Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • 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.
  • Manuscripts should be submitted in a single file (including text, notes, references, figures, and tables) in Microsoft Word (*.doc) format to:

Associate Professor Dr. Pei-Tha GAN
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Contemporary Issues and Thought
Department of Economics Faculty of Management and Economics
Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris 
35900 Tanjong Malim,
Perak Darul Ridzuan, MALAYSIA
e-mail: gan.pt@fpe.upsi.edu.my
Tel: +6017 770  9689

  • Submission of a paper to the journal will be taken to imply that the paper presents original, unpublished work that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  • All pages of a manuscript should be numbered consecutively.
  • Title should be short.
  • The first page should contain:
  1. the title
  2. the name(s), institutional affiliation(s) with complete postal address(es) of the author(s)
  3. an abstract of not more than 200 words and
  4. up to 5 key words.
  • To facilitate communication between the authors, editors and publishers, the author should furnish an-email on the title page of the manuscript.
  • Manuscript is to be written in English and should not be more than 7000 words in length.
  • It should be in 11 point Palatino single-spaced.
  • The manuscript should be typewritten on one side of A4 paper only, single spaced, leaving ample margin (2.54 cm) at the top sides.
  • Word templates are available for this journal.
  • Footnotes, references, tables and figures should be placed on separate pages at the end of the manuscript and properly numbered.
  • Figures should be provided in cameras-ready format.
  • References should be typed according to the following formats:

Article in journal:
Gan, P. T. and Kwek, K. T., 2010. The monetary policy reaction function
Evidence from ASEAN-3.Asian academy of the management journal of  accounting and finance, 6 (1), 1-23.

Book:
Iqbal, Z. and Mirakhor, A., 2007. An Introduction to Islamic finance: Theory and practice. Singapore: Wiley.

Chapter in book:
Ball, L., 1999. Policy rules for open economics. In: J. B. Taylor, ed. Monetary policy rules. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 129-156.

  • For additional information on the journal, please see: http://jcit.fpe.upsi.edu.my/

Subscription rates:
RM25.00 per issue, payable in advance (not including postage, packing and handling) for subscribers in Malaysia. For subscribers elsewhere, US$25.00 covering air delivery charges.

Subscription correspondence should be addressed to:

Associate Professor Dr. Pei-Tha GAN
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Contemporary Issues and Thought
Department of Economics Faculty of Management and Economics
Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris 
35900 Tanjong Malim,
Perak Darul Ridzuan, MALAYSIA
e-mail: gan.pt@fpe.upsi.edu.my
Tel: +6017 770  9689

Change of address: Subscribers are requested to notify the Editor-in-chief of the Journal in advance of change, giving both new and old addresses. Please allow four weeks for changes.