Author Guidelines
- The text shall pertain to presenting new findings, reviewing research methodology, changing aims and perspectives as well as identifying particular emphasis of the individual author(s). The text should be comprehensive and to the point. Lengthy introductions to already known information should be avoided.
- An abstract of not more than three hundred words should be provided. It should comprise a representative summary of your analysis.
- Main headings and subheadings should be given on the left margin of the paper. The main headings should be marked bold and subheadings italics.
- Word-processed manuscript, MS Word, should be submitted on a rewritable CD along with hard copies of the manuscript. One of these will be sent to the copy editor and the other retained in the editorial office as a safeguard against loss/damage to the first copy.
All the references should be arranged under the heading ‘references’ at the end of the text alphabetically and chronologically in the manner explained below.
All references to the literature cited in support of your statements should be mentioned within the text in parentheses with only the surname of the author and the year of publication. No punctuation is to be used between the name and the year (For example: Seshadri 1955).
If you are quoting an author or referring to a specific point in his/her contribution, then the actual page number(s) should be mentioned so that the reader of paper can locate and verify the reference cited. A colon should be used between year and page number (For example: Seshadri 1955: 37).
If the name of the author already occurs in the text, immediately before the citation, then only the year of publication and number should be mentioned in the
DLIT parenthesis (Example: Nilakanta Sastry (1974: 27) is of the opinion that…)
If the reference cited has two authors, names or surnames of both should be given (For example: Nilakanta Sastry and Srinivasachar 1970 or Setter and Korisetter 2002). If the reference has more than two authors, only the surname of the first author followed by et al. should be given in the text (For example: Sharma et al.).
In case of references to inscriptions published in the annual reports of the ASI, Epigraphia India, Epigraphia Carnatica, Census Reports, etc. only the journal name, page number and the year of publication should be mentioned(For example ECX:36 or IAR 1953-54)
In the Case ofArticles in Journals:
Lal, B. B. 1956. Palaeoliths from the Beas and BangangaValleys, Punjab, Ancient India 12:58-92. Rendell, H. and R. W. Dennell. 1985. Dated Lower Palaeolithic Artefacts from Northern Pakistan, Current Anthropology 26(3): 393.
Gaillard, C> D> R> Raju, V.N. Misra and S. N. Rajaguru 1983. Acheulian Occupation at Singi Talav in Thar Desert: a Preliminary Report on 1982 Excavation, Man and Environment 7: 112-130.
In the Case of Books, Theses and Articles Published in Edited Volumes:
Murty, M. L. K. 1966. Stone Age Cultures of Chittoor District, AndraPradesh. Ph.D. Dissertation. Pune:UniversityofPuna.
De Terra, H. and T.T. Patterson. 1939. Studies on the Ice Age in India and Associated Human Cultures. WashingtonD.C.; Carnegie Institution.
Clark, J.D. 1985. The Microlithic Industries of Africa: Their Antiquity and Possible Economic Implications. In Recent Advances in Indo-Pasific Prehistory (V. N. Mishra and P.Bellwood Eds.), 95104.New Delhi: Oxford-IBH.
No punctuation should be used between the journal name and its volume number. If the reference is to a particular number of the journal, the number should be put in parentheses just after the volume number followed by page numbers (For example: Rendell and Dennell, as shown above).
In the case of an article published in a journal or in an edited volume, all the page number should be given in a list of references.
- All Books and Journal titles should be italicized.
- Upper case (capital letter) should be used for the first letter of every word except prepositions and conjunctions in the title of an article or a book.
- Inverted commas should not be used before and after the titles of articles and books.
- If more than one publication of the same published in a single year are being cited, then they should be labeled a, b, c, and so on immediately after the year, both in the text and in the list of references ( For example Sankalia 1982a, 1982b, and so on).
- In the list of references journal names should invariably be written in full (For example: Karnatak University Journal of Social Sciences). Abbreviations of journal names should never be used.
- In the case of books the place of publication and the name of publisher should be given without fail and in that order (For example see De Terra and Patterson, J.D. Clark, shown above).
- While citing an article in an edited volume ‘pp’ for pages should be used whereas in the case of an article in a journal a colon should be used (For example see J.D. Clark as above).
- In no case should abbreviated reference forms like ‘ibid.’, ‘op-cit.’ and ‘supra.’ Be used.
1. No footnotes please. Avoid using Ibid, op cit.
- The manuscript including tables and references should be word-processed.
- The title of the article followed by the name(s) of the author(s) and institutional affiliation should be given on a separate cover page.
- This page should not be numbered. Personal titles like Dr., Lecturer, Professor, Miss and
- The title of the article and the name(s) of the author(s) should also appear on the top of the first page of the paper.
- An abstract of the paper should be typed on the first page below the title of the paper and the name(s) of the author(s) and above the main body of the text.
- The list of references should be typed on a fresh page after the footnotes or, if there are no footnotes, after the text.
- If a reference runs into more than one line, the second line and the succeeding lines should be typed leaving a margin of five spaces (see examples ). Murty, K.L.K. 1966. Stone Age Cultures of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh. Ph.D. Dissertation. Pune: UniversityofPoona.
- Manuscript pages should be numbered serially till the last page of references. All tables whether typed on text pages or separately, should be numbered serially.
- Photocopies, photographs or copies of line drawings will not be accepted. Photographs should be printed on glossy paper. All illustrations-both line drawings and half-tone plates-should be printed on glossy paper. All illustrations-both line drawings and half-tone plates-should be of 20 x 16cm size or in ratios thereof. All illustrations will be returned to the author after publication.
- Both line drawings and photographs should be designated as Figures and numbered in Arabic numerals as Fig. 1., Fig., 2., and so on, in the order in which they occur in the text.
- The name of the author should be written in pencil on the reverse of all illustrations to avoid mixing up of the illustrations of different authors.
- An arrow in pencil on the reverse should show orientation of the illustrations, especially in the case ofphotographs.
- Captions to illustration should be typed on a separate sheet, at the end of the manuscript, and the page(s) should not be numbered.
