1 of 1974.”
    • Sangdatun, Sri. Judge of the Wonosari Religious Court, October 27, 2022.

    Notes

    • For citation and bibliography formatting, authors are encouraged to use reference management software such as Zotero or Mendeley.

    Copyright Notice

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