Author Guidelines

General Requirements for Manuscript Writing
The minimum standard requirements for the Al Dzahab are:

1. Written in English.

2. Use tools such as Mendeley for reference management and formatting, and choose the APA style.

3. Ensure that your article is prepared using the Al Dzahab article template.

4. Submission files must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

5. Your article must be submitted along with the similarity test results using an application such as Turnitin, with a maximum similarity rate of 20% and a similarity rate for each source of no more than 1%. Attach your fixes and the results of your Turnitin check.

6. Provide at least 30 references, of which 85% must be from reputable journals.

 

Structure of Scientific Articles
In general, the structure of scientific articles of field research results and scientific articles of conceptual research is relatively the same. The structure of scientific articles of research on 10 main sections is: (1) title; (2) ownership line; (3) abstract; (4) keywords; (5) introduction; (6) Literature Review; (7) methods; (8) results and discussion; (9) conclusions; and (10) references. Each section is given an explanation as follows.

 

A) Title

  1. Titles should be concise and informative, with no more than 20 words, including the liaison. For a title to be short and succinct in 20 words, avoid connecting words and mentioning objects, places or research materials in great detail.
  2. The title contains the keywords of the topic under study.
  3. Times New Roman, 14, Bold, Capital type with single line spacing.
  4. Title in Indonesian or English, in accordance with the language used in the manuscript.
  5. Avoid using abbreviations, formulas and references.

B) Ownership lines (authorship lines)

  1. The institutional affiliation of the author follows the place where the work is concerned.
  2. Authors' names should be people who actually participate in planning, execution, analysis of results, discussion, and report writing.
  3. The academic/functional or bachelor's degree does not need to be listed.
  4. The name of the institution is listed in full, along with the country name, written under the author's name along with the postal address, email and facsimile (if any) for correspondence purposes.
  5. If the author is more than one person and comes from a different institute, then all addresses are listed by marking a superscript letter starting from a at the back of the author's name in sequence.
  6. The name of the correspondence author is given an asterisk (*).
  7. The author's name in Times New Roman, 12, Bold, should not be abbreviated

C) Abstract

  1. The abstract is written in a summary and factual manner, covering key issues, main findings, novelty, research recommendations for the future, research methods, results and conclusions.
  2. Abstracts are written in one paragraph; Written in two languages (Indonesian and English); Abstract lengths range from no more than 200 words written in a single paragraph.
  3. Avoid references and unusual abbreviations.

D) Keywords

  1. Keywords consist of 3 to 5 words and/or word groups.
  2. Written in alphabetical order.
  3. Between keywords separated by semicolons (;).
  4. Avoid many connecting words (and, with, that and others).

E) Introduction

  1. Avoid sub-sub in the introduction.
  2. The introduction should contain the background of the problem, problems and research objectives.
  3. The percentage of the introductory page length is between 20-30% of the total length of a manuscript.
  4. References are indicated by writing the author's family name / last name and year of issue, regardless of page number. The foundation of theory is presented in complete, concise, and completely relevant sentences for the purpose of writing scientific articles.

F) Research Methods

  1. Briefly summarise the materials and methods used in the study, including the subjects/materials studied, the tools used, the design or experiment used, the sampling technique, the variables to be measured, the data retrieval technique, the analysis and the statistical model used.
  2. Avoid writing excessive statistical formulas.
  3. If you use a well-known method, please state the name of the method only. If necessary, specify the reference source used as a reference.
  4. For qualitative research, research methods can be adjusted.

G) Results and Discussion

  1. The format of the results of the study and discussion is not separated, given the number of pages available to the author is limited.
  2. Results can be presented with the support of tables, graphs or images as needed, to clarify the presentation of the results verbally.
  3. Tables and charts or captions are arranged in the form of a phrase (not a sentence) in a nutshell.
  4. Description of the image/graph is placed under the image/graph, while the title of the table is placed on it. The title begins with a capital letter.
  5. Do not repeat writing numbers that have been listed in the table in the text of the discussion. If it will suppress the results obtained should be presented in other forms, such as percentages or differences. To show the number in question, just refer to the table that contains the number.
  6. In general, do not want the international journal statistical language (such as: Significantly different, treatment, etc.) written in the discussion. Avoid copy-and-paste tables of statistical analysis results directly from statistical data processing software.
  7. Material discussion mainly concerns whether the results are consistent with the hypothesis or not, and put forward the argument.
  8. Referral citations in the discussion should not be too long (if necessary, avoid).
  9. Citation results of research or opinions of others should be abstracted and written in the sentence itself (not using the same sentence).
  10. Similar research sets can be referred to in groups.

H) Conclusion

  1. The conclusions should be the answers to the research questions, and are expressed not in statistical sentences.
  2. Written as a paragraph in essay form, not in numerical form.

I) Acknowledgements

  1. Acknowledgements are generally placed after the conclusion.
  2. Contains gratitude to the funding agencies and/or individuals who have assisted in the execution of research and the writing of manuscripts.

J) References

General provision of bibliography:

  1. The reference system and bibliography must use the Mendeley program ( www.mendeley.com) or EndNote ( www.endnote.com ), which uses the APA (American Psychological Association)
  2. For research articles, references are drawn from about 10-15 articles from scientific journals.
  3. Updates of referenced scientific journals should be considered, at least as a result of relevant publications in the last 10 years.
  4. The bibliography is arranged alphabetically in alphabetical order of the author's name.
  5. Author name: the name displayed is the author's last name (surname) followed by the initial (and middle) name abbreviation, if any. If the author is more than one person, then the way of writing is the same.
  6. The writing of a reference title begins with a capital letter only at the beginning of a sentence.
  7. Each writing of the name, year, title of the article and so on ends with a period (.) Before the next word follows. Special writing volume (number) of the journal is given a colon (:) without spacing. Examples of writing can be seen in the explanation of each type of literature worth mentioning.
  8. The manuscript should refer to or quote one or several articles of the BENEFITE Journal.
  9. References should use at least 80% primary sources and be published within the last 5 (five) years of publication.

 

Terms of reference writing by reference type:

If the source is an article in a scientific journal, it is written in the following order: author's name. year. Article title. The name of the journal. Volume (number): page (Journal name is italicised).
Example:
Cohen, EB (2009). Opening and Closing Rituals in Aikido and Karate and the Dismantling of Violence. Journal of Ritual Studies. 23 (1): 29-44.

If the library source is a textbook, it is written in the following order: author name. Year, book title. Volume (if any). Edition (if any). Publisher city: publisher name (title of book in italics).
Example:
Arikunto, S. (2002). Research procedure of a practical approach. Jakarta: Rineka Cipta

If the literature source is a translated book written following the sequence: the name of the original author. Years of translation. Title of translation book. Volume (if any). Edition (if any). translation. Publisher city: publisher name (Book title is italicised).
Examples:
Steel, RGD & Torrie, JH 1991. Principles and procedures of statistics. A biometric approach. B. Sumantri Translation. Jakarta: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama

If the source of the article is in the collection of articles written in the following sequence: the name of the author of the article. Article title. In: editor name if there is Ed (if single) or Eds (if more than one) in parentheses. year. Book title. Volume (if any). Edition (if any). Publisher city: publisher name (Book title is italicised).
Example:
Ancok, D. Validity and reliability of research instrument. In: Singarimbun M and Efendi (Eds). 1999. Survey research method.Jakarta: LP3ES
Linz, J & Stephan, A. Some thoughts on decentralisation, devolution and the wide varieties of federal arrangements. In: Joshua K (Ed). 2001. Crafting Indonesian Democracy. Bandung: Mizan Publisher

If the source of the article in the proceedings is written in the following sequence: the name of the author. year. Title of the seminar. Title of the proceedings. The venue of the seminar. Time of operation (Article title is italicised).
Example:
Alimi, MY 2011. When Religion fails to Nature Character Proceeding International Conference Ethics in Development. Semarang. 17-19 July 2011

If a library of unpublished scientific papers (eg theses, theses, dissertations and research reports) is written in the following order: author's name. year. Title of research report. Name of research project. City publisher: institution publisher/institution (thesis writing/thesis/dissertation/research report in italics).
Example:
Habibah, N. 2012. Manaqib as Solidarity Ritual in Grobogan. Essay. Semarang: Faculty of Social Sciences, Semarang State University

If the source is an article in a general newspaper/magazine, it is written
in the following order: author's name. year. Article title. Name of newspaper/magazine. City, publication date and page (Article title is italicised).
Example:
Syamsuddin, A. (2008). Invention of law or behaviour of chaos? Compass. Jakarta. January 4th. Pg.16 Kukuh, A. 2008. Free education obsession in Semarang. Suara Merdeka. Semarang, March 5th. P. L

If the source library is an online journal article, it is written in sequence: author's name, year. Article title. The name of the journal. Volume (number): page (The name of the journal is italicised).
Example:
Ernanda, SE (2005). Challenges to the modern concept of human rights. J. Social-Politics. 6 (11): 1-12

If the library source is an online article (internet) without a published place and publisher, it is written in the following order: author's name. year. Article title. Downloaded at website date address (Article title is italicised).
Example:
Levy, M. (2000). Environmental scarcity and violent conflict: a debate. Downloaded at http://wwics.si.edu/organiza/affil/WWICS/PROGRAMS/DIS/ECS/report2/debate.htm July 4 2