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Submission of a paper to the journal will be taken to imply that the paper presents original, unpublished work that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.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:

the title
the name(s), institutional affiliation(s) with complete postal address(es) of the author(s)
an abstract of not more than 200 words and
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:

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.