Submission Guidelines

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, document file format ONLY. Please upload two separate files ;
    1) full text ONLY
    2) title page (name, email, affiliations)
  •  Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  •  The text is single-spaced; uses a 11-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 

i. The paper should be within the themes of `Aqidah, Islamic Thought, Studies of the Qur'an dan the Hadith, Islamic history and civilisation, or Da`wah and Islamic human development. 

ii. The paper should be either in Malay, English or Arabic. 

iii. The paper should not exceed 6,000 words, excluding the footnotes. 

iv. The paper should be typed using only Times New Roman font version 5 and above for Roman characters, including the transliteration, while Traditional Arabic font should be used for Arabic or Jawi characters. Paragraph formatting and overall presentation should conform to the practice of Journal of Usuluddin, as can be seen in the example paper, Azmil Zainal Abidin, "Asas Keintelektualan Tradisi Kalam Ashā`irah: Suatu Analisis Metodologikal," Jurnal Usuluddin 35 (January-June 2012), 1-24, which can also be accessed at Journal of Usuluddin Website in UM@E-Journal (http://e-journal.um.edu.my;http://e- journal.um.edu.my/filebank/published_article/4163/Jurnal.Usuluddin.35.2012-02.Azmil.Asha%60irah.pdf). 

v. The paper should be attached with brief information about the author(s), namely full name(s) highest academic achievement, attachment to any scholarly institution or organisation and e-mail. 

vi. The paper should be supplemented with (a) titles; (b) abstracts not exceeding 150 words and; (c) keywords not exceeding seven terms, both in Malay and English. 

vii. The paper should be scholarly. Transliteration should be used in the Romanisation of Arabic words. The transliteration, basically, should follow the Romanisation style of American Library Association - Library of Congress or ALA-LC Romanisation Tables (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html;http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/arabic.pdf). 

viii. The paper should use only a footnote system, and neither an in-text note nor an endnote. The footnote, basically, should follow either the 16th Chicago Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org;http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html). 

ix. The paper should be submitted in the digital file form "*.doc" which would be compatible for the computer application Microsoft Word 2010. Submission should be e-mailed to jurnalusuluddin@um.edu.my or syukri1990@um.edu.my. 

x. The published paper shall be a copyright of the Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

xi. The published paper would not represent the stand or opinion of the Advisory Board, Editorial Board, the Management Team of Jurnal Usuluddin, or the Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

xii. The author is fully responsible for the perspectives of the published paper.