Procedure:
Communication: The East-Indian Society for the Studies of Social Sciences welcomes articles of interest representing original work, analytical papers based on review of extensive literature on History, Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology or any topic dealing with social sciences & humanities for publication in its biannual Journal namely East-Indian Journal of Social Sciences in English and Purva-Bharat(Manus O Sanskriti) in Bengali l. All communication should be made to the society.
Email:
Mob: 7407018862/9434491655/9474427446/9733134588.
Declaration: The author(s) must certify in a declaration format downloaded from Notice portion of the website that the article is his/her/their own original work and that it hasn’t been submitted to another publication or is being considered for publication elsewhere.
Manuscript: Each manuscript should be submitted in triplicate with a letter of transmittal. Article should be double spaced typewritten on one side of quarto size (A4) paper. Manuscripts of articles should be submitted in MS-Word (Times New Roman, 12 point) . The length of the article should not exceed 3000-3500 words. The margin kept should be 1.5 inches on the left side and 1 inch on the other three sides.
Headlines: Limit the level of heading within an article to three or four (maximum). Avoid lengthy headings and do not number them. The printed style will demonstrate their order clearly without recourse to an explicit numbering, such as 1.1.
Quotations: Strictly follow APA or Chicago style while using quotation marks.(Use single quotation marks, (reserving double quotation Mark for quoted words within a quotation. Spelling of words in quotation should not be changed. No quotation marks are required for longer passages (i.e. 45 words or more), these have to be indented and separated from the text.
Italics: Avoid excessive italization unless it is necessary as per APA or Chicago style whichever is followed by the author in writing the article. (for emphasis but use them book titles and foreign words, unless particular terms occur so frequently that they are better in upright (Roman) type. Proper nouns in a foreign language should always be in roman. We also prefer to set common terms such as ‘status quo’, ‘et al.’ in roman; ibid. However, will be in italics.>
Softcopy submission: The author is advised to send his/her article in a CD or through Email entering the documents in Ms Words1997-2008.
Plagiarism Policy:
Whether it be text, photographs, or anything else, the journal has a zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism and resemblance. Plagiarism, in any of its many forms, is dishonest and against the rules of good scholarship. Plagiarism is an immoral act in our eyes. Plagiarism, in all of its many forms, is immoral and illegal, and it cannot be tolerated. Before submitting their work to the journal, authors must run it via at least one of several available plagiarism detection software packages. The Editorial Board maintains the right to conduct a plagiarism check on all submissions and to inform the author if any instances of plagiarism are found.Before entries are given to the Editorial Board, they are reviewed for plagiarism.. Without the peer review process, submitted publications that contain plagiarised or otherwise similar content are automatically rejected or sent back for revision.
Editing: Every accepted article will be edited. If the author wishes to see the edited copy he/she should make this request at the time of sending the article.
Copyright: The author owns the copyright of the article until the article is accepted by the EIJSS for publication. After the acceptance the copyright of the article is owned by the EISSS and should not be reproduced elsewhere without the written permission of the editor.
Preparation of the Article:
Ttle Page: The Title page should include the title of the article, name/s of the author/s and their institutional affiliation/s.
Abstract: The first page of the article should contain an abstract of the article not exceeding 250 words.
Reduce Bias in Language: Constructions that might imply bias against or stereotypes on the basis of gender, ethnicity, disability or age should be avoided.
Spelling: Use British spelling in all cases instead of American.
Underline Words: Words underlined in a manuscript appear in italics when typeset. Don’t underline words for emphasizing them.
Abbreviations: A term to be abbreviated must, on its first appearance, be written completely to be followed immediately by its abbreviation in parentheses and thereafter, the abbreviation may be used without further explanation.
Tables: Type each table on a separate page. Insert a location note at the appropriate place in the text. Minimize the use of the tables.
Notes: Notes should be listed as endnotes in an appendix and not typed at the bottom of the manuscript-pages on which they appear.
As far as possible, all articles and notes should be organized into the following sections; 1. Introduction, 2. Hypothesis, 3. Methodological issues involved 4. Limitations of analysis, 5. Policy implications and 6. Conclusions, Sub-sections should carry clear and distinct sub-heading.
Reference List: The referencing, in-text citation must be as per the latest edition of the APA or Chicago style.
- The reference list at the end of the article should provide complete information necessary to identity and retrieve each source: Author/s name, year of publication, title and publishing data. Reference cited in text appears in the reference list, conversely, each entry in the reference list must be cited in the text, and both should be identical in spellings and year.
- An article published in a journal may be listed in the following format; Authors last name, initials, year of publication, name of the article, and name of the journal underlined, volume number, issue number in parentheses, and page number.
- An article published in an edited book may be listed in the following format: Author’s last name, initials, year of publication, name of the article, initials and surname of editors, ed./s, in parentheses, title of the book underlined, page numbers of the article in parentheses, place of publication and name of the publisher, separated by a colon.
- A book may be listed in the following format; author’s last name, initials, year of publication, title of the book underlined, place of publication and name of the publisher, separated by a colon.
- When a reference has more than one author, list all the authors’ name. For an institutional report, write full name of the institute as the author. For a government report, the author is the name of the country/state and the name of the minister/department, separated by a colon.
- Arrange reference in the reference list in the alphabetical order by the surname of the first author and then his/her initials. When ordering more than one reference by the same author, list the earlier publication before the later publication. Reference by the same author with the same publication year are arranged alphabetically by the title, and suffixes a,b,c and so on are added to the year.
- The society supplies one copy of the printed journal free of cost to the author(s). Additional requirements if any should be communicated to the secretary/editors.
Example for Reference:
(a)Books: R.S. Sharma, Rethinking India’s Past,Oxford University Press, New Delhi,2010,p-87/pp-45-50.(Mention Printed /e-book)
(b)Journal: Indian Historical Review, 1975, vol. 2, July 1975, p-9/pp-99-102
(c) News Paper: The Times of India, Patna edn, Thursday, March 2006
(d) Article from a Journal: A. Southall, ‘The Segmentary State in Africa and Asia’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol.30, no. 1, January 1988, p-9/pp-77=79
(e)Website Content: http//www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html, Accessed on 15th June, 2015.
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