Author Guidelines

General Author Guidelines

Articles submitted for publication must adhere to the following guidelines:

  • Articles must be original, unpublished, and not under review for publication in other journals.
  • Submissions should be based on research, including library research, fieldwork, or other empirical methods.
  • All articles will be published in English. Authors may submit manuscripts in either English or Indonesian.
  • Articles should be approximately 6,000–12,000 words (including references and bibliographies). Manuscripts must use the Lora font, size 11, with 1.15 line spacing on A4 paper, and margins set to 3 cm on all sides.
  • All submissions must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect file formats. Other formats, including LaTeX files or PDFs, will not be accepted.
  • Articles should include the following sections: (1) title in English and Indonesian; (2) author name(s) (without academic titles), affiliations, and email addresses; (3) abstract in English and Indonesian; (4) keywords in English; (5) introduction; (6) discussion; (7) conclusion; and (8) bibliography.
  • Articles must include the full name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s), and a valid email address.
  • All submissions must include an abstract of 150–250 words.
  • Tables and diagrams must be sequentially numbered, with titles and numbers placed above them. Tables should be centered on the page, single-spaced, and use bold headings.
  • Figures must be included in the manuscript in JPG or PNG format.
  • Foreign language words or phrases should be italicized. Arabic–Latin transliteration must follow the Asian Social Sciences Review style guidelines.
  • Articles must include a bibliography consisting of primary sources (e.g., books, manuscripts, interviews, or observations) and up-to-date secondary sources from books or peer-reviewed journals.
  • Bibliographical references must appear in both footnotes and the bibliography and follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (Notes and Bibliography). The bibliography must be arranged alphabetically.

Examples of Footnote Style

  1. Muhammad Latif Fauzi, Aligning Religious Law and State Law: Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java (Boston: Brill, 2023), 7.
  2. Bernard Adeney-Risakotta, “Traditional, Islamic and National Law in the Experience of Indonesian Muslim Women,” in Narratives of Muslim Womanhood and Women’s Agency (United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018), 82–97.
  3. Fauzi, Aligning Religious Law and State Law, 9.
  4. Wahbah Al-Zu?ail?, Al-Fiqh al-Islam? wa Adillatuhu, vol. 8, no. 5 (Damascus: Dar al-Fikr, 1985), 125.
  5. Abdulmajeed Hassan Bello, “The Punishment for Adultery in Islamic Law and Its Application in Nigeria,” Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 13, no. 2–3 (October 2011): 166–82.
  6. Muhammad Lutfi Hakim and Khoiruddin Nasution, “Accommodating Non-Muslim Rights: Legal Arguments and Legal Principles in the Islamic Jurisprudence of the Indonesian Supreme Court in the Post-New Order Era,” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 11, no. 2–3 (July 25, 2023): 288–313.
  7. Bello, “The Punishment for Adultery in Islamic Law and Its Application in Nigeria,” 167.
  8. “Marriage Law No. 1 of 1974,” Article 1.
  9. “Indonesian Constitutional Court Decision No. 30-74/PUU-XII/2014.”
  10. Sri Sangdatun, Judge of the Wonosari Religious Court, October 27, 2022.

Examples of Bibliography Entries

  • Adeney-Risakotta, Bernard. “Traditional, Islamic and National Law in the Experience of Indonesian Muslim Women.” In Narratives of Muslim Womanhood and Women’s Agency, 82–97. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018.
  • Al-Zu?ail?, Wahbah. Al-Fiqh al-Islam? wa Adillatuhu. Vol. 8, no. 5. Damascus: D?r al-Fikr, 1985.
  • Bello, Abdulmajeed Hassan. “The Punishment for Adultery in Islamic Law and Its Application in Nigeria.” Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 13, no. 2–3 (October 2011): 166–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/1528817X.2012.733132.
  • Fauzi, Muhammad Latif. Aligning Religious Law and State Law: Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java. Boston: Brill, 2023.
  • Hakim, Muhammad Lutfi, and Khoiruddin Nasution. “Accommodating Non-Muslim Rights: Legal Arguments and Legal Principles in the Islamic Jurisprudence of the Indonesian Supreme Court in the Post-New Order Era.” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 11, no. 2–3 (July 25, 2023): 288–313. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwad004.
  • “Indonesian Constitutional Court Decision No. 30-74/PUU-XII/2014.”
  • “Marriage Law No. 1 of 1974.”
  • Sangdatun, Sri. Judge of the Wonosari Religious Court, October 27, 2022.

Note

  • For citation and bibliography formatting, authors are encouraged to use reference management software such as Zotero or Mendeley.
  • Please download the article template in DOCX format here.
  • The PDF versions of these guidelines and the Arabic transliteration guide can be downloaded here.
  • Authors are strongly encouraged to consult the Reviewer Guidelines of the Asian Social Sciences Review (see Reviewer Guidelines) prior to submission.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain the copyright to their work and grant the journal the right of first publication and distribution. All articles published in the journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).