Notes for Contributors
1. Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to Editor, The Indian Economic and Social History Review and e-mailed to ieshr.editors@gmail.com
2. All articles must be sent as an MSWORD DOC or PDF attachment. They should be formatted to fit an A4 size paper with margins on all sides and double-spaced throughout (i.e., including quotations, notes, references and any other matter). All articles must include an abstract of 200 words and carry contributors’ affiliation(s) and complete postal and e-mail addresses.
3. Contributors should also provide 4–5 keywords to enhance online access.
4. Follow British spellings, in particular, use ‘s’ in words ending with ‘-ise’ and ‘-isation’.
5. Diacritical marks may be used for non-English terms and citations unfamiliar to the average IESHR reader (zamindar, for example, does not need diacritics). For Arabo-Persian vocabulary, please follow F. Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. For Dravidian languages, the Madras University Tamil Lexicon or some standard equivalent may be used. For other languages, the system used should be clearly specified early in the article. Where diacritical marks are not used, the word should be spelt phonetically, e.g., bhut and bhoot (unless in a quotation, where the original spelling should be used). All articles that carry diacriticals should be submitted to the journal as a PDF attachment.
6. Please provide a complete list of all references cited in the article, including in any tables, graphs and maps in your bibliography. Do not distinguish between Primary and Secondary references; they must all be included in one alphabetised list. Follow the bibliographic form mentioned below for primary and secondary references. These details will be sufficient to distinguish the reference in your composite bibliography.
In the bibliographic listing of primary materials, please mention the name of the archives, location, including the town and, if necessary, the country, and the major series used. In case of materials in a private collection, the name and location of the collection should be mentioned. Where recorded oral materials stored in audio archives are used, the location of the recordings should be specified. Please retain the original names of archives but also translate them into English, for example, Rigsarkivet (National Archives). Names of archives and major series should be accompanied by the abbreviations used to refer to them in the notes: e.g., Tamil Nadu State Archives (TNSA) or Board of Revenue Proceedings (BRP). In references to primary materials produced by authors with Arabic or Persian names, alphabetise according to author, but do not reconfigure their names by placing ‘last names’ first.
In the bibliographic listing of secondary materials the following examples illustrate the style to be followed:
· Books:
Masters, B. The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle East: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600–1750, New York, 1988.
(Note: Publishers’ names are not to be cited. If a book is published simultaneously at different places, one or at most two of them may be cited.)
· Edited Volumes:
Troll, C.W. ed., Muslim Shrines in India: Their Character, History and Significance, Delhi, 1989.
· Articles in Journals:
Hambly, G. ‘A Note on the Trade in Eunuchs in Mughal Bengal’, Journal of the American Oriental Society (hereafter JAOS), Vol. 94 (1), 1974, pp. 125–29.
· Articles in Edited Volumes:
Gaeffke, P. ‘Alexander and the Bengal Sufis’, in Alan W. Entwistle and Francoise Mallison, eds, Studies in South Asian Devotional Literature, Research Papers, 1988–1991, New Delhi/Paris, 1994, pp. 278–84.
7. All papers should have End Notes (NOT footnotes), be consecutively numbered and presented at the end of the paper. In the end notes, books, articles, theses and official publications should be referred to in abbreviated form (i.e., using short titles), with the precise page reference if applicable. Short titles should be capable of standing alone and similar titles by an individual author should be clearly distinguished. At the time of publication all end notes will be reconfigured as footnotes.
8. An acknowledgement or statement about the background of the article, if any, will be set as an unnumbered endnote, before the other endnotes.
9. For a more detailed style-sheet, please write to SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd. (E-mail: editors@sagepub.in).
