Author Guidelines

Authors who wish to submit manuscripts to INSANIA: Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanity must carefully follow the journal’s manuscript preparation guidelines. Submitted manuscripts must be original scholarly works, have not been previously published in any journal, book, or other academic publication, and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts must also be relevant to the aims and scope of the journal and written in accordance with the academic standards of Islamic studies, humanities, social sciences, and related interdisciplinary fields.

Manuscripts must be prepared using the official template of INSANIA: Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanity. The manuscript should be written in Book Antiqua MS 12, single spaced, and must contain at least 6,000 words, excluding the reference list. Authors are required to ensure that the manuscript follows the journal’s writing style, formatting requirements, citation system, and ethical standards. All submissions must be free from plagiarism, with a maximum similarity tolerance of 20%.

The title of the manuscript must be clear, concise, informative, and no more than 14 words. The title must be written in bold using Book Antiqua MS 12. The title should reflect the main issue, research focus, or contribution of the article. It should avoid unnecessary words, abbreviations, and overly broad expressions.

The author’s name must be written clearly below the title without academic degrees. Each author must provide complete institutional affiliation, including study program, department, faculty or institution, university or organization, and country. The corresponding author must provide an active email address for editorial correspondence.

The abstract must be written in English, clear, concise, and descriptive. The abstract must consist of approximately 250 words and must contain the research objectives, research methods, results and discussion, and implications of the study. The abstract must be written as a single paragraph, separated from the main article, single spaced, and formatted using Book Antiqua 10. Authors must avoid citations, tables, figures, and unexplained abbreviations in the abstract.

Authors must provide a maximum of six keywords. Keywords should represent the core concepts, research variables, theoretical focus, methodological approach, or field of study discussed in the manuscript. Keywords should be specific, searchable, and relevant to the article.

The manuscript must be organized into the following main sections:

Introduction

The introduction must present the background of the study, research problem, theoretical gap, summary of relevant previous studies, research novelty, research objectives, and the main argument or hypothesis of the article. This section must be written in a coherent narrative form without subheadings or numbering. The introduction should clearly explain why the study is important, what gap it addresses, and how it contributes to Islamic studies and humanity based scholarship.

Research Method

The research method section must explain the research design, approach, object or unit of analysis, data sources, data collection techniques, and data analysis procedures. The journal accepts various methodological approaches, including qualitative research, quantitative research, mixed methods, and systematic literature review.

Qualitative studies may include case studies, phenomenology, ethnography, discourse analysis, textual analysis, or other relevant approaches. Quantitative studies may include surveys, experiments, correlation studies, comparative studies, regression analysis, ANOVA, t tests, or other statistical techniques. Systematic literature review articles must describe the search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria, data extraction process, and synthesis method. Authors may also mention the use of software such as SPSS, R, Excel, or other analytical tools when relevant.

Result and Discussion

The Result and Discussion sections must be separated.

In the Result section, authors must present the main findings of the study based on original data obtained from interviews, observations, questionnaires, surveys, documents, manuscripts, books, online sources, or other relevant data collection techniques. The findings may be supported by tables, figures, graphs, diagrams, matrices, interview excerpts, photographs, screenshots, or other visual materials when necessary.

Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively. Table titles must be placed above the table, while figure titles must be placed below the figure. Tables should use horizontal lines only and should not use vertical lines. All tables and figures must be referred to and explained in the text. Authors must not present tables, figures, or graphs without interpretation.

In the Discussion section, authors must analyze the findings in relation to the research questions, theoretical framework, and previous studies. The discussion should explain the meaning of the findings, the logical relationship between data and argument, comparison with previous research, theoretical contribution, practical implications, and possible follow up of the findings. The discussion must not merely repeat the results, but must provide critical interpretation and scholarly analysis.

Conclusion

The conclusion must provide a concise summary of the key findings, scientific contribution, practical contribution, strengths, limitations, and recommendations for future research. The conclusion must be written in paragraph form and must not use bullet points or numbering. Authors should avoid introducing new data, new citations, or arguments that have not been discussed in the previous sections.

Acknowledgment

Authors may include an acknowledgment section when necessary. This section may mention financial support, institutional support, research assistance, technical assistance, or other contributions received during the research and writing process. If there is no acknowledgment, this section may be omitted.

References

Citations and references must follow the American Psychological Association APA 7th Edition style. Authors are strongly encouraged to use reference management software such as Mendeley to ensure citation accuracy and consistency. The manuscript must use indirect citation where appropriate and must avoid excessive direct quotation.

References should primarily consist of recent scholarly journal articles published within the last five years. Authors are required to cite reputable international journals, including Scopus indexed journals, and reputable national journals, including Sinta indexed journals. The manuscript must contain a minimum of 25 references. Journal references must constitute the full reference base required by the journal.

All references cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and all entries in the reference list must be cited in the manuscript. Authors must ensure that every reference includes complete bibliographic information, including author names, year of publication, article title, journal title, volume, issue, page range or article number, and DOI or URL when available.

Submission Preparation

Before submitting the manuscript, authors must ensure that the article has followed the journal template, fulfilled the minimum word requirement, used the correct font and spacing, included an English abstract of approximately 250 words, provided a maximum of six keywords, applied APA 7th Edition citation style, and met the journal’s ethical publication standards.

Manuscripts that do not follow the author guidelines may be returned to the authors for correction before review or rejected at the initial editorial screening stage. Through these guidelines, INSANIA: Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanity seeks to maintain consistency, academic quality, originality, and ethical standards in scholarly publication.