Submissions

Author Guidelines

Instructions for Authors

Original and revised manuscripts must be in English and submitted online via online submission form. Complete instructions are as follows:

1. The papers submitted to JIBM should make some significant contribution to Islamic economics, business, finance and management, either theoretical or applied, or discuss any business issue from an Islamic perspective.
2. Submission of a paper will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and has not been submitted for publication elsewhere (an undertaking form, may be furnished). It would also imply that the subject content did not impinge upon, violate or constitute a breach of any intellectual rights of any third party.
3. The JIBM management shall have non-exclusive rights on the materials published in the JIBM; would be fully authorized to use or distribute the material for the purpose of Indexing / Abstracting, to translate into Urdu, or for any other related purposes; and would have power to enter into any agreement with third parties for distribution of the materials by any means and in any format.
4. Since JIBM sends all papers for review, two hard copies or a soft editable copy should be submitted in final form for sending anonymously to the reviewers. Authors should give their surface and e-mail addresses and telephone/fax numbers at which they can be contacted.
5. All papers must include a structured abstract of no more than 250 words, 6-8 Keywords and JEL classification, if applicable. The length of the article should preferably be between 5000 - 8000 words.
6. All papers should have an introductory section in which the objectives and methodology of the article are explained and a final section, which summarizes the main points discussed and the conclusions reached.
7. Detailed derivations of the main mathematical results reported in the text should be submitted separately. These will not be published.
8. References should be listed at the end of the text in APA style: Articles: El- Gari, Mohamed Ali (2003); Credit Risk in Islamic Banking and Finance; Islamic Economic Studies; Vol. 10, No. 2, (2003); pp. 1–23; Books: Khan, A. R. (1993), Financial Intermediation, New York: Springer Publishers. Page references to works referred to in the text should take the following form: El- Gamal (2006:128).
9. The verses of the Holy Qur’?n quoted should carry s?rah number and ãyah number as (2:275).
10. Complete reference to the source of a??d?th quoted should be given like: Muslim, ?a???, Kit?b al …..

In-Text Citations

In-text citation of article is followed by the last name(s) of the author(s) and particular year in which the work has been published.

Anonymous Author

The work with anonymous author will be cited as “Anonymous” as author name and in the same way work without year of publication will be cited as “n.d.” as date.

If there are more than one author, will differentiate them by using “& or and” before the name of last author - when author(s) name(s) and date is inside the parenthesis, the “&” will be used and when author(s) names are outside the parenthesis, “and” will be used for distinguishing the authors. Examples of citation with and publication date inside the parenthesis and citation with author(s) name outside the parenthesis and date in parenthesis:

Single In-Text Citations

ROA is a common indicator of performance of management (Ross, Westerfield, & Jaffe, 2005).

Vong and Chan (2005) say that higher liquidity ratio does not necessarily generate higher profits which means that liquidity relates negatively to ROA.

Multiple In-Text Citations

When there are more than one studies in the in-text citation, it should be supported with alphabetical order within the parenthesis and multiple citation should be distinguished by colon (:). For instance;

• Studies of reading in childhood have produced mixed results (Albright, Wayne, & Fortinbras, 2004; Gibson, 2011; Smith & Wexwood, 2010).
• Smith and Wexwood (2010) reported an increase in the number of books read, whereas Gibson (2011) reported a decrease. Albright, Wayne, and Fortinbras (2004) found no significant results.

Books

• Ayub, M. (2009). Understanding Islamic finance(Vol. 462). West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
• El-Gamal, M. A. (2006). Islamic finance: Law, economics, and practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Book with Chapter and Editor

• Warde, I. (2012). Status of the global Islamic finance industry. In C. Nethercott, & D. Eisenberg (Eds.), Islamic finance: Law and practice(1st ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Journal Article Reference

• Willett, N. B. (2000); Islamic corporate reports. ABACUS, 36(1), 71-90.
• Farook, S., Hassan, M. K., & Clinch, G. (2012). Profit distribution management by Islamic banks: An empirical investigation. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 52(3), 333-347.
• Ullah, S., Jamali, D., & Harwood, I. A. (2014). Socially responsible Investment: Insights from Shari’a departments in Islamic financial institutions. Business Ethics: A European Review, 23(2), 218-233.

Multiple Publications in Single Year

If an author has multiple publications in the single year then all publication will be differentiated by (a, b, c). This order will be supported with citation made in the in-text.

• Azmat, S., Skully, M., & Brown, K. (2014a). Credit risk in Islamic joint venture bond. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 103, 129-145.
• Azmat, S., Skully, M., & Brown, K. (2014b). Issuer's choice of Islamic bond type. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 28, 122-135.
• Azmat, S., Skully, M., & Brown, K. (2014c). The Shariah compliance challenge in Islamic bond markets. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 28, 47-57.

Conference Paper Reference

• Saad, R. A. J., Aziz, N. M. A., & Sawandi, N. (2014). Islamic accountability framework in the zakat funds management. Paper presented at the International Conference on Accounting Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Working or Discussion Paper

• Author, initials. (year). Title of the working paper (Series title number). Place of publication: Publisher.
• Sundararajan, V., & Errico, L. (2002). Islamic financial institutions and products in the global financial system: key issues in risk management and challenges ahead(Working Paper No. 192). International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, WA.
• Sole, M. J. (2007). Introducing Islamic banks into conventional banking systems(Working Paper No. 175). International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, WA.

Dissertation/Thesis Reference

• Dimmock, S. G. (2005). Essays in financial economics(Ph.D. dissertation). University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.

Government Report

• General Accounting Office. (2003). Financial statement restatement database. General Accounting Office, Washington, DC, WA.
• Greuning, H. V., & Iqbal, Z. (2008). Risk Analysis for Islamic Banks. The World Bank, Washington, DC, WA.

News Paper Reference

• El Diwany, T. (2006, July 15). How the banks are subverting Islam’s ban on usury. Financial Times. Retrieved from http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1/3507f192-1296-11db-aecf-0000779e2340.html#axzz...

Online Reference and Institutional Author

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (2010). Harmonizing financial reporting of Islamic finance. Retrieved from http://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/acca/global/PDF-technical/financia...