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REFERENCING AND STYLESHEET: JOURNAL OF THE MALAYSIAN PARLIAMENT SUBMISSION Articles should not have been published elsewhere or under review for publication elsewhere at the time.

Articles that have been part of dissertation can be considered provided there is major modification and adjustment according to the requirement of the journal.

All contributions must be submitted through the online journal system of the Journal of the Malaysian Parliament at https://journalmp.parlimen.gov.my.
All received articles will be evaluated by specialised referees.

Selected articles will be returned to the writers with reviewer comments along with the Editorial Board decision regarding their publication.

The editorial board may not give reasons in cases where the articles are far below the expected standards of scholarship.

Articles submitted to the Journal are not returnable whether they are accepted for publication or not.
The Editorial Board holds the right to make any necessary changes in the approved articles for publication upon consultation with the writers.

Stylistic, linguistic and limited editorial changes may be done by the Editorial Board itself.

LANGUAGE POLICY All articles can be published in English or Bahasa Malaysia.

In the Bahasa Malaysia’s article, translations should be given for titles, abstracts and keywords.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS Articles submitted should be between 3,000 and 8,000 words in length.
Please include an abstract in between 150-250 words, five keywords, Introduction, main text (divided into headings and subheadings), and Conclusion.

Do not number any of the headings and subheadings.

Papers to be submitted in word doc (no PDFs), Line spacing 1.5, Times New Roman, Font size 12, Footnotes in font size 10.

FOOTNOTES Journal of the Malaysian Parliament uses the footnote system of citation.

Citations should not be embedded within the main text of the manuscript.
Footnotes should be limited to those that are essential and kept brief (fewer than three lines).

They should be marked clearly in superscript in the text at a point of punctuation.

A references list should also be included at the end of the article.

journal This https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/publications/oscola.
follows the OSCOLA style of citation, 4th edn, Hart 2012, available at Please refer to the guidelines as below to structure the footnotes: Page 1 of 4 Books In footnotes, books should be cited as follows: Author(s)/Editor(s), Title of Book, place of publication, publisher, date.

Where more than one place of publication is given on the title page, it is necessary to give only the first in the citation.

If 3 or more authors, list the 1st author followed by ‘and others’, et al is not used.

e.g.
e.g.

▪ A.A. Bari and F.S.

Shuaib, Constitution of Malaysia: Text and Commentary (Petaling Jaya, Prentice Hall, 2004) 110.

▪ M. Cremona and B de Witte (eds), EU Foreign Relations Law: Constitutional Fundamentals, Essays in European Law 11 (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2006).

Give place of publication, publisher and date of publication in that order.

Similarly it is not necessary to provide an author’s full name, but an initial must be supplied, and again this should be done consistently.
When an author has more than one initial, initials should be closed up (eg, DT Goldberg, MM Smith, rather than D T Goldberg and M M Smith).

Do not place a comma before the page/pinpoint number.

When referring to book editions, please use normal script, not superscript, ie, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, rather than 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

T.E.

May, Erskine May’s Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament (23rd edn, Butterworths, LexisNexis UK, 2004).
Chapters in Edited Volumes Chapters published in edited volumes should be cited as follows: e.g.

▪ C. Taylor, ‘The Politics of Recognition’ in D.T.

Goldberg (ed), Multiculturalism: a critical reader (Massachusets, Blackwell Publishers, 1994).

Journal Articles Journal articles should be cited as follows: ▪ ▪ J. Dharm, ‘Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Member of Parliament Under Indian Constitution: An Overview’ (2016) 2 International Education and Research Journal 141, 145.
A. Mohd, ‘Protection of Rights Adopted Children in Relation to Duties of Adoptive Parents under the Law in Malaysia’ (2011) 14 (4) Adoption Quarterly 229-45, 238-9 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2011.628261> The page number of the beginning of the article should be given.

Pinpoints are given after a comma.

The abbreviation ‘p.’ and ‘pp.’ are not used.


Multiple page numbers should be indicated as follows: Page 2 of 4 ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ 103-7 (for pages 103 to 107) 111-15 (for pages 111 to 115) 233-4 (for pages 233 to 234) 364-85 (for pages 364 to 385) 84-109.

Title to be within single quotation marks and maximal capitalisation.

DOI addresses should not contain a hyperlink or be underlined.

Websites Citations for webpage as follow: Name of Author(s), ‘Webpage Title: Webpage Subtitle,’ <Full Link>.
accessed on: Date when Viewed.

e.g.

▪ ▪ L. Nathoo, ‘Parliamentary Privilege’ <https://www.academia.edu/11128274/Parliamentary_Privilege> accessed 10 October 2019.

See <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/2/introduction> accessed 19 January 2019.

Web addresses should not contain a hyperlink or be underlined.

Hansard and parliamentary reports Citations for hansard as follow: House Deb | date, | volume, | column or page.

e.g.

▪ DR Deb 18 May 2020, Bil.

1, 5.


▪ DN Deb 16 December 2020, Bil.

13, 8.

(use DR for Dewan Rakyat or DN for Dewan Negara) Citations for parliamentary committees as follow: Committee name, | report name | (House | term, | paper number) e.g.
▪ Public Accounts Committee, Pembangunan Air Mobility (DR 2018-2023, DR.12.2020) ▪ House Committee, Special Select Committee and APPGM (DR 2018-2023, DR.6/2019) Conference papers Citations for conference papers as follow: Name of Author(s), ‘Title’ (Conference name, location, date) Page 3 of 4 e.g.

▪ M.Z.

Ismail, ‘The Suspension of Members from House’ (32nd Conference of Speakers of Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies Malaysia, Subang Jaya, 2003).
▪ Z. Ibrahim, ‘Control of House Proceeding’ (31st Conference of Speakers of Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, 2002) <https://www.parlimen.gov.my/ipms/eps/2019-10-16/DR.6.2019%20-%20DR%206.2019.pdf> accessed 13 January 2020.

Cross-references and subsequent citations In a subsequent citation of a source, briefly identify the source and provide a cross-citation in brackets to the footnote in which the full citation first mentioned.
For immediate citation, ‘ibid.’ can be used to repeat a citation.

Avoid using ‘Latin gadgets’ such as infra, ante, op cit, loc cit.

1 R. Ramli, Towards a Region of Peace: Dynamics of Southeast Asia and the South China Sea (Bangi, Penerbit UKM, 2018) … 17 Ramli (n 1) 43.

18 ibid.

57.
18 ibid.

57.

REFERENCES Items in references list take the same form as all other citations, with three exceptions: ▪ The author’s surname should precede his or her initial(s), ▪ Only initials should be used, and not forenames, ▪ The titles of unattributed works should be preceded by a double em-dash e.g.

Gomez E.T., Political Business: Corporate Involvement of Malaysian Political Parties (Cairns, James Cook University, 1994).
— ‘Resisting the Fall: The Single Dominant Party, Policies and Elections in Malaysia’ (2016) 46(4) Journal of Contemporary Asia 570.

— and others, Minister of Finance Incorporated: Ownership and Control of Corporate Malaysia (Basingstoke, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017).

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