Author Guidelines

Contributions and Editorial Correspondence

Completed article manuscripts, and correspondence regarding material for possible publication and editorial matters should be submitted at https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/indicstudies/about.

The Journal uses a double-blind review. In the double-blind review, both the authors and the reviewers are anonymous. Article manuscripts submitted to the Journal are expected not to have been published elsewhere and not be under review for possible publication elsewhere.

Manuscript Preparation and Style

Article manuscripts should not exceed 40 pages in length and should be accompanied by an abstract of 100–150 words. All submitted work (without any author identification) should be double-spaced, including abstract, extracts, notes, and references. Footnotes should be as few as possible and typed double-spaced at the end of the text. Documentation should follow the style recommended in sections 16.3 through 16.28 of the Chicago Manual of Style, 14 ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 641–51.

Direct  quotations

Direct quotations must reproduce exactly not only the wording but the spelling, capitalization,  and internal punctuation and diacritics of the original, except that the initial letter may be changed to a capital or a lowercase letter, the final punctuation mark may be changed and punctuation marks may be omitted where ellipsis points are used, and single quotation marks may be changed to double quotation marks.

Text references

Each in-text citation must appear in the reference list, but not any works not cited. Each fact should be reproduced exactly as they appear on the title page.

Bibliographic   forms

For a book these facts should be given:

Full name of the author, or authors, or the editors Date of publication

If not the original edition (a revised edition, a translation, a new edition), then give the original date in parentheses

Full title of the book, including the subtitle, if any If a translation, full name of the translator

Volume number and the title of the volume; or total number of volumes of a multivolume work City of publication

Publisher’s name

Dumont, Louis. 1970 [1966]. Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications (trans.

Mark Sainsbury). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

For a chapter in a book these facts should be given:

Full name of the author(s) Date of publication

If not the original edition (a revised edition, a translation, a new edition), then give the original date in parentheses

Title of the chapter

Full names of the editors

Full title of the book, including the subtitle, if any Pages occupied by the chapter

City of publication Publisher’s name

Ramanujan, A.K. 1991. “Repetition in the Mahåbhårata.” In Arvind Sharma, ed., Essays on the Mahåbhårata, 419–43. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

For an article in a periodical these facts should be given:

Full name of the author(s) Date of publication

Title of the article Title of the periodical Volume  number Issue number

Pages occupied by the article

Poole, Fitz John Porter. 1986. “Metaphors and Maps: Towards Comparison in the Anthropology of Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54, 3: 411–57.

For a primary source these facts should be given: Title of the book in standard transliteration, with diacritics Date of publication

If not the original edition (a revised edition, a new edition), then give the original date in parentheses

Full title of the book, including subtitle, if any, as they appear on the title page Full names of the editors and/or translators

Full title of the book, including the subtitle City of publication

Publisher’s name

Jaimin⁄ya Bråhma~a. 1986 [1954]. Jaimin⁄ya Bråhma~a of the Såmaveda (eds. Raghu Vira and Lokesh Chandra). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.