Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

All manuscripts should be submitted via email to editorialpjsp@gmail.com. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to the guidelines below may be returned at the discretion of the publisher. Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that are in line with the aims and vision of PJSP will be reviewed.

1. What do we publish?

Submissions to PJSP should consist of original, scholarly work and may not be under consideration or review elsewhere.

Research Articles: Original articles covering any of the humanities, social sciences, and technology would be considered for this section. All original articles should be presented in their final version, with a minimum word limit of 7000-8000 in length, inclusive of all notes and references. However, the article may not exceed 10,000 words, inclusive of all notes and references.

Book Reviews: Book reviews should be between 1500-2500 words, and must not exceed 2500 words, including all notes and references. The manuscript must contain complete details of the book reviewed, including the title, sub-title, name of the author, name of the publisher, page count and price.

Commentaries: Short, analytical articles on topical and contemporary, social, economic and political developments in line with any of the four verticals of PJSP will be considered for this section. Commentaries must be between 1500-2000 words. 

2. Formatting your Manuscript

• All manuscript submissions made to PJSP must be in the form of Word documents, formatted in size 12 and font Times New Roman and justified with 1.5 line spacing.
  
  
• The language and spellings used should be British (UK), with the ‘s’ variant, for example,’ organisation’ instead of ‘organization’, ‘analyse’ instead of ‘analyze’.
  
  
• Use italics for uncommon and non-English words. English translation of non-English words must be given in parentheses when used for the first time.
  
  
• Numbers from one to nine must be spelled out, thereafter 10 and above in figures, for example, four, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 19, 20, and so on. Exact measurements (for example, India’s GDP growth is 8.9 percent) must use figures. Very large round numbers must be expressed using a mixture of spelled-out numbers and figures (for example, India’s population is 1.3 billion).
  
  
• When referring to currency, use Rs. 10 crores, not ‘10 crores of rupees’. Similarly, $10 billion, not ‘10 billion dollars’.
  
  
• Use ‘percent’ instead of ‘%’ or ‘percent’ in the manuscript.
  
  
• Double quote marks must be used throughout, single quote marks for a quote within a quote. The spellings of words within quotation marks may not be changed.
  
  
• Quotations less than 40 words must be incorporated into the text and be placed within quotation marks. Page reference of the quote must be placed in parentheses at the end of the quote. For direct quotations over 40 words, start a new paragraph. Do not use quotation marks and the text must be put in ‘blocked’ formatting. This must be single-spaced; each line indented half inch on the left margin with reference and page number placed at the end of the quote after punctuation.
  
  
• Notes must be sequentially numbered, be placed as ‘footnotes’ at the end of each page, and contain more than just the reference.
  
  
• Successive citations/references referring to the same source must use Ibid in the text.
  
  
• Abbreviations must be spelled out in their first mention in the manuscript with the abbreviation in parentheses. However, common abbreviations (like GDP, UK, US) need not be spelled out.
  
  
• Establishments like the army or government must be referred to in the lowercase unless accompanied by the name of the country (for example, the Indian Government or the Indian Army). Similarly, ‘prime minister’ and ‘president’ remain in lowercase unless it is being used with a name or to replace a name (for example, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and The president is the head of state in India).
  
  

The manuscript must be structured as follows:

• The file must start with a cover page that shows author affiliations and contact information (Author’s full name, institution affiliated with, Address for correspondence, Mobile number, email – personal or institutional or both).
  
  
• The cover page must include a 150–250 word abstract, and should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references (for research articles and commentaries).
  
  
• Contributors must provide 5-6 relevant keywords that can be used for indexing purposes.
  
  
• The text of the manuscript must begin from a new page and not contain any information about the authors/contributors.
  
  
• All references must come at the end of the manuscript.
  
  
• All tables and figures must be cited and include the source (includes either a URL, a reference or if it is the author’s own work). Additionally, these must be provided as separate files.

Please note that there is no limit on the number of references that can be used. Each in-text citation must have a corresponding citation in the reference list and each citation in the reference list must have a corresponding in-text citation.

Author information should include the following:

• The name(s) of the author(s)
  
  
• The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
  
  
• A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author
  
  
• If you have moved to a different institution before the article has been published, you should list the affiliation where the work was conducted, and include a note to state your current affiliation.
  
  
• If you do not have a current relevant institutional affiliation, you should state your independent status.
  
  
• If there is more than one author, please indicate the Corresponding Author. Communications from TPF Journal will be addressed to only this author.
  
  
• Author/s must render a certificate (either on the cover page or separately in their email) that their submission has not been previously published through any source or is under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Maps, Figures (including tables and graphs) and Images

• Maps, figures, and images may not exceed the size of the page.
  
  
• Authors should only use images and figures in their articles if they are relevant and valuable to the work reported. Please refrain from adding content of this type that is purely illustrative and does not add value to the scholarly work.
  
  
• Any images or figures which have been obtained from another published source, can only be re-used if you have obtained the appropriate permissions for re-use from the copyright owner. A statement to confirm this must be included within the figure legend.
  
  
• Content (for example. photographs, video or audio recordings, 3D models, illustrations, etc.,) that can reveal the identity of study participants or study subjects can only be included if they (or parents/guardians if they are underage or considered unable to provide informed consent, or their next of kin if participants are deceased) have provided consent to publish.

3. Style Guide, Citation and Referencing

The Peninsula Journal of Strategy and Policy adheres to the American Psychological Association (APA) Style (7^th Edition). Refer here to ensure that your submission conforms to this style.

References

All books, articles, essays, theses and documents referred to (including those referred to in maps, tables, graphs and images) must be provided at the end of your manuscript.

Arrangement of References

In each reference, the last name of the author(s) comes first. The authors’ first and middle names should be written as initials. The reference list should be alphabetised by the last name of the first author of each work. The last name and first/middle name initials of all authors of a particular work must be provided unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six, then list the names of all six authors and then use et al.

Chronological Listing

When referring to multiple works by the same author(s) or listed in the same order, list the references chronologically, from earliest to most recent.

Title Case

When referring to titles of books, chapters, articles, papers, reports, documents etc. the first letter of every word is capitalised except for articles and conjunctions.

In-text Citations (within the body of the text)

One work by one author: As Sprout (1963) mentions… or (Sprout, 1963)

One work by two authors: As Yeh and Lewis (2004) argue… or (Yeh & Lewis, 2004)

Work by three or more authors: list only the first author’s name followed by ‘et al.’ in every citation. In et al. only ‘al’ should be followed by a period.
        (MacLachlan et al. 2012)

       As MacLachlan et al. (2012) says…

Group or Organisations as authors: mention the name of the organisation within the text or parentheses the first time. If the organisation has a well-known abbreviation, include the abbreviation within brackets in the first citation and then use only the abbreviation in later citations.

                    According to the Press Information Bureau (2022)…
                    First Citation: (Press Information Bureau [PIB], 2022)
                    Second Citation: (PIB, 2022)

Authors with same last name: Provide initials of first name with the last name.
                 (B. Zhang, J. Zhang and Yao, 2006)