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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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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 Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

دليل المؤلفين

Al Ibrah: Journal of Arabic Language Education is a multilingual, peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (June and December) since 2018. It invites original, research-based, and unpublished manuscripts in Arabic language education that are not under consideration elsewhere. Every manuscript goes through editorial screening and double-blind peer review. Manuscripts that do not follow the template or these guidelines are returned without review.

LanguagesArabic, English, or Indonesian
Length3,500–7,000 words
Abstract150–250 words
Keywords3–5 terms
CitationAPA style via Mendeley or Zotero
SimilarityMax. 25% (Turnitin)
STEP 1

Use the official template

Write your manuscript directly in the Al Ibrah template. It already contains the required layout, fonts, and headings.

ENEnglish Template ARArabic Template IDIndonesian Template

Manuscript Structure

Arrange the manuscript in the following order:

  1. 1

    Title

    العنوان

    Informative and concise, 12–15 words, without formulas or abbreviations. Written in English, and also in the language of the article if it is not English.

  2. 2

    Author Names

    أسماء المؤلفين

    Not written in the manuscript (double-blind review). During submission, at the "Enter Metadata" step, add every author under List of Contributors: full name without academic degrees or titles, in the correct author order, and mark the corresponding author.

  3. 3

    Affiliation

    الانتماء المؤسسي

    Also entered in OJS, not in the manuscript. For each contributor, fill in institution, country, email, and ORCID iD completely. These data are printed in the published article exactly as entered.

  4. 4

    Abstract

    الملخص

    One paragraph of 150–250 words in English, followed by an abstract in the language of the article (Indonesian or Arabic). It states the background, objectives, method, main results, conclusion, and contribution of the study.

  5. 5

    Keywords

    الكلمات المفتاحية

    3–5 words or phrases in English, written in alphabetical order.

  6. 6

    Introduction

    المقدمة

    Around 1,000 words: background, research problem, significance, a brief review of directly related studies, and a closing paragraph that states the research objectives.

  7. 7

    Literature Review Optional

    الدراسات السابقة

    May be added as a separate section when needed.

  8. 8

    Research Method

    منهج البحث

    The approach, data sources, participants or corpus, instruments, procedures, and data analysis, described clearly enough for the study to be repeated.

  9. 9

    Results and Discussion

    النتائج والمناقشة

    Analyzed data (not raw data) that answer the research questions, supported by tables or figures where useful. Each finding is interpreted (why?) and compared with previous studies (what else?).

  10. 10

    Conclusion

    الخاتمة

    Answers to the research questions in flowing paragraphs, without statistical sentences or methodological jargon. May include implications and suggestions for further research.

  11. 11

    References

    المراجع

    Managed with Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote, in APA style.

Tables, Figures, and Headings

  • Number tables and figures in order (Table 1, Figure 1) and refer to them by number, e.g. "... presented in Figure 1" or "... (Table 2)", not "the figure below".
  • Use simple open tables without vertical lines. Save figures as clear JPG or PNG files of moderate size.
  • Use sub-headings in Results and Discussion to follow the research questions.
  • Translate quotations and terms from local or foreign languages into the language of the article.

Citation and References

In-text citations. For two authors, name both; for three or more, name the first author followed by et al. List several sources in chronological order.

(Author, 2020) · Author & Author (2021) · Author et al. (2022) · (Author, 2019; Author et al., 2021; Author, 2023)

Reference list patterns (APA).

Journal articleSurname, A. A., & Surname, B. B. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx
BookSurname, A. A. (Year). Title of the book (Edition). Publisher.
Arabic bookSurname, A. A. (Year). Transliterated title [Title in English]. Publisher. Original Arabic title may be added after the transliteration.

Before You Submit

  • The manuscript is original and not under consideration by another journal.
  • It is written in the Al Ibrah template and is 3,500–7,000 words long.
  • The similarity score is no more than 25% (Turnitin).
  • Author names, affiliations, emails, ORCID, and phone numbers do not appear anywhere in the file (including acknowledgments, self-citations, and file properties).
  • All authors are entered completely under List of Contributors in OJS.
  • Right after submitting, the Author Data Form is completed (about 2 minutes). Manuscripts are sent to reviewers only after this form is completed.
  • All references are cited in the text and managed with Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote.

Copyright Notice

License and Copyright Agreement

Authors who publish with Al Ibrah: Journal of Arabic Language Education agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This license allows others to share and adapt the work for any purpose, provided they credit the authors and the initial publication in this journal and distribute any adapted work under the same license.
  2. Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (for example, posting it to an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (for example, in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges and earlier and greater citation of published work.

In submitting the manuscript, the authors certify that they are authorized by their co-authors to agree to these terms, that the work has not been published before and is not under consideration elsewhere, and that they have secured the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.

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