Notes for Contributors
Here are some guidelines for authors who may wish to make submissions to the journal.
Contributors are requested to follow EPW's style sheet while preparing their articles. The style sheet is posted on EPW's web site at Style Sheet. It will help immensely for faster processing and error-free editing if writers follow the recommended style sheet, especially with regard to citation and preparation of the bibliography.
Special Articles
EPW welcomes original research papers in any of the social sciences.
- Articles must be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references. Longer articles will not be processed.
- Contributions should be sent preferably by email.
- However, articles longer than 4,000 words should also be sent in a hard copy format. Hard and soft copies of articles longer than 4,000 words are essential for processing.
- Special articles should be accompanied by an abstract of a maximum of 150-200 words.
- Papers should not have been simultaneously submitted for publication to another journal or newspaper. If the paper has appeared earlier in a different version, we would appreciate a copy of this along with the submitted paper.
- Graphs and charts need to be prepared in MS Office (Word/Excel) and are preferable to material prepared in jpeg or other formats.
- Receipt of articles will be immediately acknowledged by email/post.
- Every effort is taken to complete early processing of the papers we receive. We receive more than 35 articles every week and adequate time has to be provided for internal reading and external refereeing. It can therefore take up to four months for a final decision on whether the paper is accepted for publication.
- Articles accepted for publication can take up to six to eight months from date of acceptance to appear in the EPW. Every effort will, however, be made to ensure early publication. Papers with immediate relevance for policy would be considered for early publication. Please note that this is a matter of editorial judgment.
Commentary
EPW invites short contributions to the 'Commentary' section on topical social, economic and political developments. These should ideally be between 1,000 and 2,500 words and exclusive to the EPW.
Book Reviews
EPW sends out books for review. It does not normally accept unsolicited reviews. However, all reviews that are received are read with interest and where a book has not been sent out for review, the unsolicited review is on occasion considered for publication.
Notes
Students, MPhil and PhD scholars are encouraged to send their comments and initial products of their research for the Notes section. Articles should be no more than 3,000-4,000 words (all inclusive). They are also welcome to contribute to other sections of EPW but the Notes section has been organised specifically for young research scholars.
Discussion
EPW encourages researchers to comment on articles published in EPW. Submissions should be 1,000 to 2,000 words.
Letters
Readers of EPW are encouraged to comment (300-400 words) on published articles to the Letters column. All letters should have the writer's full name and postal address.
General Guidelines
- Writers are requested to provide full details for correspondence: postal address, day-time phone numbers and email address.
(The email address of writers in the Special Article, Commentary and Discussion sections will be published at the end of the article.)
- Authors are requested to prepare their soft copy versions in text formats. pdf versions are not accepted by the EPW.
Authors are encouraged to use uk English spellings. (Writers using MS Word or similar software could change the appropriate settings in the Language menu of the application).
When there are major developments in the field of study after the first submission, authors can send a revised version. EPW requests writers not to send revised versions based on stylistic changes/additions, deletions of references, minor changes, etc, as this poses challenges in processing. Revised versions will not be processed.
- EPW posts all published articles on its web site and may reproduce them on CDs.
- Copyright of all articles published in the Journal belongs to the author or to the organisation where the author is employed as determined by the author's terms of employment.
- No published article or part thereof should be reproduced in any form without prior permission of the author(s). A soft/hard copy of the author(s)'s approval should be sent to EPW. In cases where the email address of the author has not been published, EPW can be contacted for help in this regard.
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