• The submission stage
  • The paper should be submitted by the author via e-mail and online submissiom. The content of the article should not be submitted simultaneously to another journal.
• How to prepare a manuscript
  • There is no general limitation of the overall size nor of the number of figures, nor of the level of details considered to be necessary. However, the appropriate length of a manuscript depends on the information presented in the paper. A manuscript should consist of the following content.
• Title
  • The title should be simple, concise and informative with only the first word capitalized. A shortened version of the title consisting of a maximum of 100 characters (including spaces) for running headers should also be provided.
• Author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s)
  • A list of all authors, as well as corresponding addresses, and e-mail address should be provided. Each address should be preceded by a numerical superscript corresponding to the same superscript after the name of the author concerned. Addresses should contain all information necessary for an effective mail delivery. E-mail should also be provided to speed up communication between readers and authors. This information will be published unless authors request otherwise.
• Abstract
  • An abstract should accompany each manuscript; it should be completely self-consistent (i.e., with no figure, table, equation or reference citations), not exceeding 250 words and written as a single paragraph.
• Main body of the paper
  • The body of paper must range between 6000-7500 words, written in Gouldy Old Style. It could be divided into sections. Sections should be bold. Subsections should be italic.
  • Whichever spelling you choose (British or American English) please be consistent throughout.
  • Use hyphens consistently and avoid unnecessary ones.
  • The words “section(s)”, “equation(s)”, “figure(s)” and “reference(s)” are abbreviated as “sect(s).”, “fig(s).”, “eq(s).” and “ref(s).” unless they are the first word of a sentence. The word “table” is always written in full.
  • Latin expressions, such as, e.g., i.e., et al., versus (vs.) should be set in italic.
  • All terms or titles in Arabic should be transliterated with following the Library of Congress guide. Name of person should not be transliterated.
• Footnotes
  • Footnotes to text material, which should be kept to a minimum, and which should be indicated by numerical superscripts: 1, 2, 3, etc. They should be placed at the foot of the relevant page.
    • Book: Barrie Axford, The Global System, Politics and Culture, New York: St. Martin&rsquos; Press, 1995, 13-15.
    • Journal: Benjamin Arditi, “From Globalism to Globalization: The Politics of Resistance.”, New Political Science, Volume 26, Number 1 (March 2004): 1-18.
    • Seminar proceeding: Bard Andreassen A, “Human Rights and Legal Empowerment of the Poor.”, Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Expert Seminar, Geneva 23-24 February 2007, Norwegian Centre for Human rights, University of Oslo.
    • Chapter: Clifford Geertz, “Religion: Anthropological Study”, in David L Sills (ed) International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, London: Collier-Macmillan Publishers, 1965: 2-5.
• Bibliography
  • Bibliography should be written according to these below examples:
    • Book: Axford, Barrie. The Global System, Politics and Culture. New York: St. Martin&rsquoss Press, 1995.
    • Journal: Arditi, Benjamin, “From Globalism to Globalization: The Politics of Resistance”, New Political Science, Volume 26, Number 1 (March 2004): 1-18.
    • Seminar proceeding: Andreassen A, Bard, “Human Rights and Legal Empowerment of the Poor”, Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Expert Seminar, Geneva 23-24 February 2007, Norwegian Centre for Human rights, University of Oslo.
    • Chapter: Geertz, Clifford,“Religion: Anthropological Study”, in David L Sills (ed) International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. London: Collier-Macmillan Publishers, 1965: 2-20.
• The proof correction stage
  • Once proofs are ready, an e-mail will inform the authors and attache it in pdf format.
  • Authors are asked to carefully check the proofs. They should keep in mind that the aim of proofreading is to correct errors that may have occurred during the production. Therefore they should particularly check completeness of text, equation breaks, figures, tables and references.
  • Only essential corrections are accepted.
  • The author has the final responsibility for the corrections.
  • Corrections should be returned within 48 hours and can be sent back either as a detailed list by e-mail (quoting the amendments location with page, columns and line number). Please do not alter the PDF proof file, add annotations or send back an amended manuscript file.
  • As soon as the proofs are returned, the paper will be corrected and posted for the on-line publication.
• IJIMS is an open access journal. Since manuscript submission year 2011, authors should not pay some processing fees (Free Charges) for articles processing and DOI maintenance once their articles has been accepted. Readers can read and download 
• Offprint
  
  • Authors will receive the PDF file (with no cover) of their article for free as soon as it is posted for the on-line publication.

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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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. 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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

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License and Copyright Agreement
In submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors certify that:

• They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
• The work described has not been formally published before, except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or overlay journal.
• That it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere,
• That its publication has been approved by all the author(s) and by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – of the institutes where the work has been carried out.
• They secure the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.
• They agree to the following license and copyright agreement.

Copyright
Authors who publish with INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF ISLAM AND MUSLIM SOCIETIES agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0)that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. 
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Licensing for Data Publication

INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF ISLAM AND MUSLIM SOCIETIES use a variety of waivers and licenses that are specifically designed for and appropriate for the treatment of data:

• Open Data Commons Attribution License, http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/(default)
• Creative Commons CC-Zero Waiver, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License, http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/

Other data publishing licenses may be allowed as exceptions (subject to approval by the editor on a case-by-case basis) and should be justified with a written statement from the author, which will be published with the article.

 

Open Data and Software Publishing and Sharing
The journal strives to maximize the replicability of the research published in it. Authors are thus required to share all data, code, or protocols underlying the research reported in their articles. Exceptions are permitted but have to be justified in a written public statement accompanying the article.
Datasets and software should be deposited and permanently archived inappropriate, trusted, general, or domain-specific repositories (please consult http://service.re3data.org and/or software repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, Bioinformatics.org, or equivalent). The associated persistent identifiers (e.g. DOI, or others) of the dataset(s) must be included in the data or software resources section of the article. Reference(s) to datasets and software should also be included in the reference list of the article with DOIs (where available). Where no domain-specific data repository exists, authors should deposit their datasets in a general repository such as ZENODO, Dryad, Dataverse, or others.
Small data may also be published as data files or packages supplementary to a research article, however, the authors should prefer in all cases a deposition in data repositories.