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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.
  • 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, RTF, or WordPerfect document file 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 stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Studia Islamika, published three times a year since 1994, is a bilingual (English and Arabic), peer-reviewed journal that specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and Southeast Asian Islamic studies more generally. The journal aims to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the history and contemporary developments of Islam in Indonesia and Southeast Asia through the publication of scholarly articles, research reports, and book reviews.

The journal invites contributions from scholars and experts across all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences that pertain to Islam or Muslim societies. Submitted articles must be original, research-based, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions are subject to review by the editors, editorial board, and anonymous peer reviewers. Submissions that do not comply with the formatting or length guidelines will be rejected without review.

Manuscripts should be written in American English and range between approximately 9,000 and 10,000 words, including the main text, tables, figures, notes, references, and appendices. Each submission must include a 150-word abstract and five keywords. Quotations, passages, and terms in local or foreign languages must be translated into English. Studia Islamika accepts only electronic submissions; authors must log in before submitting their manuscripts. Please click here to log in.

All citations must appear in-text. A typical citation includes the author’s last name, year of publication, and, where applicable, page number(s)—for example: (Hefner, 2009a: 45; Geertz, 1966: 114). Explanatory footnotes may be used but should be limited and not used for simple citations. All cited works must be listed in the reference section at the end of the article. For bibliographic style, authors are strongly encouraged to use reference management tools such as Mendeley or Zotero, and to follow the American Political Science Association (APSA) citation style, as demonstrated below:

  • Hefner, Robert. 2009a. “Introduction: The Political Cultures of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia,” in Making Modern Muslims: The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia, ed. Robert Hefner. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

  • Booth, Anne. 1988. Living Standards and the Distribution of Income in Colonial Indonesia: A Review of the Evidence. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 19(2): 310–34.

  • Feener, Michael R., and Mark E. Cammack, eds. 2007. Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions. Cambridge: Islamic Legal Studies Program.

  • Wahid, Din. 2014. Nurturing Salafi Manhaj: A Study of Salafi Pesantrens in Contemporary Indonesia. Ph.D. dissertation. Utrecht University.

  • Utriza, Ayang. 2008. “Mencari Model Kerukunan Antaragama.” Kompas, March 19: 59.

  • Ms. Undhang-Undhang Banten, L.Or.5598, Leiden University.

  • Interview with K.H. Sahal Mahfudz, Kajen, Pati, June 11, 2007.

Arabic Romanization should follow the guidelines below:

Letters: ’, b, t, th, j, ḥ, kh, d, dh, r, z, s, sh, ṣ, ḍ, ṭ, ẓ, ‘, gh, f, q, l, m, n, h, w, y
Short vowels: a, i, u
Long vowels: ā, ī, ū
Diphthongs: aw, ay
Tāʾ marbūṭah: t
Article: al-

For more detailed information on Arabic Romanization, please refer to the Library of Congress (LC) transliteration guidelines.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Copyright Retention and Licensing
    Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. The work will simultaneously be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to share, use, and adapt the work, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the journal as the site of first publication.

  2. Additional Distribution Rights
    Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., posting it to an institutional repository or including it in a book), as long as proper acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal is provided.

  3. Pre- and Post-Publication Sharing
    Authors are encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on personal websites) before and during the submission process. Doing so can foster productive academic exchange and may lead to earlier and wider citation of the published work.

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