Guides Line For Authors
Authors should follow the following guidelines while preparing their articles for submission:
1. The article should not have been published previously in any form (print or online).
2. The medium of article should be English or Gujarati.
3. The maximum length of the article should be 3000 words (excluding an abstract in 200 words).
4. All pages should be double-spaced with a clear margin of 1 inch on all sides, font size 12, font type Times New Roman for English & Shruti - Unicode for Gujarati.
5. The title should be brief and focused.
6. The article should carry only the title, abstract and the main paper.
7. The title, author(s)' name(s) [the last name first], affiliation [i.e., the name of institution(s) the author(s) belong(s) to; city, country] and email address should be provided on a separate cover sheet for the article, along with author(s)' photo(s) [.jpg].
8. Only sources cited in the article should be listed as references at the end of the article.
9. The article should use the author-date format for citations and references (e.g.,Anderson 1997; Anderson 1997, p.17),(See the Chicago Manual of Style (15th) for more details and examples.
10. A list of all the references cited in the text should be given at the end of the article.
In each reference, only the author's last name and initials are to be provided.
- The year is placed after the author's name.
- Only the first word of the title and the sub-title (after a colon) are capitalized along with proper nouns.
- Titles of books and journal should be in italics.
- Quotation marks are not to be used in the title.
- For electronic sources such as websites,the date of accessing the source should be given in brackets after the URL.
- The file name of the article (in MS Word format) sent as an email attachment should contain key words from the title and the author(s)' names.
11. All submissions should only be sent as email attachments (not as part of the email) to the editor,
Dr. Kalpesh Patel - kalpesh.amity@yahoo.in