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Typescripts

SAMAJ publishes manuscripts in English. Photographs, graphics, maps or illustrations in relation to the contribution may be included. All text documents should be sent in rtf format as attachments to an electronic message to the following address: samaj@revues.org.

Abstract and keywords

An abstract of maximum 100-150 words, describing the main arguments of the article, should be included in the submission. Every article should include a minimum of five keywords.

Length

Articles submitted should be about 6000 to 8000 words. This includes footnotes and endnotes, but excludes abstract and bibliography.

Abbreviations, acronyms and technical terms

Abbreviations, acronyms and technical terms should be explained in the text the first time they occur.

Percentage: use % and not per cent or percent.

Quotations

Quotations should be enclosed within ‘single’ quotation marks. Substantial quotations of forty or more words should be indented without quotation marks. Quotations within a quotation should also be enclosed within ‘single’ quotation marks. Any alteration in a quotation should be acknowledged, for example: (Barth 1969: 20-1, emphasis added).

If extract takes more than four lines, it should be made a block extract.

Foreign language

Foreign language text should always be italicized, even if the same word is used several times. Agreement in gender/number is accepted, as long as continuity is maintained throughout the submission.

Translations of non-English words should be included in parentheses immediately following, e.g. kitab (book).

Vernacular languages: long vowels should be spelt as ‘a’ or ‘ā’ (but not aa), ‘i’ or ‘ī’ (but not ‘ee’), ‘u’ or ‘ū’ (but not oo). For diacritical marks on consonants, the choice is left to the authors but they should remain consistent throughout the text. However, if they choose to have diacritical marks on consonants, they should also consistently use diacritical marks on vowels (ex: ‘śām’ but not ‘śam’).

Translations of foreign language quotations should be included either in an endnote or in bracket immediately following the quotation (without italics and without quotation marks), e.g. roti, kapra aur makan [bread, clothing and shelter].

Other Italics

Brackets around italicized words should not be put in italics, e.g. [pustak] (and not [pustak].

Obvious typographical errors should be corrected (rather than using [sic]).

Latin abbreviations should always be italicized: e.g., i.e. or cf.

Capital letters

Proper nouns, ethnic groups and names of organizations or parties should have Capital Letters but they should not be italicized. Historical events should be capitalized, e.g. Partition, World War II.

Vernacular words in the middle of a sentence should not be capitalized.

Spelling

British spelling and punctuation should be used. Spelling practice ought to be consistent throughout the article, e.g. ‘organization’ should be spelt either ‘organization’ or ‘organisation’ as both spellings are accepted by British English but it should be consistent throughout the article.

Time and Numbers

Conventions to be followed concerning dates are: 20^th century; 1975-1977; 1980s; the fifties; October 2003; 5 June 2006. Numbers of 10 or more should be written as numerals such as 1,000.

Time: conventions to be followed concerning time are: 4 p.m., noon.

Fractions: the following fractions should be hyphenated as both adjective and noun: a one-third majority, one-third of those present.

Age: conventions to be followed concerning age are: 29 years old; 6 months old; a 45-year-old man; in his forties.

Currency should be spelt out, e.g. 100 dollars (and not $100).

Inclusive numbers: numbers in a range should not be elided: 456-476; 2,987-2,999; 1975-1977 (except for page numbers in a reference citation, see below).

Use of ‘mid’: numbers or numerals should be hyphenated: mid-fifties; mid-1700s; mid-18^th century.

Numbered items, such as parts of books, should not be capitalized and the numbers should not be spelled out: chapter 6; part 3.

Ordinal numbers: conventions to be followed are: 42^nd (and not 42d); 23^rd (and not 23d).

Article Titles and Section Heads

The use of capital letters in article titles should be as follows: Studying Elections in India: Scientific and Political Debates.

The use of capital letters in section heads should be as follows: The study of Indian elections: an overview.

Keywords

Lowercase should be used in keywords (except for proper nouns, ethnic groups and names of organizations or parties): elections, party system, Congress, Punjabis.

Tables

These should be properly titled and numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text.

Illustrations

These include diagrams, maps, images and graphs. They must be referred to as 'Figure', must be titled and must be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text. Necessary permission must be obtained by the author for the reproduction of any illustration or other material already published. Authors should ensure that they hold the copyright to whatever image, pictures, text or material they reproduce in their articles. SAMAJ will not be liable for any copyright breaches.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be numbered and listed consecutively at the bottom of each page (and not at the end of the article). At the end of a sentence, the footnotes should be placed after hard and soft punctuation, e.g. ‘Indeed reading election studies over time shows how elections serve as landmarks in the analysis of India’s political system.’² Do not put footnotes on display types such as titles or section heads, place them in the nearest text.

Interviews should be mentioned in the footnotes and as follows: Pablo Martinez, interview by author, Madrid, 9 September 2000.

References

The ‘Harvard’ system (author-date) should be used for bibliographical references in the text and notes: give author's name (space) year of publication (colon) (space) page number(s) in parentheses (round brackets): (Appadurai 1996: 20). When citing several pages, indicate pages numbers as follows, eliding when possible: (Appadurai 1996: 20-35), (Appadurai 1996: 20-8).

Do not use ibid. and op.cit. when repeating a reference, rather rewrite the full reference: (Subrahmanyam 2000: 46).

In the case of book reviews, references to the book under review should be treated as an ordinary reference: (Devji 2013: 46). However, when references to the book under review follow in close succession, the page number may simply be cited: (p. 46), (pp. 46-8).

The usage contained in the following examples should be followed: As Barth (1969) argued; Barth's (1969) classic study.

Avoid ‘cited in’ when citing quotes within another work, e.g. as Sökefeld notes (Ali 2008) (and not Sökefeld, cited in Ali 2008).

Two or more references from the same author should read (Barth 1959, 1969). Two or more references from the same author and from the same year should read (Elias 1975a: 77). References to works by up to two coauthors should cite the surnames of both authors (Eickelman & Piscatori 1990). Those with three or more authors should be cited using only the surname of the first followed by ‘et al.’ (Parekh et al. 2003). Two or more references from different authors should read (Barth 1969, Eickelman & Piscatori 1990). References to two or more contributors of separate articles to the current volume should read: (see Gayer, Moliner in this volume). The absence of continuity between pages should read (Barth 1969: 21-2, 67).

To quote a note: (Elias 1975: 56 n.7).

If authors use endnotes, citations here should conform to the guidelines for citation in the text and should not adopt a different style, e.g. (Appadurai 1996: 21). If the author uses phrases in which “see” is needed, do as follow: For a notable exception, see Appadurai (1996: 21). On fun, violence, and nationalism, see Verkaaik (2004), and so on.

To quote from an online text without page numbers, use paragraph (§): (Karpat 2004: §4).

Bibliography and references

Bibliographical references should immediately follow the main body of the text. However, authors should omit the title ‘Bibliography’ or ‘References’ above their bibliographical references.

Contributors should ensure that all references cited in the text appear in the list of references.

Authors should list works alphabetically with authors/editors last name first, followed by the first name. If the work has two authors/editors, then the name of the second should also be given. The date of the edition being used should be given. The title of the work should be written in italics. If the work from which the citation is taken is an edition other than the first or is a reprint, it is preferred that the author state, in square brackets, the date of the first edition of the work, e.g. (2010 [1975]) (this applies only to the bibliography and not to in-text citations). If the work cited is a second or subsequent edition, the author must indicate which edition was used, e.g. 2^nd ed. The place of publication and the publisher should be listed, separated by a colon.

If the work cited is an article from a journal or other periodical, the volume number and page numbers should be listed. Authors should use ‘pp.’ to indicate page numbers.

Latin abbreviations should always be italicized.

If there is more than one work by an author in one year, the date of the first work (alphabetically determined) is given as 1990a and the second as 1990b, and so on.

Titles in the references section that are in languages other than English should be italicized in the normal way. If titles are in non-roman script, a transliterated version should follow inside square brackets.

Do not use ‘et al.’. Use all names, e.g. Frankel, Francine; Hasan, Zoya; Bhargava, Rajeev; Arora, Balveer (eds.) (2000) Transforming India: Socio-Political Dynamics of Democracy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

In titles, use a colon to separate the title and the subtitle, e.g. Appadurai, Arjun (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press.

A few examples are given to illustrate the guidelines outlined above:

SINGLE AUTHOR (BOOK OR JOURNAL ARTICLE)

Appadurai, Arjun (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press.

Skinner, Elliott P. (1993) ‘The Dialectic between Diasporas and Homelands’, in Joseph E. Harris (ed.), Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora, Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, pp. 11-40.

Bayly, Chris A. (1985) ‘The Prehistory of ‘Communalism’? Religious Conflict in India, 1700-1860’, Modern Asian Studies, 19(2), pp. 177-203.

SINGLE EDITOR (BOOK)

Sheffer, Gabriel (ed.) (1986) Modern Diasporas in International Politics, London: Croom Helm.

TWO OR MORE AUTHORS (BOOK OR JOURNAL ARTICLES)

Assayag, Jackie; Bénéï, Véronique (2003) At Home in Diaspora. South Asians Scholars and the West, Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Mathew, Biju; Prashad, Vijay (2000) ‘The Protean Forms of Yankee Hindutva’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23(3), pp. 516-34.

TWO OR MORE EDITORS (BOOK)

Eickelman, Dale; Piscatori, James (eds.) (1990) Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press.

AUTHOR’S WORK CONTAINED IN EDITED BOOK BY ONE OR SEVERAL AUTHORS

Hannerz, Ulf (2003) ‘Several Sites in One’, in Thomas Hylland Eriksen (ed.), Globalization: Studies in Anthropology, London: Pluto, pp. 18-38.

Collins, Randall (2001) ‘Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention’, in Jeff Goodwin, James Jasper & Francesca Polletta (eds.), Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 27-44.

PAPER PRESENTED IN A CONFERENCE

Dasgupta, Keya (2009) ‘The Hawkers’ Movement in Kolkata: Negociating the Right to City Space’, paper presented in the conference on The voice of city dwellers in urban governance. Participation, mobilisation, and local democracy—Comparing Indian/South African debates, Mumbai University, 12-14/01/2009.

TWO CITIES OF PUBLICATION

Eickelman, Dale; Piscatori, James (eds.) (1990) Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press.

STATE OF PUBLICATION

Ambrosio, Thomas (2002) ‘Ethnic Identity Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy’, in Thomas Ambrosio (ed.), Ethnic Identity Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy, Westport (Connecticut): Praeger.

PUBLISHER

The name of the publisher should be fully spelt out, e.g. Oxford University Press (and not OUP).

ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER (AUTHOR IDENTIFIED)

Malik, Rifat (1997) ‘West Side Story Asian Style’, The Evening Standard, 22 May.

In text: (Malik 1997).

ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER (AUTHOR NOT IDENTIFIED)

The New York Times (2007) ‘A Much Needed Second Chance’, 2 July.

In text: (The New York Times 2007)

NEW PUBLICATION OF OLDER EDITION

Baumann, Gerd (1998 [1996]) Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multi-Ethnic London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

In text: (Baumann 1998).

ONLINE JOURNAL

Karpat, Kemal H. (2004) ‘The Genesis of the Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization (1976)’, European Journal of Turkish Studies, 1, URL: http://www.ejts.revues.org/document54.html.

NB: The same rules should be applied for review essays and book reviews.

FILMOGRAPHY

Films should be mentioned as follows: Dil se (Mani Ratnam 1998).