Basma Ta'ala
Guidelines for editing articles in the scientific research quarterly "Nahj al-Balagha Researches"
This guide is compiled in five sections and helps the authors of the articles to prepare their article with the accepted design of Nahj al-Balagheh Research Quarterly.
The structure of the article
The submitted article must be a research, showing innovation in rhetorical issues and have the following structure: title, abstract, key words, introduction, discussion, conclusion and suggestions, sources.
1. Title; It should be short and descriptive of the content of the article.
2. Abstract; It should be the full length of the article and should include the introduction of the subject, necessity and importance of research, research method and findings and should not be less than 200 words and not more than 250 words.
3. Keywords; Include at least 3 and maximum 5 words of index and list words separated by commas (,) and listed in one line in order of their importance.
4. Introduction; The research problem should be clearly presented and explained, and the background of the research and its innovation should be mentioned.
* In the introduction, mention the statement of the problem, goals and necessities of the research (what and why the article is). In the preparation of the article, items such as appendices, annexes, and questionnaires should be avoided and the goals, questions, and hypotheses of the research should be explained at the end of the statement of the problem.
* In the background section of the research, the following main sub-sections should be mentioned: 1. Theoretical background (theories, views and approaches available on the problem); 2. Empirical background (previous researches and their methodologies on the problem); and 3. conceptual model (if the research is quantitative and has a model).
5. the main body of the article; with a critical, analytical, documented and reasoned orientation.
6. Result; Include research findings appropriate to the problem plan. If you have suggestions from the research, you can put them at the end of the conclusion.
7. List of references: APA standard method should be used for sourcing. Table 1 describes the sourcing method for books and articles. If you use other sources of information such as theses, research reports, statistics of government organizations, unpublished pamphlets, websites, audio and video files, etc., use the APA style sheet.
*Separate the sources into three sections: Persian, Arabic and English in the same way, and arrange each section in alphabetical order of that language.
* In the text, all sources, even English sources, must be written in Persian.
*In the reference within the text, if the number of authors is more than three, only the last name of the first author should be mentioned and the phrase "and others" should be used instead of the others.
*If a source is cited several times, it is necessary to state the reference in full each time and not use the word "same".
*If two or more works were published by the same author in one year, the year of publication should be distinguished from each other by alphabet letters. Such as: 1387A, 1387B and . . .
*If it is not necessary to refer to a specific version of the translations of Nahj al-Balaghah, one of the translations of Nahj al-Balaghah: Faiz al-Islam, Shahidi or Deen Parvar should be used to translate the phrases of Nahj al-Balaghah.
Table 1. Correct description of sourcing inside and at the end of the article
Source type
Inside the text
In the resource list
Quran verses
If it is not necessary to refer to a specific version of the Qur'an, addressing is done only within the text and referring to the number of surah(s) and verse(s) and without mentioning the page number. In this sense, after the word Holy Qur'an, first the number of the surah is mentioned, then a colon, and then the number of the verse. (Holy Quran 2:101) (Holy Quran 101:2-4)
Holy Quran
The text of Nahj al-Balagha
With in-text reference to the sermon, letter and wisdom and its number without mentioning the page number. In this sense, after the word sermon, letter or wisdom, its number comes. (Sermon 53) (Letter 43)
Religionist, Seyyed Jamaluddin. (1379). Persian Nahj al-Balagheh. Tehran: Nahj al-Balagheh Foundation.
Article
(author's last name, year of publication, pp. cited pages)
Last name of the author, name of the author. (year of publication). Title. The name of the publication (italic), period (number), the beginning page of the article - the end page of the article.
Persian essay example
Akrami, Mansour, Minaei and Amjad (2015)
When mentioning the authors' names at the beginning of the sentence.
(Akrami, Mansour, Minaei and Amjad, 2015).
When mentioning the authors' names at the end of the sentence and in parentheses.
Akrami, Mohammadreza; Mansour, Taha; Minaei, Ahmad and Amjad, Babak. (2015). Examining the evidence of the authenticity of the appearances of the Qur'an in the light of the teachings of Nahj al-Balagha. Nahj al-Balagha Research Quarterly, 8(3), 477-498.
Book
(author's last name, year of publication, pp. cited pages)
Last name of the author, name of the author. (year of publication). Book title. Translator or researcher. City of publication: name of the publisher.
Example of Persian book
(Porezzat, 2010, pp. 53-54)
Pourezat, Ali Asghar. (2010). Islamic management in the light of Nahj al-Balagha. Tehran: Nahj al-Balagheh Foundation
2. Important editorial points
* For foreign words and names, as much as possible, use well-known and approved Farsi equivalents. You can use the documentation bank of the National Library of Iran to document people's surnames. In the case of essential and uncommon foreign names or non-Persian equivalents, only when they first appear in the text and immediately after such words are mentioned, write their Latin equivalent in the form of a subtitle at the bottom of the same page.
* Use number and point for numbering; Like 1. 2.
* There is no need for a space before periods, commas, semicolons, colons, question marks, exclamation marks, etc.; But there should be a space after these signs.
*When using parentheses, use a space before the opening parenthesis and after the closing parenthesis. The word in parentheses, run