The IIS
University Journal of Arts (JOA) invites Papers presenting original
research in the field of Arts (including English Literature and Language,
French, German, Hindi, Jewellery Designing, Journalism and Mass Communication,
Performing Arts, Textile Technology and Visual Arts). Papers are subsequently peer-reviewed,
in consultation with our
Editorial Committee.
Scholars interested in getting their work published in JOA are urged to
carefully read
the detailed guidelines
before submission.
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts are invited in the following categories: Research
Article, Comment/Research
Note, Review 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 6000 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, Material
and Methods, Result and Discussion.
- Comment/Research
Note (not exceeding 2000 words) - should contain important new findings that
are novel and of fairly broad interest. It should include a brief
abstract. The body of the text will not have any title, like
abstract, material and methods, results, and discussion except the
acknowledgements and references.
- Review Article (not
exceeding 8000 words) – is expected to survey and discuss
current developments in a field. It should be well focused and organized,
and avoid a general ‘textbook’ style.
- Book
Review (not exceeding 2000
words) – should contain a scholarly review of any recent publication
in the relevant discipline.
Works
Cited
In MLA style, 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 an ampersand (&) when listing multiple
authors of a single work. e.g. Smith, J. D., and Jones, M.
- Titles:
Capitalize 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 encyclopedia 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. Print.
Edited Book
Gilber, Sandra M., and Susan
Gubar, eds. The Female Imagination and
the Modernist Aesthetic. New York
: Gordon, 1986. Print.
Journal Article
Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object : Goethe and the Book of
Everything.” PMLA 121.1 (2006) :
124-38. Print.
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. Print.
Translation
Beowulf. Trans. E. Talbot Donaldson.
Ed. Nicholas Howe. New York
: Norton, 2001. Print.
Tables and Figures /
Illustrations
A table is usually labelled Table, given an arabic numeral, and
titled. Type both label and title flush left on separate lines above the table,
and capitalize them as titles (do not use all capital letters). Give the source
of the table and any notes immediately below the table in a caption. Any other
type of illustrative visual material – e.g. a photograph, map, line drawing,
graph, or chart – should be labelled Figure
(usually abbreviated Fig.), assigned
an arabic numeral, and given a caption.
Photographs/figures should be in JPEG/TIFF
format with high resolution and graphs should be on a separate excel sheet.
Submission
of Article
A soft copy of the manuscript,
along with a cover letter and copyright form, should be sent to The Editor, The IIS University Journal of Arts at joa@iisuniv.ac.in
Or, a
hard copy can be sent to the address below:
The Editor,
The IIS
University
Journal of Arts
Gurukul Marg, SFS, Mansarovar, Jaipur – 302020
Rajasthan (India)
The journal is multidisciplinary; therefore
research and review papers of general significance that are written clearly and
are well organized will be given preference. Manuscripts that do not
adhere to the prescribed format will be rejected.
A covering letter must accompany the submission and should include the
name, preferred academic or professional affiliation, address, fax and
telephone numbers, and email address of the corresponding author and co
author(s)
After a manuscript has been accepted, PDF proofs will be made available
to the authors in due course. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that
there are no errors in the proof.
Authors are required to submit a
copyright form, duly filled in, along with the manuscript.
