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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.
  • Articles submitted must have never been published before, and the article has never been sent in another journal.

  • Articles submitted must follow the Journal Template (English)

  • Articles submitted use the Microsoft Word format (extension: docx or doc) document file format.

  • When available, a URL for reference has been provided.
  • The article has complied with the style and bibliographic requirements described in the GFA Author Guidelines.
  • If the article is sent to the journal section of the peer-review process, make sure the article is in a Blind Review position.

Author Guidelines

General policies:

  1. The article is original from the result of field research or contextual literature research.

  2. This type of research can be qualitative, quantitative, and combination (mixed method).

  3. The article has implication(s) for scientific development and improvement of life society

  4. The article has never been published or it is not being published in any journal or proceeding.

  5. The articles can be written in English (Article Template)

  6. The manuscript should be typed 1,5 spaced on A4 size (210 x 297 mm). Cambria font 11 pt should be used with 2.5 right-aligned. Article length 5000-8000 words, not including title, abstract, and bibliography.

  7. The article’s citation writting use innote (author's name and year).

  8. The article is sent to the editor through the Open Journal System (OJS) at: https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/dakwah.

Technical instructions:

  1. Title

  • The title shows the word da'wah as the core of science, not as an approach.

  • The title is written in Bold, CAPITAL, center, maximum 12 words.

  1. Author's identity

  • The author’s identity is not written in the article, but should be inputed in the OJS registration form. The author’s name writting without title, includes affiliation or institution, email and mobile number.

  1. Abstract

  • Abstract is written in English and Indonesia between 200-250 words.

  • Abstract consists of: research background, objectives, method, finding(s) and implication(s).

  • Keyword in English and Indonesia consists of 3-5 words.

  1. Introduction

  • The introduction contains academic problems, objectives, previous research, gap analysis, and novelty.

  1. Method

  • Consists of the approach; focus and locus of research; data collection techniques and analysis.

  1. Discussion and results

  • The result and discussion consist of the finding and analysis.

  • The tables and figures must support and related with the research data.

  • The Arabic transliteration using the international standard IJMES Transliteration Chart.

  1. Conclusion and recommendation

  • The conclusion contains the answer of the research problem and it is written in a description paragraph (not numbering).

  • Recommendation (optional) contain limitations that need to be followed up in future research agenda.

  1. References

  • References consist of at least 20 references include 80% reputable scientific journals published at least the last 10 years.

  • The writing references use the APA Style format supported with the Mendeley 

  • Examples of writing book reference; 

  • Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The Biology of Humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.

  • Example of writing journal reference Grady, J.S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Peres, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotion in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8 (3), 207-217

  • Examples of writing mass media reference (offline and online) 

  • Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting?The New York Times. htps: //www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html

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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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