STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY
The submission of an article for publication in our journal implies that it has not been published before, nor is being considered for publication in other journals. Authors are responsible for the content and the originality of their contributions. In order to be published, articles must be thoroughly researched and referenced. Book or article reviews express the reviewer’s personal opinion and do not, necessarily, express the views of editors.
Each author must send a signed Declaration of Originality.
PEER REVIEW PROCEDURE
All the manuscripts submitted for publication to the Editorial team undergo an anonymous peer review procedure, necessary for assessing the quality of scientific information, the relevance to the field, the appropriateness of scientific writing style, the compliance with the style and technical requirements of our journal, etc. The referees are selected from the national and international members of the editorial and scientific board, as well as from other scholarly or professional experts in the field.
This process leads either to acceptation, recommendation for revision, or rejection of the assessed article. Editors reserve the right to make minor editorial changes to the submitted articles, including changes to grammar, punctuation and spelling, as well as article format, but no major alterations will be carried out without authorial approval. If major revisions are necessary, articles are returned to the author so that he/she should make the proper changes.
The final version of the manuscripts accepted for publication is included on the list of articles which are to be published. Authors are notified by e-mail about the status of the submitted articles. All authors have free online access to their article in PDF format.
ARTICLE FORMAT
All manuscripts must be edited entirely in English and should, generally, not be longer than 6000 words (max. 15 pages, A4), including references.
Manuscripts must be typewritten and single spaced according to the following format: Microsoft Word, Page Setup 21 x 29.7 cm; Top 2.5; Bottom 2.5.; Left 2.0; Right 2.0; Times New Roman, 12 pts., Single space.
Please make sure to save your files in a format that is compatible with Office 1997-2003.
If special characters in your Word file become corrupted during the online submission process, you may submit your own PDF of the file, in addition to the Word file.
EDITING REQUIREMENTS
1) Title (Times New Roman 14 pts., bold, centred);
2) Author(s)’s name and affiliation (Times New Roman 12 pts., bold);
3) Abstract (maximum 200 words, in English, Times New Roman 11 pts., regular, justified, Indentation – Left by 1.25 cm);
4) Keywords (up to 10 words, in English, Times New Roman 10 pts., regular, justified, Indentation – Left by 1.25 cm);
5) Acknowledgments (if any);
6) Main body of text (Times New Roman 12 pts., regular, justified, special indentation – First line by 1.25 cm);
7) Footnotes (if any, Times New Roman 10 pts, regular, justified);
8) Illustrations (graphs, diagrams), must be submitted in electronic version, in JPG format, with indications of their position in the text. They must be referred to as Figures and numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals. Figure titles must be provided as text, separated from the figure object itself, and placed under the figures;
9) Tables must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numbers and should not repeat data available elsewhere in the text. Table titles must be placed above the tables.
10) References must be indicated in the text between brackets and they must include the author’s name, year of the publication and page (Sen, 2001, p. 5). When three or more authors are refereed, they will appear in the text as follows: (Long et al., 1997, pp. 5-7).
11) References are listed in alphabetical order at the end of the text (Times New Roman 11 pts., Special indentation – Hanging by 1.25 cm). The following style sheet is recommended:
For books: Doniger, Wendy, An American Girl in India. Letters and Recollections, 1963-64, New Delhi: Speaking Tiger Books, 2022.
For chapters in a volume written by one or more authors: Pinto, Jerry and Rahul Srivastava, Talk of the Town. Stories of Twelve Indian Cities, Gurugram: Puffin Books, Penguin Random House India, 2008, Chapter “Kolkata/Calcutta: We have even more culture”, pp. 69-79.
For chapters in an edited volume: Chandra, Uday, “Kol, Coolie, Colonial Subject: A Hidden History of Caste and the Making of Modern Bengal,” in Caste in Bengal: Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion, and Resistance, edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Tanika Sarkar, Raniketh: Permanent Black, 2023, pp. 401-419.
For articles in a journal: Ferguson, Dean T, “Nightsoil and the ‘Great Divergence’: Human Waste, in the Urban Economy, and Economic Productivity, 1500-1900,” Journal of Global History 9, no. 3 (2014): 379-402.
For papers from conference: Eck, Diana, “A New Geo-Religious Reality” (paper presented at the World Conference on Religion and Peace, Sixth World Assembly, Riva del Garda, Italy, November 1994).
For electronic references: B. G. Kunte, „The Nizamshahi of Ahmadnagar”, published in Maharashtra State Gazetteers – History Part II: Medieval Period, Government of Maharastra, Mumbai, pp. 71-149,
https://gazetteers.maharashtra.gov.in/cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/History%20Part/History_II/chapter_3.pdf, last accessed March 7, 2024.
For reviews: Mihaela Gligor, review of Amartya Sen, Home in the World. A Memoir (New Delhi: Allen Lane, an Imprint of Penguin Books, 2021), in the Romanian Journal of Indian Studies, 6 (2022), 154-155. Open access: http://www.editura.ubbcluj.ro/bd/ebooks/pdf/3312.pdf
For websites: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1998/sen/facts/, last accessed January 9, 2024.
12) The article should be accompanied by a short CV of the author, which must include author’s scientific title, affiliation (institution), postal address, e-mail address and recent works (maximum 10 lines, Times New Roman 10 pts., regular, justified).
13) All the quotes from other languages must be translated into English.