Writing Guidelines

Authors are advised to adhere to the guidelines as follows to avoid any ethical violation and to minimise errors in order to accelerate the publishing process:

Title: Phrases that are simple and concise that reflect the main topic and research aim in Malay and English language.

Abstract: Summary about the introduction, research objective, methodology, main findings and conclusion in Malay and English language within 150 to 250 words.

Keywords: Six terminology in Malay and English langauage that represents the concept and main theme of the research.

Introduction: Overall view about the research topic, background, problem or research questions to be resolved.

Literature review: Critical summary about previous related research or theory, as well as the gap to be filled in.

Methodology: Explanation on the research design, apparatus, procedure and technique used to collect and analyse data.

Findings and Discussions: Analysis and discussion about the findings, including its importance and correlation to the existing information.

Conclusion: Brief summary on the main findings, implication of the research and suggestions for future research.

Acknowledgement: Express gratitude and appreciation to individuals or organisation that provide support in any form but not qualified to be catogrised as author by stating their contributions.

Authors Contribution: Declaring the role of each author in the research and writing of the article to ensure transparency.

Data Availability Statement: Clarify on how readers or other researchers may access the data used in the research.

Declaration Conflict of Interest: To state if there is any conflict of interest that may influence the publication financially or non-financially.

References: To provide more than 15 reliable references including journals and following the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition. In-text citation must be included in the References section.

Template: Malay template || English template

Criteria Author

• Author is the individual whom fulfil the authorship criteria and are involved in the preparation of concept and design of the manuscript, data collection/ analysis/ interpretation of data, data preparation/revision, and preparation of the final manuscript, approval of the final version of the manuscript, submission of manuscript and must be accountable to the article published.
• If there is more than one author, a corresponding author must be appointed and will be accountable for the communication between authors and editor in all pre-publication and post-publication process, ensuring all journal requirements are met as well as to ensure that each author carry out their own duties and responsibilities.
• Individuals that are not qualified as author but provide contributions and assistance (such as funding acquisition, general supervision, administrative assistance, editing, translating and proofreading) for this article shall be categorised as contributors.

Retraction and Withdrawal of Article

Should the editors receive lack of response from the author within a period of time after an article has been accepted for publication, Jurnal Bahasa might assume that author is no longer interested to proceed with the publication of the article.

Submission Guidelines

• Submission of article can be made through: https://jurnal.dbp.my/index.php/Kanun only.
• Articles written in Malay or English and must not have been published (printed or online).
• 5000 to 8000 words in length.
• Use Times New Roman font.
• A maximum of three levels of headings should be used.
• Indent every paragraph except the first paragraph.
• Articles containing unreadable symbols or spelling in Microsoft Word should be submitted in PDF format.

Copyright

• Author will be asked to transfer copyright to publisher (Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka) to publish their article online (Download Declaration and Copyright Assignment Form)
• Author who wishes to republish the article(s) must seek permission from DBP and state the source.