Author Guidelines

Al-Adalah: Jurnal Hukum dan Politik Islam is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of law, legal politics, Islamic law, Islamic politics, and socio-legal developments, with particular attention to Indonesia and their significance for wider scholarly debates.

The journal welcomes rigorous scholarly contributions based on doctrinal, normative, socio-legal, empirical, comparative, interdisciplinary, or other appropriate legal research approaches.

Authors should ensure that their manuscripts make a clear scholarly contribution and are relevant to the journal's Focus and Scope.

1. Manuscript Types

Original Research Article — presents original research findings, legal analysis, empirical evidence, comparative analysis, or other substantive scholarly arguments. Length: 6,000–9,000 words.

Conceptual Article — develops a substantial legal, constitutional, political, theoretical, or interdisciplinary argument based on critical engagement with relevant scholarship and authoritative sources. Length: 5,000–8,000 words.

Review Article — provides a critical and analytical synthesis of a defined body of scholarship, legal developments, jurisprudence, or research literature. Length: 6,000–9,000 words.

2. Language

Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are written in clear, grammatically correct, and academically appropriate English.

The journal may request language revision or professional proofreading when the quality of the language substantially interferes with scholarly evaluation.

3. Word Count

The word count includes the main text, footnotes, and quotations included in the manuscript. It excludes the bibliography, author information, and supplementary material where applicable.

Manuscripts substantially outside the prescribed word range may be returned to authors before peer review.

4. General Manuscript Requirements

Manuscripts should be original; not previously published; not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere; make a clear scholarly contribution; present a clearly defined research problem, question, objective, or conceptual purpose; engage critically with relevant scholarship; use appropriate and reliable sources; provide sufficient methodological or analytical explanation; comply with publication ethics and research integrity requirements; and follow the journal's citation and formatting requirements.

5. Manuscript Structure: Original Research Article

Title — concise, informative, specific, and accurately reflecting the manuscript's subject and argument.

Author Information — full name, institutional affiliation and country, corresponding author's email, and ORCID where available. Author information should not appear in the anonymized manuscript.

Abstract — research problem/objective, methodology or analytical approach, principal findings or argument, and main contribution or implication.

Keywords — 3–5 specific keywords or key phrases.

Introduction — research context, research problem, scholarly background, state of the art, research gap, research question(s) or objective(s), and contribution.

State of the Art and Research Gap — critical positioning within existing scholarship, showing what is known, what remains unresolved, and how the manuscript addresses the gap.

Methodology or Analytical Approach — appropriate and sufficiently transparent explanation of doctrinal/normative, socio-legal, empirical, comparative, interdisciplinary, or other methods, including sources and analytical procedures where relevant.

Findings and Analysis — principal findings, legal analysis, empirical findings, comparative findings, or substantive arguments that directly address the research problem.

Discussion — connection of findings/analysis with existing scholarship, the research gap, legal or theoretical debates, broader implications, and scholarly contribution.

Conclusion — direct answer to the research question/objective and concise statement of the principal contribution and, where appropriate, implications.

6. Conceptual Article Structure

A Conceptual Article should normally contain: Title; Author Information; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction and Scholarly Problem; State of the Art and Conceptual Context; Theoretical or Conceptual Framework; Main Argument and Analysis; Implications and Scholarly Contribution; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Conceptual Articles must present a sustained scholarly argument grounded in relevant legal authorities and scholarly literature. Pure opinion, advocacy, or general commentary without sustained scholarly analysis is not suitable.

7. Review Article Structure

A Review Article should normally contain: Title; Author Information; Abstract; Keywords; Introduction and Review Problem; Review Question and Scope; Review Approach or Selection Criteria; Analytical Synthesis; Critical Discussion; Research Gaps and Implications; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Review Articles must provide critical synthesis rather than simply summarize individual publications. Manuscripts claiming systematic, scoping, bibliometric, structured, or otherwise methodologically defined review must explain search, selection, inclusion/exclusion, and analytical procedures sufficiently.

8. Abstract

The abstract should be written as a single paragraph and communicate the substance of the manuscript. For research articles it should normally cover the background/problem, objective or research question, method or analytical approach, principal findings, and contribution or implications.

9. Keywords

Provide 3–5 keywords. Keywords should reflect the principal concepts, be specific, avoid unnecessary repetition of the title, and facilitate indexing and scholarly discovery.

10. Citation and Referencing Style

Al-Adalah: Jurnal Hukum dan Politik Islam uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition — Notes and Bibliography system.

Authors should use footnotes for citations and provide a bibliography at the end of the manuscript. The first citation should normally provide full bibliographic information; subsequent references should use an appropriate shortened citation.

Authors are encouraged to use Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, or equivalent reference-management software, while manually checking generated references for accuracy.

11. Sources and References

Authors should use authoritative and relevant sources, including peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly books and chapters, legislation and regulations, judicial decisions, official government documents, authoritative datasets, reputable international organizations, and other reliable scholarly sources.

Authors should avoid excessive reliance on Wikipedia, personal blogs, unverified websites, anonymous online material, and non-scholarly sources where authoritative alternatives are available.

12. Legal Authorities

For legal research, authors must accurately identify and cite constitutions, legislation, regulations, judicial decisions, administrative instruments, international legal instruments, and other authoritative legal materials.

Authors are responsible for verifying the accuracy, current status, and relevance of legal authorities. Where legislation or regulations have been amended, authors should identify the relevant version or amendment where material to the argument.

13. Tables and Figures

Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively, have clear titles, be referred to in the main text, identify sources where applicable, and be necessary to the argument or presentation.

Authors must ensure that they have the necessary rights or permissions to reproduce copyrighted material.

14. Quotations

Direct quotations must accurately reproduce the original source and include appropriate citations and page numbers where applicable. Long quotations should be used only when necessary and follow the journal template. Authors should avoid excessive quotation where paraphrase and analytical engagement are more appropriate.

15. Authorship and CRediT

All listed authors must satisfy the journal's Authorship Criteria. Authors are encouraged to disclose individual contributions using the CRediT taxonomy where applicable.

Contributors who do not meet authorship requirements should be acknowledged rather than listed as authors. Changes to authorship after submission require an appropriate explanation and agreement of all affected authors, subject to the journal's publication ethics policy.

16. Conflict of Interest

All authors must disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest that could reasonably influence the research or its publication, including financial, institutional, professional, personal, funding, or other relevant interests.

17. Research Ethics and Integrity

Authors are responsible for ensuring that research complies with applicable ethical and legal requirements. Where research involves human participants, interviews, surveys, identifiable personal information, or other ethically sensitive materials, authors must provide appropriate information concerning ethical approval, informed consent, confidentiality, or other safeguards where applicable.

Authors must not engage in fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate publication, inappropriate citation manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, or other research or publication misconduct. Detailed requirements are set out in the Publication Ethics and Research Integrity Policy.

18. Data and Research Materials

Authors should provide sufficient information about data, sources, materials, and analytical procedures to allow readers to understand and assess the research. Where appropriate and ethically permissible, authors are encouraged to make supporting materials or data available. Confidentiality, privacy, legal restrictions, intellectual property, and ethical obligations must be respected.

19. Generative AI and AI-Assisted Tools

Authors may use generative AI or other AI-assisted tools for limited purposes such as language improvement, formatting assistance, or other appropriate support.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for accuracy, originality, integrity, and content. AI-generated material must be critically verified. Authors must not fabricate citations, sources, data, quotations, or legal authorities through AI. Confidential or sensitive research materials should not be uploaded to third-party AI systems where confidentiality cannot be assured. Substantive use of AI in research or manuscript preparation should be disclosed where relevant.

20. Originality and Simultaneous Submission

Manuscripts must be original and not previously published in substantially the same form. A manuscript submitted to Al-Adalah: Jurnal Hukum dan Politik Islam must not simultaneously be under consideration by another journal. Authors must disclose substantial overlap with previously published or submitted work.

The journal may investigate suspected plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication, falsification, or other research-integrity concerns in accordance with its Publication Ethics and Research Integrity Policy.

21. Submission and Anonymization

For double-blind peer review, authors should submit an anonymized manuscript file that does not reveal author identity. Author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID information, acknowledgements that identify authors, and other identifying information should be provided separately through OJS submission metadata or the designated title page.

Authors should check document properties and file metadata where necessary to reduce inadvertent disclosure of identity.

22. Revision and Response to Reviewers

When revisions are requested, authors must submit the revised manuscript and a point-by-point response to reviewers and editors. The response should identify each substantive comment, explain the action taken, identify where changes were made, and provide a reasoned explanation where a recommendation was not adopted.

Manuscripts may be returned to reviewers for further evaluation. Revision does not guarantee acceptance.

23. Submission Checklist

The manuscript fits the journal's Focus and Scope.
The appropriate manuscript type has been selected.
The manuscript is within the applicable word limit.
The manuscript is written in English.
The research problem, question, objective, or conceptual purpose is clear.
The manuscript identifies its scholarly contribution.
The methodology or analytical approach is adequately explained.
Claims are supported by appropriate evidence and authoritative sources.
Citations follow Chicago 18th edition Notes and Bibliography.
A complete bibliography is provided.
The manuscript has been anonymized for double-blind peer review.
Authorship information is correctly entered in OJS.
Conflicts of interest have been disclosed.
Research ethics requirements have been addressed where applicable.
The manuscript is not under consideration elsewhere.
The manuscript complies with the journal's Publication Ethics and Research Integrity Policy.

24. Editorial and Peer-Review Process

Submission → Initial Editorial Screening → External Double-Blind Peer Review → Revision → Editorial Decision → Copyediting and Production → Publication

Passing the initial editorial screening does not guarantee peer-review acceptance, and peer review does not guarantee publication. The final publication decision is made by the journal's editorial team.