INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to Journal of North East India Studies (JNEIS).

We publish well researched papers which are theoretically informed and empirically rich data. Only papers with sufficient quality which make meaningful academic contribution will be processed for anonymous review.

If you are submitting a paper to the journal, please consider the following for smooth processing of your paper.

1) Check the length of your research paper. We strictly publish papers with 8,000-13,000 words.

2) An abstract of 150-300 words is needed, along with 5-8 keywords. The research paper needs to state the materials and methods used in the research and a review of literature of the topic, indicating the research gap in the field.

3) We publish well researched papers which are theoretically informed and empirically rich data. Only papers with sufficient quality which make meaningful academic contribution will be processed for review.

So, the research paper needs to be structured around clear and explicit research questions and a thesis statement or main argument that follows from these questions. Please make sure that the main argument that the manuscript will advance is presented or detailed.This means that there is a need to discuss the position(s) of the manuscript’s argument within the literature.

4) We use APA referencing style. Please meticulously work on referencing all materials correctly, including putting page range of journal articles or book chapters, place of publication of authored and edited books, volume and issue number of periodicals, etc.

1. General Guidelines

Manuscripts are accepted in English. Any consistent spelling style may be used. Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”. Long quotations of 50 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
A typical manuscript will not exceed 13,000 words including tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes, and not less than 8,000 words. Manuscripts that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.

Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text (including literature review, methods) ; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).

Abstracts of 150 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.

Keywords: Each manuscript should have 5 to 8 keywords.

Introduction: What is the topic, and why study it?

Literature Review: Overview of prior research on the topic.

Materials and Methods: What are the materials used and how was the research conducted?

All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses in the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF and the online article. All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.

2. Peer review statement

All submitted papers with considerable quality will undergo anonymous peer review.

3. Style guidelines

JNEIS uses APA (American Psychological Association) style for referencing.

4. Publication charges

Submission fee
There is no submission fee for JNEIS.

Page charges

There are no page charges for JNEIS.

5. Reproduction of copyright material

If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).

You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.

The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.

6. Manuscript submission

All submissions should be made online at: editor.jneis@yahoo.com

7. Copyright

The Copyright published articles in JNEIS are with the editor/Association for North East India Studies. Authors need the consent of the editor for reproduction of their published article/s in JNEIS.