Author Guidelines

A. Manuscript General Requirement 

  1. Written in English or Indonesia 
  2. The length of the manuscript is 4000-8000 worlds (not included references) 
  3. Prepared your manuscript using Indonesian Journal of Religious TEMPLATE
  4. The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor)
  5. The manuscript file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format (don't use another format).

B. Structure of Manuscript

  1. TITLE. The title of the paper is maxed 12 words (English) or 15 words (Bahasa), without Acronym or abbreviation
  2. AUTHOR INFORMATION. Author information is Author(s) Name, Author(s) Affiliation, Author(s) email. 
  3. ABSTRACT. The length of the Abstract is 150-200; no citation; State in the abstract a primary objective, aim, methodology, results, and contribution.
  4. SECTION STRUCTURE. Authors are suggested to present their manuscript in the section structure: Introduction - Methods - Results - Discussion - Conclusion
  5. REFERENCES. Expect a minimum of 25 references primarily with a minimum of 70% to journal papers. Use APA 7th edition style for your references  

C. Manuscript 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):

1. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.

2. Ensuring the paper conform to the standard of Indonesian Journal of Religious Studies Template, Please download the paper template in *.DOC

3. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal.

4. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

5. The length of the submitted paper is 4500-8000 words, not included references.

6. The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor)

7. The manuscript file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format (don't use another format).

8. The paper will be reviewed and edited without changing any substantial contents.

9. The rejected paper will be notified to the author via email.

10. References must be noted in body notes and references according to Chicago style.

11. Innote example: (1) Book: Staggs, 2021, 84). (2) Journal:  Schreiber, 2014, 346-363. (3) Web Page: Patel, 2015. 

12. References example: (1) Book: McGrath, A.E. & Thomas, M.J. (2024). Christian Theology: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. (2) Journal: Chia, P. S. (2025). Living Hope and Tested Faith: A Structural and Syntactical Analysis of 1 Peter 1:1–8. Indonesian Journal of Religious, 8(1), 23–37. https://doi.org/10.46362/ijr.v8i1.46. (3) Web Page: Goldberg, I. (2010). Dr. Ivan's depression central. http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.html.

D. Guideline for Online Submission

The author should fulfill the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, the Author clicks on “Register” button to proceed the registration. Therefore, the Author is brought to an online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start a New Submission section, click on “’Click Here’: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in online submission process:

  1.  Step 1 - Starting the Submission: Select the appropriate section of the journal, i.e. Original Research Articles, Review Article, or Short Communication. Thus, the author must check-mark on the submission checklists. An author should type or copy-paste Covering Letter in Letter to Editor.
  2. Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file (.doc/.docx) to be submitted, then click "Upload" button until the file has been uploaded. Do not upload cover letter and other supplementary files here.
  3. Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including marked corresponding author. After that, manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords.
  4. Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file should be uploaded including Covering/Submission Letter. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the files, and then click on Upload button.
  5. Step 5 – Confirming the Submission: Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Agro Bali: Agricultural Journal, click Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site. 

After this submission, the Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission. Therefore, Authors can track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes the status of the manuscript review and editorial process.