Author Guidelines

Read this page before you prepare a manuscript. A submission that does not meet these requirements is returned at technical screening without being sent to reviewers.

Submission requirements

  • Submit through the journal's submission system. Manuscripts sent by email are not registered.
  • The manuscript file must be DOCX, and must be anonymised — see Manuscript Preparation.
  • A separate title page carries author names, affiliations, ORCID iDs and contact details.
  • An abstract of 150–250 words and five to seven keywords.
  • The article must fall within one of the journal's categories and within its word limit.
  • All Sanskrit and regional-language material in Unicode — IAST for transliteration, no legacy fonts.

Language and academic style

  • The journal publishes in English. Write plainly; a technical argument does not need an ornamental sentence.
  • Define technical terms on first use, and keep terminology consistent thereafter.
  • Every substantial quotation in Sanskrit or a regional language carries a translation. Where the translation is your own, say “translation by author”.
  • Cite primary texts by edition, chapter and verse — not by page number alone.
  • Honorifics and devotional epithets are appropriate in a quotation and out of place in the argument.
  • Have the manuscript read for language before you submit. Papers are not rejected for being written by a non-native speaker; they are returned when the argument cannot be followed.

Originality and simultaneous submission

  • The work must be original and must not have been published elsewhere, in any language.
  • It must not be under consideration by another journal or publisher while it is with us. Simultaneous submission is grounds for immediate rejection.
  • A conference paper, preprint or thesis chapter may be developed into a submission, provided this is disclosed at submission and the article represents a substantial advance.
  • Every submission is checked for similarity. See the Plagiarism and Similarity Policy.

Required author declarations

At submission you are asked to declare each of the following. A submission is not complete without them.

  • Originality — the work is your own and is not published or under consideration elsewhere.
  • Authorship — every listed author has made a scholarly contribution and has approved the submission; no one who qualifies has been omitted.
  • Conflict of interest — any financial, institutional or personal interest that a reader might reasonably want to know about. See Conflict of Interest.
  • Funding — every source of support, with grant numbers where they exist.
  • Use of AI tools — disclosed as required by the AI Use Policy.
  • Permissions — obtained for copyrighted material, manuscript images, field photographs and personal data.
  • Ethics — for field or interview material, that informed consent was obtained and identifying detail handled responsibly.

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