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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.
  • 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)
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Fikrah, published two times a year since 2012, is a multilingual (Bahasa, English, and Arabic), peer-reviewed journal, and specializes in Islamic education studies. The aim is to provide readers with a better understanding of Islamic education history and present developments through the publication of articles, research reports, and book reviews. The journal invites scholars and experts working in all disciplines in the Islamic Education. Articles should be original, research-based, unpublished and not under review for possible publication in other journals. All submitted papers are subject to 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 Bahasa or English or Arabic between approximately 4000-6000 words including text, all tables and figures, notes, references, and appendices intended for publication. All submission must include 100-150 words abstract and 4 keywords. Quotations, passages, and words in local or foreign languages should be translated into Bahasa. Fikrah accepts only electronic submissions. All manuscripts should be sent in word to: fikrah@uika-bogor.ac.id. All notes must appear in the text as citations. In matter of bibliographical style, Fikrah follows the TURABIYAN manual style. 1. General Author Guidelines All manuscripts must be submitted to Fikrah Editorial Office by Online Submission at E-Journal portal address: [http://ejournal.uika-bogor.ac.id/index.php/FIKRAH/user/register], where author register as Author and/or offered as Reviewer by online. If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email: fikrah@uika-bogor.ac.id. 2. Manuscript Template Manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the PDF article template: Click Here in Bahasa and Click Here in English 3. Reviewing of manuscripts Every submitted paper is independently reviewed by at least two peer-reviewers. Decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendation. If two or more reviewers consider a manuscript unsuitable for publication in this journal, a statement explaining the basis for the decision will be sent to the authors within three months of the submission date. 4. Revision of manuscripts Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision should be returned to the editor without delay. Revised manuscripts can be sent to editorial office through the Online Submission Interface [http://ejournal.uika-bogor.ac.id/index.php/FIKRAH]. The revised manuscripts returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions. 5. Editorial Office of Fikrah All correspondences should be sent to the following Editorial Office: Gunawan Ikhtiono (Editor-in-Chief) Editorial Office of Fikrah Department of Islamic Education, Ibn Khaldun University, Bogor, Indonesia Jl. KH. Sholeh Iskandar KM. 2 Bogor Indonesia 16162 Telp.: +62-251-8349529, Fax.: +62-251-8349529 Email: fikrah[at]uika-bogor.ac.id 6. Guideline for Online Submission Author should first register as Author and/or is offered as Reviewer through the following address: http://ejournal.uika-bogor.ac.id/index.php/FIKRAH/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Author should fulfil the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, Author clicks on “Register” button to proceed the registration. Therefore, Author is brought to online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start a New Submission section, click on “’Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in online submission process: 1. Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Article, or Short Communication. Thus, author must check-mark on the submission checklists. 2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file to be submitted, then click Upload button. 3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including marked corresponding author. After that, manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords. 4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter, and Signed Copyright Transfer Agreement Form. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the files, and then click on Upload button. 5. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission: Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Fikrah journal, click Finish Submission button after the documents is true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgement by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site. After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at anytime by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes status of manuscript review and editorial process. 7. Author Fee (Page Charge) Fikrah : Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam is an open access journal. Since manuscript submission year 2012, Authors should not pay some processing fees (Free Charges) for article processing and DOI maintenance once their articles has been accepted. And readers can read and download any full-text articles for free of charge. 8. User Rights All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows: • Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 3.2 Copyright notice Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. b. 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. c. 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). Fikrah : Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam have CC-BY-SA or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work. In developing strategy and setting priorities, Fikrah : Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam recognize that free access is better than priced access, libre access is better than free access, and libre under CC-BY-SA or the equivalent is better than libre under more restrictive open licenses. We should achieve what we can when we can. We should not delay achieving free in order to achieve libre, and we should not stop with free when we can achieve libre. Fikrah : Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License You are free to: • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. • The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.