Submission Guidelines for the Journal Women & Society
Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to:
The Editors, Women & Society, Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. India. 202002. E-mail: [email protected]
All submissions should be made electronically using Microsoft Word.
Contributors must provide their complete affiliation, postal & email addresses, and telephone numbers with their papers. In case there are two or more authors then the corresponding author’s name and address details must be specified clearly.
Basic formatting of the manuscripts
Papers should be in double line spacing, typed in Times New Roman font 12 pt. and must not exceed 8000 words, inclusive of abstract, references, notes, tables and figures.
Papers must be accompanied by an abstract of 15–200 words and five to eight keywords.
Research notes and Project reports should be no longer than 2000 words.
Submissions should include references as per the format given in the submission guidelines for the Women & Society Journal.
Spelling & numerical usages
Use English spellings (labour, centre, etc.). Spell out numbers one to nine, 10 and above to be given in figures.
Notes, tables, figures and graphs
Notes should be numbered serially and presented at the end of the paper. All figures and tables should be provided separately at the end of the paper and numbered in the order that they appear in the text. Each figure and table should have a heading, an explanatory caption and a source or reference in a separate file. Location of the tables and figures should be indicated by number (see Table), not by placement (see Table below). Photographs should be in TIFF or JPEG format. Due permissions should be taken for copyright protected photographs / images and source should be provided. Figures and Graphs should be in Black and White. Coloured figures and graphs will not be printed.
In-text citations
(Dove and Carpenter, 2008); Zerouki, 1993; Basu et al. (2007).
References
Book: Anderson, Benedict (1983). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.
Book Chapter: Berdoulay, Vincent (1989). Place, Meaning, and Discourse in French Language Geography. In John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan (Eds.), The Power of Place: Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations (pp. 124-39). London: Unwin Hyman.
Journal article: Amin, S. (1972). Underdevelopment and dependence in black Africa: Origins and contemporary forms. Journal of Modern African Studies 10: 503-24.