Author Guidelines

Please read these guidelines before preparing a manuscript for submission to the Siddhanta Journal of Knowledge Systems (SJKS).

General Submission Requirements

Submissions must be original and must not be under consideration elsewhere.
Authors should follow the Journal’s requirements for manuscript structure, language, sources, transliteration and referencing.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of citations, quotations, translations, references and data.
Required declarations should be provided at the full-manuscript stage.
Manuscripts should be prepared for double-anonymous peer review.
Research involving living communities, practitioners or knowledge-holders should follow appropriate ethical and consent requirements.

Writing should be academically clear, precise and accessible.
Technical and tradition-specific terms should be explained when first introduced.
Sanskrit technical terms should follow IAST and should normally be italicised at first use.
Key passages in Sanskrit should include the original text, transliteration and translation.
Where a translation is the author’s own, this should be clearly indicated.
Terminology, spelling, transliteration and capitalisation should be used consistently throughout the manuscript.
British English spelling should be followed.
A short glossary may be included where the article uses a substantial number of specialised terms.

Manuscripts must present original scholarly work.
A manuscript should not be submitted to another journal while it is under consideration by SJKS.
Previously published work should not be resubmitted as a new manuscript.
Any substantial overlap with the author’s earlier publications should be disclosed.

Where applicable, authors should provide:

Originality — confirmation that the manuscript is original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
Authorship — confirmation that all listed authors have made an appropriate contribution and approved the submission.
Conflict of Interest — disclosure of interests that may affect the research or its interpretation.
Funding — details of financial or institutional support, or confirmation that no funding was received.
AI-Use Disclosure — disclosure of the use of generative tools and the purpose for which they were used.
Permissions — confirmation that permission has been obtained for copyrighted, restricted or third-party material where required.
Ethics and Consent — details of relevant ethics approval, informed consent or community permissions where applicable.
Data Availability — information on supporting data or protocols where relevant.

Major claims should be supported by appropriate and traceable sources.
Where primary texts, manuscripts, oral testimony, field data or documented practices are central to the argument, authors should identify them clearly.
Authors should distinguish between source evidence, later interpretation and their own analysis.
The research method or framework used in the article should be stated clearly.
Where an article makes evaluative claims, the standard used for evaluation should be identified.
Relevant opposing interpretations or positions should be represented fairly and addressed seriously.
Comparative research should first describe each knowledge system in its own terms before drawing comparisons.
Scientific, historical, medical, legal or policy claims should be supported by evidence appropriate to those fields.
Claims about traditions, communities or civilisations should avoid unsupported generalisation.

Original technical terms should be retained where translation may obscure their meaning.
The relevant textual or interpretive tradition should be identified where necessary.
Authors should distinguish clearly between primary texts, commentarial interpretations, later traditions, contemporary practice and their own interpretation.
Editions and translations used should be identified.
Where manuscripts are used, repository and manuscript details should be provided where available.
The Journal welcomes rigorous critical dialogue while requiring scholarly, respectful and non-defamatory language.