Submission Guidelines

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 Microsoft Word file format only.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. Please refer to the APA (7th Edition) style citation.
  • 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's Guidelines. Please refer to the APA (7th Edition) style citation.

 Author Guidelines 

Editorial Policy and Submission Guidelines  

Style

Submission of a manuscript to the WILAYAH : The International Journal of East Asian Studies (e-ISSN 2462-2257) implies that it has not been published and that it is not currently on offer to any other publisher, and it has not been submitted elsewhere until a decision is received from this journal. Articles, which do not conform to the format described below, will not be considered for publication. All manuscripts under consideration for publication will be refereed via a blind reviewing process, and it will be open-access. Both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. 

Language

The language used in all papers submitted should be either English or Bahasa Malayu. As for the manuscript written in English, you may wish to have it edited for language before submitting your manuscript. This is not a mandatory step but may help ensure that journal editors and reviewers fully understand the academic content of your paper. In acceptance, we will ask authors to render articles according to the full style guide.

Use of non-English Text

A non-English term should be italicised, but the s-ending (if added) in its anglicised plural form should not be italicised. Note that the names of institutions and movements, local or foreign, and names of currencies, local or foreign, should not be italicised. Quotations from books or direct speech in a non-English language should be set in quotation marks and should not be italicised, followed by an English translation in square brackets. Quotations translated by the author of the manuscript into English should be so indicated.

Tables and Illustrations

Tables, figures, diagrams, and maps should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. They should appear separately at the end of the text and should conform to page size. Tables should be numbered in sequence with Arabic numerals and contain brief explanatory captions, each on a separate sheet. Figures, diagrams, and maps should be designated "Figures" and included in a single numbered series separate from the tables. The approximate positions of tables and figures should be indicated in the text by typing in a separate line "Insert Table Here" or "Insert Figure Here". Sources of tables and figures should be cited. The author is responsible for getting permission from copyright holders to reproduce visual materials to be published in WILAYAH.

Manuscript

Papers should preferably be in the range of 6,000 to 8,000 words, excluding illustrations. The text should be in Times New Roman size 12 and be submitted as a Microsoft Word file. The receipt of each paper submitted will be acknowledged. The Editor reserves the right to accept, modify or decline any article. All manuscripts for publishing are to be typed in single-spacing. The pages should be numbered consecutively. The editor reserves the right to edit /format the manuscript to maintain a consistent style.

Blinded Manuscript

Submit a blinded manuscript without author names, affiliations and acknowledgements (if any) in the text.

First Page

The paper's full title must be shown on the first page of the manuscript with the author's name, affiliation, academic qualifications, institutional address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.

Abstract

An abstract of 150 words should be included. Please also indicate 4-6 keywords below the abstract.

Information on Referencing

Types of citations

We has changed from footnote to APA (7th Edition) style citation.

For further detail please refer this link

https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/apa/in-text#:~:text=For%20APA%2C%20you%20use%20the,to%20use%20a%20page%20number.&text=Parenthetical%20citations%3A,2020%2C%20p.%2029).

There are two basic ways to cite someone's work in text.

In narrative citations, the authors are part of the sentence - you are referring to them by name. For example:

Becker (2013) defined gamification as giving the mechanics of principles of a game to other activities.

Cho and Castañeda (2019) noted that game-like activities are frequently used in language classes that adopt mobile and computer technologies.

In parenthetical citations, the authors are not mentioned in the sentence, just the content of their work. Place the citation at the end of the sentence or clause where you have used their information. The author's names are placed in the brackets (parentheses) with the rest of the citation details:

Gamification involves giving the mechanics or principles of a game to another activity (Becker, 2013). Increasingly, game-like activities are frequently used in language classes that adopt mobile and computer technologies (Cho & Castañeda, 2019).

In-text citations

Using references in text

For APA, you use the authors' surnames only and the year in text. If you are using a direct quote, you will also need to use a page number.

Narrative citations:

If an in-text citation has the authors' names as part of the sentence (that is, outside of brackets) place the year and page numbers in brackets immediately after the name, and use 'and' between the authors' names:  Jones and Smith (2020, p. 29)

Parenthetical citations:

If an in-text citation has the authors' names in brackets use "&" between the authors' names :  (Jones & Smith, 2020, p. 29).

If the direct quote starts on one page and finishes on another, include the page range (Jones & Smith, 2020, pp. 29-30).

1 author

Smith (2020) found that "the mice disappeared within minutes" (p. 29).

The author stated "the mice disappeared within minutes" (Smith, 2020, p. 29).

2 authors

Jones and Smith (2020) found that "the mice disappeared within minutes" (p. 29).

The authors stated "the mice disappeared within minutes" (Jones & Smith, 2020, p. 29).

For 3 or more authors, use the first author and "et al." for all in-text citations

Green et al.'s (2019) findings indicated that the intervention was not based on evidence from clinical trials.

It appears the intervention was not based on evidence from clinical trials (Green et al., 2019).

If you cite more than one work in the same set of brackets in text, your citations will go in the same order in which they will appear in your reference list (i.e. alphabetical order, then oldest to newest for works by the same author) and be separated by a semi-colon. E.g.:

  • (Corbin, 2015; James & Waterson, 2017; Smith et al., 2016).
  • (Corbin, 2015; 2018)
  • (Queensland Health, 2017a; 2017b)
  • Use only the surnames of your authors in text (e.g., Smith & Brown, 2014) - however, if you have two authors with the same surname who have published in the same year, then you will need to use their initials to distinguish between the two of them (e.g., K. Smith, 2014; N. Smith, 2014). Otherwise, do not use initials in text.

Submissions and Enquiries

Please make submissions to be via our online submission website. All submissions will be acknowledged by email as soon as possible after receipt. All editorial correspondence should be addressed to:

Managing Editors
WILAYAH: The International Journal of East Asian Studies
Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Email:  ijeas@um.edu.my
Website: ijeas.um.edu.my