GUIDELINES FOR ESSAY SUBMISSION

Submissions:

Entries must be original work primarily produced within twelve (12) months prior to the submission deadline. Articles should be original contributions and not under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If a contributor is publishing a related article elsewhere, this fact should be stated.

Submission should be made by email (preferably) and post:


1. Electronic Submission (preferably as a MS Word file; please do not use PDF format):-
   Terenjit Sevea at fsmprize@gmail.com
   
   
2. Postal Submission (a hard copies should be sent to):-
   Falak Sufi Memorial Prize,
   Block 60 Dakota Crescent
   #02-211
   Singapore 390060.

Essay Preparation:

• Word Count:
  Articles should be no more than 6,500 words. It is the author's responsibility to ensure length limits. This word length includes footnotes or endnotes, but does not include the bibliography. Papers without complete footnotes/endnotes and bibliography will not be accepted.
  
  
• Notes on Contributors:
  All submissions must include a separate page with the author's name, current affiliation and contact information (email address, phone and fax numbers, and mailing address). To guarantee anonymity in the refereeing process, authors should omit their name from the title page and remove any reference to themselves from the manuscript.

Presentation:

• Spelling:
  Both British and American spelling can be used. Standardize the use the s-suffix and z-suffix according to the form of spelling preferred: for example, organise, organisation or organize, organization. Foreign words absorbed into English do not take a diacritical mark. Other foreign words are italicized.
  
  
• Manuscripts must be double-space typed with numbered pages and margins.
  
  
• Titles and Subheadings:
  Titles should be kept relatively short. Brief sub-headings are encouraged and should be used at suitable points throughout the text to indicate major divisions in the argument.
  
  
• Acronyms and abbreviations:
  All acronyms for agencies, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in the text or references. Thereafter the acronym can be used if appropriate.
  
  
• Punctuation:
  Punctuation should follow the British or American style, e.g. 'quotes precede punctuation'. or 'quote after punctutation.' Single 'quotes' are used for quotations not double "quotes", unless "within" another quote'.
  
  
• Dates:
  Dates should be as follows: 16 October 2008. For decades, write 2010s, no apostrophe. Centuries should be written in full in lower case: sixteenth century, twentieth-century text.
  
  
• Numbers:
  Numbers from one to nine should be written out in full: figures should be used for numbers above 10. Percentages and decimals are written in figures; per cent is two words. Ages are written in words. Fractions are written out: one-half, three-quarters. Label lists as 1., 2., etc. Money: follow the same guidelines, using currency symbol with figures. For example: one pound, $3.50, two Australian dollars, £245, DM20, Rs1 million, five Japanese yen.
  
  
• Endnotes/Footnotes:
  Endnotes should be marked clearly in the text at a point of punctuation, and listed consecutively at the end of the article. They should not be listed at the bottom of each relevant page. Footnotes should be marked clearly in the text at a point of punctuation, and listed consecutively at the bottom of each relevant page. They should not be listed at the end of the article. Avoid over-numbering references: if one source is being cited for several references within a paragraph, number this only once at the end of the paragraph. The use of notes in general should be kept to a minimum. Authors' names should be abbreviated to initials and surname in the endnotes/footnotes. Separate Bibliographical references are also required. These should be marked clearly at the end of the article or after the endnotes (if applicable).
  
  
• References should follow the style of the following examples, with titles of books or journals italicized and not underlined:
  
  
  1. Books: Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan, 2003), 74.
     
     
  2. Chapters: Dale F. Eickelman, "Clash of Cultures? Intellectuals, their publics, and Islam" in Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation, Communication, eds. Stephane A. Dudoignon, Komatsu Hisao and Kosugi Yasushi (New York: Routledge , 2005), 289-304.
     
     
  3. Journal article: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, "Human Rights in the Muslim World: Socio-Political Conditions and Scriptural Imperatives," Harvard Human Rights Journal 3/4 (1987): 13-52.
     
     

Events:

---

News

---