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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 10-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are requested to use the format for research papers submission to MAJ.

JOURNAL TOPIC AND SUB TOPIC
In order to provide more opportunities and participation space that will involve more potential participants and prospective paper writer, this paper strongly encourage submissions from all areas of architectural research including:
> Research by design
> Practice related research
> Pedagogy
> Technology
> Sustainable
> Heritage
> Urbanism

LANGUAGE
Papers will be published in English.

 

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Contributors are accepted on the understanding that the authors have obtained the necessary authority for publication. Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the authors will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

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PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscript must be prepared using Microsoft Word format The preferred length for articles is around 6 to 10 pages. However, shorter contributions will be welcomed and longer articles may be considered for publication. Manuscripts should be typed in double-spacing on one side of A4-sized paper with 1.5-inch margin on the left, using 10-point regular Times New Roman font. The pages should be numbered consecutively.

(a) The first page
The first page should show the title, author(s), affiliation, country and e-mail address in the style as follows:
Title : 15-pt bold Times New Roman, justified
Author(s) : 11-pt bold Times New Roman, align left
Affiliation and Country : 10-pt regular Times New Roman, align left
E-mail address : 10-pt regular Times New Roman, align left, underlined

The first page should also contain an abstract of not more than 200 words and up to five keywords to facilitate indexing. The abstract should summarise the objectives, main findings and conclusions of the paper.

(b) References
Only references which are cited in the text should be included in the Reference List. The APA Style reference system is adopted for the journal. Please refer to guidelines presented in http://www.apastyle.org for details for submissions. References within the text will be shown in bracket by quoting first, the author’s name followed by a comma and year of publication all in round bracket, e.g. (Hamid, 2019). 

References should appear at the end of the article, arranged in alphabetical order by the first author’s surname as follows:

For books: surname, initials, (year), title, publisher, place of publication
For journals: surname, initials, (year), title, journal, volume, number, pages
For conference papers: surname, initials, (year), “title”, conference name, place, pages
Example:

Book
Pescod, M. B. (1989), Environmental Engineering, Wiley, London Pescod, M. B. and Mara, D. (1987), Sewage Treatment, In Pescod, M. B. (Ed), Water and Wastewater Treatment, Wiley, London. pp 135-155 (1987)

Journal
Wakeman, R. A. (1989), Ultrasonic Cleaning of Membrane Processes, Journal of Membrane Science, 3(2):34-41

Conference Paper
Suleyman, A. M. (1999), Use of Morringa Oleifera as Coagulant in Water Treatment, Proceedings of the International Conference on Water Treatment, Sarawak, Malaysia, pp 139-145

(c) Figures, tables and captions
Figures and tables must be included within the text rather than grouped at the end of the paper. Captions should be centred with respect to figures and tables and numbered consecutively. Table headings must be placed above tables, and figure captions placed underneath figures.
To facilitate clear reproduction, all photographs and images must be sent in their originals and cited the original sources.

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