Guidelines for Contributors to The Indian Economic and Social History Review
1. Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: The Editor, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007. E-mail: i_eshr@yahoo.com
2. Contributors must provide their affiliation and complete postal and e-mail addresses with their papers.
3. Articles should be typed on one side of the paper (preferably A4) and double-spaced throughout (not only the text but also displayed quotations, notes, references and all other matter). Please provide two hard copies and an exact electronic copy in MS Word, preferably as an e-mail attachment or on CD-ROM/PC-compatible floppy disc. All articles must include an abstract of 200 words.
4. British spellings throughout; universal 's' in '-ise' and '-isation' words.
5. Diacritical marks may be used in articles on pre-modern history. Italicised words can have diacritics as required. For Arabo-Persian vocabulary, please follow F. Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. For Dravidian languages, the Madras University Tamil Lexicon, or some standard equivalent, may be used. For other languages, the system used should be clearly specified early in the paper. Where diacritical marks are not used, the word should be spelt phonetically, e.g., bhut and not bhoot (unless in a quotation, where the original spelling should be used).
6. A consolidated alphabetical list of all books, articles, essays and theses referred to (including any referred to in the tables and figures) should be provided. It should be typed in double-spacing and will be printed at the end of the article. All articles, books and theses should be listed in alphabetical order of author, giving the author's surname first followed by the first name or initials. If more than one publication by the same author is listed, the items should be given in chronological order. Newspapers and unpublished manuscripts (including working papers and research papers) should not be listed. Detailed style of referencing is as follows:
a) Books:
Masters, B. The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle East: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750, New York, 1988. (Note: Publishers' names are not to be cited. If a book is published simultaneously at different places, one or at most two of them may be cited.)
b) Edited Volumes:
Troll, C. W., ed., Muslim Shrines in India: Their Character, History and Significance, Delhi, 1989.
c) Articles in Journals:
Hambly, G. 'A Note on the Trade in Eunuchs in Mughal Bengal', Journal of the American Oriental Society (hereafter JAOS), Vol. 94 (1), 1974, pp. 125-29.
d) Articles in Edited Volumes:
Gaeftke, P. 'Alexander and the Bengali Sufis', in Alan W. Entwistle and Francoise Malison, eds, Studies in South Asian Devotional Literature, Research Papers, 1988-1991, New Delhi/Paris, 1994, pp. 278-84.
IN LISTING PRIMARY MATERIALS please mention the name of the archives, location, including the town and, if necessary, the country and the major series used. In case of materials in a private collection, the name and location of the collection should be mentioned. Where recorded oral materials stored in audio archives are used, the location of the recordings should be specified. Please retain the original names of archives but also translate them into English, for example, Rigsarkivet (National Archives). Names of archives and major series should be accompanied by the abbreviations used to refer to them in the notes: e.g., Tamil Nadu State Archives (TNSA) or Board of Revenue Proceedings (BRP). In references to primary materials produced by authors with Arabic or Persian names, alphabetise according to author, but do not reconfigure their names by placing 'last names' first.
7. Notes should be consecutively numbered and presented at the end of the article. In the notes, books, articles, theses, and official publications should be referred to in abbreviated form (i.e., using short titles), with the precise page reference if applicable. Short titles should be capable of standing alone and similar titles by an individual author should be clearly distinguished. An acknowledgement or statement about the background of the article, if any, will be set as an unnumbered footnote, before the other footnotes.
8. Book reviews must contain name of author and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication and number of pages.
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