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Dimas: Jurnal Pemikiran Agama untuk Pemberdayaan, published twice a year, peer-reviewed journal, and specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular and Southeast Asian Islamic studies in general. The aim is to provide readers with a better understanding of Indonesia and Southeast Asia’s Muslim history and present developments through the publication of articles and research reports.

The journal invites scholars and experts working in all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences pertaining to Islam or Muslim societies. Articles should be original, research-based, unpublished and not under review for possible publication in other journals. All submitted papers are subject to a review of the editors, editorial board, and blind reviewers. Submissions that violate our guidelines on formatting or length will be rejected without review.

Articles should be written in Indonesian or American English including text, all tables, and figures, notes, references, and appendices intended for publication. All submissions must include abstract and keywords. Quotations, passages, and words in local or foreign languages should be translated into English. DIMAS accepts only electronic submissions.

Online Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts must be sent online to the online portal of Dimas: Jurnal Pemikiran Agama untuk Pemberdayaan on page http://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/dimas/index

Steps for submitting Manuscripts:

• The author registers as an author (checking the author role) on the "Register" section on the page http://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/dimas/user/register
• After the author logs in as an Author, click  "New Submission".
• The stages of article submission consist of 5 stages:

1. In the Start section, check all checklists, then click save & continue.
2. In the Upload Submission section, please upload the article manuscript file in MS Word in this section. After that, click save & continue.
3. In the Enter Metadata section, enter the data of all authors and affiliates. If the author is more than one person, please click "add author", then fill in the author's data like the first author, and so on. Next, fill in the title, abstract, keywords, research methods, and bibliography in each of the available columns.
4. In the Upload Supplementary Files section, it is permissible to upload supporting files or cover letters or other documents.
5. In the Confirmation section, please click "Finish Submission" if all data is correct.

General Instructions

1. Writing articles follow the rules set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), Sixth Edition. Please use Mendeley or Zotero reference management software, turn on “the American Psychological Association (APA), Sixth Edition.” For an explanation of the APA Citation Guide, see http://www.apastyle.org/manual/index.aspx or http://www.bibme.org/ citation-guide/apa/
2. The article is an original work (no plagiarism) and has never been published in a journal printed/online.
3. During the review and editing process, or after the article is published, it may not be registered in another journal.
4. Sent articles to editors via submission Open Journal Systems (OJS) on http://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/dimas/index
5. Articles typed in Garamond Font (12 pt) with 1.15 spacing in Microsoft Word format with a page size A4 (210 x 297 mm). The words should be between 4000 and 6000, including abstract, tables, references, and figures. However, both shorter and longer manuscripts will be considered.
6. The article is written in English using grammatical rules. In general, the article is in the past tense.
7. The manuscript should be prepared according to the author's guidelines in the MS Word article template: Manuscript Template.
8. All submission documents should be in the file format of Microsoft Word or RTF.

Particular Instructions

1. The article results from empirical research related to community engagement programs.
2. Full name(s) of the author(s) must be stated, along with his/her/their institution and email address. To facilitate communication, an active mobile number should be included.
3. The content and systematics of articles written using the format presented in a narrative essay in the form of a paragraph, without numbering in front subtitles, and should include these components:

A.    Title, provided that: a) the title is the formulation of a brief discussion of content, compact and clear. Use the creative title and attract readers (maximum 14 words). b) The title is typed in bold, and capital letters are used for each beginning of a word, except for conjunctions and prepositions.

B.     Abstract written in English. The abstract is the essence of the subject of the whole article. The abstract is written in one paragraph within one space. The abstract presented briefly and clearly must contain four (4) elements, namely: Reasons for the selection of topics or the importance of the research topic, the aims of the community service, methods, and finding of the results.

C.    Keywords contain basic words in the study. They can be drawn from the research variables, characteristics of the subjects, and the theory of the referenced (minimum three words or combinations of words, written in alphabetical order).

D.    Introduction contains the background of the community service's problems, objectives, and benefits.

E.     Literature review should provide the relevant theories on community service and guide and support understanding of the application of community service.

F.     Method used in community service.

G.    Result and Discussion consist of subthemes of the article expressing the exposure data analysis and explanation of the results of community service that significantly impact the community associated with the results of previous studies, critically analyzed and linked to relevant recent literature.

H.    Conclusions and suggestions answer from the research objectives written concisely, clearly, and compactly based on the results of research and discussion (approximately 1 page).

I.       Reference contains reference sources written alphabetically and chronologically. Referral sources are published in the last 10 years (especially in the journal). Referrals are preferred as primary sources in the form of books, reports (including dissertations), or at least 20 research articles in scientific journals and magazines. Using Mendeley or Zotero as a reference manager is suggested for styling the citations and the bibliography.

4. Manuscript Preparation: place quotations in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks for quotations that are more than four lines. Start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented from the left margin if your quotations are more than four lines. Only indent the first line of the quotation by an additional quarter inch if you cite multiple paragraphs. Your parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.

The Example of Compiling a Bibliography

1. Hefner, Robert, 2009a. “Introduction: The Political Cultures of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia,” in Making Modern Muslims: The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia, ed. Robert Hefner, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
2. Booth, Anne. 1988. “Living Standards and the Distribution of Income in Colonial Indonesia: A Review of the Evidence.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 19(2): 310–34.
3. Feener, Michael R., and Mark E. Cammack, eds. 2007. Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions. Cambridge: Islamic Legal Studies Program.
4. Wahid, Din, 2014. Nurturing Salafi Manhaj: A Study of Salafi Pesantrens in Contemporary Indonesia. Ph.D. dissertation. Utrecht University.
5. Ms. Undhang-Undhang Banten, L.Or.5598, Leiden University.
6. Interview with K.H. Sahal Mahfudz, Kajen, Pati, June 11^th, 2007.

General Instructions

1. Writing articles follow the rules set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), Sixth Edition. Please use Mendeley or Zotero reference management software, turn on “the American Psychological Association (APA), Sixth Edition.” For an explanation of the APA Citation Guide, see http://www.apastyle.org/manual/index.aspx or http://www.bibme.org/ citation-guide/apa/
2. The article is an original work (no plagiarism) and has never been published in a journal printed/online.
3. During the review and editing process, or after the article is published, it may not be registered in another journal.
4. Sent articles to editors via submission Open Journal Systems (OJS) on http://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/dimas/index
5. Articles typed in Garamond Font (12 pt) with 1.15 spacing in Microsoft Word format with a page size A4 (210 x 297 mm). The words should be between 4000 and 6000, including abstract, tables, references, and figures. However, both shorter and longer manuscripts will be considered.
6. The article is written in English using grammatical rules. In general, the article is in the past tense.
7. The manuscript should be prepared according to the author's guidelines in the MS Word article template: Manuscript Template.
8. All submission documents should be in the file format of Microsoft Word or RTF.

message 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 before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. 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.
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, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

assignment Copyright Notice

Copyright

The copyright of the received article shall be assigned to the journal as the publisher of the journal. The intended copyright includes the right to publish the article in various forms (including reprints). The journal maintains the publishing rights to the published articles. Therefore, the author must submit a statement of the Copyright Transfer Agreement.*) 

Licensing

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

In line with the license, authors are allowed to share and adapt the material. In addition, the material must be given appropriate credit, provided with a link to the license, and indicated if changes were made. If authors remix, transform or build upon the material, authors must distribute their contributions under the same license as the original.

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*) Authors whose articles are accepted for publication will receive confirmation via email and send a Copyright Transfer Agreement.

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The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

monetization_on Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Publication Charge (APC): 500000.00 (IDR)

Starting from Volume 23 No 1 (2023), Dimas: Jurnal Pemikiran Agama untuk Pemberdayaan set the Article Publication Charge (APC) of IDR 500,000.oo (for domestic authors) or USD 50.oo (for foreign authors).

This charge applies once the article is decided "accepted to be published".

Bank Account:
Bank BNI (Bank Negara Indonesia) - Acct. 7979202299
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