Guidelines to Contributors
Dear Scholars,
International School for Sree Sankaracharya Studies (ISSS) is inviting learned research papers for its Journal Parispanda, Issue – II, from eminent scholars. Please send your articles on or before 31st of August 2023. No articles, in any case, will be accepted after the last date. Please find the instructions given herein before sending your articles:
The articles must be a work of original research not published hitherto in any other Journal/Book.
Topic of the article shall pertain to any field of Indian Philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian Culture, and Indological studies.
The language of Articles may be Sanskrit or English.
Dia-critic Roman, Devanagari and other fonts used should be in Unicode format. International conventional method for transliterating Sanskrit should be followed.
Length of the articles could be up to 15-20 pages (5000 words).
Articles are to be typewritten (DTP) with standard margins. Explanatory Notes are to be given in single space.
Papers must be submitted through the e-mail to the address – parispanda@ssus.ac.in
In the first page of the article, title of the paper and name and address of the author are to be given separately.
In the second page, Key words of the article and an ‘Abstract’ in not more than 100 words is to be given.
Language of the article must be pure and clear. Articles with many errors in language will not be accepted.
A uniform modern method of academic writing should be adhered to in the articles.
Consistency in the method of referencing should be followed in the article.
All the names of the works referred to the articles are to be specified with Italics.
Explanatory Notes/References/Bibliography shall be given at the end of the article.
Endnotes should be numbered continuously through the whole paper (not per page).
All references should be cited in superscript in the body in Arabic numerals and corresponding details have to be provided at the end of the article. In references to printed books, the conventional system should used, under which the name of the author, the title of the book and the place and year of publication page number with in the text come in that order. Well-known abbreviations for journals should be used, without further, explanation of the abbreviations. Use of forms like ‘ibid’, ‘op.cit.,’ etc is recommended for saving space in the notes.
For quotations, arrangement of paragraphs, abbreviations, bibliography, use of brackets etc. also standard uniform method must be followed.
Research papers submitted by the scholars would be refereed by selected eminent scholars in the field. Only such reviewed research articles will be accepted for publication.
The number of articles in one issue is limited approximately to Twenty. Articles which do not follow the above instructions will not be accepted for publications. So please strictly stick on to the above instructions.
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