Guidelines for Contributors to Contributions to Indian Sociology
1. Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: The Editors, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, University Enclave, Delhi 110 007, India. Email:cis@iegindia.orgsjournal@yahoo.co.in.
2. Contributors must provide their affiliations and complete postal and e-mail addresses with their papers, on a separate page.
3. All articles should be double-spaced throughout (not only the text but also displayed quotations,
notes, references and all other matter). A soft copy, in MS Word, can be sent as an attachment through
e-mail, but a hard copy must follow before it will be considered. The soft and hard copies must be
identical in every respect.
4. All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150-200 words. The length of an article should not exceed 12,000 words. Use footnotes rather than endnotes. Footnotes must contain more than a mere
reference.
5. British spellings throughout; universal 's' such as in 'civilise' and 'civilisation'.
6. Single quotes throughout. Double quote marks used within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below.
7. Use '19th century', '1980s'. Spell out numbers from one to ninety-nine, 100 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent not %). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.
8. Use italics sparingly. For non-English words, which are not found in a standard English dictionary or which are otherwise uncommon, use italics only the first time. The use of diacritical marks is left to the discretion of the contributors but must be correct and consistent. Where diacriticals are not used, the word should be spelt in its English form.
9. Tables and figures should be indicated in the text by number separately (e.g., see Table 1), not by placement (e.g., see Table below). Present each table and figure on a separate page at the end of the article.
10. Use capitals sparingly but consistently. Do not capitalise 'state' and 'centre'. Caste names should retain the capital letter, while generic terms should be in lower case; hence 'Khatri' but 'vaishya'. Derivative adjectives should retain the capital letter, for example, 'Marxist'.
11. References should be embedded in the text in the anthropological style. For example: (Sarkar 1987: 145). Citations should be first alphabetical and then chronological, for example, (Ahmed 1987, 1990; Sarkar 1987; Wignaraja 1960). At the end of the article, a consolidated alphabetical list of all books, articles, essays and theses referred to (including any cited in the tables, figures, graphs and maps) should be provided. It should be typed in double-space. The detailed style of referencing is as follows:
Book: Obeyesekere, Gananath. 1967. Land Tenure in Village Ceylon: A Sociological and Historical Study.
London: Cambridge University Press.
Article in Edited Volume: Knudsen, Are J. 1999. Deforestation and Entrepreneurship in the North-
West Frontier Province, Pakistan. In Stig Toft Madsen (ed.) State, Society and the Environment in South
Asia, pp. 200-35. Richmond: Curzon Press.
Article in Journal: Parry, Jonathan P. 2001. Ankalu's Errant Wife: Sex, Marriage and Industry in
Contemporary Chhattisgarh. Modern Asian Studies. 35 (4): 783-820.
Books in other languages: Lele, R. K. 1964. Marathi Vruttapatrancha Itihaas (A History of the Marathi
Press). Pune: Continental Prakashan.
Translations: Bourdieu, Pierre and A. Accardo (eds.). 1999. The Weight of the World: Social Suffering
in Contemporary Society (trans. P. P. Ferguson, S. Emanuel, J. Johnson and S. T. Waryn). Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press.
Dissertations: Das, Veena. 1971. A Sociological Study of Caste Puranas in Gujarat. Ph. D. dissertation,
University of Delhi.
If possible, citations should be by editor, translator or annotator-thus 'Buhler 1895' rather than
'Manusmriti'.
12. Book reviews must provide the following details and in this order: Name of author/title of book
reviewed/place of publication/publisher/date of publication/number of preliminary pages (in roman figures) and number of main pages (in arabic figures). It should include / additional features such as tables, figures, plates, maps, notes, references, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index and price where relevant.
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