Author Guidelines

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• Articles should be original, unpublished, and not under review for possible publication in other journals.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, fieldwork, or other types of research.
• Articles can be written in English, Arabic, or Indonesian.
• Articles should be approximately 4,000–8,000 words (excluding references and bibliographies). Please use Cambria font size 12 with 1.5 spacing on A4 paper, and set margins to 3 cm on all sides.
• All submissions must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format. Other formats, such as LaTeX files or PDFs, will not be accepted.
• Articles should include the following sections: 1) title in English and Indonesian; 2) author/s names (without titles), affiliations, and email addresses; 3) abstract in English and Indonesian; 4) keywords in English and Indonesian; 5) introduction; 6) discussion; 7) conclusion; and 8) bibliography.
• Articles should include the full name of the author(s), a university or professional institution, and a contactable email address.
• All submissions must include a 150–250-word abstract.
• Tables or diagrams should be sequentially numbered, with the table or diagram title and number placed above them. Tables should be centered in the column or on the page, with elements single-spaced and headings in bold.
• Figures should be included in the electronic version of the manuscript in either JPG or PNG format.
• Foreign language words or phrases should be italicized, while Arabic-Latin transliteration should follow the Journal of Islamic Law (JIL) style.
• Articles should include a bibliography consisting of primary sources, such as books, manuscripts, interviews, or observations, and updated secondary sources from books or peer-reviewed journals.
• The bibliographical references must be included in the footnotes and the bibliographies, following the guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (full note). The bibliographies must be arranged in alphabetical order.

Here are 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, 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.

Here are 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. 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.

Note:

• For formatting citations and bibliographies, it is recommended that you use reference management software such as Zotero or Mendeley.
• Please download the article template in DOCX format here.
• The PDF versions of this guideline and the Arabic transliteration guideline can be downloaded here.