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AUTHOR GUIDELINES

AL-TIJARY: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis Islam

1. About the Journal

AL-TIJARY: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis Islam (P-ISSN 2460-9404; E-ISSN 2460-9412) is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year, in June and December, by the Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business, UIN Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda. It publishes original research in Islamic economics, Islamic business, management, accounting, finance, marketing, and human resource management (see Focus and Scope).

2. General Requirements

1. Manuscripts must be original, not previously published, and not under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts with indications of plagiarism are rejected. The similarity index (Turnitin) must not exceed 25%.

2. Manuscripts are written in English or Bahasa Indonesia using standard language. The abstract is always written in English.

3. Manuscripts must follow the Journal Template and be submitted online through OJS. Manuscripts that do not comply with these guidelines are returned before review.

4. Length: 5,000–10,000 words, including tables and figures.

5. Template version: the Journal Template and these Author Guidelines are effective for articles published from Vol. 11 No. 2 (June 2026). Articles in earlier issues followed the previous template.

6. Required components: title; author names (without academic titles), affiliations, and email (corresponding author marked with *); abstract and keywords; author contributions, declaration of conflicting interest, and acknowledgements; AI Policy block (AI Plagiarism percentage and AI Disclosure); Introduction; Literature Review; Method; Results and Discussion; Conclusion; References.

3. Format

A4 paper with margins of 30 mm (left), 25 mm (right), 25 mm (top), and 25 mm (bottom). Body text is Times New Roman 12 pt, single spacing, justified, with a first-line indent. Main headings are bold, uppercase, left aligned, and not numbered. Under RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, the sub-headings RESULTS and DISCUSSION are written in the same style. Foreign terms are italicized.

Title: Times New Roman 14 pt, bold, centered, maximum 20 words, informative, without unusual abbreviations. The template also contains the article scope and type, article history (received, revised, accepted), and the structure of the article, which are completed by the editors.

Authors: names in Times New Roman 11 pt without academic titles. Affiliations are written as "Full Institution Name, City, Country". The corresponding author is marked with an asterisk () and the institutional email address is given in the line ") Corresponding Author".

Abstract: one paragraph of 100–250 words in English, Times New Roman 11 pt, italic, justified, single spacing. It covers background, objective, method, specific main findings, conclusion, and implications, with no citations, abbreviations, equations, or tables.

Keywords: 3–5 words or phrases, separated by commas and arranged alphabetically, placed directly below the abstract. They represent the main concepts of the article and do not merely repeat the title.

4. Content of Each Section

INTRODUCTION: background supported by recent primary references, state of the art, research gap (theoretical, empirical, methodological, or contextual, not only a difference in location or object), explicit novelty and contribution, and research objective.

LITERATURE REVIEW: relevant theories and previous studies with critical synthesis, scholarly debates, and the position of the present study; hypothesis development supported by theory and empirical evidence where applicable.

METHOD: research design and approach, data sources and period, population and sample or participants, sampling technique, instruments and procedures, variable definitions, analysis techniques, and validity, reliability, or trustworthiness. Ethical considerations are reported where relevant.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Results (sub-heading RESULTS) present findings systematically according to the objectives or hypotheses, with statistical values interpreted, not merely reported. Discussion (sub-heading DISCUSSION) gives a critical interpretation (meaning, mechanisms, context), compares findings with theories and previous studies including similarities and contradictions, states theoretical and empirical contributions, and elaborates practical or policy implications. Islamic or Sharia perspectives must be integrated as an analytical framework to explain the findings, not only as normative or symbolic statements.

CONCLUSION: main conclusions answering the research objectives, implications, limitations, and directions for future research, without statistical values or citations.

5. Tables and Figures

Place them near the relevant discussion, number them consecutively, and cite them in the text before they appear. Table titles ("Table 1" and the title) are placed above the table, and figure captions are placed below the figure. Both use Times New Roman 10 pt, centered, with a source line below. Tables use single spacing and no vertical lines, and statistical software output must be reformatted to the journal style. Figures must be of high resolution and legible.

6. Citations and References

Citations and references follow the APA 7th edition and are managed with a reference manager (Mendeley or Zotero). Each manuscript must contain at least 30 references. At least 80% must be peer-reviewed journal articles, with a predominance of publications from the last five years (except seminal works and foundational theories). The use of theses, dissertations, repositories, blogs, and other non-scholarly sources must be limited. Every in-text citation must appear in the References and vice versa. Every reference must include its DOI in URL format (https://doi.org/…) whenever one has been assigned, and the DOI must be active (verify it at https://doi.org/). Sources without a DOI, such as books, should give a stable URL where available. Article titles are written in sentence case, and journal names are written in title case and italicized, not in all capital letters.

In-text format: (Irawan & Salim, 1998); three or more authors: (Bezuidenhout et al., 2009).

Examples:

Pesaran, M. H., Shin, Y., & Smith, R. J. (2001). Bounds testing approaches to the analysis of level relationships. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16(3), 289–326. https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.616

Kasri, R., Prasetyo, M., Hendranastiti, N., & Indrastomo, B. (2022). Digital payment and banking stability in emerging economy with dual banking system. Heliyon, 8(10), Article e11198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11198

Kotler, P., & Keller, K. L. (2016). Marketing management (15th ed.). Pearson.

7. Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The use of AI in manuscript preparation must follow the Plagiarism Screening and AI Policy, which also regulates the roles of the Editorial Team and reviewers. The template contains an AI Policy block with two fields: AI Plagiarism (the similarity percentage from the screening report, maximum 25%) and AI Disclosure (the AI tool used, such as Gemini or ChatGPT, and its purpose, or "None" if AI was not used). For authors:

• Authors may use AI-assisted tools to support language editing, grammar correction, translation, readability, literature organization, and other technical aspects of writing.

• AI tools must not replace the authors' intellectual contribution, critical thinking, scientific analysis, interpretation of findings, or scholarly judgement.

• Authors must disclose generative AI use that has materially contributed to the manuscript, stating the tool used and its purpose, in the AI Disclosure field of the template, the Comments for the Editor field, and the Author Declaration Form. Routine spelling and grammar correction does not require detailed disclosure.

• Using AI to fabricate data, generate fictitious references, manipulate findings, or commit plagiarism or other misconduct is strictly prohibited.

• AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors.

• The use of AI does not remove the authors' responsibility for the originality, accuracy, validity, and integrity of the manuscript.

8. Declarations

The manuscript template contains three declarations placed below the abstract: authors' individual contributions (author initials per role), declaration of conflicting interest, and acknowledgements. In addition, at submission the corresponding author uploads the Author Declaration Form (supplementary file) covering originality, conflict of interest, contribution of each author, funding, data availability, ethics approval where applicable, and AI use. The same key points are stated in the Comments for the Editor field.

9. Online Submission

Register on the journal website and log in. Select New Submission, choose the submission language and article type, confirm the submission requirements and privacy consent, and click Begin Submission. Complete the steps: Details (title, abstract, keywords), Upload Files (MS Word manuscript following the template), Contributors (all authors, affiliations, and email), For the Editors (comments and declarations), and Review, then submit. For difficulties, contact jurnal.altijary@uinsi.ac.id.