Guidelines for Authors

Manuscripts of research papers for the Journal of IRISH should be prepared in Microsoft Word as a single file and submitted online. When preparing manuscripts, Microsoft Word template of the Journal IRISH must be used. Your graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) should be inserted in the main text after the paragraph of its first citation. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts of their articles, review articles and book reviews any time throughout the year.

Format Outline of the Manuscript

1. Title of the Article
2. Name of the author/s after the title (but institutional affiliation/address of the author/s at the bottom of the front page)
3. Abstract of the article (150-200 words)
4. Keywords (10-12 words)
5. Text of the paper including notes and references (4000 – 5000 words)
6. Notes numbered serially using superscript  (in case of archival sources or explanatory items)
7. References

Authors' Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for the contents of their contributions, particularly for:

• the accuracy of all quotations and their correct attribution;
• the accuracy of all notes and reference listings; and
• the legal right to publish any material submitted.

The article is considered for publication on the clear understanding that the author offers the Journal of IRISH the exclusive right to publish it, and the article is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A declaration to this effect should accompany the manuscript. If the research paper or any part of it has been published elsewhere, the author must inform IRISH. He or she is also responsible for obtaining permission to use copyright material, and must provide the Editor with a copy of such correspondence.

Title and Abstract of the Research Article

Do not underline the title of the article or put it in quotation marks. In both titles and subtitles, use title case. Use a colon and a space to separate a title from a subtitle unless the title ends in a question mark, an exclamation point, or a dash. The following are some examples:

• Nature of Kinship in Primitive Society
• What is the Meaning of Life?
• Peasant Revolt: An Interpretation of Moplah Violence in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

The name(s) of the author(s) should be given below the title of the article, and the institutional affiliation, if any, should be given at the end of the first page. An abstract, not exceeding 200 words should be given, following the name of the author. The abstract may be followed by key words not exceeding five.

Format of the Research Article

The entire research article, including abstract, quotations, notes, references, and legends, should be typed double-spaced, on one side of A4 size paper, leaving a margin of one inch on all sides of the text. Indent the first line of the paragraph with a half an inch from the left margin.

• Explanatory notes, if any, should be numbered serially using superscript, in the sequence as referred in the text, and typed on a separate sheet of paper under the heading Notes  and placed before References.
• The cited works should be on a separate sheet under the heading References, arranged alphabetically.
• Tables and illustrations should be placed as close as possible and place at the appropriate part of the text. A table is usually marked as Table following Arabic numeral and captioned. Indicate the sources of the table and notes, if any, immediately below the table. To avoid confusion between the notes to the text and notes to the table, designate the notes to the table with lowercase letters rather than with numerals.
• Acknowledgement, if any, may be given at the end of the article.

Quotations

Use double inverted commas while quoting sentences or a single word or phrase incorporated into the text and single inverted commas around quotations within double quotes. If the quotation runs to more than fifty words, set it off from the text as a separate paragraph without quotation marks, indenting half an inch on both sides.
Material added by the author of the article should be enclosed in square brackets. Omissions in a quotation are indicated by ellipses, using three dots (periods when typed) where one or more words are omitted. If this happens at the end of a sentence, fourth dot must follow after the quotation. For example, “the latter half of the nineteenth century witnessed … strategies protesting against … arbitrary redefinition of tharavadu’s [household’s] structure…”.

Spelling

Consistency in spelling, including hyphenation, should be maintained throughout the article - except in quotations, which must retain the spelling of the original, whether correct or incorrect. For spellings please follow strictly the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

Italics

All words foreign to English language should be italicised. Diacritical marks may be used wherever necessary according to the current international conventions for transliteration.

Numbers

Use only Arabic numerals to represent virtually all numbers that are not spelt out. Spell out numbers written in one or two words and represent other numbers by numerals (one, thirty-six, ninety-nine, one hundred, fifteen hundred, two thousand three million, but 2½ , 101, 136, 1,275). Do not begin a sentence with a numeral, including a date. Always use numerals in the following instances:

With Abbreviations or Symbols

8 Ibs.            5 : 10 p.m.          12%          4 KB          $45         9"

In Addresses

76, 3rd  Avenue

In Dates

15 May 1966

In Decimal Fractions

10.5

You may use a combination of numerals and words for large numbers

7.5 million

Express related numbers in the same style

Only 6 of the 25 delegates
From 2 billion to 2.2 billion

Percentages

In tables use the symbol % for per cent and in the text please use per cent (two words) and percentage (one word).

Dates

Be consistent in writing dates: use the day-month-year style (18 April 1924)
Spell out centuries in lowercase letters (the eleventh century, and not 11th century).
Hyphenate centuries when they are used as adjectives before nouns (twentieth-century fashion).
Write out decades without capitalisation (the nineties).
The abbreviation BC follows the year, but AD precedes it (39 BC, AD 1453).\

Inclusive Numbers

In a range of numbers, give the second number in full for numbers through ninety nine (3-6, 26-46).
For larger numbers, give only the last two digits of the second number, unless more are necessary (89-102, 999-1001, 108-09, 1670-774).
In a range of years, write both in full unless they are within the same century (1799-1802, 1892-93).

Documentation

Use parenthetical citations keyed to an alphabetical list of References that appears at the end of the article. The parenthetical citation should give the author's last name, a comma, the year of publication, a colon and the page reference, as shown below.
(Russell, 1972: 168-170)
In a parenthetical reference to one of two or more works by the same author in the same year, put the lower case alphabet next to the year of publication, as shown below.
(Radhakrishnan, 1927a: 14-25)
If two or more works are required to be cited in a single parenthetical reference, use semicolon to separate the citations, and follow the alphabetical order as shown below.
(Kosambi, 1956: 12-13; Thapar, 1979: 152-92)
Find below, the relevant entries to be included in the alphabetised list of Works Cited
1) Kosambi, D.D. 1956. An Introduction to the Study of Indian History. Bombay:
Popular Prakashan.
2) Radhakrishnan, S. 1927a.  The Hindu View of Life. London: Unwin.
3) Russell, Bertrand. 1972. A History of Western Philosophy. New York: Simon and
Schuster.
4) Thapar, Romila. 1979. “The Image of the Barbarian in Early India”. In Romila
Thapar. (Ed.). Ancient Indian Social History. Delhi: Orient Longman. Pp.__

Books and Articles (for Reference/Bibliography)

One Author                 Béteille, André. 1974. Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Two Authors               Unwin, Liam P. and Joseph Galloway. 1990. Peace in Ireland. Boston: Stronghope.
Three Authors             Chandra, Bipan, Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya Mukherjee. 2000. India after Independence, 1947-2000. New Delhi: Penguin Books.
More than Three Authors
Ketchum, Wanda, et al. 1990. Battering Husbands,
Cornered   Wives. Cincinnati: Justice and Daughters.
Editor, Translator, and Compiler
Tortelli, Antony B. (Ed.). 1991. Sociology Approaching
                                    the Twenty first Century. Los Angeles: Peter and Sons.
Article in edited/ compiled volumes
Jaenen, Cornelius J. 1998. “New France to 1760”. In Michael Behiels, D. & K. S. Mathew. (Ed.). Canada: Its Regions and People.
New Delhi: Munishiram Manoharlal.
Author of Preface/Foreward              
Tawney, R. H. 1958. Foreword. In Max Weber. The Protestant Ethics
                                    and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner Sons.
Corporate Author        International Monetary Fund. 1997. Surveys of African Economy. Washington D. C.: International Monetary Fund.

Periodicals

Saravanan, Velayuthan. 2004. “Colonialism and Coffee Plantations: Decline of Environment and Tribals in Madras Presidency during the Nineteenth Century”, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 41 (4): 465-88.

Newspapers and Weekly/Daily Publications

Nambath, Suresh.2005 “A Freedom at Stake”, The Hindu Magazine, 27 November, P.1

Electronic Sources

The following details are essentially required for electronic sources

*Author/s or editor/s name/s (if available); last names first.
* Year of the publication of the work (book, article, journal, report etc)
* Title of the article, report  etc. in quotation marks
* Title of the book or journals or website, in italics  with volume number and issue number (if available)
* Name and place of publisher (if available).
* URL (without the https://) or permalink.
* Date Accessed.

Please see the Following are examples:

Article

Greer, Allen. 2019. “Colonialism and Empire in Early America,” The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol.76, No. 3, pp. 383-390. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.3.0383. Accessed on 30 July 2021.

E-Book

Eriksen, Thomas H. 2010. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives: (Anthropology, Culture and Society). PDF Drive, www.pdfdrive.com/ethnicity-and-nationalism-anthropological-perspectives-third-edition-anthropology-culture-and-society-d188905130.html. Accessed on 30 Dec. 2020

A page on website

“Athlete's Foot - Topic Overview.” WebMD, 25 Sept. 2014, www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/athletes-foot-topic-overview. Accessed on 10 Nov. 2019