Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Before you submit

• Prepare the manuscript with the Fakta article template (.doc/.docx).
• Register as an author and submit through the online submission system. Submissions by email are not accepted.
• The manuscript must not have been published before, must not be under consideration by another journal, and must not be an unrevised chapter of a thesis or dissertation.
• Read the Focus and Scope, Publication Ethics, and AI Policy. The journal charges no fees (see Author Fees).

2. Article types, language, and length

• The journal publishes original research articles, conceptual articles, and review articles, as described in the Focus and Scope.
• Manuscripts may be written in Indonesian or English. Articles written in Indonesian include the title, abstract, and keywords in both Indonesian and English. Articles written in English include them in English only.
• The main text is 15–20 pages on A4 paper with 1.5 line spacing, excluding the title, abstract, keywords, and references.

3. Files to upload

Because the journal uses double-blind review, authors upload two files:

1. Anonymized manuscript: the full article without author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or any other information that identifies the authors. Self-citations are written in the third person, and author information is removed from the document properties.
2. Title page and declarations: the title; full names of all authors without academic titles; affiliations written as institution, city, and country; email addresses; ORCID iDs where available; the corresponding author; and the declarations listed in Section 5.

Author details must also be entered completely in the submission metadata. For an author with a single name, the same name is entered in both the given name and family name fields.

4. Structure of the manuscript

• Title: concise, specific, and informative, no more than 15 words, reflecting the main finding or argument.
• Abstract: 200–250 words in one paragraph, without citations, stating the background and aim, the method, the main findings, and the contribution of the study.
• Keywords: three to five terms that represent the main concepts of the article.
• Introduction: the context of the problem; the state of the art based on recent literature; a clearly argued research gap and the novelty of the study; and the aim or research questions.
• Method: the research design; participants, setting, or sources; data collection; data analysis; and, for research involving people, the ethical procedures. Conceptual articles explain their analytical approach; review articles report their search, selection, and synthesis procedures.
• Results and Discussion: findings presented with adequate evidence, followed by an interpretation that compares the findings critically with previous studies and theory.
• Conclusion: a direct answer to the research aim or questions, the theoretical or practical contribution, the limitations, and directions for further research. It does not repeat the discussion.
• Declarations (see Section 5) and References.

5. Declarations (required)

Every article contains the following statements. At submission they are placed in the title page file; after acceptance they are inserted at the end of the article and appear in the published PDF.

• AI statement: whether and how generative AI tools were used (see the AI Policy).
• Author contributions: the contribution of each author, preferably using the CRediT taxonomy (see Authorship).
• Funding: the funder and grant number, or the statement "This research received no external funding."
• Conflict of interest: any conflict, or the statement "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
• Ethics approval and informed consent: for research involving human participants, the name of the ethics committee and the approval number and year, or, for low-risk research, a statement of ethical compliance; and confirmation that informed consent was obtained.
• Data availability: where the data can be accessed (see the Data Availability Policy).
• Acknowledgements (optional).

6. References

• Each article cites at least 15 references. At least 80% should be primary sources, namely peer-reviewed journal articles and reports of original research, and at least 80% should have been published in the last ten years. Classical works and primary texts of the Islamic tradition are cited wherever they are needed.
• Every work cited in the text appears in the references, and every entry in the references is cited in the text.
• Include the DOI for every reference that has one, written as https://doi.org/....
• The use of a reference manager such as Mendeley or Zotero is strongly recommended.

7. Citation style

The journal uses the Turabian (Chicago) notes and bibliography style with full footnotes. Examples:

a) Book by one author

Bibliography: Welch, Kathleen E. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism and a New Literacy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

Note: 1. Kathleen E. Welch, Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism and a New Literacy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999), 143.

b) Book by more than one author

Bibliography: Lunsford, Andrea, and Lisa Ede. Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.

Note: 2. Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede, Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), [page].

c) Chapter in an edited book

Bibliography: Wells, Ida B. "Lynch Law in All Its Phases." In With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women, edited by Shirley Wilson Logan, 80–99. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995.

Note: 3. Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in All Its Phases," in With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women, ed. Shirley Wilson Logan (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995), [page].

d) Translated book

Bibliography: Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Sense. Translated by Jay Leyda. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.

Note: 4. Sergei Eisenstein, Film Sense, trans. Jay Leyda (London: Faber and Faber, 1968), 14–15.

e) Journal article

Bibliography: Haraway, Donna J. "A Game of Cat's Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies." Configurations 2, no. 1 (1994): 59–71.

Note: 5. Donna J. Haraway, "A Game of Cat's Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies," Configurations 2, no. 1 (1994): 64.

For an online journal article, add the DOI after the page range (for example, https://doi.org/...) or, if there is no DOI, the stable URL. For other online sources, give the author, title, publisher or site, date of publication or access, and URL.

8. Tables and figures

Tables and figures are numbered consecutively, have a title, state their source, and are referred to in the text. Tables are submitted as editable text, not images; figures have a resolution of at least 300 dpi.

9. Transliteration

Arabic terms are transliterated according to the system of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).

10. Similarity screening

All manuscripts are screened with similarity-detection software (see the Plagiarism Policy). Authors may attach their own similarity report as a supplementary file.

11. After acceptance

Authors receive the copyedited text and the galley proof for checking and return them within the time set by the editor. Only corrections of errors are accepted at the proof stage.