Author Guidelines

A. Introduction

AL-USWAH: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam (E-ISSN 2615-4153 l P-ISSN 2615-4161) is a periodical journal published by the Islamic Education Program of Education and Teacher Training Faculty of Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, which is published be-annual, June and December. This journal specializes in research and studies in the field of Islamic Education. Editorial board invite scientists, professionals, and researchers to publish the results of their research and studies after going through the selection mechanisms of the manuscript, the study of peer reviewers, and the editing process. The manuscript may be written in Indonesian, Arabic, or English.

 

B. How to Write the Title, the Name, and the Author’s Address

The title of the manuscript should be written on the top of the first page with the center text alignment. Meanwhile, the author’s name (without academic degree), the affiliation, and email address of the author, should be written with the center text alignment also under the title of the article. The author should give two line spaces between the title and the author’s name. Then, the space between the author’s affiliation and email address is one space, between the email address and abstract tittle is two space. The keywords must be written below the overall abstract for all words. Those should be arranged in alphabetical order and be separated by semicolon maximally three to five words.

The responsible author, the correspondence author, or the corresponding author must be written first and then followed by the second, the third, and so on. The communication regarding the article revision and the final statement will be informed via email to the correspondence author only. If there is more than one author, the author’s names should be written down separatedly with two spaces. If the author’s name consists of at least two words, the first name should not be shorted. If the author’s names are only one word, it should be written as it is. However, in the online version it will be written in two words with the same name repeatedly for the purpose of the metadata indexing.

 

C. The Manuscript General Guidelines

The manuscript text general guidelines are as follows:

  1. The manuscript is the authentic research and study result that has not been published yet in other publication media or publishing houses.
  2. The manuscript does not contain any plagiarism element. The editorial board will directly reject the text that indicates plagiarism.
  3. The submission and the publication processes are free, without any additional fees.
  4. The manuscript that has been written under the guidelines of AL-USWAH: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam (in MS Word format, use this article template) must be submitted through Online Submission System using Open Journal System (OJS) on the AL-USWAH: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam e-journal portal (http://ejournal.uin-suska.ac.id/index.php/AL-USWAH) choose only one procedure. Then, register as one of the author or reviewer in the “Register” bottom.
  5. The manuscript article writing guidelines and template can be downloaded. The template and the guidelines of the article writing are available in MS Word (.doc) format.
  6. The manuscript online submission can be viewed in the part of online submission guidelines below.
  7. The manuscript which is inappropriate with AL-USWAH: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam writing guidelines will be returned to the author before the reviewing process.
  8. The authentic research manuscript should contain several aspects of a scientific article as follows: (subtitles as the order), which are: (a) the title of the article, (b) the author’s name (no academic title), (c) the author’s affiliation, (d) the author’s email (e) the abstract and the keywords, (f) the introduction, (g) the research method (h), the research findings and discussion (i), the conclusion (j), the references.
  9. The study result manuscript should contain as follows: (subtitles as the order), which are: (a) the title of the article, (b) the author’s name (no academic title), (c) the author’s affiliation, (d) the author’s email (e) the abstract and the keywords, (f) the introduction, (g) subtitles (as required) (h), the conclusion (i), the references.
  10. The subtitles included in the discussion part should be numbered in the alphabet numbering order started from “1.” The subtitles are written in the bold and title case format. It uses the left text alignment without underline. The next expanded subtitles should be written in the bold and sentence case format. It should uses the left text alignment and the numbering format level two.
  11. The manuscript can be written both in Indonesian, English, or Arabic with the standard language. The manuscript should consist of fifteen (15) to thirty five (35) pages including pictures and tables. The article is written on A4-sized papers (210x297 mm), with custom margins as follows: left 30 mm, right 30 mm, bottom 30 mm and top 30 mm.
  12. The text of the articles must be in Garamond font, 14pt font size, 1 line-spacing, not separated into two columns but one column (including for the main title, the author’s name, and the abstract) with the space between columns 10 mm.
  13. The words from uncommon or foreign languages are stated in Italic format. Each paragraph started 11 mm from the left side border while there is no spaces among paragraphs.
  14. The tables and pictures are placed in the text group after the referenced tables or pictures. Each picture must be given a caption (figure faption) below the picture and be numbered in Arabic numbering format followed by the picture title. Each table must be given a table title (Table Caption) and numbered in Arabic numbering format above the table followed by the table title. The pictures attachment should be guaranteed that they can be printed well (font size, resolution and line space are clearly seen). The picture, the table, and the chart should be placed in the center between text groups. If it has a bigger size, it can be placed in the center of page. The table should not contain vertical lines, while horizontal lines are allowed only for the important point.

 

D. The Guidelines for the Manuscript Body Text

The title of the manuscript: The title should be informative and be written both briefly and clearly. It cannot diverse multi interpretations. It has to be pinpoint with the issues that will be discussed. The beginning word is written in the capital case and symmetrically. The article title does not contain any uncommon abbreviation. The main ideas should be written first and followed then by its explanations. The article title should be written within twelve words, 16pt-sized font, with the bold selection and in the center text format. Meanwhile, the abstract has to be written within 250 words maximum and followed by with three to five keywords.

Introduction: The introduction must contain (shortly and consecutively) a general background and a literature review (state of the art) as the basic of the brand new research question, statements of the brand new scientific article, main research problems, and the hypothesis. In the final part of the introduction, the purpose of the article writing should be stated. In the scientific article format, it does not allow to write down the references as in the research report. They should be represented in the literature review to show the brand new of the scientific article.

Research Methods: The method is implemented to solve problems, including analytic methods. The methods used in the problem solving of the research are explained in this part.

Discussion and Result: This part consists of the research results and how they are discussed. The results obtained from the research have to be supported by sufficient data.  The research results and the discovery must be the answers or the research hypothesis stated previously in the introduction part.

Conclusion: This is the final part containing conclusions and advices. The conclusions will be the answers of the hypothesis, the research purposes and the research discoveries. The conclusions should not contain only the repetition of the results and discussions. It should be the summary of the research results as the author expects in the research purposes or the hypothesis. The advices contain suggestions associated with further ideas from the research.

Bibliography: All the references that used in the article must be listed in this part. In this part, all the used references must be taken from primary sources (scientific journals and the least number is 80% from all the references) that published in the last ten years. Each article should has at least ten references.

 

E. The Guidelines for the Citations and References

Author may cite several articles from AL-USWAH: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam. All the served data or quotes in the article taken from the other author articles should attach the reference sources. The references should use a reference application management such as Mendeley or Zotero. The writing format that used in AL-USWAH: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam follows the format applied by  Chicago Manual Citation Style: 16th Ed.

 

F. The Guidelines for the Literature Reviews

The literature reviews should use a reference application management such as Mendeley or Zotero. The writing format that used in POTENSIA: Jurnal Kependidikan Islam follows the format applied by Chicago Manual Citation Style: 16th Edition.

 

G. The Online Submission Manuscript Guidelines

The manuscript text must be submitted by one of two systems (the second procedure is more preferable):

  1. The document should submitted by Online Submission System in the AL-USWAH: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam e-journal portal.
  2. Firstly, the author should register as either an author or reviewer (checking role as author or reviewer) in the “Register”.
  3. After the registration step is completed, log in as an author, click in “New Submission”. The article submission stage consists of five stages, such as:  (1). Start, (2). Upload Submission, (3). Enter Metadata, (4). Upload Supplementary Files, (5). Confirmation.
  4. In the “Start” column, chose Journal Section (Full Article), check all the checklists.
  5. In the “Upload Submission” Columns, upload the manuscript files in MSWord format in this column.
  6. In the “Enter Metadata” columns, fill in with all the author data and affiliation. Including the Journal Title, Abstract and Indexing Keywords.
  7. In the “Upload Supplementary Files” columns, the author is allowed to upload supplementary files, the statement letter, or any other else.
  8. In the “Confirmation” columns, if the data you entered are all correct already, then click “Finish Submission”.

If the author has difficulties in the submission process through the online system, please contact AL-USWAH: Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam editorial team at WA: +6281959617500 or email: aluswah.pai@uin-suska.ac.id.

 

H. 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 Open Office or Microsoft Word 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.