Aims and Scope

India Review publishes social science research on Indian politics, economics, and society. Typical articles combine theoretical rigor, substantive knowledge, and policy relevance. For example, articles may analyze an issue from a theoretical perspective; test theory or competing debates against relevant data; or provide a new historical treatment or solid comparative analysis of an issue. All articles are refereed.

Submission of Manuscripts

India Review only accepts manuscript submissions via e-mail. Submissions prepared in accordance with the instructions on the journal's website, http://www.indiareview.org, should be e-mailed with a brief cover note to: c.christine.fair@gmail.com.

India Review does not evaluate works already published elsewhere or submitted to another publisher. A manuscript is clearly not original enough if as much as half of the ideas or evidence will have appeared in a book or elsewhere first. If a question of overlap arises at the time of submission, please send a copy of the earlier work and ask the editors for a determination. An article appearing in a forthcoming book may be published in India Review upon consultation with the editors.

Articles should be double-spaced and with ample margins. All pages (including those containing only diagrams and tables) should be numbered consecutively. An article length of 5,000 to 15,000 words, including notes, is appropriate. Research notes and review essays are shorter. The article should be accompanied by an italicized summary of no more than 150 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the article. Any acknowledgements should be included on the cover page.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the final version of their article comforms to the journal's style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Please consult our styleguide: www.indiareview.org/HouseStyle.htm. The Editors reserve the right to return all manuscripts not in conformance with house style.

Authors should refrain from identifying themselves in their manuscripts (e.g., with first-person references to their own previous work in notes). Authors should also not identify themselves on the manuscript title page or on the abstract page. Details of the author's institutional affiliation, full address, e-mail address, and fax number should be included.

Preparation of Manuscripts

Following acceptance for publication, articles should be saved in MS Word or RTF format. To facilitate the typesetting process, notes should be grouped together at the end of the file. Tables should also be placed at the end of the file. All diagrams, charts, and graphs should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text. Tables should be saved as text using the appropriate function within your word processor. If this function is not available, then tables should be prepared using tabs. Any diagrams or maps should be saved in separate files in uncompressed .TIF or .JPG formats. These should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided, use open patterns instead. If mathematics are included 1/2 is preferred over ½.

American spelling should be used. British spelling should be retained only in quoted material, titles, or names; otherwise, all British spellings should be converted by the author. Spell out acronyms at first occurence. The following classics offer much concrete advice: On Writing Well by William Zinsser, The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White, and The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein.

It is the author's responsibility to ensure that where copyright materials are included within an article, the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained. Copyright in articles published in India Review rests with the publisher.

Notes

Notes should be numbered consecutively throughout the article with a raised numeral corresponding to the list of notes placed at the end of the article. Book titles and names of journals should be in italic; titles of articles and chapters in edited collections should be in quotation marks. For example:
Amartya Sen, Development As Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1999).
Sumit, Ganguly, ``India's Pathway to Pokhran II,'' International Security Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 148--77.
A. Martin Wainwright, ``Regional Security and Paramount Powers: The British Raj and Independent India,'' in Marvin Weinbaum and Chetan Kumar, eds., South Asia Approaches the Millenium (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 41--62.

After the first full citation, do not use op.cit or ibid.; use author's name and a short form of the title. For example:
Sen, Development as Freedom. Ganguly, ``India's Pathway to Pokhran II.''
Wainwright, ``Regional Security and Paramount Powers.''

Avoid extracts, tables, and paragraphing in notes. Authors are responsible for accuracy of facts and citations.

Proofs

Page proofs are sent to the designated author. They must be checked carefully and returned within 48 hours of receipt. Any author's alterations in excess of 10% of the original composition cost will be charged to the author. There are no publication page charges to individuals or institutions.

Reprints

Each corresponding author will receive 25 reprints of the article and one copy of the issue in which the article appears. Authors will need to create a unique account and register with Rightslink for this free service. The link is provided at the time of page proof review. Complimentary reprints are not available post production.