Submissions

Author Guidelines

General guidelines

Contributions must be original, unpublished work and must not be submitted to another publication simultaneously. However, translated material that is unpublished elsewhere in English may also be considered. Authors are not charged for publication and all journal work undertaken is volunteer.

All contributions and correspondence should be submitted via our Open Journal System. Contributions should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document. A printed copy is not required. Contributions should not entail identifiable elements such as author(s)' name, address, email, so that we can easily maintain anonymity for the purpose of double-blind peer review. For more information, please familiarize yourself with our policy for ensuring a blind review. The editorial team reserve the right to edit or alter contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval prior to publication.

In addition, authors are required to make sure submitted content does not infringe third party copyright. More information from the Intellectual Property Office here: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy.htm

Content

Contributions of minumum 4,000 words and up to maximum 8,000 words (including references, captions and notes) are welcome, in line with the rationale of The South Asianist. Shorter contributions will be considered, as well as visual and creative submissions. Book reviews should not be more than 800 words. 

The main submission should contain the title, subtitle (if desired), and the main body of the text, with references, appendices, tables, and necessary footnotes.

Main submission should be accompanied by a title page that includes: title, subtitle (if desired), author(s)’ name, institutional affiliation, acknowledgements (if any), address and email. Title page should also contain an abstract of 200-250 words and five keywords. We request that you submit the title page as supplementary file rather than in the main submission, which will need to be blinded for peer-review. 

Style

Papers should be written concisely, but not at the expense of clarity. The text should be typed in 12-point Times New Roman font, and should be double-spaced (including abstract, references and footnotes). Pages should be numbered. 

Headings and sub-headings

• Headings within the text should be positioned on the left-hand side of the text;
• Primary Headings should be typed in bold and have initial capital letters;
• Secondary Headings should be italicised and have initial capital; letters;
• Tertiary Headings should be in normal font and also have initial capital letters.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be kept to a minimum. They should not be used for references, but for explanation and expansion of argument where appropriate. Footnotes reference numbers should appear as consecutive Arabic numerals and must be embedded in the text (so that any footnote additions or deletions will automatically change all the footnote changes throughout the paper).

Referencing

Formatting should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Citations in text should be referenced in parentheses: (Author Year) as in (Said 1978); (Author Year: Pages) e.g. (Sharma 2008: 309).

References should be listed under a heading called References at the end of the document, and should appear in alphabetical sequence using the following style:

Journal articles
Shah A. (2006), ‘The Labour of Love: Seasonal migration from Jharkhand to the brick kilns of other states in India’, Contributions to Indian Sociology 40 (1): 91-118

Books
Scott, J. C. (2009), The Art of Not Being Governed: An anarchist history of upland southeast Asia, Yale: Yale University Press

Edited books
Bates, C. (ed.) (2001), Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in diaspora, Bakingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Book chapters in edited collections
Bharadwaj A. (2009), ‘Assisted Life: The neoliberal moral economy of embryonic stem cells in India’, in D. Birenbaum-Carmeli and M. C. Inhorn (eds.), Assisting reproduction, testing genes: Global encounters with new biotechnologies, New York: Berghahn Books: 239-258

Translations
Bjerre, J. (1960) Kalahari (trans. Bannister, E.), New York: Hill and Wang

Electronic sources
Islam T. (2010), Let’s Save Puran Dhaka!, Accessed at http://urbanpovertyinbangladesh.blogspot.com/ on 23 April 2012

Theses
Vidanage, H. R. (2009), Exploring the impact of online politics on political agents and political strategies in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. PhD thesis. University of Edinburgh

Newspaper articles
Roy P. (2012), Eyes Wide Shut!, The Orissa Post (Bubaneshwar), 15 March, p.14

Magazine articles
Kaung, K. M. (2011), Potemkin Politics: Are the Burmese reforms for real?, Himal Southasian: 21-25, December

Film
Title. Format (e.g. DVD). Directed by xxx (date of release); place of publication, publisher/distributor, distribution date (if different from date of release, as in the case of DVDs).

Grey literature
This includes, but is not restricted to, governmental and non-governmental reports, pamphlets, internal company documents, conference papers, working papers and unpublished material. Reference to grey literature should follow the author and title style for books, but without italics for the title.

Other conventions

Language

English is the working language of this publication. Words in other languages should be italicised.

Spelling

The working language of the journal is British English. 

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Abbreviations and acronyms should be explained at the first occurrence. These, and other conventions, should be used consistently throughout the paper, and typed without full points. Thus: GNP, PhD. Per cent is preferred to %, unless used frequently. Always percentage.

Dashes

Use an em-rule (–) with a character space either side.

Numbers, Dates and Measurements

Words should be used for simple numbers from one to ten, while figures should be used for numerals from 11 upwards. Exceptions are references to page numbers, and in sets of numerals, some of which are higher than ten (eg, 17, 6 and 2).

Four-figure numbers should have a comma, and a further comma with each additional three figures (eg, 2,000; 5,000,000.)

Dates should be written in full (eg, 15 February 1943), and decades in number, without abbreviation (eg, the 1980s). Write 20th century, and use 21st-century ideas. Metric units are preferred for contemporary weights and measures.

Quotations

When in the text these should be in single quotation marks, and should be in double quotation marks when appearing as quotations within quotations. Quotations of more than two lines of text should be indented.

Tables, Illustrations and Figures

Tables, illustrations and figures should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, and placed in their appropriate location and caption marked in the text.

Illustrations may be provided in colour or greyscale and submitted as either .tiff or .jpeg files with a minimum quality of 300dpi. The online nature of this series means there is no additional cost for the inclusion of photographs, maps, etc and contributors are encouraged to use illustrations where appropriate.

Authors who are in doubt about the accepted style or conventions should refer to a recent article of The South Asianist.