Sholihan: Journal of Islamic Religious Education (SJIRE) welcomes original and high-quality scholarly manuscripts that contribute to the advancement of knowledge and practice in Islamic Religious Education. Manuscripts must be written in English and must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication in another journal.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are original, academically rigorous, ethically conducted, and compliant with the journal's scope and publication policies.
EIRE accepts the following types of manuscripts:
Research articles should present clear research questions, appropriate methodology, systematic analysis, and a meaningful contribution to Islamic Religious Education.
All manuscripts must be written in English using clear, academic, and grammatically correct language. Authors are encouraged to have their manuscripts professionally proofread before submission, particularly if English is not their first language.
Research articles should generally follow the structure below:
Authors may adjust the structure of the manuscript when justified by the research design and disciplinary context.
The title should be:
The title should clearly indicate the central issue, population, context, or phenomenon investigated.
The submission should include:
The corresponding author must be clearly identified and is responsible for communication with the journal during the submission, review, revision, and publication processes.
All individuals who made substantial contributions to the research should be listed as authors. Individuals who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged appropriately.
The abstract should be written in one paragraph and generally contain 200–250 words.
The abstract should briefly present:
The abstract should be informative and understandable without requiring readers to consult the main manuscript. Citations, tables, figures, and uncommon abbreviations should not be included in the abstract.
Provide 3–5 keywords or key phrases that represent the main concepts of the article.
Keywords should be separated by commas and should avoid unnecessarily broad terms.
The Introduction should establish a clear scholarly rationale for the study. It should generally include:
Authors should avoid presenting the Introduction as a general textbook discussion. The literature review should be integrated into the argument leading to the research gap and study objectives.
The Method section must provide sufficient information to allow readers to understand and, where appropriate, reproduce the research process.
Depending on the research design, authors should explain:
For qualitative studies, authors should clearly explain the procedures for establishing credibility, dependability, confirmability, and/or other appropriate quality criteria.
For quantitative studies, authors should provide sufficient information regarding variables, instruments, statistical procedures, and analytical techniques.
The Results and Discussion section should present findings systematically and connect them to the research questions or objectives.
Authors should:
The discussion should go beyond a simple comparison with previous literature and should provide a critical interpretation of what the findings mean for Islamic Religious Education.
The Conclusion should directly answer the research objectives or research questions.
It should:
Authors may include recommendations for future research when they are directly supported by the findings.
Tables and figures should:
Authors should ensure that all tables, figures, diagrams, photographs, and other visual materials are either original or used with appropriate permission and attribution.
References must be relevant, current, and directly related to the manuscript.
Authors are strongly encouraged to use recent peer-reviewed scholarly sources. As a general recommendation, a substantial proportion of references should come from publications within the last five years, except for foundational or seminal works that remain necessary.
The reference list and in-text citations must be consistent.
Authors are encouraged to use reference management software such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote.
The journal recommends the use of APA 7th Edition citation and referencing style.
Authors must comply with accepted standards of research ethics.
Where applicable, manuscripts should include information concerning:
Authors must not fabricate, falsify, manipulate, or selectively report research data.
Manuscripts must be original and must not have been published previously in any form or be simultaneously submitted to another journal.
The journal uses plagiarism and similarity screening as part of the editorial process. Authors are responsible for properly acknowledging ideas, words, data, and materials derived from other sources.
Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, and other forms of academic misconduct are unacceptable.
Authors must not submit the same manuscript simultaneously to another journal.
If a manuscript is found to have been simultaneously submitted or previously published elsewhere, the journal may reject the manuscript and take appropriate action according to its publication ethics policy.
Authorship should be based on substantial contributions to the research and manuscript.
All listed authors should:
Changes to the author list after submission require justification and approval from all authors concerned.
Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, personal, or professional relationships that could potentially influence the research or its interpretation.
If no conflict exists, authors may state:
"The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest related to this research and publication."
Authors should disclose all sources of financial support for the research.
If the research received no external funding, authors may state:
"This research received no external funding."
Authors may use artificial intelligence tools for limited purposes such as language improvement, grammar checking, or technical assistance, provided that the use does not compromise the originality, integrity, or accountability of the manuscript.
AI tools must not be listed as authors.
Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, citations, interpretation, and ethical integrity of all content submitted to the journal.
Where generative AI has been used substantially in preparing the manuscript, authors should disclose its use appropriately in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policy.
Authors should follow the journal's official manuscript template.
As a general requirement:
All manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.
Authors should:
Incomplete submissions may be returned to authors before entering the peer-review process.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to an initial editorial screening to assess:
Manuscripts that pass the initial screening will normally undergo Double-Blind Peer Review, in which the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from one another.
The final publication decision is made by the editor based on the reviewers' recommendations and the overall academic quality of the manuscript.
Authors may be requested to revise their manuscripts based on editorial and reviewer comments.
Revised manuscripts should address reviewer comments systematically. Authors may be required to provide a response letter explaining how each substantive comment has been addressed.
Failure to submit revisions within the specified period may result in the manuscript being considered withdrawn.
Authors retain appropriate rights to their work while granting the journal the right to publish and disseminate the article.
All published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This license permits others to share and adapt the published material provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source.
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