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Author Guidelines

The manuscript submitted to Intellectual Discourse should not have been published elsewhere, and should not be under consideration by other publication. This must be stated in the covering letter.

  1. Original research and review articles should be 5,000-8,000 words while research notes 3,000-4,000 words, accompanied by an abstract of 100-150 words. Book review should be 1,000-1,500 words.
  2. Manuscripts should be double-spaced with a 1 in (2.5 cm) margins. Use 12-point Times New Roman Font.
  3. Manuscripts should adhere to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, latest edition.
  • The Title should be as concise as possible and should appear on a separate sheet together with name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), and the completed postal address of the institute(s).
  • A short running title of not more than 40 characters should also be included.
  • Headings and sub-headings of different sections should be clearly indicated.
  • References should be alphabetically ordered. Some examples are given below:



Book

1. al-Faruqi, I. R. & al-Faruqi, L. L. (1986). The cultural atlas of Islam. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Chapter in a Book

2. Alias, A. (2009). Human nature. In N. M. Noor (Ed.), Psychology from an Islamic perspective: a guide to teaching and learning (pp. 79-117). Kula Lumpur: IIUM Press.


Journal Article

3. Chapra, M. U. (2002). Islam and the international debt problem, Journal of Islamic Studies, 10, 214-32.


The review process usually takes about three months. Procedures for reviewing manuscripts are based on the anonymity of the author and the confidentiality of readers’ and editors’ reports; hence, self-references should be removed. Manuscripts are refereed by the members of the editorial board and by other scholars at both IIUM and other institutions. Authors will normally receive a decision on their papers within 100 days of receipt. Papers can be provisionally accepted, and authors will be expected to revise the manuscripts on the recommendation of referees. The editorial board reserves the right to edit a manuscript to make it more readable.

 

Contributions may also be submitted over e-mail at intdiscourse@iiu.edu.my; intdiscourse@yahoo.com.

 

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.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal.
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point Times 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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, ensure the instructions in the Author Guidelines have been followed.
 

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INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE. ISSN: 0128-4878