Author Guidelines

A submission must be original, within FUADUNA's scope, written in clear academic English, and not simultaneously submitted to another journal.

• Originality: the manuscript has not been published and is not under consideration elsewhere.
• Scope: the manuscript must make a clear contribution to the interdisciplinary study of religion and society.
• Language: manuscripts are submitted in English. Authors are responsible for language quality.
• File format: submit an editable Microsoft Word file (.doc or .docx) using the latest FUADUNA template.
• Blind review: remove names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other identifying information from the review manuscript.
• Research integrity: fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplicate submission, citation manipulation, and inappropriate authorship are prohibited.
• Similarity screening: authors should ensure that the manuscript is appropriately original; FUADUNA may conduct similarity checks during editorial screening.

1. Title: concise, informative, and normally no more than 12 words. Avoid uncommon abbreviations.
2. Author metadata: full name, institutional affiliation, country, email address, and ORCID where available are entered in OJS metadata, not in the blinded manuscript.
3. Abstract: one paragraph of approximately 150–200 words stating the problem or question, purpose, method, principal findings, and contribution or novelty.
4. Keywords: 3–5 specific terms or phrases that support discoverability.
5. Introduction: research context, problem/gap, engagement with relevant scholarship, research question or objective, and the article's contribution.
6. Methods / Approach: explain research design, sources or participants, data collection, analytical procedure, and ethical considerations where applicable.
7. Results and Discussion: present evidence clearly, interpret the findings, engage prior scholarship, and explain the article's theoretical or practical contribution.
8. Conclusion: answer the research question, summarize the main contribution, acknowledge limitations where relevant, and identify implications or future research.
9. Declarations: include funding, conflicts of interest, acknowledgements, data availability, ethical approval, and substantive use of generative AI where applicable.
10. References: include only works cited in the manuscript and verify every bibliographic detail and DOI.

FUADUNA uses APA 7th edition for in-text citation and the reference list. Authors are strongly encouraged to use a reference manager such as Mendeley or Zotero.

• Use a strong base of peer-reviewed journal literature; a manuscript should normally contain at least 20 relevant references.
• Recent scholarship should be prioritized. As a general rule, at least 80% of cited journal articles should be from the last 10 years, while seminal, classical, archival, scriptural, or historically necessary sources may be older.
• Add DOI links whenever a DOI is available and verify that each DOI resolves correctly.
• Do not cite sources that the authors have not read or verified.

• Human participants: where applicable, state ethics approval and informed consent or explain why formal approval was not required under the relevant standards.
• Funding: identify all funding sources and grant numbers, or state that no specific funding was received.
• Conflicts of interest: disclose relevant financial, professional, personal, or institutional competing interests, or state that none exist.
• Authorship: all listed authors must meet FUADUNA's authorship criteria; gift, guest, and ghost authorship are prohibited.
• Generative AI: AI systems cannot be authors. Substantive AI-assisted drafting, analysis, coding, translation, or image generation must be transparently disclosed and verified by the authors.
• Data and materials: where ethically and legally possible, state how supporting data, transcripts, instruments, or other materials can be accessed.