Submissions

Author Guidelines

1.0 General

Manuscripts submitted to Sains Humanika must be original work that has not been published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. The journal welcomes submissions written in either English or Bahasa Melayu. All submissions will be peer reviewed.

Please use the SAINS HUMANIKA TEMPLATE provided in this SUBMISSION PACKAGE. Kindly refer to Template Checklist for Guidance. Each submission must include :

 i. Manuscript in Sains Humanika Template.

 ii. Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) as supplementary file.

In making sure your article will be accepted for publication, please refer to our Journal Policy. You can also refer to our guide on how to submit here.

The manuscript selected for normal issue publication is free of charge.

To submit a manuscript, first make sure you have a Word file from which the title page and all author-identifying references have been included. Acknowledgements of others help in preparing the paper for submission should be included in the letter to the editor that is featured as part of the web-based submission process.

Your entire submission (including references) is a single-spaced in 9-pitch or larger font with margins of one inch or more.

Any hypotheses are explicitly identified as such.

Constructs and variables are identified in words, not abbreviations.

Content and length of manuscripts

Constructs and variables are identified in words, not abbreviations.

1. The Editor welcomes original articles which fall within the aims and scope of the Journal, and which are as concise as the subject matter and research method permit.

2. The manuscripts language should be English or Bahasa Melayu and where possible the text should be restricted to around 7000 to 10,000 words.

3. The first page of the text should begin with the title, author's name, and their affiliations, and an abstract of no more than 250 words. Plus a list of at most three to five key words, suitable for indexing and abstracting services. This abstract should summarize the whole paper and not the conclusions alone.

4. Manuscripts should be typed single-spaced.

5. Submission of a paper or research note implies that it contains original work which has not been published previously, and that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

6. Copyright in all accepted contributions to the Journal will be vested in the Readers Insight.

Preparation of manuscripts

A title page should give the title of the manuscript, the author's name, position and institutional affiliation, together with an address for correspondence; in the case of co-authors, names and affiliations and addresses should be clearly indicated. Correspondence will be sent to the first-named author unless otherwise specified. In order to enable the publisher to do everything to ensure prompt publication, the full postal and email addresses should be given for the author who will check the proofs, along with the telephone, telex and telefax numbers where possible. Any acknowledgements desired should also be placed on the cover page.

A brief acknowledgment of not more than 50 words should be included at the end of the manuscripts, before the list of references. Acknowledgement could be made to funding body, institution/universities/organization or individual/person.

Example:

1. Acknowledgement to funding body (Grant number) : This work was supported by the Trust [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Natural Environment Research Council [grant number zzzz]; and the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number aaaa].

2. Acknowledgement to institution/universities/organization: We would like to thank XYZ University for their helpful feedback and support.

3. Acknowledgement to individual/person: We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our supervisor, Professor John Doe, for his valuable guidance and support throughout the research process. His expertise and insights were invaluable in shaping our research and helping us to overcome challenges.

Figures,  and tables should be Placed With in the Text Where it is in the dod. should be reasonably interpretable without reference to the text. Footnotes should be avoided if possible; where they are used they should be numbered consecutively with superscript Arabic numerals.

With regard to manuscripts which refer to questionnaires or other research instruments which are not fully reproduced in the text, the author may also submit a copy of the complete research instrument. Where research instruments are not fully reproduced, a note must be inserted on the cover page indicating the address from which the complete instrument is available.

Hypotheses should normally be presented in the positive rather than the null form, so that each hypothesis states the result that is expected if the prior theoretical development is supported by the empirical evidence. However, where a null result provides support for a theoretical position or where no prior expectation exists, the null form is appropriate. Care should be taken to state clearly how standard statistical tests were applied (e.g. one- or two-tailed). Where possible, statistical significance should be stated to the nearest percentage point (e.g. p < 0.04) rather than at conventional levels of significance.

Literature citations should be made in a uniform style in text and footnotes, and follow the Harvard System with (Name, Date) in the text and an alphabetical list of references at the end of the manuscript. Please use the APA Style for formatting your reference list:

Works by the same author should be listed in order of publication. Where reference is made to more than one work published by the same author in a single year, a suffix, a, b, etc. should follow the date, thus: (Smith, 1989b). If an author's name is mentioned in the text, it need not be repeated in the citation, thus 'Hopwood (1989, p. 5) claims that...'