Editorial policy
All scholars are invited to submit manuscripts to Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication. This journal provides a forum for empirical inquiries on human and mass communication and welcomes conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical essays or debates, book reviews, and essay reviews directly contributing to communication or indirectly affecting it as a discipline. We suggest the following broad areas of research:
- Communication and Policies
- Globalization and Social Impact
- Youth and Media Globalisation
- Audience Analysis
- Media, Democracy and Integration
- Media Literacy and Media Education
- Media and Development
- Health Communication
- Politics, Hegemony and the Media
- ICT and Power
- Gender and Sexuality in The Media
- Social Media and Subcultures
- Media, Popular Culture and Society
- Media and Religion
- Media and Identity
- War, Conflict and Crisis Communication
- Strategic Communication and Information Management
Note: We prioritize the above areas of research and no longer accept manuscripts on COVID-19.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
1. The title and content of the manuscripts should provide a forum for inquiries related to media and communication.
2. Each manuscript must have an abstract (200-250 words) and five keywords.
3. Manuscripts written in Bahasa Melayu must have a title and abstract in English.
4. Manuscript text-body between 5000-7000 words (calculated from INTRODUCTION until CONCLUSION only, excluding abstract, references, acknowledgement, and author/s biodata).
5. All manuscripts must be:
i. typed in Microsoft Word
ii. language: British English or Bahasa Melayu
iii. single-spaced
iv. font Calibri
v. font size 12
vi. set margin at Normal (2.54cm all around)
vii. paper size at A4 (21 x 29.7cm)
6. Ethics approval statements involving human participants and/or human data must be included under the methodology section.
7. 80% of the citations in all the submitted manuscripts must be from sources published in the last five (5) years from the date the manuscript is submitted.
8. References must follow the latest APA Style and be written on a new page at the end of the manuscript.
9. Authors are responsible to check the accuracy of language and proofread the manuscript before submitting it to the journal. Authors may be required to provide a certificate confirming that their manuscripts have been adequately edited.
10. Authors are required to UPLOAD the following 4 files:
i. manuscript without authors’ details
ii. title page (title, authors’ full name, affiliation, email)
iii. author's biodata (not exceeding 50 words: full name, email, affiliation, and area of expertise) and acknowledgement
iv. recommended 3 reviewers from different institutions: full name, affiliation, email and area of expertise (subject to editorial discretion)
11. The corresponding author should declare that manuscripts submitted to the Journal have not been submitted, under consideration, or published elsewhere, either in electronic or printed form.
12. Avoid multiple submissions of the same manuscript in the OJS system. The Journal has the right to reject those submissions.
13. The Editorial Board reserves the right to make editorial changes to any manuscript accepted for publication to enhance clarity and style. Endnotes and/or footnotes are not allowed.
14. The Journal limits authors to publish only one paper in a year for both regular and special articles due to increasing submissions.
15. The Journal owns the copyright of all published manuscripts and reserves the right to electronically distribute the manuscripts. The authors must write to the Chief Editor and acknowledge the Journal as the original publisher if they wish to republish the article.
16. Manuscripts that do not adhere to the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES will not be considered for review. Please refer to the template given.
Template for preparing the manuscript:
Manuscript Template (upload as Original File)
Title Page (upload as Supplement File)
Author's Biodata (upload as Supplement File)
Note: Do adhere to the guidelines to prevent rejection or resubmission. PDF files will not be accepted.