Focus and Scope

Asy-Syari'ah is focus on publication of various research results, literature review, and other scientific works whose scope covers the field of Islamic law, law and society in monodisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary manners.

Any work published in this journal does not represent this journal editorial board’s opinion and perspective, but merely its writer findings and thought. For this reason, it is essential that the writer is fully responsible for whatever they wrote.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Asy-Syari'ah review process uses a double-blind review system. First, manuscript are read by editorial members (upon the field of specialization) to meet the Asy-Syari'ah criteria. Then, the manuscript will be sent to at least two anonymous reviewers. Sometimes (if required) a third peer-reviewer is also needed for further recommendation. Reviewers' comments are then sent to the corresponding author for necessary actions and responses. Finally, the Editor shall inform the author of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully within sixty days.

The final decision of manuscript acceptance is made by Editor in Chief or Regional (Handling) Editor (together with Editorial Board if required) according to reviewers' critical comments. Asy-Syari'ah has four tipes of decisions:

• Accepted, as it is
• Accepted by Minor Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
• Accepted by Major Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
• Rejected (generally, on grounds of the outside of scope and aim, major technical description problems, lack of clarity of presentation)

Editor will also run a plagiarism check using Turnitin for the submitted articles before sending it to the reviewers. If a manuscript has over 25% of similarity, we will send back the article to the author to be revised for the plagiarised contents. The journal is carried out by using Mendeley as a Tool Reference Manager and Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition (full note) as the style.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Ethics

All parties involved in the publishing process or publication of the Asy-Syari’ah Journal, i.e., Manager, Editor, Reviewer, or Author should understand and adhere to the norms or ethics of scientific publications. This requirement is based on the Head of LIPI Regulation no. 5 of 2014 on the Code of Scientific Publication. Basically, scientific papers for publication should consider the ethical values of publication: (i) Neutrality (free from conflicts of interest in the management of publications); (ii) Justice (respect the authorship rights); and (iii) Honesty (free from duplication, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism (DF2P) in publication).

Description:

A. Duplication is publishing the same article in more than one publisher without updating content, data, and/or citing previous publications;

B. Fabrication is producing fake data;

C. Falsification is altering the data with the intent to conform to the researcher's wishes through the manipulation of research material, or research process, alter or exclude certain data or results in such a way that the research is not presented accurately;

D. Plagiarism is misusing ideas, thoughts, processes, objects, and results of the research, in the form of data or words/phrases, including research materials, research plans, and manuscripts without listing the source as an appreciation of pre-existing scientific work.

Duties and Responsibilities of Journal Manager

1. Determine the name of the journal, scope of science, publication frequency, and submission of accreditation if necessary.
2. Determine the membership of the editorial board.
3. Respect confidential issues for the researchers, writers, editors, and reviewers.
4. Review the journal policy and share it to the authors, editorial boards, reviewers, and readers.
5. Identify published manuscripts in other scientific journals, to avoid duplicate publications.
6. Provide guidance to the editors and reviewers.
7. Publish the journal regularly.
8. Ensure the availability of funding to maintain journal publication.
9. Build networking and marketing for partnership.
10. Prepare the license and other legality aspects.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editor

1. Select articles to fit the readers' needs,
2. Improve the quality of publications continually,
3. Implement procedures to ensure the quality of published articles,
4. Prioritize the freedom of opinion objectively,
5. Maintain the integrity of the author's academic record,
6. Deliver corrections, clarifications, withdrawals and apologies as needed,
7. Responsible for the style and format of article writing, while the contents and all statements in the article are the responsibility of the author,
8. Actively soliciting the opinions of authors, readers, reviewers, and members of the editorial board to improve the quality of publications,
9. Remind the researchers about the ethical publications,
10. Evaluate the impact of publication policy on the authors and partners to improve responsibility and minimize errors,
11. Have an open-minded viewpoint to the new or contrary opinions,
12. Avoid non-objective decision by not relying on self, authors, or third party opinions,
13. Encourage authors to make improvements to the article before it published.

Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

1. Receive the assignment from the editor to review the article and submit the review to the editor, to determine the feasibility of an article to be published.
2. Reviewer shall not review the articles related to him or her, either directly or indirectly.
3. Maintain the author's privacy by not disseminating the results of corrections, suggestions, and recommendations.
4. Encourage the authors to make improvements to the article.
5. Review the revised article as requested by the editor.
6. Provide constructive feedback on articles received with improvement.
7. Before accepting/rejecting the article, consider whether the article is in line with the field of knowledge/expertise of the reviewer, and whether they can finish the reviewing tasks.
8. The results of the review will contribute to the decision of editorial board whether the article deserves to be published or not.
9. Provide comments and special notes on each section in the article.
10. In making recommendations of the review results, the reviewer need to explain in detail their reasons and judgments in deciding whether the articles are accepted, rejected or revised.

Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

1. Ensure that the author(s) meets the criteria as follows: (a) have a significant contribution to the planning, compilation, data collection, analysis and interpretation of the data; (b) contribute significantly to the preparation, revision and finalization of the articles; and (c) be responsible for the accuracy and integrity of scientific writing.
2. Submit the manuscript of the article in accordance with the guideline or template provided.
3. Use the reference manager application.
4. Ensure consistency of author’s identities and the number of authors who are registered in the submission process and those listed on the article.
5. Include the institution's email address in the identity section.
6. Explain the limitations of the study.
7. Respond to comments made by the reviewer professionally and on time.
8. Inform the editor in case the author wants to retrieve the submitted article submission.
9. Declare the origin of the resources (including funding), either directly or indirectly.

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

All of the articles submitted to Asy-syari'ah will be screened for plagiarism using plagiarism detection tools (Turnitin ). Asy-Syari'ah Journal will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to Asy-Syari'ah must have a similarity level of less than 20%.

Plagiarism is the exposure of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

• An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
• Substantial copying implies an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge, or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, is often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
• Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.

References Management

In writing Citation and Bibliography, Asy-Syari'ah uses the Zotero and Mendeley Reference Management Software. Writing techniques bibliography, using the system cites Chicago Manual Style 17th Edition (full note).

Publication Frequency

Asy-Syari'ah is a periodical scientific journal that publishes 2 times a year (June & December) various results of studies and research, literature review, and other scientific works whose scope covers the field of Islamic law/sharia, law, and society in monodisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary manners.

Correction and Retraction Policies

The papers published in the Asy-Syari'ah will be considered retracted in the publication if: 

1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
3. it constitutes plagiarism
4. it reports unethical research 

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.

Copyrights, Permissions, Reprints & Licensing

Asy-Syari'ah uses license CC-BY-SA or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly works. This license permits anyone to compose, repair, and make derivative creations even for commercial purposes, as long as appropriate credit and proper acknowledgment of the original publication from Asy-Syari'ah is made to allow users to trace back to the original manuscript and author. Readers are also granted full access to read and download the published manuscripts, reprint, and distribute the manuscript in any medium or format.

Publication Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are NOT required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Article Publication: 0.00 (IDR)

If this paper is accepted for publication, you will NOT be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.

If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

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