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Samyukta Research Foundation has evolved a uniform style guide to ensure standardization across all the journals published by the Foundation. Authors are expected to prepare the manuscript as per the Samyukta House Style to facilitate a fast and uniform review.
Every manuscript submitted for review must include:
We accept original articles adhering to a word limit of 6000 – 8000 words including references.
Sub-headings – If you are using sub-heading, format them in bold to the left. Begin the paragraph in the next line immediately. Sub-headings will not have further subdivisions as they are self-explanatory.
Quotations
Reading is “just half of literacy. The other half is writing” (Baron 194). One might even suggest that reading is never complete without writing
According to Naomi Baron, reading is “just half of literacy. The other half is writing” (194). One might even suggest that reading is never complete without writing.
The parenthetical reference will help identify the publication details in the alphabetically arranged works cited list –
Baron, Naomi S. “Redefining Reading: The Impact of Digital Communication Media.” PMLA, vol. 128, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 193- 200.
The forms of writing that accompany reading
can fill various roles. The simplest is to make parts of a text prominent (by underlining, highlighting, or adding asterisks, lines, or squiggles). More reflective responses are notes written in the margins or in an external location—a notebook or a computer file. (Baron 194)
All these forms of writing bear in common the reader’s desire to add to, complete, or even alter the text.
Add a shortened version of the source title.
Reading is “just half of literacy. The other half is writing” (Baron, “Redefining” 194).
More reflective responses are notes written in the margins … a computer file.
Last name, First name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year of Publication.
Jacobs, Alan. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. Oxford UP, 2011.
Include the subtitle after the title
Joyce, Michael. Othermindedness: The Emergence of Network Culture. U of Michigan P, 2000.
To cite two or more works by the same author, give the name in the first entry only. In the following entries, place three hyphens in place of the name.
Borroff, Marie. Language and the Poet: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore. U of Chicago P, 1979.
—, translator. Pearl: A New Verse Translation. W. W. Norton, 1977.
—, editor. Wallace Stevens: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1963.
List the names in the order in which they are presented on the title page. Reverse the name of the first author alone, add a comma, and give the other names in the normal form.
Dorris, Michael, and Louise Erdrich. The Crown of Columbus. HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.
Reverse the first name as described above, follow it with a comma and et al. (“and others”).
Burdick, Anne, et al. Digital_Humanities. MIT P, 2012.
Leave the author’s name and begin the entry with the book title
Beowulf. Translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, edited by Sarah Anderson, Pearson, 2004.
Newcomb, Horace, editor. Television: The Critical View. 7th ed., Oxford UP, 2007
Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes. 2nd ed., vol. 2, Oxford UP, 2002.
Wellek, René. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950. Vol. 5, Yale UP, 1986.
If the source is an edited anthology of essays then the name is followed by a descriptive label.
Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
Holland, Merlin, and Rupert Hart-Davis, editors. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Henry Holt, 2000.
Baron, Sabrina Alcorn, et al., editors. Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. U of Massachusetts P / Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 2007.
Book with both an author and an editor
Howells, W. D. Their Wedding Journey. Edited by John K. Reeves, Indiana UP, 1968.
Title of the work (an essay / short story / poem) in an anthology is put within quotation marks
Dewar, James A., and Peng Hwa Ang. “The Cultural Consequences of Printing and the Internet.” Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron et al., U of Massachusetts P, 2007, pp. 365-77.
Title of a periodical /journal /magazine /newspaper is put in italics while the title of the article is placed within quotation marks, followed by the volume number, issue number, year and pages.
Goldman, Anne. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, 2010, pp. 69-88.
Baron, Naomi S. “Redefining Reading: The Impact of Digital Communication Media.” PMLA, vol. 128, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 193- 200.
A translated work by an author
Dostoevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. Translated by Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, Vintage eBooks, 1993.
Translator(s) as the author(s)
Pevear, Richard, and Larissa Volokhonsky, translators. Crime and Punishment. By
Feodor Dostoevsky, Vintage eBooks, 1993.
Sullivan, Alan, and Timothy Murphy, translators. Beowulf. Edited by Sarah Anderson, Pearson, 2004.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Created by Joss Whedon, performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mutant Enemy, 1997-2003.
An episode in a television series
“Hush.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar, season 4, episode 10, Mutant Enemy, 1999.
While citing a source accessed via web, the website has to be italicized and the article / short story / poem / song placed within double quotation marks. The url has to be pasted below.
Hollmichel, Stefanie. “The Reading Brain: Differences between Digital and Print.” So Many Books, 25 Apr. 2013, somanybooksblog.com/2013/04/25/thereading-brain-differences-between-digitaland-print/.
Beyoncé. “Pretty Hurts.” Beyoncé, Parkwood Entertainment, 2013, www.beyonce.com/album/beyonce/? media_view=songs.
Article in an online database of journals and books
Goldman, Anne. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, 2010, pp. 69-88. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41403188
Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Cambridge UP, 2000. ACLS Humanities E-book, hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07588.0001.001.
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Masque of the Red Death.” The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison, vol. 4, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902, pp. 250- 58. HathiTrust Digital Library, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt? id=coo.31924079574368;view=1up;seq=266
Clancy, Kate. “Defensive Scholarly Writing and Science Communication.” Context and Variation, Scientific American Blogs, 24 Apr. 2013, blogs.scientificamerican.com/context-andvariation/2013/04/24/defensive-scholarlywriting-and-science-communication/.
Include a shortened title for the work you are referencing
A work in an anthology or collection
General Instructions to authors
The articles must be submitted in Microsoft Word format, approximately 35,000 characters (spaces included).
Font – Times New Roman 12, line spacing 1.15
Use British spelling (unless you are quoting from a primary source or text which uses American spelling).
Bibliographic references in parentheses (Name, date: 00). Details of reference to be added to the bibliography at the end of the article.
The start of a new paragraph is indicated by a simple line break.
No paragraphs, tab stops, headers, footers, page numbering, bold characters, or underscores.
Do not cut the words at the end of the line.
Never embed hyperlinks in the text.
Each contribution keeps its own bibliography.
Each contribution containing graphic elements must be accompanied by a directory containing these same elements in isolation.
Each contribution or article must include the metadata indicated below.
Metadata at the beginning of the text
Each contribution begins with the following metadata: Title, Subtitle (if applicable), the authors with their respective parentage, a short summary and keywords presented strictly as follows:
Title
Subtitle (if applicable)
First and last name of the author
Parentage of the author
Summary: (800 to 1000 characters including spaces, i.e., ± 100 words)
Keywords in English: 5 to 10
Presentation of the author (800 to 1000 characters including spaces, or ± 100 words)
Footnotes
Notes must be footnotes. Use the automatic function offered by word processing software (Word). Footnotes in chapter titles or in the main title are to be avoided. They should be reserved for marginal discussions.
Abbreviations and acronyms: The first in-text citation must include both the full corporate name and the acronym, and thereafter the acronym will suffice. Write these without full stops. (e.g., EDF, RATP, SNCF, UNESCO)
Cardinal points: north, south, etc. are capitalized only if used as part of a recognized place name e.g., West Bengal, South Africa; use lower case for general terms e.g., western France, south-west of Berlin.
Centuries: Centuries should be spelled out and downcased. e.g., the twentieth century, nineteenth century, etc.
Numbers: Numerals should be used for numbers 10 and above, but numbers nine and below should be spelled out. A number that begins a sentence should be spelled and should not be noted as a numeral, even if the number is below 10.
Foreign language words: Words and sentences in a foreign language are to be given in italics. Latin adverbial phrases should be given in italics (e.g., a priori; ibid.; Op. Cit.; Ad hoc; cf.; sq.; Et al.; Passim…).
Quotes
Short quotations: Any quotation of less than three lines is written within the text, between single quotation marks (double quotation marks are to be used within these).
Long quotes: If the quote exceeds three lines, it is highlighted by creating a new paragraph with a paragraph indent, with or without quotes.
Pictures
Formats: jpg for photos and eps for illustrations containing text or lines (graphics, diagrams or drawings).
Resolution: 300 dpi for a maximum width of 12 cm and a minimum height of 10 cm.
Under each image must appear its caption, written as follows:
Figure 1 – Image caption text.
The image files will be named according to the order of their appearance in the text, using the following nomenclature: img1.jpg, img2.eps, img3.jpg …
Bibliographies
Due to the fact that the online consultation of the works can be done article by article, it is important that each contribution keeps its own bibliography.
Please note: the first name must be written in full. The date is placed at the end for the works, it is to be placed immediately after the names in brackets for the articles in a collective work or a journal.
Abbreviations:
“Scientific editor (s)” or “under the direction of”: dir.
Reference of a book:
Last name1, first name1; Last name2, First name2, Full title and subtitle of the work, volume number (or any information relating to the author of the preface, the translator, the number of editions), publisher, coll. “Collection name”, country of publication, year of publication.
Example:
Baudelle, Guy; Régnauld, Hervé, Scales and temporalities in geography, SEDES, Coll. “Etudes”, Paris, 2004.
Collective works:
Last name1, first name1; Last name 2, first name 2 (dir.) (Year of publication), Full title and subtitle of the work, volume number (or any information relating to the number of editions), publisher, coll. “Collection name”, country of publication, DOI.
Example:
Brandt, Pierre-Yves; Jesus, Paulo; Roman, Pascal (dir.) (2017), Self-story and narrativity in the construction of religious identity, editions of contemporary archives, France, DOI: 10.17184 / eac.001
Article references:
In the case of an article published in a collective work:
Last name1, First name1; Last name 2, First name 2 (year of publication), “Full title and subtitle of the article”, in Last name1, First name1; Name 2, first name 2 (dir.) Title of the work, publisher, coll. “Name of the collection”, country of publication, pp. XX-XX (article pagination range). DOI
Example:
Dunan-Page, Anne (2017) “Collective narratives and the construction of dissident identity in 17th-century England. Century”, in Brandt, Pierre-Yves; Jesus, Paulo; Roman, Pascal (dir.), Self-story and narrativity in the construction of religious identity, editions des archives contemporaines, France, pp. 97-114. DOI: 10.17184 / eac.001
In the case of an article published in a scientific journal:
Last name1, First name1; Last name 2, First name 2 (year of publication), “Full title and subtitle of the article”, Title of the Scientific Review, Vol, No, publisher, country of publication, pp. XX-XX (article pagination range). DOI
Example:
Gilon, Christiane; Garnier, Pascale (2017) “Toilets at school: an object of conflict in coeducation”, Revue Éducation, Santé, Sociétés, Vol. 3, No 1, editions of contemporary archives, France, pp. 105-117. DOI: 10.17184 / eac.001
Note: the preposition “in” is not used to introduce the journal title.
Websites:
University of Paris (1998), title of the home page, “possibly, name of the article”: full address of the site (consulted on XX / XX / XXXX). DOI: XX.XXXX / XXXX
NEVER embed a hyperlink in the file: never place the link’s html tags (on Word: right click> “Remove hyperlink” [PC] /> “Edit hyperlink”> “Remove hyperlink “[Mac]). DOI
10.17184 / eac.001
NB: make sure to leave a blank line between each bibliographic reference.
Submissions in the PDF format will not be accepted for review.