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Author Guidelines

A. Manuscript General Requirement 

1. Written in English or Germany 
2. The length of the manuscript is 3500-8000 words (not including references) 
3. Prepared your manuscript using MAHABBAH: Journal of Religion and Education 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 at 12 words (English), without an Acronym or abbreviation
2. AUTHOR INFORMATION. Author information is the Author(s) Name, Author(s) Affiliation, and Author(s) email. 
3. ABSTRACT. The length of the Abstract is 150-200; No citations; State in the abstract a primary objective, research design, methodology, main outcomes, results, and conclusions.
4. SECTION STRUCTURE. Authors are suggested to present their manuscript in the section structure: Introduction - Method - Results and Discussion - Conclusion
5. REFERENCES. Expect a minimum of 15 references primarily with a minimum of 40% to journal papers. Use Chicago 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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. To ensure the paper conforms to the standard of the Journal Template, Please download the paper template in *.DOC
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which are found in About the Journal.
5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
6. The length of the submitted paper is 4000-8000 words, not including references.
7. It used of a tool such as Zotero, Mendeley, or FootNote for reference management and formatting, and has chosen the Turabian/Chicago style.

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.

1. 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).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. 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.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish 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 (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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