Submission Guidelines

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 who 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 Microsoft Word 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 Endnote and Reference format outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • For manuscripts not in English (e.g., in Malay), the title, abstract and keywords in English are provided. The list of references has been written in the Roman alphabet.

 

Author Guidelines

 Recommended guidelines include bibliographic and formatting standards alongside examples of common citation formats to be used in submissions.

  • All articles, scripts or reviews submitted for consideration to the Sejarah should have two files:
  • a) the main file, which must not include the author's affiliation, but with title, abstract, keywords, full article and bibliographic references.
  • b). a separate title page file (Author's Profile) indicating the article title, author(s)' full name (in the form preferred for publication), corresponding author(s) name, full affiliation of all author(s) (including institutional,  email address, mobile number), and acknowledgement.
  • Manuscript should be prepared as a Microsoft Word document, typed in Times New Roman with 12-point font size. The journal will not accept previously published work, and that is on offer to any other publisher.
  • The length of the manuscript should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words and double-spaced throughout in accordance with the format requirements of the journal. All submitted articles will not be returned.
  • Each article must be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words, written in English (and also in Malay). Abstract must be very clear / detail, consisting of an objective, problem defined / significant, method, findings, and conclusion. Please provide 5 relevant keywords.
  • Sejarah requires a complete citation/references--author, title, place of publication: publisher and date of publication--upon first use of a source, and an abbreviated form of citation/reference thereafter.
  • Full quotation which are fewer than 3 lines (fewer than 30 words), run them into the text and use double quotation marks and put a reference in the endnote. Full quotation which are 3 lines or more ( more than 30 words), use block quotations; indent the entire quotation from the left (2cm) and right margin (2cm);  use double quotation marks; single spacing; 12-point font size, use an ellipsis (3 dots) to represent an omission; spacing before and after paragraph, and put reference in the endnote.
  • Formatting, layout, clarity, conformity and the quality of tables and figures should be good.
  • Use endnotes, NOT footnotes, typed in Times New Roman with 10-point font size and provide full references at the end of the article.
  • Please avoid stating the author (s) name in the manuscript. Please follow the templates and format:

Article Template

Author Profile

 

ENDNOTES

a) Book:

Leon Comber, Malaya’s Secret Police 1945-1960: The Role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency, Singapore: Institute of South Asian Studies, 2008, pp. 10-12.

b) Journal article:

Leslie H. Palmier, “Modern Islam in Indonesia: The Muhammadiyah after Independence”, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1954, p. 255.

c) Chapter in a book:

Linda Tan, “Syed Shaykh: His Life and Times”, in Alijah Gordon (ed.), The Real Cry of Syed Shaykh al-Hady, Kuala Lumpur: MSRI, 1999, p. 10.

d) Thesis / dissertation / academic exercise

A.C. Milner, The Malay Raja: A Study of Malay Political Culture in East Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula in the Early Nineteenth Century, PhD Thesis, Cornell University, United States of America, 1977, p. 10.

e) Working paper:

William R. Roff, “Kaum Muda - Kaum Tua: Innovation and Reaction amongst the Malays, 1900-1941”, Working Paper Presented at Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia, ISEAS, Singapore, 1985, pp. 1-14.

Book/journal article/chapter in a book/thesis/working paper (if citing the same source):

Ibid. (implying the same author and page number as the previous one); or
Ibid., pp. 20-22 (for different page numbers)

*(The use of op.cit is not allowed)

Book/journal article/chapter in a book/thesis/working paper (if citing the same source but preceded by other sources):

Leon Comber, Malaya’s Secret Police 1945-1960, p. 11.

Leslie H. Palmier, “Modern Islam in Indonesia", p. 256.

Linda Tan, “Syed Shaykh: His Life and Times”, pp. 11-12.

A.C. Milner, "The Malay Raja: A Study of Malay Political Culture", p. 10.

William R. Roff, “Kaum Muda - Kaum Tua: Innovation and Reaction”, p. 2.

f) British Colonial Records:

File / Letter / Telegram

Sir Donald MacGillivray to the Secretary of Colonial Office, 1 February 1956, CO 537/211 (35).

Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements to the Resident of Selangor, 20 January 1875, SSF 3/75.

Letter from J. Prince, the Resident of Selangor to John Anderson, the Governor, 7 November 1827, SSR 139.

Reports

Speech by Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of Colonial Office, 1 August 1955, Federal Legislative Council, CO 1022/210 (11).

The Reid Commission Report, Kuala Lumpur: Government Press, 1957, pp. 30-40.

Minute of the Legislative Council of Selangor, 31 December 1877.

Annual Report of the Federated Malay States, 1899, p. 1.

Report on the Administration of the Straits Settlements during the Year 1855-56, p. 2.

g) Personal correspondence

Tan Cheng Lock to Tunku Abdul Rahman, 1 July 1955, Personal Correspondences of Tan Cheng Lock, SP13/1/21.

Collection of Royal Letters of Baginda Omar, Sultan of Terengganu, Attached, Letter from the Permanent Resident of Singapore to Baginda Omar, 1858, SP6/51.

h) Manuscript

Hikayat Riau, Microfilm MF 724.7, Main Library of the University of Malaya, Folio 1.

i) Newspaper

Alan Teh Leam Seng,"Tale of the Songkok", New Straits Times, 6 May, 2022, p. 1.

j) Magazine

Mohd. Khalid Saidin, "Naskah-Naskah Lama Mengenai Sejarah Johor", Dewan Bahasa, No. 6, August 1971, p. 9.

“The Status of Jurusalem: A Legal Viewpoint”, The Islamic Review, Vol. 55, No. 8, August 1967, pp. 4-6.

k) Interview

Interview with Emeritus Professor Abdullah Zakaria Ghazali at the Department of History, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 27 April 2023.

* Please use hlm. (refer to halaman)  if your article is written in the Malay language. If the article is written in English, please use p. or pp. 

REFERENCES

a) Book: Surname of the author(s), Name(s), Title of the book (Italicised), City of publication: Publisher, Year of publication. Example: Comber, Leon, Malaya’s Secret Police 1945-1960: The Role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency, Singapore: Institute of South Asian Studies, 2008.

b) Journal article: Surnames of the author(s), Name(s), Title of the journal article, Name of the Journal (italic), Number or Volume and Issue, pages comprising the article within the journal. Example: Palmier, Leslie H., “Modern Islam in Indonesia: The Muhammadiyah after Independence”, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1954, pp. 255-263.

c) Chapter in a book:  Name(s) of the editor(s),  Title of the book (Italicised), City of publication: Publisher, Year of publication. Example:  Alijah Gordon (ed.), The Real Cry of Syed Shaykh al-Hady, Kuala Lumpur: MSRI, 1999.

d) Thesis/dissertation / academic exercise: Surname of the author(s), Name(s), Title of the thesis/dissertation / academic exercise, Name of the university, Year of graduation.

Example: Milner, A.C., The Malay Raja: A Study of Malay Political Culture in East Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula in the Early Nineteenth Century, PhD Thesis, Cornell University, United States of America, 1977.

e) Working paper: Surname of the author(s), Name(s), Title of the working paper, Location of the conference/seminar, Date of the conference/seminar. Example: Roff, William R., “Kaum Muda - Kaum Tua: Innovation and Reaction amongst the Malays, 1900-1941”, Working Paper Presented at Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia, ISEAS, Singapore, 1985.