Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

• 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 document file format only.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a Times New Romal 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 double Blind Review have been followed.

Manuscripts Preparation

Each article will be evaluated by the Chief Editor. After preliminary examination by the editorial board to establish that the manuscript is within the scope of this Journal, the manuscript will be reviewed for originality and significance by at least one independent referee, who then makes a recommendation as to its acceptability for publication. The Chief Editor reserves the right to make the final decision. The Jurnal Al-Sirat paper template can be reached here (Click here to download Jurnal Al-Sirat's template). Authors are encouraged to use and edit the template, rather than developing their own file.

The authors are invited to submit their manuscripts using the journal online manuscript submission system:

https://ejournal.unipsas.edu.my/index.php/alsirat/about/submissions

All formatting standards for the author's manuscript are met by the way these instructions are written. Please prepare your manuscript using these as a template. It is especially important for authors to adhere to these margin guidelines. The fundamental guidelines are:

• Manuscript shall be formatted for an A4 size page.
• The left and right margins shall be 2.5 cm.
• The top and bottom margin shall be 2.5 cm.
• The text shall have both the left and right margins justified.

Single-spaced, single-column text should be the format used for the manuscript file. Sequential page numbers are required to make document inspection and editing easier. If writing in both Malay and English, the document must be in Times New Roman (size 12). Traditional Arabic (size 18) must be used when writing in Arabic.

Manuscripts should include:

• Title Page (Malay and English: Size 16/ Traditional Arabic: Size 20)
• Author(s) and their full affiliation.
• Corresponding Author.
• Abstract (Malay and English: Size 10/ Traditional Arabic: Size 14) - Italic
• Keywords (Malay and English: Size 10/ Traditional Arabic: Size 14)
• Introduction
• Method and Materials
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Conflict of Interest
• Author(s) Contribution (Optional)
• References
• Appendices (Optional)
• Figures/illustrations and tales included in the text  (Optional)

• Supportive/Supplementary Materials (Optional)

Title

The title is clear and educational. Titles are frequently used as search terms in Islamic studies and social sciences.

Author Names and Affiliations

Please make sure all names are spelled correctly and explicitly state each author's given name and family name before submitting the manuscript. Below the list of names, include the authors' affiliation addresses. Following the author's name and before the relevant address, a lower-case or roman numeral should be used as a superscript letter to identify all affiliations. Please include each affiliation's full mailing address (along with the name of the nation) and the corresponding author's email address.

Corresponding Author

In order to receive correspondence during the entire review and publication process as well as after the work has been published, the corresponding author or authors should be identified, and their full address and email address should be made explicit. He or she will be in charge of answering any follow-up questions regarding Methodology and Materials as part of this responsibility. The related author is required to keep the contact information current and include an email address. An asterisk (*) must appear before the name of the associated author when providing an email address.

Abstract

The abstract, in 200 to 300 words, The aim of the study, the brief methodology, the main findings, and the major conclusions should all be included in the abstract. For an abstract to be effective, it must be stand-alone and self-explanatory. References, tables, and figures should not be cited in the abstract. Additionally, non-standard or unusual abbreviations should be avoided; nevertheless, if they are necessary, they must be explained at the time of their first mention in the abstract text. The word ABSTRACT and ABSTRAK should be italicized and bold. Papers in Malay and Arabic must have an abstract and title in English.

Keyword

Three to five keywords must be included, and they should appear immediately following the abstract. Be careful when using abbreviations; only those that are widely recognized in the industry may be used. The indexing process will make use of these keywords.

Introduction

This should give the work a sufficient history and overall perspective, elucidating its importance and highlighting the reasons why scholars should be interested in it. eschewing a thorough review of the literature or an overview of the findings. At the conclusion of this section, state the study's goals.

Material and Methods

It is advised that the writers include enough details to allow for replication of the work. Only pertinent alterations should be mentioned, and previously published methods should be cited.

Results and Discussion

The Results and Discussion parts should be merged into a single section. Results must be succinct and clear. The discussion section should go into great depth about the importance of the work's findings. Avoid discussing and citing already published material in great detail.

Conclusions

There is a small paragraph that highlights all of the noteworthy achievements made.

Section Headings

Beginning with the introduction, each section heading should have its first letter capitalized and be numbered sequentially, left aligned. However, the initials of the sub-section titles should be capitalized, italicized, and in lower case.

Abbreviations

The author(s) should define all abbreviations used when the first time appeared in the text. A list of abbreviations may also be included at the end.

Units 

It is strongly recommended that the author(s) should use the International System of Units (SI) units. If other quantities are referenced, please provide their SI equivalents.

Acknowledgements

The financial sources that have aided the effort should be discussed in this section. Please also explain how the study sponsor or sponsors, if any, contributed to the study's design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, article authoring, and publication submission. Personal assistance should be acknowledged in a separate paragraph. Contributors who did not meet the requirements for authors should be mentioned alongside their work. Make sure that everyone listed in the acknowledgments consents to being mentioned.

Formatting of funding sources

In order to make it easier to comply with funder criteria, list funding sources in this standard manner:

The funding sources' names, grant types, and reference numbers [grant numbers …] were used to support this work. It is not necessary to provide comprehensive program or grant and award descriptions.

The following remark should be added if there is no funding available for the research:
No grants from governmental, commercial, or non-profit funding organizations were used to support this study.

Conflict of Interest

 Any financial or non-financial interests that could be construed as having impacted the text, such as personal, professional, or political ties, should be disclosed. If there are no conflicts of interest, the statement "The authors declare no conflicts of interest" ought to be added.

 Author(s) Contribution

 To improve transparency, authors are urged to provide an author statement file outlining their individual contributions to the paper using the relevant author contribution roles. The author contributions statement, which is located above the acknowledgement section of the published work, should be submitted. Ensuring that all authors concur on the accuracy of the descriptions is the responsibility of the relevant author. The roles of each author should be described using the relevant categories below. Contributions by authors may have taken many different forms. Author contributions have no bearing on the journal's authorship requirements. The author contributions are described using the following terms.

The following are included: conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, data curation, investigation, resources, software, visualization, writing (original draft, review and editing), obtaining funding, project management and supervision. The names of the writers should appear first in authorship statements, followed by the role or roles that the author has contributed, such as:

M.M. Rahman (Supervision, Visualization, Formal Analysis and Conceptualization)
W.T. Urmi (Resources; Writing-original draft; Data Analysis; Methodology)

References Style

The list of references should be alphabetically arranged in accordance with the surname of the first author. Publication(s) by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed as 2000a, 2000b etc. Journal titles should be cited in full, and italicized. Volume and issue numbers should be bold.

References cited in the text should be given in parentheses, e.g. (Mohammad 1992: Musa and Hassan 1993; Ho et al. 1994), except when the author is mentioned, e.g.: and the study of Ross and Ross (1990) and Salisbury et al. (1995) .

A unique system must be followed for listing the references in the reference index for journal, book, book chapter, report, proceeding, thesis and dissertation, patent, standard and related documents from the internet; for example:

• Journal:

Nor, A. H. S. M., Kogid, M., Sarmidi, T., & Isa, Z. (2012). Kesan Kemeruapan Kadar Pertukaran ke atas Pasaran Saham di Malaysia. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 46(2), 141-157.

• Book:

Abdul Walid Abu Hassan. (2021). Hak-hak Wanita Menurut Undang-undang Keluarga Islam di Malaysia. Persatuan Ulama Malaysia: Selangor.

• Book chapter:

Montrose, Louis. (2006).  Elizabeth through the Looking Glass: Picturing the Queen’s Two Bodies in Regina Schulte (eds) The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000, (1st ed., pp. 61-87).  Berghahn Book. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1x76fk5

Ahmad, B., Hashim, Z., Wood, A. K., Mat, N. & Rashid, M. K. A. R. (2002). Speciations of organochlorine pesticides in sediment of coastal water of the Muda rice granary area. p. 141-52. In. B. M. Nashriyah, N. K. Ho, B. S. Ismail, A. B. Ali, K. Y. Lum & M. B. Mansor (eds.), Sustainable Rice Production in Malaysia Beyond 2000. (pp. 39-50). Malaysia: MINT

• Proceedings:

Zakaria, M. B., Jais, M. J., Wan-Yaacob Ahmad, Mohd Rafidi Othman & Zainal Abidin Harahap. (2002). Penurunan kekeruhan EIMS oleh koagulan konvensional dan kitosan. In. Prosiding Seminar Kimia Bersama UKM ITB. 16-17 July 2002, Melaka, Malaysia. p. 487-492.

• Presentations:

Mat B. Zakaria & Md. Pauzi Abdullah. (1996). Potential of chitosan in the food industries. Presented at First National Technology Connection Seminar. 14-15 November 1996, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7 pp.

• Report:

Nashriyah Mat & Norimah Yusof. (2005). Analysis of Prawn Tissue Samples Derived from Mini Study on the Impact of Coal Dust to Prawn Fry. MINT/L/2005/38(S) (Research Project Agreement MINT-TNBJ: Code No: UPP/2005/(03)). Malaysian Nuclear Agency, Bangi, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. 108 pp.

• Thesis and Dissertation:

Mohamed, N. (2009). Islah Sebagai Pendekatan Membangunkan Kembali Peradaban Islam: Kajian Tentang Pemikiran Muhammad Rashid Rida. Master Thesis, Universiti Malaya, Faculty of Arts dan Social Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ali, N. (2020). Pembinaan Modul Pembelajaran Kendiri Strategi Pemahaman Membaca Teks Bahasa Arab. Ph.D Thesis, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Fakulti Bahasa dan Komunikasi, Tanjung Malim, Perak, Malaysia.

• Patent:

Andress, Jr. H. J. (1974). German Patent 2, 413, October.

• Standard:

Japanese Industrial Standard. (1975). Method of Ultrasonic Manual Testing and Classification of Test Results for Welds, JIS Z 3060.

• Internet:

JAIF, Inc. 2004. 6th FNCA Coordinators Meeting in Japan, http://www.fnca.jp, retrieved 1st June 2005.

All references cited in the text must be listed in the reference list. Likewise, all references listed in the reference list must be cited in the text. Editor reserves the right to delete the missing and incomplete references if deemed necessary, and the related text. Incomplete references include references without page numbers.

Figures and photos

Figures and photographs are to be labeled as figures (Fig.). If necessary, figures should be drawn on a separate sheet of paper and each figure identified lightly in pencil on the reverse. Cut and paste figures should be totally avoided unless they are original, meaning that they can be easily edited by using Microsoft Word. Captions to all figures should be typed double-spaced in lower-case below the figure. Illustrations should be numbered, according to their sequence in the text. References should be made in the text to each illustration. No border (box) is allowed for figures.

Photographs (of high quality black and white, glossy print type with good contrast) should be submitted in duplicate, complete with magnification (if any). Colored slides will not be considered for printing unless as black and white, so reconsider submitting them. On rare occasion, request for color publication will be entertained subject to prior payment from author.The color figures can be published for the online version of JAB but the printed version will be in black and white only except when the author pays the required cost.

Tables

Tables ought to be self-explanatory and have a caption that is brief but adequate. Arabic numerals should be used to sequentially number tables, which should then be referred to by number inside the text. Table legends, each on its own page, should come after the main content. Tables cannot be supplied as images; they must be submitted as editable text. Although footnotes can be used to clarify acronyms, they shouldn't contain in-depth explanations of the experiment.

Supplementary Material 

It should include information that is both pertinent and supplementary to the data in the publication. Supplementary information is never changed after it is published and is always related to the article. These files can be sent in a variety of formats, but as they are published exactly as supplied, they should be publication-ready. Content that has already been published cannot be posted as extra content. Tables, graphs, spectra, movies, and more can be used to represent them. The document should include references to all supporting information, with titles (and, if preferred, legends) for each file provided under the "Supporting Information" header.

Reproduction Permission 

It is the writers' responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holders for any pictures, tables, or figures that have already been published elsewhere. The copyright owner is often the publisher of the book or journal where the figure or table was originally published. In this instance, a letter from the publisher or author(s) should be included to verify that consent has been granted to reproduce the photograph.

Plagiarism 

Plagiarism screening is an established part of the editorial process. All submitted manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin software.

“Online First” Publication 

Upon completion, manuscripts that are ready for publication are posted as "Online First" versions. Manuscripts are considered ready for publication once the authors have fixed any errors and finished the final proofreading. Authors must be aware that their work cannot be altered once it has been posted online. 

Self-Citations 

Citation manipulation is the practice of overciting an author's research (also known as self-citation by writers) in order to increase the quantity of citations for the author's work (COPE, 2019). In order to prevent citation manipulation, the Jurnal Al-Sirat advises writers to limit their use of self-citation. In any particular publication, Jurnal Al-Sirat strongly recommends utilizing no more than five (including jointly authored publications) or twenty percent (whichever is less) self-citations.

Length of Manuscript

Research and review articles submitted must be a minimum of 10 pages in length and contain at least 3500 words, excluding references and appendices.