Author Guidelines

Initiative, Research Journal of Department of English, M. D. K. G. College, invites Papers presenting original research in the field of Arts and Humanities (not limited to and including English Literature and Language, History, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Digital Humanities, Comparative Literature, Historical and Cultural Analysis, Postcolonial and Global Literature, Literature and Cinema, Environmental Humanities). Papers are subsequently peer-reviewed, in consultation with the  Editorial Committee. Interested UG level and PG level students getting their work published in the e-Journal are urged to carefully read the detailed guidelines before submission.

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts are invited in the following categories: 

Research Article and Book Review

The manuscript should be typewritten (Times New Roman-12 font size), double-spaced, with one inch margin on all sides. A clear and specific title should be given to the manuscript. The pages should be numbered serially throughout the paper. Illustrations and other materials reproduced from other publications must be properly credited.

Categories of Manuscripts

  • Research Article (not exceeding 3000 words) – should include in-depth analysis and recent findings. It should contain the following sections (a) Abstract (around 100 words), (b) Key words (not more than 5, listed alphabetically), (c) Acknowledgement (if any). Where possible, the research article may follow the given structure: Introduction, Historical Background with set examples, references and Analysis, Discussion and Research Outcome.
  • Book Review(not exceeding 2000 words) – should contain a scholarly review of any recent publication in the relevant discipline.

 

Works Cited

In MLA style 8 or 9th edition, in-text citations are placed within sentences and paragraphs so that it is clear what information is being quoted or paraphrased and whose information is being cited.

List of Works Cited

Works cited in the text of a Research Paper must appear in a List of Works Cited. This list provides the information necessary to identify and verify each source.

  • Order: Entries should be arranged in alphabetical order by authors’ last names. Sources without authors are arranged alphabetically by title within the same list.
  • Authors: Write out the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work. Use the word “and” instead of “&” when listing multiple authors of a single work. e.g. Smith, J. D., and Jones, M.
  • Titles: Capitalise the first letter of each important word of the title or subtitle, and any proper names that are part of the title.
  • Pagination: Use the abbreviation p. or pp. to designate page numbers of articles from periodicals that do not use volume numbers, especially newspapers. These abbreviations are also used to designate pages in encyclopaedia articles and chapters from edited books.
  • Indentation*:The first line of the entry is flush with the left margin, and all subsequent lines are indented (5 to 7 spaces) to form a “hanging indent”.
  • Underlining vs. Italics*:Use italics instead of underlining for titles of books and journals.

Books
Harbord, Janet. The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies. Cambridge: Polity, 2007.

Edited Book
Gilber, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar, eds. The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic. New York: Gordon, 1986.

Journal Article
Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything.” PMLA 121.1 (2006): 124-38.

Journal Article, accessed online
Ouellette, Marc. “Theories, Memories, Bodies, and Artists.” Editorial. Reconstruction 7.4 (2007) : n. pag. Web. 5 June 2008.  

Introduction, Preface, Foreword or Afterward
Borges, Jorge Luis. Foreword. Selected Poems, 1923-1967. By Borges. Ed. Norman Thomas Di Giovanni. New York : Delta-Dell, 1973. xv-xvi.

Essays or Chapters in edited Books / Anthologies
Brado, Susan. “The Moral Content of Nabokov’s Lolita.” Aesthetic Subjects. Ed. Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003, 125-52.

Translation
Beowulf. Trans. E. Talbot Donaldson. Ed. Nicholas Howe. New York: Norton, 2001.

 

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