Instruction to Authors

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Authors

Submission of articles on subjects with relevance to the journal is welcomed but not limited to the two issues per year (May and November). The submission should adhere to our guidelines in the template. The manuscripts are preferably written in English, but when written in another language (e.g., Malay), provision of the English title, abstract, and keywords is compulsory. Kindly place all submissions online. Manuscripts are accepted on the understanding that they have not been and will not be published elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. The editors have the final decision on publication.

For all articles published in MJLI journals, the copyright remains with the author(s). Articles are licensed under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, meaning that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. These conditions allow for maximum use and exposure of the work while ensuring that the authors receive proper credit.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Jurnal Evolusi accepts research/original articles, short communications, letters to the editor, monographs, and review articles. All articles should adhere to the scope and policy of Jurnal Evolusi and should relate to social science studies.

Manuscripts should be typed (with a wide margin and double-spaced, Times New Roman, font size 12) on one side of A4 (30 x 21 cm) paper. A full-length research paper should be between 8,000 to 15,000 words, a review paper may range between 5,000 to 20,000 words, short communications, monographs, or commentaries are approximately 2,000 to 3,000 words, letters to the editor are less than 2,000 words, and book reviews are about 500 to 1,000 words. In the text, scientific names should be italicised; do not underline any words. Avoid excessive use of italics to emphasize text. In general, manuscripts should be organised in the following order:

Research/Original Article

  • Title (should be clear, descriptive, and concise)

  • Name of authors

  • Complete postal address of affiliations

  • E-mail address of the corresponding author

  • Abstract

  • Keywords (indexing terms): 3–5 items

  • Introduction

  • Material studied, area descriptions, methods and techniques

  • Results and discussion

  • Conclusion

  • Acknowledgements (additional information concerning research grants)

  • References

Review Article
(It does not have a method or results section, as there is no primary study or data analysis involved.)

  • Title (should be clear, descriptive, and concise)

  • Introduction (where the topic or problem is introduced and previous research is described)

  • Discussion (main points are discussed)

  • Conclusion (article’s strengths and weaknesses)

  • References