We request authors to follow the following guidelines to help us reduce processing time of articles that have been accepted for publication.

House style

• For the main text, use Calibri, 11 point, 1.15 line spacing.
• For notes, use Times New Roman, 10 point, single line spacing. Set the alignment as "left".
• Use British and "-ise" spellings (labour, centre, organise).
• Use double quotation marks for quotations, and single marks for quotations within quotations.
• Indent quotations of more than four lines, without quotation marks.
• For quotations from other publications, always provide page number(s) for the quotation.

Abbreviations

• Abbreviations including those in in common use (TMC, US, BCCI, L&T), are spelled out at first occurrence, as in
• The general guideline is no periods even with abbreviations that appear in lowercase letters, as in am, pm.
• No space is left on either side of an ampersand used within an initialism. Avoid using ampersands in running text unless they are within initialisms such as R&D, Texas A&M.
• While abbreviating academic degrees, the current trend is to omit all periods within them, as in PhD, BA.
• Company names are best given in their full forms in running text, though such tags as Ltd and Inc may be omitted unless relevant to the context, as in Brooks Brothers was purchased and later resold by Marks and Spencer.
• No periods are used after any of the International System of Units symbols for units, and the same symbols are used for both the singular and the plural, as in kg, cm, m.
• Note that a unit of measurement used without a numeral should always be spelled out, even in scientific contexts, as in We took the measurements in kilometers.
• void using abbreviations for two-word names as far as possible. Some may be unavoidable such as the US or UP, but where it is part of government/bureaucratic or journalistic usage such as PM, CM, DM, SC or HC do avoid abbreviations.

Tables, Figures

• Headings should be placed above each table/figure and should follow this format:

Table 1.  Demand and Supply of Capital Goods

Figure 2.  Wage Price Spiral

• Notes and sources should be placed under each table/figure.
• Column headings in tables should clearly define the data presented.

In-text citations

Use the author-date system for citations.

• Works cited in the text should read thus: (Crown 1992: 63-64); Cambell (1989, 1993).
• For repeat citations: eg (ibid 75)
• For groups of citations, order alphabetically and not chronologically, using a semi-colon to separate names: (Crown 1992; Bani and Honey 1994; Powell 1989).
• Use "et al" when citing a work by more than two authors, but list all the authors in the References (unless there are six authors or more).
• To distinguish different works by the same author in the same year, use the letters a, b, c, etc., Messy (1993a, 1993b).

References

All works cited in the text (including sources for tables and figures) should be listed alphabetically under References, on a separate sheet of paper.

• For multi-author works, invert the name of the first author only (Chandil, M and R Roy).
• Use (ed.) for one editor, and multiple editors.
• When listing two or more works by one author, use --- (19xx), such as after Singha (1967), use --- (1974), etc, in chronologically ascending order
• Indicate (opening and closing) page numbers for articles in journals and for chapters in books.
• Note that italics are used only for titles of books and names of journals. Double quotation marks are used for titles of journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, reports, working papers, unpublished material, etc.
• For titles in a language other than English, provide an English translation in parentheses.
• Use endnotes rather than footnotes.

The location of endnotes within the text should be indicated by superscript numbers.
For sources which have insufficient details to be included in the Reference, use endnotes (such as interviews, some media sources, some Internet sources).
See the following for style and punctuation in References.

Books

• Wordsworth, William (1967):Lyrical Ballads (London: Oxford University Press).
• Goswami, S and K Milton, ed. (1976): Postmodern Love and Ethics (London: Oxford University Press)

Contributions to books

• Elson, D (1996): "Appraising Recent Developments in the World Market for Nimble Fingers" in Chhachhi and R Pittin(ed) Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press) 35-55.

• Journal and other articles

Helleiner, Eric (2006): "Reinterpreting Bretton Woods: International Development and the Neglected Origins of Embedded Liberalism", Development and Change, 37(5): 943–67.

Poniewozik, James (2000): "TV Makes a Too-Close Call", Time 20 Nov: 70–71.

Conference papers

• Doyle, Brian (2002): "Howling Like Dogs: Metaphorical Language in Psalm 59." Paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, Berlin, Germany, 19–22 June.

Unpublished dissertations and theses

• Graban, Tarez Samra (2006): "Towards a Feminine Ironic: Understanding Irony in the Oppositional Discourse of Women from the Early Modern and Modern Periods," Dissertation, Purdue University.
• Stolley, Karl (2002): "Towards a Conception of Religion as a Discursive Formation: Implications for Postmodern Composition Theory", PhD thesis, Madras University.

Online resources

Always indicate the date that the source was accessed, as online resources are frequently updated or removed.

Website

Felluga, Dino(2003): Guide to Literary and Critical Theory, 28 November, Purdue University, Viewed on 10 May 2006 (http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory).

Page on a website

"Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, 28 April 2006, Viewed on 10 May 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caret&oldid=157510440).

Article in a web magazine

Bernstein, Mark (2002): "10 Tips on Writing The Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. No 149 (16 Aug). Viewed on 4 May 2006 (http://alistapart.com/articles/ writeliving).