Style Guide for Submission

Length

Word limit: 5,000 words, inclusive of endnotes.

Spelling and Formatting

• Use UK spellings, unless copying proper nouns, titles or quotes.
• Use double speech marks for quotes (“…”).
• Punctuation inside speech marks.
• Numbers: one to ten are to be spelt out in full, unless used as an adjective; e.g., 1.2 million.
• Dates: e.g., 21 November 2015
• Text: Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing.
• Long quotes: 10 point font, indented.
• Endnotes: Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing
• Page numbers in endnotes: less than 100 use all digits: e.g., 3-10, 71-72, 97-103. Above 100: e.g., 101-4, 609-23, 328-29, 199-207.
• Simple formatting to be used. Please do not use tabs or other complicated formatting.
• Leave one line space between paragraphs rather than indenting.
• Headings: Bold font.
• Tables or figures: please notify the editors early if planning to use.
• United States, not US, unless used as an adjective: e.g., US Navy, US plans etc. Also, when referred to as country it is to be United States of America or USA.
• United Nations, not UN, unless used adjectivally: e.g., UN Security Council.
• China, not PRC.
• Acronyms: minimal use only and to be spelt out in full the first time used in Sentence Case, e.g., People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
• Italics: use for non-English words and document titles; minimal use for emphasis.

Endnote Sample Citations

Books

Single Author

First instance: K. R. Singh, Iran: Quest for Security (New Delhi: Vikas, 1980), 413-415
Subsequent citation: Singh, Iran: Quest for Security, 413-415.

Single Editor

First instance: Jasjit Singh, ed., Air Power and Joint Operations, (New Delhi: Knowledge World, 2003), vii.
Subsequent citation: Singh, Air Power and Joint Operations, vii.

NB: In the subsequent citation ‘ed.' is not included.

Two Authors or Editions

First instance: Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 104.
Subsequent citation: Cowlishaw and Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology, 104
First instance: Kathryn Sorrells and Sachi Sekimoto, eds., Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2015), xvi.
Subsequent citation: Sorrells and Sekimoto, Globalizing Intercultural Communication, xx-xxi.

Three Authors

First instance: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White, All the Ways We Said Goodbye (New York: William Morrow, 2020), 50.
Subsequent citation: Williams, Willig, and White, All the Ways, 53.

Four or more Authors

First instance: Kate Quinn et al., Ribbons of Scarlet (New York: William Morrow, 2019), 100.
Subsequent citation: Quinn et al., Ribbons of Scarlet, 100.

Chapter in Book

Sanjay J. Singh, "Nature of War in the 21st Century," in Air Power and Joint Operations, ed. Jasjit Singh (New Delhi: Knowledge World, 2003), 82-109.
Subsequent citation: Singh, "Nature of War in the 21st Century," 82.

Dictionary/Encyclopaedia

Brassey's International Military and Defense Encyclopedia, vol. 3 (New York: Brassey's, 1993), 1381.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (1980), s.v. "salvation."
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. "high seas," accessed June 07, 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/high-seas#ref215899 .
Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "maritime," accessed June 05, 2024, https://www.oed.com/dictionary/maritime_adj?tab=factsheet#38088913.

Article in Journal

First Instance: Jasjit Singh, "Interpreting the Lebanon War 2006," Air Power Journal 1, no. 2 (Winter 2006): 1-35.
Subsequent citation: Singh, "Interpreting the Lebanon War 2006," 32.
First Instance: Adhi Agus Oktaviana et al., "Narrative cave art in Indonesia by 51,200 years ago," Nature (2024), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07541-7.
Subsequent citation: Oktaviana, "Narrative cave art in Indonesia."

NB:Access dates are not required if date of publication available, but if included are as follows:
First Instance: Charlotte F. Narr and Amy C. Krist, "Host Diet Alters Trematode Replication and Elemental Composition," Freshwater Science 34, no. 1 (March 2015): 81, accessed August 01, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1086/679411.
Subsequent citation: Narr and Krist, "Host Diet," 88-89.

Secondary Citation

Krishna Menon, quoted in Manpreet Sethi, "The Struggle for Nuclear Disarmament," Nuclear India, ed. Jasjit Singh (New Delhi: Knowledge World, 1998), 79.

Magazines

Sonu Vivek, "ITR filing: These individuals are exempt from paying tax," India Today, July 05, 2024, https://www.indiatoday.in/business/story/itr-filing-individuals-exempt-from-paying-tax-section-1026-northeast-states-uts-2562950-2024-07-05.

News

Ranjit Bhushan, "‘Bhole Baba' and the thriving industry of godmen in India," Hindustan Times, July 05, 2024, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bhole-baba-and-the-thriving-industry-of-godmen-in-india-101720195437050.html.
"Soren song," editorial, Times of India, July 04, 2024, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-editorials/soren-song/.

Times News Network, "Good news for EV owners: Statiq partners Hyundai, ChargeMOD, GLIDA to integrate 5,000 chargers," Times of India, June 13, 2024, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/auto/news/good-news-for-ev-owners-statiq-hyundai-chargemod-glida-to-set-up-5000-chargers/articleshow/110968240.cms
Brad Plumer, "This is an incredible visualization of the world's shipping routes," Vox, March 22, 2017, https://www.vox.com/2016/4/25/11503152/shipping-routes-map.Ephraim Sneh, interview, Jerusalem Post, November 10, 2006.
NB: Names of newspapers and magazines, even if online, are italicised.

Press Release

Ministry of Defence, "Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Sanjay Seth Flags in Successful Expedition Team of NCC Girl and Boy Cadets to Mount Kang Yatse-II," Press Information Bureau, July 03, 2024, https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2030476.
"India Raises Local Purchase Price for Summer Crops by 50%," Reuters, June 01, 2020, https://in.reuters.com/article/india-cabinet/india-raises-local-purchase-price-for-summer-crops- by-50-idINKBN2382A5.

Online Resources

Map

Map of Mandovi River, Google Maps, accessed June 14, 2020, https://www.google.com/maps/@15.4962709,73.8161959,5518m/data=!3m1!1e3.

Online Article

First Instance: Himadri Das, "India @75: Reflections on the Homeland Dimensions of Maritime Security in India," National Maritime Foundation, August 08, 2022, https://maritimeindia.org/15395-2/#tab-id-1.
SSubsequent citation: Das, "India @75."

Webpage

"The Foundation," National Maritime Foundation, accessed June 29, 2024, https://maritimeindia.org/the-foundation/.

Speeches/ Remarks

Geoffrey Till, "The South China Sea and the Nine Dash Line," (PowerPoint presentation, RUSI International Sea Power Conference, London, July 23, 2014).
Geoffrey Til, "The Closed Navy: Evolutionary of First my Schools Research Pattern," lecture, Regional School of International Studies Singapore, February 06, 2020, Reports.
Ministry of Defence, Annual Report, 2018-19, https://mod.gov.in/documents/annual-report