About the Journal

Journal of Islamic Philanthropy & Social Finance (JIPSF) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal. JIPSF runs biannual issues and is managed by a team of scholars from the Center for Islamic Philanthropy and Social Finance (CIPSF), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. This scholarly avenue is a multidisciplinary journal stemming from emerging issues in the areas of Islamic Philanthropy and Social Finance. This includes zakat, waqf, infaq, charity, qard al-hassan, Islamic finance, and Islamic microfinance. The editors welcome manuscripts in the above disciplines and the subdisciplines. Prospective authors are encouraged to use this submission link to advance their manuscript for review and possible publication.  The Journal is published twice a year. Starting from the year 2023, JIPSF has been published in March and September.

AIM AND SCOPE

This scholarly avenue is a multidisciplinary journal stemming from emerging issues in areas of Islamic Philanthropy and Social Finance. This includes zakat, waqf, infaq, charity, qard al-hassan, Islamic finance, and Islamic microfinance. The editors welcome manuscripts in the above disciplines and the subdisciplines. Prospective authors are encouraged to use this submission link to advance their manuscript for review and possible publication. All published articles are archived in UiTM library's repository at Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR) and Malaysian Citation Centre's MyJurnal portal. 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. Therefore, the user must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The user may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the user or his/her use. The user may not use the material for commercial purposes, distribute the modified material, or build upon the existing material. The user may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Emphasis is placed on direct and clearly understood communication, originality, and scholarly merit. Only original papers will be accepted, and copyright of published papers will be vested in the publisher.

Submitted manuscripts should be written in English with production-quality figures. Manuscripts should be typed using Times New Roman (point 12), single-line spacing, and wide margins (2.54 cm left, right, top, and bottom). The manuscript should include the title of the paper; the name, address, contact numbers, and email(s) of the corresponding author; a short abstract of between 200 and 300 words, which clearly summarizes the paper with 4-5 keywords. Submission should be limited to a maximum of 15 typed pages.

Tables should be included within the text where appropriate and must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and have titles that precede the table. Similarly, all figures must be numbered, and a detailed caption should be provided below each figure. Figures should be embedded within the text where appropriate. Glossy photographs, when required, should be scanned to a suitable resolution (1200 dpi), which enables quality reproduction. 

The requirements for tables, figures, and pictures are as follows: 

  1. State the source of each figure at the end of the caption. For example, 'Figure 1: Statistics of ... (source: A. Arthur, 2018)'. if from the author, kindly state 'Figure 1: Statistics of ...(source by author)'

Copyright Permissions: Authors should seek necessary permissions for quotations, artwork, boxes, or tables taken from other publications or from other freely available sources on the Internet before submission to JIPSF. The acknowledgement must be given to the original source in the illustration legend, in a table footnote, or at the end of the quotation. 

  1. Submit an original figure or photograph. Line drawings must be clear, with a high black and white contrast. Each figure or photograph should be prepared on a new page, embedded in the manuscript for reviewing, to keep the file of the manuscript under 5 MB. These should be numbered consecutively with Roman numerals.  

Authors are responsible for providing manuscripts that are written and that contain correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Authors are also responsible for providing accurate references using the APA format. Abbreviations should be used sparingly. The first time an abbreviation is used it should appear in parentheses following the full-text of the abbreviated words.

Manuscripts submitted to the journal will be initially screened by the Chief Editor, to determine appropriateness. Only those manuscripts considered of a sufficiently high standard will proceed to undergo a double-blind review.

Upon completion, the manuscripts will be passed to an editorial board member for appraisal of their value. Additionally, they will be reviewed by an expert in that discipline.

Journal Editors may decline to consider a manuscript for several reasons, including:

  • Inadequate evidence that the method is substantially new and promising.
    poor preparation.
  • An insufficiently clear and detailed presentation.
  • Lack of adherence to the journal’s guidelines for manuscript preparation.

 Journal editors would consider retracting a publication if:

  • clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either due to misconduct or honest error. 
  • Findings have previously been published elsewhere as in cases of redundant publication.
  • Constitute plagiarism and unethical research.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

ETHICS POLICY

This is the statement of ethics for Journal of Islamic Philanthropy and Social Finance (JIPSF) published by Universiti Teknologi MARA Press (Penerbit UiTM) for the Center of Islamic Philanthropy and Social Finance (CIPSF) UiTM Cawangan Melaka.  JIPSF aspires to select and publish, through double-blind peer review. A guideline on JIPSF code of ethics is largely based upon the principles upheld by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).  It covers the code of ethics for the chief editor, editorial board members, reviewers, and authors.

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

  • To be responsible of ensuring only new and original work is submitted. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted
  • To ensure the work produced is factually accurate and contains no matter unfounded or illegitimate and has not been previously published in other journals.
  • To ensure submitted articles are not being reviewed or considered by other journals simultaneously. The articles are only allowed to publish after receiving a formal rejection from the journal or if the withdrawal request is officially accepted by the journal.
  • To inform the Chief Editor or the publisher of any inaccuracy of data in their published work so that a correction or retraction of the article can be done.
  • To make significant contributions and be held accountable for any shortcomings in their work.
  • To do corrections and improvements as commented by reviewers/editor and submit the Copyright Transfer Agreement (as attached).
  • To ensure that the manuscript does not violate any proprietary or personal rights of others (including, without limitation, any copyrights or privacy rights).
  • To declare that no financial interest is gained in the subject matter of the manuscript, nor is affiliated with an organization or entity with a financial interest in the subject matter of the manuscript.

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

  • To disclose any competing interest before agreeing to review a submission.
  • To refuse to review any submission due to a conflict of interest or inadequate knowledge.
  • To review all submissions objectively, fairly, and professionally.
  • To reveal any ethical misconduct encountered while reviewing to the Chief Editor for further action.
  • To ensure the originality of a submission and be alert to any plagiarism and redundant publication.
  • To obtain permission from the publisher before disclosing the content of the submission.
  • To adhere to the time allocated for the review process and request for extension to review the submission from the Chief Editor.

DUTIES OF EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

  • To assist the Chief Editor in the selection process of manuscripts to be published in JIPSF;
  • To evaluate the contents and language of the potential manuscript that have been selected by the Chief Editor;
  • To provide recommendations in terms of  the quality and suitability of the manuscript by the scope of JIPSF;
  • To re-evaluate the manuscript that has been corrected by the author/(s);
  • To give suggestions for improvement for the Chief Editor to decide on selection.
  • To give feedback on the quality of the manuscript within a given time.
  • To assist in  maintaining the highest standards of quality of the manuscript published with high ethics and competence;
  • To recommend  a manuscript of originality,  quality with the highest standards;
  • To assist  in calling and obtaining manuscripts from colleagues, acquaintances, research scholars, and students, etc., within  or outside of the member's institution; and
  • To promote JIPSF at appropriate platforms such as the Conference of National and International Importance, Seminars, Symposiums, and Workshops.

DUTIES OF CHIEF EDITOR

  • To evaluate manuscripts fairly and solely on their intellectual merit.
  • To ensure the confidentiality of manuscripts and not disclose any information regarding manuscripts to anyone other than the people involved in the publishing process.
  • To be responsible for deciding when and which articles are to be published.
  • To actively seek the views of board members, reviewers, and authors on how to improve/ increase the image and visibility of the journal.
  • To give clear instructions to potential contributors on the submission process and what is expected of the authors.
  • To ensure appropriate reviewers are selected/ identified for the reviewing process.
  • To ensure that authors submit only original work that is not plagiarized and has not been published or is being considered elsewhere. Appropriate software may be used by the editorial office to check for similarities of submitted manuscripts with existing literature. Inclusion of fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements is unacceptable.
  • To ensure work and/or words from other publications are appropriately cited or quoted.

REPORTING

Authors should state their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation. The methods used in the work should be clearly and unambiguously described so that the findings can be repeated and confirmed by other researchers.

A good abstract should consist of an introduction, problem statement, ​​​QUANTITATIVE ​results, and ​​QUANTITATIVE​ ​​conclusion. ​ Chemistry formulas and equations are correctly typed.​ Any article that does not comply will be returned ​for either can be corrected or permanent rejection.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

A statement on conflict of interest must be included in the manuscript if authors receive any support that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

AUTHORSHIP AND COLLABORATION

Name of authors listed in a paper should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the report.

Only those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the work must be acknowledged or listed as contributors. It is the duty of the corresponding author to ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper. All co-authors must approve the final version of the paper and agree to the version of the paper before submission.

MULTIPLE OR REDUNDANT

Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research output in more than one journal or primary publication. A similar manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal concurrently as this constitutes as unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

PLAGIARISM AND SELF-PLAGIARISM 

All works in the manuscript should be free of any plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, or omission of significant material. Authors are expected to explicitly cite others' work and ideas, even if the work or ideas are not quoted exactly or paraphrased. Self-plagiarism (or ”redundancy”) can occur in at least two ways:

  • Authors recycle portions of their previous writings by using identical or nearly identical sentences or paragraphs from earlier writings in subsequent research papers, without quotation or acknowledgement; or
  • Authors create multiple papers that are slight variations of each other, which are submitted for publication in different journals but without acknowledgement of the other papers.

OPEN ACCES 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. Therefore, the user must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The user may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the user or his/her use. The user may not use the material for commercial purposes, distribute the modified material, or build upon the existing material. The user may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. 

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE

There is NO Article Processing Charge (APC) for this journal. The accepted articles are published free of charge.

 

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