Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus

The focus of the El-Izdiwaj journal is in the field of Islamic family law and civil law, both classical and modern, applicable in various countries in the world.

The scope of the study includes :

  • Islamic Family Law
  • Marriage Law
  • Gender
  • Contract Law
  • Property Law
  • Private Law

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Publication of articles in El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law is dependent solely on scientific validity and coherence as judged by our editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field.El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law acknowledged the effort and suggestions made by its reviewers. 

Every manuscript submitted to El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law is independently reviewed by at least two reviewers in the form of "double-blind review". Decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendation. In certain cases, the editor may submit an article for review to another, third reviewer before making a decision, if necessary.

Initial evaluation of manuscripts

The Editor will first evaluate all manuscripts submitted at a maximum of 4 weeks' time. Those rejected at this stage are insufficiently original, have serious scientific flaws, or are outside the aims and scope of the El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law. Those that meet the minimum criteria are passed on to experts reviewers for review. It usually took up to 8 weeks.

Type of peer review

Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two to three experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates the already published works, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. The method is double-blind peer review. Other rounds of review processes would be done should the first round is inadequate.

Review reports

Reviewers are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript:

  • Is original by stating the objectives and gap clearly
  • Is methodologically sound
  • Follows appropriate ethical guidelines
  • Has results/findings which are clearly presented and support the conclusions
  • Correctly references previous relevant work
  • Reviewers are not expected to correct or copyedit manuscripts. Language correction is not part of the peer-review process.

Decision

Reviewers advise the editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board. The editor’s decision is final.

Becoming a Reviewer

If you are not currently a reviewer for Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law but would like to be added to the list of reviewers, please contact us. The benefits of reviewing for Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law include the opportunity to see and evaluate the latest work in the related research areas at an early stage, and to be acknowledged in our list of reviewers. You may also be able to cite your work for El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law as part of your professional development requirements. El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law reviewers are volunteers who contribute their expertise to the science, thus no financial payments are made.

 

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.

 

Publication Ethics and Misconduct

Publication Ethics

El-Izdiwaj is a peer-reviewed national journal, available in print and online and published twice times a year (June and December). This statement of journal emphasizes the specifications in the study of Islamic family law and civil law. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher (Sharia Faculty of Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan Lampung). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed El-Izdiwaj is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society. 

Sharia Faculty of Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan Lampung as publisher of El-Izdiwaj takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. 

Publication Decisions

The editor of the El-Izdiwaj is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

 

Digital Preservation

As a publisher in scholarly research, higher education, and professional development, we recognizes the roles of both librarian and publisher as custodian of scholarly content and is committed to the preservation of the scholarship in its research for generations to come.

With this in mind, El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law content is continually archived and preserved in the following schemes:

Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/@el_izdiwaj_uin_ril

These schemes allow libraries to activate perpetual access rights when needed and offer assurance to libraries and publishers that their shared investments are protected and preserved for the future.

 

Screening for Plagiarism

All of the articles submitted to El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law will be screened for plagiarism using plagiarism detection tools (Turnitin ). El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law 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 toEl-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law must have a similarity level of less than 25%. Should we find more than 25% of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.

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.

 

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

The authors who submit their manuscripts to El-Izdiwaj are expected to comply with the following ethical responsibilities:

  • Author(s) must submit original studies to the journal. If they utilize or use other studies, they must make the in-text and end-text references accurately and completely.
  • People who have not contributed to the study at the intellectual level should not be indicated as author.
  • If the manuscripts submitted to be published are subject of conflicting interests or relations, these must be explained.
  • During the review process of their manuscripts, author(s) may be asked to supply raw data. In such a case, author(s) should be ready to submit such data and information to the editorial and scientific boards.
  • Author(s) should document that they have the participants' consent and the necessary permissions related with the sharing and research/analysis of the data that are used.
  • Author(s) bears the responsibility to inform the editor of the journal or publisher if they happen to notice a mistake in their study which is in early release or publication process and to cooperate with the editors during the correction or withdrawal process.
  • Authors cannot submit their studies to multiple journals simultaneously. Each submission can be made only after the previous one is completed. A study published in another journal cannot be submitted to Journal of Early Childhood Studies.
  • Author responsibilities given in a study (e.g.: adding an author, reordering of author names) whose review process has begun cannot be changed.

Please fill in Statement of Ethical clearance to be included as an attachment file when submission (Submit articles) download

 

Article Processing Charges (APCs) & Article Submission Charges

The processing charges fee for article publication in the El-Izdiwaj is $00.

We understand that financial circumstances can vary among authors, and we offer fee reductions for those in need. Please contact us to discuss this further.

 

Correction and Retraction

Correction and Retraction

Authors are discouraged from withdrawing submitted manuscripts after it is in the publication process (review, copyedit, layout, etc.,). During the time,El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law had spent valuable resources besides time spent in the process. Should under any circumstances that the author(s) still request for a withdrawal, author(s) have to send an email to El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law editor using the same email address used in correspondence.

El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law editors shall consider retracting a publication if:

  • They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of a major error (eg, miscalculation or experimental error) or as a result of fabrication (eg, of data) or falsification (eg, image manipulation)
  • It constitutes plagiarism
  • The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper attribution to previous sources or disclosure to the editor, permission to republish, or justification (ie, cases of redundant publication)
  • It contains material or data without authorization for use
  • Copyright has been infringed or there is some other serious legal issue (eg, libel, privacy)
  • It reports unethical research
  • It has been published solely on the basis of a compromised or manipulated peer review process
  • The author(s) failed to disclose a major competing interest (a.k.a. conflict of interest) that, in the view of the editor, would have unduly affected interpretations of the work or recommendations by editors and peer reviewers.

Notices of retraction would:

  • Be linked to the retracted article wherever possible (ie, in all online versions)
  • Clearly identify the retracted article (eg, by including the title and authors in the retraction heading or citing the retracted article)
  • Be clearly identified as a retraction (ie, distinct from other types of correction or comment)
  • Be published promptly to minimize the harmful effects
  • Be freely available to all readers (ie, not behind access barriers or available only to subscribers)
  • State who is retracting the article
  • State the reason(s) for retraction
  • Be objective, factual and avoid inflammatory language

Retractions are not usually appropriate if:

  • The authorship is disputed but there is no reason to doubt the validity of the findings
  • The main findings of the work are still reliable and correction could sufficiently address errors or concerns
  • An editor has inconclusive evidence to support retraction or is awaiting additional information such as from an institutional investigation
  • Author conflicts of interest have been reported to the journal after publication, but in the editor’s view, these are not likely to have influenced interpretations or recommendations or the conclusions of the article.

El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law editors shall consider issuing an expression of concern if:

  • they receive inconclusive evidence of research or publication misconduct by the authors
  • there is evidence that the findings are unreliable but the authors’ institution will not investigate the case
  • they believe that an investigation into alleged misconduct related to the publication either has not been or would not be, fair and impartial or conclusive
  • an investigation is underway but a judgment will not be available for a considerable time

El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law editors shall consider issuing a correction if:

  • a small portion of an otherwise reliable publication proves to be misleading (especially because of honest error)
  • the author/contributor list is incorrect (i.e. a deserving author has been omitted or somebody who does not meet authorship criteria has been included)

The mechanism follows the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). For your convenience, the document is shown below.

 https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf

 

Complaints Policy

Complaints regarding any published materials will only be accepted within 12 months from the first publication date. In case of any complaint, the authors are required to submit their complaints along with their reasons to the editorial office via e-mail.

 

Revenue Sources

The operations of El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law are funded by the State (the Ministry of Religious Affairs Republic of Indonesia), through Daftar Isian Pelaksanaan Anggaran (DIPA) of Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan Lampung, Indonesia.

 

Advertising

El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law does not accept advertising from any parties.

 

Direct Marketing

Attracting high-quality submissions is critical to the success of a journal. That’s why our publishing teams work closely to increase visibility and promote the research we publish. The marketing campaigns we develop are targeted and data-driven to help our journal reach potential authors and readers and maximize the success of our journal. In promoting the journal and publications to the public, the El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law attempts to avoid actions detrimental to other parties and to avoid misleading information between prospective authors and the publishers.

 

Publication Frequency

El-Izdiwaj: Indonesian Journal of Civil and Islamic Family Law Department, Sharia Faculty, Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan, Lampung, Indonesia. It published twice a year. Number 1-2 are scheduled for publication: June and December.

 

Withdrawal of Manuscript

Withdrawing submitted or published manuscripts is not recommended. If the authors intend to withdraw the manuscript, the following rules must be followed:

  1. The authors may only withdraw the manuscript before its publication for acceptable reasons such as journal delay, problems in the manuscript, multiple accidental submissions, or discovery of ethical misconduct. It is unethical to withdraw a manuscript because it is being accepted in another journal.  
  2. The authors must send a letter requesting the withdrawal of the manuscript to the chief editor, along with the reasons for withdrawal. The request to withdraw the manuscript must be known by all authors, as evidenced by the signature.
  3. If the withdrawn manuscript is being reviewed, the authors must pay 500,000 IDR.
  4. If any ethical misconduct is found in the published manuscript and causes the manuscript to be withdrawn, the authors must pay 1,000,000 IDR.  
  5. If the review process for the manuscript takes more than 4 months, the authors can withdraw the manuscript without paying any charge.