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Author Guidelines

Manuscripts Submission Guidelines

Title Page

Title of the manuscripts, author name with affiliation.

Cover Letter

All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter stating the title, author’s full name, designation, institutional affiliation, and contact details. It’s also including a declaration that the paper has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere. Only the covering letter should contain the above-mentioned details and not the manuscript.  Manuscript submitted by author/ contributors shall not mention the name and affiliations.

Manuscripts Submission

Submissions must be in MS-word without name, designation, and institutional affiliation of the author/s.

Abstract – The Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract in about 200 words. 

Main Text – Times New Roman, font size 12, 1.5 spacing, justified, with a margin left 1.5 inch and right 1.0 inch, top 1 inch and bottom 1 inch. The first line of the paragraph is not to be indented.

Foot Notes – Times New Roman, font size 10. Substantive foot notes are accepted.

Citation- The Bluebook, 20th edition: A Uniform Method of Citation, 20th Edition shall be strictly adhered to.

Reference – The style of referencing should be as follows:

Books: Robbins, Stephen P, and Coulter, Mary (2011). Law, New Delhi: Pearson Education.

Papers in Journal: McGRegor, D (1957), “Uneasy Look at Performance Appraisal, Harvard Business Review, 35 (1) 89-94.

Length of the paper/articles/case studies: The length of the paper including tables, diagrams, illustrations, etc, should not exceed 6,000 words. Policy briefs, short communications, case studies/executive experience sharing, etc. should not exceed 4,000 words. Book reviews should not exceed 1,000 words. The Editorial Board reserves the right to make changes to these conditions.

All tables, charts, graphs, figures etc. should be kept to the minimum. They should be given on separate sheets with sources indicated at the bottom.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Articles

Section default policy

Case studies/commentaries

Word limit 2000 to 3000 words

Copyright Notice

The Editorial Board,
Journal of ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________
Institute of Law, Nirma University
Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway,
Ahxmedabad- 382481
Phone No. 07971652803

Subject: Assignment of Copyright.

Sir/Ma’am,

I __________________________________________________ author of the paper titled ______________________________________________________________ do hereby authorize you to publish the above (subject to the peer review board’s decision) said paper in the Journal of Centre for _____________________ Vol._______ issue __ further state that:

  1. The paper is my original contribution. They do not infringe on the rights of the others and do not contain libellous or unlawful statements.
  2. The work has been submitted only to the Journal of Centre for _________________ and has previously not been published or used in another publication.
  3. I do hereby authorize you to edit, alter, modify and make changes in the submission and the process of preparing the manuscript to make it suitable for publication.
  4. I hereby assign all the copyrights relating to the said submission to the Journal of Centre for ____________________
  5. I have not assigned any kind of right of the above said submission to any other person/publication/institution/
  6. I agree to indemnify the Journal of Centre for _________________, Ahmedabad, against any claim or action alleging fact, which, if true, constitute a breach of the foregoing warrants.

Author____________

Signature_____________

Date:  ______________.

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