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Author Guidelines

Submission of articles for Vol. 6, Issue 1 (January 2020 issue) could be done until 15th Aug 2019. Please e-
mail your manuscripts to: aei.insights@um.edu.my

Scope of Journal: Articles of bi-regional interest covering d) Article
Asia and Europe which may involve topics related to: Author, A. & Author, B. (publication year). Title of article.
ASEAN, ASEM, East Asia, EU, geo-politics, geo-strategies, Title of journal, number of volume, pp-pp.
global governance, international co-operation, international For example:
organisations, political economy, regional values, Ahmad, A & Andi, B. (2014). A brief introduction to history
regionalism, social issues in bio-diversity, and sustainable of Malaysia. UM Journal of History, 10:20-31.
development.
e) Conference proceeding
Manuscript Style: Authors should format submissions in Author, A. & Author, B. (publication year). Title of article.
Times New Roman with a 12-point font size and single- In Editor, A & B. Editor (eds.), Title of conference
spaced. Manuscripts should follow the American proceeding (pp-pp). Location: Name of publisher.
Psychological Association (APA) guidelines. For details of For example:
the APA style, kindly refer to http://www.apastyle.org/ Ahmad, A & Andi, B. (2014). A brief introduction to history
of Selangor. In Abdul, A & C. Abu (eds.), Proceeding of the
Manuscript Length and Language: Article length should UM history conference (pp.11-21). Kuala Lumpur: UM
be 6,000–8,000 words and include a concise abstract of 200– Press.
300 words. Papers must be written using UK English.
f) Conference presentation
Contents of Manuscript: Manuscript layout: 1. Title page, Author, A. & Author, B. (publication year). Title of
2. Abstract and key words (up to five key words), 3. Main conference presentation. Paper presented at the name of
text, 4. References. Please use footnotes and place tables and conference, location.
figures at the end of the paper. For example:
Ahmad, A & Andi, B. (2014). A brief introduction to history
Contents of Title Page: The title page should include the of Perak. Paper presented at the UM history conference,
following information: 1. Title of the manuscript, 2. Name of Kuala Lumpur.
author(s), 3. Full address of author(s), 4. Telephone and Fax
numbers, 5. Email address. The name of author who will g) Thesis
handle correspondence should be mentioned in the title Author, A. (publication year). Title of thesis
page. (Doctorial/Master’s thesis). Name of Department, Name of
University
Acknowledgement: All sources of research grants For example:
sponsored by an organisation should be acknowledged Ahmad, A. (2014). Economic development and investments
within the manuscript. in Penang (Doctorial Thesis). Department of East Asian
Studies, University of Malaya.
Reference Style:
Please follow APA Citation Style (Available in Endnote® h) Internet material
citation manager software) Author, A. (publication year). Title of internet material.
a) In-text citation Retrieved from http://www.aaa, [accessed on data of access].
In-text citations should consist of surname(s) of author(s) For example:
and publication year. Ahmad, A. (2014). Introduction to history of Kedah.
For example: Retrieved from http://www.um.edu.my, [accessed on 19
Malaysia has suffered from colonial rule (Ahmad, 2014). March 2014].
Ahmad (2014) suggested that Malaysia has suffered from
colonial rule.

b) Book
Author, A. (publication year). Title of book. Location: Name
of publisher.
For example:
Ahmad, A (2014). History of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: UM
Press.

c) Chapter in Book
Author, A. & Author, B. (publication year). Title of article.
In Editor, A & B. Editor (eds.), Title of book (pp-pp).
Location: Name of publisher.
For example:
Ahmad, A & Andi, B. (2014). A brief introduction to history
of Selangor. In Abdul, A & C. Abu (eds.), Introduction to
history of Malaysia (pp.11-21). Kuala Lumpur: UM Press.