Author Guidelines

Each of the authors listed on the paper should have a substantive intellectual contribution to the published work. This means they should have done ALL THREE of the following:

• contributed to the conception and design of the study OR to the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data
• drafted the manuscript or revised it critically for content
• given final approval to the manuscript version submitted for publication

Research papers submitted by one or more researchers to the journal must obtain the consent of all participating authors in the research.

A person should not be listed as an author if they do not fulfill the above criteria. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or supervision of the research group are not enough to justify authorship alone, however, these contributions should be listed in the acknowledgments section.

All persons who have made substantial contributions in the manuscript (eg, data collection, analysis, or writing or editing assistance), but who do not fulfill authorship criteria, should be named with their specific contributions.

All persons named in this section should have provided the corresponding author with written or online permission to be named in the manuscript.

1. All articles should be submitted on the journal’s online submission platform. For this purpose, it is mandatory to create a personal account for a timely follow-up on your submitted article. It is the author's responsibility to respond in a timely manner to the journal’s requests for any required amendments or documents.
2. The authors are requested to follow carefully the journal’s writing guidelines before submitting their papers. If the paper does not comply with the guidelines, it will be returned for further amendments, before final consideration for publication.
3. The article should match the aims and scope of the journal and provide an original and scholarly contribution to its field. It should have a clear purpose with a relevant principal theoretical assumption with a set of research questions. It should clearly clarify the research context and provide a broad literature review on the subject. A valid methodology, critical analysis, in-depth discussion and relevant conclusion should be provided.
4. The article should be well-structured, well-written, and innovative. The author should provide a clear explanation of the main assumptions and layout a broad theoretical literature on the subject. In doing so, the author exhibits intellectual independence, original thoughts and innovation.
5. The paper should not be published elsewhere or considered simultaneously for submission or publication in other journals. The author should seek the relevant permissions to reproduce the tables and illustrations and appropriately reference them. The editorial committee screens all manuscripts on ithenticate plagiarism platform before further consideration.
6. If the article is submitted in Arabic, please refer to the journal’s Arabic guidelines.
7. The articles should be between 6000 to 10,000 words, including references, bibliography, appendices, etc. Book reviews must not exceed 3500 words. As for scientific reports, it is recommended not to exceed 2500 words. Exceeding the journal word limit after revisions would require special approval from the editor in chief.

The article should be written in the following order:

1. Title Page: Required in English and Arabic

   This page should have the following information in both English and Arabic:

   • Full title of manuscripts
   • For each author:
     • Name
     • Title/Position
     • Affiliation
     • Email
     • Keywords for article
2. Abstract: Required

   A statement around 300 words summarizing the article and conclusions. No citations.

3. Keywords: Required

   No less than five words should be selected depending on the topic (separated with a comma). Keywords allow researchers to search for the article, and improves the journal online visibility.

4. Tables:

   Tables should be numbered in sequence and contain a short title and, optionally, a detailed legend.

   Smaller tables, which will fit into the manuscript in portrait format, may be included in the main manuscript text. Larger tables, or those which are in landscape mode, should be submitted as supplementary files.

   Please use table layout options in your word processing program to display tables. Using tabs to separate columns should be avoided. Please also avoid using colour and shading.

   Tabular data may be uploaded as a supplementary file in either .xls, .xlsx or .csv formats.

5. Other Illustrations:

   Each illustration should be provided as a separate file.

   Preferred format for illustrations is .pdf or .png. Other formats can be used, but images may not translate fully.

   Each illustration should have a legend included in the main body text (for ease formatting final text). Please provide, for each figure, the figure number, short title and optionally, a detailed legend.

Note: the author must obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures in the journal published elsewhere. Failure to provide this permission can result in images not being included.

Tajseer follows an amended version of the 16^th edition of the Chicago manual of style. The following examples illustrate citations using the notes and bibliography style. Refer to the journal's previous issues for more examples.

• Books:

  Author’s name, the title of the book (City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), page number. As an example:

  Carole Mcgranahan, Writing anthropology: essays on craft and commitment (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020), pp. 159-160.

  Ibid. or successive footnotes would be in the form: Mcgranahan, “Writing anthropology”, p. 5. For four or more authors, list all of the authors in the bibliography; in the note, list only the first author, followed by et al. (“and others”) as in this example: David Graeber et al., Why work? Arguments for the Leisure Society (London: Freedom Press, 2019), p. 15.

  In successive footnotes: Graeber et al., p. 10.

  And should be written in the bibliography as follows: Mcgranahan, Carole. Writing anthropology: essays on craft and commitment. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020.

• Books Chapters:

  Author’s name, “Title of the chapter” In Book editor/s, Book title (City of publication: Publisher, Year of publication), page number. Following is an example:

  Lolwah R. M. Alkhater, “Qatar’s Borrowed K-12 Education Reform in Context”, In M. Erven Tok, Lolwah Alkhater & Leslie A. Pal, Policy-Making in a Transformative State: The case of Qatar (London: Pagrave Macmillan, 2016), p. 99.

  Cite in the bibliography as follows: Tok, M. Erven. Alkhater Lolwah. & A. Pal, Leslie. Policy-Making in a Transformative State: The case of Qatar. London: Pagrave Macmillan, 2016.

• Scientific Journals:

  Author’s name, “Title of the article”, Name of Journal in italics, volume number, issue number (year of publication), page number. As an example: Eltigani Abdelgadir Hamid, "The Politics of the Two Qiblahs and the Emergence of an Alternative Islamic Monotheism", Vol. 33, No. 1, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (January 2016).

  And should be written in the bibliography as follows: Hamid, Eltigani Abdelgadir. "The Politics of the Two Qiblahs and the Emergence of an Alternative Islamic Monotheism". American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 33, No. 1 (January 2016).

• Newspaper articles:

  Newspaper articles should be cited only in the footnotes (but not in the Bibliography). As an example: Joseph Varghese, “Vaccine efficacy likely to last for a year or more”, Gulf Times, 21/03/2021.

• Online Resources:

  This includes blogs, forums, online newspapers, and all other webpages.

  Author’s name (if available), “The webpage title,” The website name, date of publication (if available), accessed on d/m/y, at: website link.

  If a URL is long, kindly consider using a URL shortener service such as www.bit.do. See as an example: Ali Bakeer, "Russia, Iran and the widening trust deficit in Syria", TRT World, 12/02/2019, accessed on 5/1/2021, at: http://bit.do/fPReq