Submissions

Focus and Scope

• Communication and public relations.
• Islamic communication and da‘wah.
• Rhetoric (khiṭābah) and journalism (kitābah).
• Mass media, social media, and digital communication.
• Public relations, branding, and crisis communication.
• Organizational communication and communication in Islamic educational institutions.
• International relations and diplomacy in the Muslim world.
• International organizations and cooperation among Muslim-majority states.
• Globalization and transnational civil society.
• Public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, and educational diplomacy.

The journal does not publish practical political campaigns or group propaganda. Da‘wah studies that focus primarily on scriptural evidence and Islamic thought should be directed to TA'SHIL.

Types of Manuscripts Accepted

General Manuscript Requirements

Title, Authors, and Abstract

• The title is no more than 16 words, avoids informal abbreviations, places the main idea first, and places supporting information after it.
• Authors are listed by full name without academic degrees. Affiliations include study program, faculty, university, city, and country, together with each author’s email address. The corresponding author is marked with an asterisk. ORCID iDs are recommended and should be completed in OJS metadata where available.
• The abstract is italicized and written as one paragraph of 200–250 words, containing the main problem, method, scientific findings, and conclusion. Do not include citations.
• The English and Indonesian abstracts should be equivalent in meaning. Keywords should not simply repeat words from the title.

Illustrative abstract format (example only, not real data):

Social media has become a major space for youth da‘wah, yet the patterns used to deliver religious messages remain understudied. This study analyzes message strategies used by five young preachers on Instagram through the principles of qaulan sadīdā, qaulan balīghā, and qaulan layyinā. Quantitative content analysis is conducted on 300 Reels posts from 2024–2025, with inter-coder reliability measured using Krippendorff’s α = 0.82. The findings indicate that gentle, story-based messages generate the highest engagement, while harsh messages attract more negative comments. The results demonstrate the continuing relevance of Qur’anic communication principles for digital da‘wah and provide practical input for da‘wah institutions designing social-media content.

Keywords: digital da‘wah; Instagram; Islamic communication; qaulan sadida; content analysis

Article Structure

Section headings are left-aligned in small caps and are not numbered, as shown in the article template.

Guidance for Each Section

• Introduction. Explain the communication or international-affairs problem being studied, summarize the state of the art, and close with the research question and objective. Do not report results in the Introduction.
• Literature Review and Theoretical Framework. Group prior studies from the last 10 years by theme and identify the gap. Build the theoretical framework systematically using, for example, framing, agenda setting, uses and gratifications, situational crisis communication theory, constructivism, soft power, or public diplomacy. Connect the discussion to Qur’anic communication principles such as qaulan sadīdā, qaulan balīghā, qaulan layyinā, qaulan ma‘rūfā, qaulan karīmā, and qaulan maysūrā where relevant.
• Method. Describe the study as an analytical design, including the approach, data, sources, collection procedures, analytical procedures, and validity or trustworthiness.
• Results and Discussion. Present findings with scientific explanation rather than description alone. Compare findings with other research and answer the research question.
• Conclusion. Answer the research question or objective without repeating the results. State practical implications for public-relations practitioners, da‘wah institutions, media organizations, or policymakers, and identify future-research directions.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَقُولُوا قَوْلًا سَدِيدًا

“O believers, be mindful of Allah and speak words of truth.” (Qur’an 33:70)

Method-Specific Reporting

Special Requirements for Communication, Media, and International Affairs

Verification and tabayyun. Consistent with the journal’s name and Qur’an 49:6, factual claims must be verified against primary sources. Online news may be used as research data or illustration, but it should not be the sole evidence for important claims.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا

(Qur’an 49:6)

Social-media and digital data

• State the platform, account, posting date, access date, and URL for every analyzed item.
• Archive easily deleted content, for example with the Wayback Machine, and provide the archive link where appropriate.
• Public institutional and public-figure accounts may be identified. Private accounts of ordinary users should be anonymized, and quotations should be paraphrased where necessary to reduce traceability.
• Screenshots must obscure the name, profile photo, and personal data of ordinary users.
• Scraping procedures must report the tool, time range, keywords, and number of collected items.

Interviews and international documents

• State the informant’s position, interview date, and interview medium.
• Officials or diplomats who request anonymity should be described by a general role, for example “Ministry of Foreign Affairs official.”
• Off-the-record statements must not be quoted.
• Informant consent and permission to record should be stated in the Method section.
• International and policy documents should be cited using the official document number, date, and official link, for example a UN General Assembly resolution or an OIC declaration.

Content ethics. Manuscripts must not contain hate speech, insults targeting ethnicity, religion, race, or social group, or calls to hostility. Problematic content quoted as research data should be censored as necessary and clearly described.

Foreign terms are italicized. Arabic transliteration follows the Indonesian joint decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs and the Minister of Education and Culture No. 158/1987 and 0543b/U/1987.

Citation and References (Chicago author-date)

QAULAN SADIDA uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, author-date system. In-text citations do not use a comma between the author and year; page numbers are separated by a comma.

• Examples: (Hasan 2024, 45), (Hasan and Rahman 2023), or (Hasan et al. 2025). Multiple sources: (Hasan 2024; Fitri 2022).
• References are arranged alphabetically; works by the same author are ordered by year.
• Every citation must appear in the reference list and vice versa. Secondary citation should be avoided.
• Use Mendeley or Zotero with Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (author-date).

Tables, Figures, and Quotations

• Tables are numbered and titled above the table; only the first word of the title is capitalized, and horizontal rules are used.
• Figures are numbered and captioned below the figure and must remain legible when printed. Screenshots follow the anonymization requirements above.
• Direct quotations shorter than 40 words remain in the paragraph within quotation marks. Quotations of 40 words or more are set in a separate paragraph with a 1 cm left indent.
• Interview quotations are italicized and followed by the informant’s role and interview date.
• Qur’anic verses and hadith include Arabic text, translation, and an in-text reference, for example (Qur’an 33:70).

Publication Ethics and Generative AI Policy

QAULAN SADIDA follows COPE guidance. A manuscript may be rejected, or a published article retracted, if plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated data or quotations, manipulated screenshots, privacy violations involving media users, authorship manipulation, or citation manipulation are found. Manuscripts derived from undergraduate theses, master’s theses, or dissertations are permitted after being rewritten as journal articles.

• AI may assist with language and translation but cannot be listed as an author.
• AI must not be used to create data, informant quotations, official quotations, social-media content, or references.
• If AI assists large-scale content coding, explain the tool, procedure, and validation by human coders.
• AI use must be disclosed in the Author Statement, including the tool, version, and sections assisted.

Submission Checklist

• The latest QAULAN SADIDA template has been used without changing the layout.
• The title contains no more than 16 words and places the main idea first.
• Indonesian and English abstracts are each 200–250 words and italicized.
• There are no more than 6 keywords.
• A Literature Review and Theoretical Framework section is included.
• Media content is documented with dates, URLs, and archives where relevant; private accounts are anonymized.
• Inter-coder reliability is reported for content-analysis studies.
• Chicago author-date style is used; there are at least 30 references, at least 80% are journal articles from the last 10 years, and at least 40% are international journals.
• Similarity does not exceed 20%.
• Author names, affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID identifiers are correctly included in the manuscript and OJS metadata.
• The originality statement is ready to upload.
• Author Statements are complete, including AI disclosure.

Submission, Review, Fees, and Copyright

Submission

Manuscripts are submitted through OJS at journal.cendekiajurnalhub.com using the QAULAN SADIDA template, together with a statement of originality and freedom from plagiarism. Author names, affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID identifiers are included in the manuscript according to the template and completed in OJS metadata.

Review

1. The Editor-in-Chief screens scope, format, and similarity.
2. Eligible manuscripts are sent to at least two reviewers for peer review.
3. Decisions are: accepted, minor revision, major revision, or rejected. Revised manuscripts are normally returned within two weeks.

Fees

There is no submission or review fee. The Article Processing Charge (APC) of IDR 75,000–100,000 is paid after acceptance. The exact amount within this range is set by the editorial board upon acceptance.

Copyright and License

Authors retain copyright. Articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

After Acceptance

• A Letter of Acceptance is issued after the final revision is approved and the APC is paid.
• The editorial team may edit language and formatting without changing the scholarly substance.
• Authors review the galley proof within three working days.
• Accepted articles are scheduled for the nearest available April, August, or December issue.
• Withdrawal may be requested through OJS before peer review begins. Appeals against editorial decisions should be submitted in writing within 14 days.

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