Publication Specifications and Instructions

The following specifications must be adhered to when submitting manuscripts and research for publication:

General Format of the Introduction

  • The book must be a maximum of 50,000 (150,000) words, and the research must be 6,000-8,000 words, in addition to footnotes and references.
  • The author must state his full name and the institution to which he belongs.
  • Footnotes must be entered electronically, not manually.
  • Important information, facts, and ideas contained in the topic must be documented from appropriate sources and references.
  • Reference marks for footnotes in the text must be numerical, and footnotes on each page must be numbered separately at the bottom of the page, so that the footnotes on the following page begin with new numbers.
  • When a noble Qur'anic verse is mentioned, its number and the name of the surah in which it appears in the margin should be mentioned. Example: Al-Baqarah (25). Qur'anic verses should be written in the Uthmanic script. When a noble hadith is mentioned, it should be written in bold and authenticated from published Sunnah books, mentioning the name of the book, the title of the chapter in which the hadith appears, and mentioning the chapter and hadith numbers, if any. Then, mention the part and page numbers. These matters should be mentioned at the end of the publication information.
  • Example: Al-Bukhari, Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail. Sahih Al-Bukhari. Makkah Al-Mukarramah: Al-Nahda Al-Hadithah Library, 1984 AD = 1404 AH. The Book of Etiquette, Chapter Five: Chapter on Answering the Supplication of One Who Is Kind and Generous 5974: 3:8:3 Diyah.
  • The text size should be 16 pt. in black, in Traditional Arabic font.
  • The text size in the margin should be 12 pt. in black, in Traditional Arabic font.
  • If non-Arabic proper names are mentioned, please write the name in both Arabic and English and authenticate it in the margin.
  • All paragraphs should begin with a 1.5 cm indentation. Titles should be placed in the center of the page.

Method and methodology for documenting footnotes

1. All books should be arranged in the footnote as follows:

A. If there is only one author:

Mention the author, beginning with the family name or the editor or compiler. If there is no author, the translated title, edition, place of publication, publisher, and periodic date of publication.Abdul Aziz, The Palestinian Issue and the Arab-Zionist Conflict, Cairo, Association of Arab Universities, 1963. Primakov, Yevgeny. Anatomy of the Middle East Conflict, translated by Glubb, John Bagot. Peace in 1969, Saeed Ahmad, Damascus, Ministry of Culture and National Guidance. The Holy Land: an historical analysis of the Palestine problem. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971

B. If there are two or three authors:

Mention the author, beginning with the family name. If the editor or compiler is listed, mention the family name of the first author, then add the names of the second and third in the normal order; that is, the first name, then the family name, then the rest of the information. Samra Mahmoud, As'ad Abd al-Rahman, and Mahmoud al-Abidi. Palestine: Land, People, and the Cause. Cairo: Arab Organization for Education, Culture, and Science. Davis, Uri, And Yuval Davis, eds. Israel and Palestinians 1979 . London: Ithaca Press, 1975.

C. If there are four or more authors:

Mention the family name of the first author, along with "et al." For foreign books: Said, Edward, et al. The Palestinian Reality: Past, Present, and Future. Cairo: Dar al-Fikr, 1986; Harkabi Yehoshafat, et al. Time Bomb in the Middle East. New York: Friendship Press, 1969.

2. Journal Articles

Follow the same rules for books from (a) to (5) above, with each entry arranged, if all data is available, as follows: Author of the article, Title of the article, Name of the journal, Pages of the article.

Here are some examples:

A. If there is one author:

Melhem, Muhammad. "Petroleum and the Palestinian Question." Samed Economic Magazine, August 1980, p. 163. Sayegh, Fayez. "The United Nation and the Palestine Question." Islamic 169

Review, November 1964, pp. 5-9

B. If there is no author:

the Palestinian issue "The Arab Thinker” April 1971, p. 8-4 We will raise our flag in Jerusalem Palestine Report, February 1980, p.3

3. Encyclopedia articles

Follow the same rules for the journals above, with each entry arranged as follows, if all data is available: Author's name, Title of article, Title of encyclopedia, Date of publication, Volume number, Pages of article. Ahmad, Omar, Palestine Liberation Organization. The Palestinian Encyclopedia, 1984, Vol. 4, p. 313. Grant, Christina. "Palestine". The Encyclopedia Americana. 1970, Vol. 21, 325, pp. 197-202