Iaclals Journal

• The journal is peer-reviewed and accepts submissions once a year. Submissions are welcome from all.
• Life Members of IACLALS receive a free copy of the journal, as do contributors.
• The journal is published annually.
• While the editorial board consists of all the office bearers, additional colleagues are also invited for editorial support.
• All submissions and queries may be sent to: iaclalsconferences@gmail.com

Manuscripts (including notes and references) should be prepared in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font, 12-point size, and sent via email. The text should be submitted only when it is complete in all respects.

• Please provide 80–100 word biographical notes with postal address, e-mail ID and phone details.

QUOTATION MARKS: Always use single quotation marks for dialogue and quoted material in the text. Reserve the use of double quotation marks for quotes within quotes.

SPELLINGS: Use British spellings. ‘Colour’ not ‘color’, ‘labour’ not ‘labor’. Use ‘-ise’ spellings instead of ‘-ize’; so ‘specialise’ not ‘specialize’, ‘finalise’ not ‘finalize’.

DATES: Use ‘19th century’ not ‘nineteenth century’. Decades should be cited as 1980s, 1860s and so on. Specific dates should be written as 12 August 1978.

NUMBERS: Numbers 0 to 9 should be spelt out. Numbers 10 and above should be written in numerals. For exact measurements, use numerals: for instance, 12 km, 36 ml. For inclusive numbers follow these examples: 5–12, 64–67, 83–110, 100–7, 108–9, 153–97, 425–657, 1001–5, 1100–1145, 1224–26, 1634–714. Use an en dash (–), not a hyphen, for ranges.

(NOTE: To insert an en dash in MS Word, go to Insert → Symbols → Special Characters. Shortcut keys: m-dash (Ctrl+Alt+minus); n-dash (Ctrl+minus).)

REFERENCES: We use endnotes at the end of the essay, followed by ‘Works Cited’.

The body text follows the standard Author–Date style of in-text referencing, placed before the punctuation mark. For example: (Mukherjee 1980: 32).

In case of more than one reference, list them either chronologically (Mukherjee 1980; Trivedi 1983; Prasad 1991) or alphabetically (Mukherjee 1991; Prasad 1983; Trivedi 1980). Separate references with a semicolon. An exception may be made only where the argument is built in a particular order and references must reflect that sequence, for instance: (Vishwanathan 1983; Bose 1991; Trivedi 1980).

If there is more than one work by the same author in the same year, use ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, etc. to differentiate: Bose 1991a, Bose 1991b, Bose 1991c, and so on (both in text and references).

If there are two authors with the same surname publishing in the same year, use initials: G. S. Sharma 1974; R. Sharma 1974.

In co/multi-authored books: for co-authored books (up to 3 authors), write: Sharma, Bhatia and Kumar 2001. For more than 3 authors, write: Sharma et al. 2001.

All reference citations must be listed at the end of the paper under the title ‘References’, including complete publication details: place and year of publication, publisher’s name (for books), and volume, issue and page numbers (for journal articles).

BOOK

Trivedi, A. F. K. 1980. Indian Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

ARTICLE IN EDITED VOLUME

Bose, Narendra. 1991. ‘A Study of The Untouchable’, in Mukherjee M., Bharucha and Harish Trivedi (eds), Contemporary Indian Fiction: Global Research Perspectives, pp. 7–31. New York: Harper Collins.

OR
Aspin, David. 1997. ‘Autonomy and Education…’, in David Bridges (ed.), Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship, pp. 248–60, New York: Routledge.

ARTICLE IN JOURNAL

Vishwanathan, Bharat. 1983. ‘Female Impersonation in Tarsi Theatre’, The Drama Review, 27(2): 195–229.

UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATION, ETC.

Multani, Angelie. 1992. ‘Changes in Conventional Military Doctrines…’. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University.

UNPUBLISHED PAPER

Kumar, Avinash. 2003. ‘Defining the Disciplines…’. Paper presented at SOAS, London.

Nass, C. 2000. ‘Why Researchers Treat On-line Journals like Real People’. Paper presented at ‘Future Books and the World Today’, Rome.

ARCHIVAL REFERENCE

Bengal Political and Secret Department Files… British Library, London.

Assam Secretariat Files… Assam State Archives, Guwahati.

CENSUS & REPORTS

Census of India… Government of India Press.

Hunter, W. W. 1885. Imperial Gazetteer of India…

BOOK REVIEW / REVIEW ESSAY

Pal, Swati. 1989. ‘Deadly Tales’, review of Stillness…

ARTICLE IN NEWSPAPER / MAGAZINE

‘Aborting a Take-Off’. 1992. Sunday, July 19–25.

REFERENCE TO / FROM A WEBSITE

Asad, Talal. 2000. ‘What Do Human Rights Do?…’ Theory and Event, accessed 13 October 2011.

(NOTE: It is essential to mention the date of access of all websites and URLs because several websites become redundant over time. In case of article references from websites, follow the reference style of printed texts above, followed by the name of the website and date on which it was accessed. Please also remove the hyperlink.)

NOTES: They should be listed at the end of the article and set in the same point-size as text matter (11 or 12 points).

ABBREVIATIONS: The abbreviation for a term must be given in parentheses after the term at first mention only; thereafter the abbreviation may be used. Acronyms do not take periods (NATO, UNESCO, LTTE, IPKF). Abbreviations of English words such as ‘Prof.’, ‘ed.’ and ‘approx.’ do take a period. Contracted words such as ‘eds’, ‘Mr’ and ‘Dr’ do not take a period.

ITALICS: Use italics for non-English words. For such words that occur frequently in the text, italics should only be used the first time the word is mentioned. Do not use italics for terms that are now accepted into English and appear in The Chambers English Dictionary (for example, pundit, guru, per se); but italicise ibid. Use italics for emphasis sparingly.

DIACRITICS: Diacritical marks for non-English words should be used sparingly. For European languages, use standard marks (grave/acute accent, circumflex, cedilla, umlaut, etc.) where needed. For transliterated words from Indic/other languages, use diacritics only where essential to the argument.

Authors may choose not to use diacritics at all. If diacritical marks are retained, these should be embedded in the text; alternatively, a PDF needs to be provided for reference.

PLATES AND TABLES: All plates and tables must be referred to in the text and should be placed after their mention. Please mark clearly in the manuscript where they should be placed with: ‘PRESS! PLACE TABLE 2.1 ABOUT HERE’. Plates and tables should be numbered chronologically.

PERMISSIONS: All copyrighted material — photographs, extracts, and articles (even if authored by you) that have been published earlier — require written clearance from the original copyright holders. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that all copyright permissions are obtained prior to handing over the manuscript.

The author should provide all necessary documentation (letters/emails of permission). Text extracts over 400 words, and all photographs, maps and illustrative material require copyright permission. Attribution alone may not suffice.

Permission is needed to reproduce, for example:

• Extracted quotations of more than 400 words; in poetry, 40 lines or more.

Illustrations that are not original to you, and/or are taken from existing publications, museums, agencies or private individuals such as photographs, line drawings, tables, maps, graphs, screen shots, web pages, cartoons and advertisements.

• Material displayed on the Internet — check the copyright notice on the web page.
• All permissions granted should be acknowledged in the preliminary matter. All sources must be given even if permission is not needed.

CAPITALISATION: Do not use capitals for emphasis. Follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.) guidelines for capitalisation of titles and offices. Generally, civil, military, professional and religious titles are capitalised only when they appear with a name: Prime Minister Nehru, President Kennedy, but the president of India, the commander-in-chief of the army.

PUNCTUATION: Use a comma before ‘and’ when there are four or more variables: ‘a, b and c’, but ‘a, b, c, and d’. Use double quote marks within single quote marks for quotations. Periods, commas, exclamation marks and question marks should be placed within quote marks only when they are part of the quoted material.

Quotations over 40 words should not use quotation marks; instead, set them off from the text with extra space above and below, and indent them.

SUPERSCRIPTS: Place superscripts for endnote references after the punctuation mark. Please link these with the text of the notes.

VISUALS: All visual material must have copyright clearance. The complete reference should appear on a separate line below the caption. Visuals should be sent separately (not embedded in the text) as JPEGs or PDFs, saved at a minimum of 300 dpi, with captions listed in a separate document (or a separate Word file with embedded visuals and captions).

Their placement in the text should be marked clearly in BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS as, for example: PLACE PLATE 3 ABOUT HERE, ideally at the end of a paragraph. All visuals should be numbered by the author.

WORD LIMIT: 4000 words, excluding citations.