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Author Guidelines
Scope
International Journal of West Asian Studies is published as an online journal (e-journal), as well as printed copy, focusing on the West Asian region pertaining to politics, economy, science and technology, culture, education, etc. In the journal’s context, West Asia means the region generally known as the Middle East, Arab speaking countries of north Africa, part of central Asia and part of the Indian sub-continent.
Frequency of Publication
The journal is published once a year in November, by the Research Centre for Arabic Language and Islamic Civilization, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Articles, views, book reviews, review articles and short reports on West Asia in particular, and relations of West Asia with Malaysia and ASEAN, in general are welcomed.
Submissions
The journal publishes articles in the Malay, English and Arabic languages. Only original manuscripts, not published elsewhere, or under consideration by any other journals, need to be submitted for consideration for publication.
References
Manuscripts must adhere to the American Psychological Association (APA) Manual of Style.
All references must be romanized.
Copyright and Originality of Article
It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that his or her submitted work does not infringe any existing copyright. Furthermore, the author indemnifies the editors and publisher against any breach of such a warranty. Authors should obtain permission to reproduce or adapt copyrighted materials and provide evidence of approval upon submitting the final version of a manuscript. Submission of manuscript to the journal for consideration of publication signifies that the author or authors jointly agree that the article to be published is original in nature. Submission of an article implies that it has not been simultaneously submitted or previously published elsewhere. Contributors will be asked to assign their copyright, on certain conditions, to the Institute of West Asian Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Non-Conformity to Guideline
The editor may return manuscripts that do not conform to the guideline.
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.
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