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Author Guidelines

The editor of JABIS welcomes article submissions under the following guidelines:

  1. The articles should be original, research-based, unpublished, and not under review for possible publication in other journals. All submitted papers are subject to the review of the editors and blind reviewers.
  2. Papers should be written in Bahasa or English between approximately 5000-8000 words, including text, tables and figures, notes, references, and appendices. The article written on letter (A4) paper with Times New Roman 12 point 1 space.
  3. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in MS Word format via https://journal.uii.ac.id/JABIS/about/submissions
  4. Structure of the article:
  • The title should be brief, short, clear, and informative, which reflect the article content; each word of the title should be started with a capitalized letter. The format of the title uses Times New Roman 14 Bold, Centered Alignment, and must be Sentence case. It is 12pt spacing (before and after).
  • Author’s names and institutions should be accompanied by the author’s institutions, affiliation address, email addresses, and telephone addresses, without any academic titles and job title.
  • Abstract is written in one paragraph, in English and Indonesian, not more than 200 words and keywords (3-5 words). The abstract should briefly summarize the article's aim, findings, or purpose. Please minimize abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract.
  • The Introduction section should explain the background to the study, its aims, and a summary of the existing literature. We expect the author to clearly state novelty within the introductory section.
  • Method consists of the research design (the method, the data, the data source, the data collecting technique, the data analysis technique, the measurement of the variables).
  • Results and Discussion should include the findings of the study, including, if appropriate, results of statistical analysis, which must be included either in the text or as tables and figures. For research articles, this section should discuss the implications of the findings in the context of existing research and highlight the study's limitations.
  • Conclusions should clearly state the main findings and explain the importance and relevance of the study to the field.
  • All diagrams, charts and graphs should be prepared in black and white and referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading and be referred to in the text.
  • The reference use APA Citation Style. For further guidance, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and the respective website of the Association (http://www.apastyle.org/). The degree of sophistication of materials is referred to in the span of 10 years. The references are expected to be 70% of the primary sources from national and international journals. Writing citations referenced in the script should use reference applications (reference manager) such as Mendeley, Endnote, or Zotero.

 

In the text use the following style examples:

  • As stated by Berlin (2020)…" – single author item
  • As stated in full (Berlin, 2020)" – single author item
  • As stated in full (Berlin & München, 2019) – two authors 
  • As stated in full (Berlin et al., 2020)…" – 3 or more authors
  • As stated in full (P. Berlin 2020; S. München, 2019)…" where items have similar author names
  • As stated in full (Cologne, 2019a, 2019b)…" where two or more items are published in the same year.

 

The reference list style must follow the following examples:

 

Article within a journal

Rahayu, N. S. (2020). The intersection of Islamic microfinance and women’s empowerment: a case study of Baitul Maal wat Tamwil in Indonesia. International Journal of Financial Studies, 8(2), 37.

 

Book

Ledgerwood, J., Earne, J., & Nelson, C. (Eds.). (2013). The new microfinance handbook: A financial market system perspective. World Bank Publications.

 

Book Chapter

Sakai, M. (2008). Community development through Islamic microfinance: Serving the financial needs of the poor in a viable way. Expressing Islam: religious life and politics in Indonesia, 267-85.

 

Online document

 

Microcredit, (2016). Microfinance and microcredit. https://microfinanceinfo.com/history-of-microfinance/ Accessed on 16 June 2018