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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, or RTF 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.

Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES :

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

SARJANA, the journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, is a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal published twice a year in June and December. Contributions of articles based on original research are invited from scholars working in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

General guidelines for manuscripts

Two paper copies of each manuscript should be sent to the Chief Editor, SARJANA, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Lembah Pantai, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Those who wish to submit their articles online need to register first at: http://umrefjournal.um.edu.my, login and then upload their articles on to the website. Alternatively, articles can be sent via email to the Chief Editor at shakila@um.edu.my. Articles are accepted for consideration for publication on the understanding that they are not under review for possible publication elsewhere. Manuscripts will not be returned to the authors.

All the authors of an article submitted to the journal should include their full names, institutional affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on a separate cover page sent together with the manuscript. Contributors should identify one author as the corresponding author.

Opinions and views expressed in this journal are the opinions and views of the authors and do not represent the views of the editors or publishers. While the editors make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this journal, the accuracy of the content of the articles should be independently verified with primary sources of information.

Articles which do not conform to the format described below will not be considered for publication. Responsibility for opinions expressed and the accuracy of the facts in the articles published rest solely with the author(s).

Typescript: Articles should be typed double-spaced on one side of an A4-sized paper with 2.5cm margin on all sides. The text of the article should be in Times Roman, 12 points. The article should be preceded by a title page containing the author’s name(s), affiliation, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and the title of the paper.

Language: Articles submitted to the journal may be written in either the English Language or Bahasa Melayu. British English spelling should be used for articles written in English.

Quotations: Long quotations should be indented. Please use single quotation marks. Example: The Prime Minister said: ‘I will step down at the end of this term.’ A quotation within a quotation should have double inverted commas. Example: ‘You will be a “digit” in the units column at the end of the war.’

Length: Articles should not be less than 5,000 words or exceed 8,000 words, including notes and references.

Abstract: Each article should be accompanied by an abstract in English of not more than 200 words. Please also indicate a five or six keywords.

Paragraphing and Headings: An excessive number of paragraphs should be avoided. The convention adopted for headings is as follows:

THIS IS A FIRST LEVEL HEADING

First level headings should be typed in capitals and in bold print. First level headings should be aligned left on a separate line. The first text line that follows should also be aligned left.

This is a second level heading.

Second level headings are aligned left in a separate line. Only the first letter and proper nouns should be in capital letters. The first text line that follows should also be aligned left.

This is a third level heading.

Third level headings should be in italics and aligned left. The text follows on the same line.

ENDNOTES AND REFERENCES

Endnotes and references should use the Harvard Referencing System as detailed below. Endnotes are preferred in this journal to footnotes.

1. ENDNOTES: The endnotes system in which the superscript numbers are inserted in the text and referred to in numerical order at the end of the article under the heading Endnotes should be used, if necessary. Examples:

Book: G.P. Means, 1970. Malaysian Politics. 2nd ed. London: Hodder and Stoughouton, pp. 10-15.

E-book: G. Brown, 1984. Modern management. [e-book] London: Redfern Press. Available through: Anglia Ruskin University Library http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk [Accessed 23 July 2011].

Chapter in Book: J.M. Gullick, 2006. An Amateur Historian. In: Nicholas Tarling (ed), 2006. Historians and Their Discipline. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, pp. 41-44.

Journal Article: Fauza Ab. Ghaffar, 2000. The Urban Society in Malaysia: Poverty Amidst Plenty. Sarjana 17(1), pp. 50-56. Electronic journal: K. Cass, 2003. Management theories. Management Quarterly, [e-journal] 78(9), Available through: Blackwell Periodicals database (Accessed 23 July 2011).

Website: Business forum, 2011. Getting the facts on Stakeholders Analysis. [online] Available at: www.businessforum_123/london [Accessed 12 July 2011].

Thesis: Margaret Roff, 1964. The Malayan Alliance and its Accommodation of Communal Pressures, 1952-1962. M.A. thesis, University of Malaya.

Conference Paper: S. Thambiah, 2002. Women, Families and Economic Restructuring in Malaysia and Singapore: Reflections on Two Gendered Societies. Ninth Malaysia-Singapore Forum, 28-30 October 2002, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Government Publications: Government of Malaysia 1991. The Second Outline Perspective Plan 1991-2000. Government Printers, Kuala Lumpur.

Newspapers: G. Slapper, 2005. Corporate manslaughter: new issues for lawyers. The Times, 3 Sep. p.4b.

Personal Communication: D. Wong, 2008. pers. comm., 7 Aug. If in-text reference, it should appear as: (D. Wong. 2008. pers. comm., 7 Aug)

British Colonial Office Documents: MacGillivray to Secretary of State, 1 May 1955, CO 1030/211 (12).

2. CITATION IN THE TEXT: References in the text should use the Harvard Referencing System (name of author, date and page). Example: (Means 1970, p. 10) or (Means 1970)

3. REFERENCES: A full list of references used should be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical order. Journal titles should not be abbreviated. Examples:

Book: Means, G.P., 1970. Malaysian Politics. 2nd ed. London: Hodder and Stoughouton.

E-book: Brown, G., 1984. Modern management. [e-book] London: Redfern Press. Available through: Anglia Ruskin University Library http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk [Accessed 9 July 2011].

Chapter in Book: Gullick, J.M., 2006. An Amateur Historian. In: Tarling, N. (ed). Historians and Their Discipline. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Journal Article: Fauza Ab. Ghaffar, 2000. The Urban Society in Malaysia: Poverty Amidst Plenty. Sarjana 17(1).

Perry, C., 2001. What health care assistants know about clean hands. Nursing Times. 24 May, 97(22).

E. Journal: Cass, K., 2003. Management theories. Management Quarterly, [e-journal] 78(9), Available through: Blackwell Periodicals database [Accessed 23 July 2011].

Website: Business forum, 2011. Getting the facts on Stakeholders Analysis. [online] Available at: www.businessforum_123/london [Accessed 12 July 2011].

Thesis: Roff, M., 1964. The Malayan Alliance and its Accommodation of Communal Pressures, 1952-1962. M.A. thesis, University of Malaya.

Conference Paper: Thambiah, S., 2002. Women, Families and Economic Restructuring in Malaysia and Singapore: Reflections on Two Gendered Societies. Ninth Malaysia-Singapore Forum, 28-30 October 2002, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Government Publications: Government of Malaysia 1991. The Second Outline Perspective Plan 1991-2000. Government Printers, Kuala Lumpur.

If in doubt, include all bibliographic details.

TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Tables and illustrations should appear separately from the text and should conform to page size. Tables should be numbered in sequence with Arabic numerals and contain explanatory captions, each on a separation sheet.

Figures, diagrams and maps should be included in a single numbered series and designated ‘Figures’. Captions to illustrations should be grouped on one sheet. Each figure should be submitted on a separate sheet. Original illustrations in publishable form should be submitted.

The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the text. Sources of tables and figures should be cited.

OFFPRINTS

Each contributor will receive two complimentary copies of the issue in which his/her article appears.

BOOK REVIEW

Books for review should be sent to the Chief Editor, SARJANA, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Lembah Pantai, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

COPYRIGHT

© Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya

All rights reserved. Requests for permission to reprint articles should be directed to the Chief Editor, SARJANA, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Lembah Pantai, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia or shakila@um.edu.my.