Submissions

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 12-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.

Author Guidelines

TITLE OF YOUR ARTICLE

(CAMBRIA, FULL-CAP, 22PT)

FirstAuthorName LASTNAME*¹ SecondAuthorName LASTNAME² ^1,2 Affiliation ¹firstauthoremail@gmail.com ²secondauthoremail@gmail.com

Corresponding author*

Received XXXXX Accepted XXXX

ABSTRACT

Your abstract should be in Calibri, 11pt and should not be longer than 250 words. Manuscripts should within 5,000 - 7,000 words, including abstract, references, tables, figures and appendices.

Keywords: Provide 4-6 keywords, all in lowercase except for Proper Nouns, separated by semi-colon (;), no full-stop

(Note: Articles written in Malay should be accompanied by a title, abstract and keywords in English)

Introduction

The main text of your article should begin in Page 3 of the manuscript. Text in single- spacing and margins (normal layout).

Do not indent the first paragraph of each section. Indent the first line of subsequent paragraphs by ½ inch.

Other Formatting Information

Jurnal Pengajian Melayu (JOMAS) follows APA style (7th ed.) for citation and referencing. You are, therefore advise to format all citations and referencing according to the APA Style Manual (7^th Edition)

For Malay names, use the father's name.

Quotations

Quotations. Use double quotation marks to enclose quotations of fewer than 40 words. Within this quotation, use single quotation marks to enclose quoted material. Long quotations should be placed in a block which is indented ½ inch from the left margin.

Tables and Figures

Place the headings above the table and figure respectively as shown below:

Table 1

Types of Language Variations

Sample Table	Data
Category 1	ABC
Category 2 Category 3 Category 4	DEF GH IJK
Total	11

Figure 1

Frequency of Variations

Figure

Conclusion

Conclusion should just should briefly state the main results, the main contribution of the study, limitation of the study, and recommendation for further research.

Footnotes

Do not use footnotes. If notes are unavoidable, use a numeral in superscript and list notes at the end of the article, before the References.

Acknowledgement

Acknowledgements (if available) of not more than 50 words can be placed before the references as a separate section.

All texts in paragraph should be written in 1.5 spacing and justified; first line of each paragraph should be indented. Do not leave any space between paragraphs

References

Author, A. (Year). Title of the book. City, State: Publisher Name.

Author, B., & Author, C. (Year). Title of the journal article. Name of Journal, Volume(Issue), pages of the article.

Author, D. (Year, month day). Title of webpage. Retrieved from http://web.com/arti.php

You may refer to this online guide for APA 7^th Edition Referencing guide: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_styl e_guide/reference_list_basic_rules.html

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