Author Guideline

All submissions must meet our author guidelines, including style guidelines, word-count parameters, etc.

Open to all civil servants, academics, researchers, and those who specialise in related fields.

Articles and Policy Perspectives are based on the author(s)’s original research in the fields of economics, business, finance, trade, and public policy.

There is no limit to the number of submissions per author(s).

The submissions must be original work and should not be under consideration or have been published elsewhere.

All submissions must be written in English.

All submissions must use Times New Roman size 12, double-spaced, typed on A4 size paper and in Microsoft Word format.

All submissions must adhere to the set word count requirement: 7,000-9,000 words for Research Articles; 4,000-5,000 words for Policy Perspectives; and 700–1,000 words for Book Reviews. The word limits include notes and references.

Research Articles and Policy Perspectives should include an abstract that summarises the most important findings of the published paper or accepted manuscript. An abstract must not exceed 500 words for a Research Article and 250 words for a Policy Perspective. A maximum of five (5) keywords should also be listed below the abstract.

In the case of a Research Article, it should consist of the following sections: Introduction; brief Literature Review; Methodology; Results; Discussion; and Conclusion.

In the case of a Policy Perspective, the author(s) is free to structure the article as long as the ideas flow logically. Broadly, the article should consist of an introduction, a few body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

Headings and subheadings must be in bold to differentiate them from the content. Subheadings can be in italics to differentiate from the main headings. The use of letters in parenthesis in the main body, for example, (a), (b), (c) ..., is appropriate as a means of differentiating subheadings of the same topic. Refer to the example shown below:

RESEARCH ARTICLE/POLICY PERSPECTIVE TITLE

Heading Title

Subheading Title

Subheading Title

All works or studies referred to in the Research Article/Policy Perspectives in the form of quotations or citations must be included in the references.

Use double quotation marks (“”) only when citing material.

The references should be written consistently in the latest edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style.

Where applicable, romanise non-English titles of articles, journals, and monographs in your references with parenthetical English translations.

Spell out all numbers from zero to nine; use numerals for all others except at the beginning of a sentence.

Italicise all foreign terms.

The author(s) is required to utilise footnotes - not endnotes - when attempting to elaborate or provide additional information regarding matters discussed on that page.

Footnotes should be recorded using Arabic numeric (1,2,3...) and numbered consecutively. Footnotes should use a smaller font than the text (font size 8).

Raised superscript numerals in the text refer to explanatory notes and documented sources appearing at the bottom of the page as footnotes. These should be inserted following the punctuation mark in the text. Refer to the example shown below:

Tables, Figures and Graphs are printed within the body of the text at the center of the frame and labelled accordingly e.g., Table/Figure/Graph 1. Refer the examples shown below:

If the table/figure/graph occupies more than one page, the continued table/figure/graph on the following page should indicate that it is a continuation, for example: ‘Table 1, continued’. In the case of a table, the header row should also be repeated.

If the table/figure/graph contains a citation, the source of the reference should be placed at the bottom of table/figure/graph and italicised.

The title page should be provided and it should include the title of the article, the author's name with full address, telephone number, and personal email address.

Soft copies of contributed articles should be sent via email with the title “Journal of Economics and Policy” to : Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Economics and Policy, jep[at]intanbk[dot]intan[dot]my

INTAN also requires the usage of Turnitin, an online web-based plagiarism detection application to avoid plagiarism and academic dishonesty. In most cases, the similarity index percentage should be between 10% to 30%.

Submissions will be accepted once it has been reviewed by the journal’s editorial committee and after undergoing the journal’s double-blind peer review process. For more information, please refer the “Peer Review” page.

Any question regarding the process can be directed to:

Editorial Committee Journal of Economics and Policy, jep[at]intanbk[dot]intan[dot]my

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