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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

Introduction

Review of Islamic Social Finance and Entrepreneurship is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes periodic scientific publications covering several studies and actual issues including Islamic economics and Islamic finance, comprising the latest empirical studies, country-specific studies, policy evaluations on Islamic economics and comparative international Islamic finance. This journal welcomes for academicians, practitioners, keen observers, and independent researchers, to publish high-quality theoretical, empirical, and policy contributions.

Preparation of manuscripts

Review of Islamic Social Finance and Entrepreneurship considers all on the condition that the manuscript is original work and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including the author's own work. The manuscript has been submitted only to Review of Islamic Social Finance and Entrepreneurship. Manuscript submissions must follow the specified requirement of our journal. 

Submission checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The manuscripts submission is original work and has not been previously published.
  2. The manuscript should not be under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.
  3. The manuscript must comply with the journal's aims and scope and publication ethics.
  4. The manuscript must write in good English and the manuscripts have been grammar checked. 
  5. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  6. The structure and format of the manuscript must comply with the manuscript requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  7. All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa. References are in the correct format for this journal. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Manuscript structure

The following standard headings should be used in this journal based on most research papers' common structures. 

Tittle

The title summarizes the main ideas of your research. A good title contains a few words to adequately describe the main content and main purpose of your research paper. The title must be simple, direct, accurate, appropriate, specific, functional, concise/brief, unambiguous, informative, unique, and it should not be misleading.

Abstract

An abstract summarizes the major aspects of the entire paper in a prescribed sequence. It should reflect the contents of the main text of the paper accurately, highlight the selling point of the manuscript, and succeed in luring the reader to read the complete. The main part of an abstract is the purpose of the study, the methodology design of the study, major findings or trends found as a result of your analysis, and the originality which allows your research to be distinct from the existing literature. The supporting part of an abstract in a research limitation for further research to cover, a brief summary of the practical and social implications of your research.

Introduction

The introduction should outline the aims of your paper, as well as describe why the topic is important and what it contributes to the body of knowledge. It establishes the scope, context, and significance of the research being conducted by summarizing current understanding and background information about the topic, stating the purpose of the work in the form of the research problem supported by a hypothesis or a set of questions, explaining briefly the methodological approach used to examine the research problem, highlighting the potential outcomes your study can reveal, and outlining the remaining structure and organization of the paper.

Literature Review

The literature review provides an analysis and generalization of relevant works (papers, monographs, reports, theses, etc.), which describe the essence of the problem and/or give an understanding of the previous efforts to solve it. The Literature Review should comply with the aim of the research (“fitness for purpose”) and represent the results of a critical analysis of the analytical base for testing the research hypothesis. The literature review must not be limited only by works, which were published in the country where the author lives and works (the problem should be studied globally). Particularly it concerns the authors from non-English speaking countries (they are recommended to thoroughly analyze the works published in English).

Research Methods

The research methods section describes the main stages and procedures of the research to investigate a research problem and the rationale for the application of specific procedures or techniques used to identify, select, process, and analyze information applied to understand the main problem of the research. In detail, research methods must be explaining the methods used, the influences that determined your approach, and why you chose samples, etc. This section must focus on answers about collected or generated data, and the process to analyze data with the relevant analytical tools. The writing should be direct and precise and always written in the past tense.

Result and Discussion

The result and discussion section are the main part of the author's contribution to the research by providing a report in the form of an explanation of the findings of the research-based upon the methodology you applied to gather information. The results section should state the findings of the research arranged in a logical sequence without bias or interpretation. A section describing results is particularly necessary if your paper includes data generated from your own research. The purpose of the discussion is to interpret and describe the significant findings of the research considering what was already known about the research problem being investigated and to explain any new understanding or insights that emerged as a result of the research process to answer of the problem. The discussion will always connect to the introduction by way of the research questions or hypotheses you posed and the literature you reviewed.

Conclusion

The conclusion should summarize the main state of the findings at the point of writing and consider the next steps. This section also the synthesis key points of the result and, if applicable recommend new areas for future research.

Appendices

An appendix contains supplementary material which is important to the understanding of your paper, and may be helpful in providing a more comprehensive understanding of the research problem or it is information that is not included in the body of the paper.  

Manuscript requirements

Format

Article files should be provided in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format. While you are welcome to submit a PDF of the document alongside the Word file, PDFs alone are not acceptable. The manuscript is prepared in a A4 paper, single-sided, and single line spacing format. A new paragraph should start 5 characters from the left margin, using 12-size, Garamond font type. The top and bottom margins are 1 inch. The title is written using capital letters only at first word or special name (example: location name), 14 font size, center position.

Article length/wordcount

Articles should be between 4500 and 7000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices.

Article title

The title of the manuscript should fully reflect the topic of the research and its content. It must be simple, direct, accurate, appropriate, specific, functional, concise/brief, unambiguous, informative, unique, and it should not be misleading (not more than 15 words).

Author details

Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. The names of all contributing authors should list them in the order in which you would like them to be published. Each contributing author will extract the following details:

  • Author's name. We will reproduce it exactly, so any middle names and/or initials they want featured must be included.
  • Author's affiliation. This should be where they were based when the research for the paper was conducted.
  • Author's email address. A clear indication and an active email address of all authors. Particularly for the corresponding author, we advise to use an active university or institution email address. 

Structured abstract

The abstract should be no more than 250 words. All submissions must include a structured abstract, following the format outlined below.

These four sub-headings and their accompanying explanations must always be included:

  • Purpose
  • Methodology
  • Findings
  • Implications
  • Originality

Keywords

Please include 4-5 main words that represent the content of the manuscript for indexing purposes.

JEL classification

The author should attentively look through it in order to have a common understanding of all the areas defined in it  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/displayjel.cfm. The codes, indicated by the author should clearly reflect the research area. The author is welcome to use the codes from two or three areas, if they are covered in the research.

Paper type

The following types of manuscripts can be submitted to the journal:

  • Research paper, which is a final report on the finished original experimental study.
  • Theoretical paper, which is devoted to theoretical study of the problem, which complies with the journal’s scope.

Headings

Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the required hierarchy. The preferred format is for first level headings to be in bold, and subsequent sub-headings to be write using capital letters only at first word or special name, 12 font size, started from the left margin. Sub of subheading, if any, are written using capital letters only at first word or special name. They should be started from the left margin.

Tables and figures

Tables and figures should be presented as follows:

  1. The name of tables and figures should follow a numbering system (Arabic numbering system). The names of the tables and figures are on the top and bottom parts of the tables, respectively.
  2. The tables and figures should provide the source of information, if any, at the bottom part of both.
  3. Any table should contain only heading and contents. The table contains row lines only without column lines. Note(s) and source(s) should be included underneath the table where appropriate.

Equations

Equation and mathematical formulas must write using Microsoft equation. Equations and formula should be numbered as (1), (2)... etc. appearing to their right.

Authors contribution

To classify the author's contribution in the manuscript-making process, a classification is carried out based on several activities carried out as follows Conceptualization, Data curation: Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, and Writing – review & editing.

Acknowledgement(s):

The Acknowledgement section should specify the individuals or institutions, who have also contributed to the article but are not its authors (the relevant scientific programs, grants, scholarships, contracts are indicated, the persons or organizations, which helped an author in conducting the research, namely, access to information, organization of the survey, interview, etc.).

Citation and reference guidelines

Citation style

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). All citations in the text should refer to APA (American Psychological Association) style, for example:

Author type

Parenthetical citation

Narrative citation

One author

(Ahmad, 2020)

Ahmad (2020)

Two authors

(Sato & Anhar, 2020)

Sato and Anhar (2020)

Three or more authors

(Affan et al., 2020)

Affan et al. (2020)

Group author with abbreviation:

First citation

(Central Statistical Agency [CSA], 2020)

Central Statistical Agency (CSA, 2020)

Subsequent citations

(CSA, 2020)

CSA (2020)

Group author without abbreviation

(World Bank, 2020)

World Bank (2020)

Sources: www.apastyle.org

 

Reference guidelines

Manuscripts should include adequate reference citations to support methodology and discussion of the research study. Manuscript is expected involve approximately 20-25 primaries and update references to assert a high quality of the contribution to the knowledge development. Citations and references must strictly follow APA (American Psychological Association) style. References should relate only to the content that is cited within the text of the manuscript. References should be those of the last ten years publication, except for key references. Citation and reference systems must use the Reference Management System such as Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero.

Journals

Majid, M.S.A., & Ulina, S. (2020). Does the 2008-global financial crisis matter for the determinants of conventional and Islamic banking performances in Indonesia? Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam, 6(2), 77-90. https://doi.org/10.20885/JEKI.vol6.is s2.art1 

Conference Proceedings

Analia, A.L., & Hendrie Anto, M.B. (2019).  Performance measurement of Islamic banking in Indonesia using the maqashid sharia index method. Proceeding of Conference on Islamic Management, Accounting, and Economics, Indonesia, 235-244. https://journal.uii.ac.id/CIMAE/article/view/12924

Books

Askari, H., Iqbal, Z. & Mirakhor, A. (2017). Introduction to Islamic economics: Theory and Application (1st Ed).  John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118989630.oth

Warde, I. (2000). Islamic Finance in the Global Economy. Edinburgh University Press

Book chapters

Zulkhibri, M. (2017). The nature of waqf land and properties development in Muslim countries. In Zulkhibri, Muhamed & Ismail, A. G (Eds.), Financial inclusion and poverty alleviation: Perspectives from Islamic institutions and instruments (pp. 271-283). Palgrave Macmillan

Published dissertation

Kabir, J. M. (2016). Factors influencing customer satisfaction at a fast food hamburger chain: The relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty (Publication No. 10169573) [Doctoral dissertation, Wilmington University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Unpublished dissertation

Harris, L. (2014). Instructional leadership perceptions and practices of elementary school leaders [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Virginia.

Government reports

Economic and Monetary Policy Department. (2019). Synergy, transformation and inovation: Towars an advanced Indonesia. Bank Indonesia. https://www.bi.go.id/en/publikasi/laporan-tahunan/perekonomian/Documents/9_LPI2019EN.pdf