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| Outlined
below are the submission procedures for new as well as accepted
manuscripts: |
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| Manuscripts |
All
articles should be in English and typewritten using Times
New Roman, size 12 font and double-spaced throughout, including
tables, references, and notes. There should be ample margins,
do not use alignments or justification. The manuscript should
be accompanied by a soft copy of the text, identical with
the hard copy submitted. All material submitted to Conservation
and Society should be emailed to editor@conservationandsociety.org
or posted to Dr Kartik Shanker, Executive Editor, Conservation
and Society, C/o ATREE, No. 659, 5th A Main Road, Hebbal,
Bangalore 560 024. |
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| Overall
style |
The main paper should be divided into sections, each clearly
indicated by a heading. The paper should contain an abstract
followed by the introduction, methods, results and discussion.
Do not insert notes in the title.The abstract should provide
a brief summary of the manuscript and should not contain references
or notes. The introduction should be short and succint without
too many references. The introduction should not be used for
lengthy reviews of literature, rather it should state the
purpose and motivation behind the research and a very brief
background of the topic. Brief articles, especially reports
do not usually require a label for introduction.The methods
section should talk about design of the study and sampling,
statistical procedures, descriptions of study sites, sources
of information and so on. The methods should be given in sufficient
detail so as to enable replication of the work. Results should
be stated without interpretation and with relevant references
to figures or tables. The discussion should focus on the interpretation
of the results of the study. Comparisons with previous studies,
the possible inferences one can gain from the results as well
as reasonable speculations based on the results can be accommodated
in the discussion. |
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| Organisation
of a manuscript |
All
pages (beginning from the title page to the last page of the
appendices) should be numbered consecutively even if they
are submitted in different files. |
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Title
page (12 to 15 words / 125 characters including spaces)
An abstract (between 150 and 200 words typed on a separate page)
- mandatory
Keywords (up to 12 keywords / 100 characters)
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results
Discussion or Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
List of Figures
Tables
Figures
Appendices
Notes (insert using the endnotes option, and not by manually
inserting numbers in superscript) |
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| Details
to be included on the title page |
Manuscript
type
Title
Name(s) of the author(s)
Affiliation(s) of author(s) (including current affiliation and
affiliation where the work was primarily carried out)
Postal address of corresponding author
Email address(es) (in order of authors)
(all of the above should be typed on the title page) |
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| Length |
Reports
- 5,000 words (20 pages)
Articles – 12,000 words (42 pages)
Reviews – 12,000 - 15,000 words (42 to 60 pages)
Comments – 1,000 - 2,000 words
Book Reviews – 1,000 – 1,500 words
Special Features – Prespectives, Debates & Essays
(specified by the editor) |
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Three
pages of double spaced manuscript pages correspond to a single
printed page. Manuscript length limits refer to all pages
(including cover page, abstract, text, tables and figures).
Each figure will count as a page. |
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| Language
and spellings |
Manuscripts
must be in English language only and use British spelling
conventions (s instead of z as in organise; ‘-ise’
spellings instead of ‘-ize’; ‘programme’
not ‘program’; ‘labour’ not ‘labor’
etc.). |
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| Headings |
Limit
the level of headings within each article to two (e.g.: 1,
1.1; 2, 2.1). Please number the headings in the manuscript
explicitly. The main heading should be highlighted in bold
letters, sub headings are to be italicised. In the finished
journal, headings will not be numbered and will only be distinguished
by the printed style. |
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| Quotations |
Use
single quotation marks, reserving double quotation marks only
for quoted words within a quotation. Ensure that the spellings
are reproduced exactly as in the source. All quotations of
45 words or more are to be set apart from the text and indented.
Please obtain permission to reproduce any quotation beyond
the limits of ‘fair dealing’. |
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| Hyphenation |
Pay
attention to consistency in the hyphenation of words. Do not
alternate, for example, between ‘macro-economic’
and ‘macroeconomic’. A distinction is however
made between noun and attributive adjective: ‘the middle
class’ but ‘middle-class ethics’ |
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| Abbreviations |
No
stops are needed between capitals: e.g., CPI, INTUC, MP. Short
forms likely to be unfamiliar to the reader should be spelt
out in full the first time they occur. Include a final full
stop in abbreviations (words shortened by omitting the end),
such as, p., vol., and ed., but not in contractions (words
shortened by omitting the middle), such as Mr and Dr. |
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| Numbers |
Write
numbers in figures (not words) for exact measurements, quantities
and percentages. Use thousands, millions, billions and not
crores and lakhs. In text use ‘per cent’; in tables
‘%’. In more general descriptions, numbers below
100 should be spelt out in words and above 100 in figures.
Use the International System of Units (SI) for measurements. |
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| Dates |
Give
specific dates in the form ‘22 December 1999’.
Decades should be referred to as ‘the 1990s’.
Please spell out the ‘nineteenth century’ etc. |
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| Photographs |
| It
is important that you obtain permission to reproduce any photographs
that are not your own. |
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| Figures
and Tables |
Tables
should be typewritten, each on a separate page and numbered
sequentially with Arabic numerals. Distinguish between figures
and tables (statistical material) and number them in separate
sequences. Each table/figure should have a brief and descriptive
title. All tables/figures should be as self-explanatory as
possible. |
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| Place
Names |
Spellings
of place names should correspond to the usage in standard
modern atlases, such as the National Atlas of India. However,
the spellings of names in quotations should not be changed. |
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| Diacriticals |
Use
of diacriticals is optional but must be consistent throughout
the article. Where diacriticals are not used, the word should
be spelt phonetically—example ‘bhut’ and
not ‘bhoot’ (unless used in a quotation where
the original spellings should be retained). |
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| Italics |
Italic
type will be used for titles of books and journals referred
to in the text and notes, latin names of species and for less
familiar foreign words. |
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| Notes |
Notes
should be consecutively numbered and presented at the end
of the article (using the endnotes option) not at the foot
of the page. Note at the foot of the first page of the article.
Footnotes should contain more than a mere reference. They
should be referred to in the text by numerical superscripts.1,
2, 3,…, etc. Please include notes only in the main body
of the text. Do not insert notes within the abstract or the
title of the manuscript. |
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| References |
Avoid
excessive citations and include only those that are referred
to in the manuscript. List in-text citations chronologically,
then alphabetically. If there are two publications of the
same year for the same author, the reference in the text should
be: ‘Sharma 1960a, 1960b’ and the two publications
should be dated accordingly in the references. Page numbers
are essential when quoting or referring to some aspect or
information from a report, book, article, etc. A complete
reference list should be given at the end of the article,
typed double-spaced and begin on a separate page. They should
be in alphabetical order, unnumbered and follow the samples
below: |
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| Articles
from journals |
Pomeroy,
M., R. Primack and S.N. Rai. 2003. Changes in four rainforest
plots of the Western Ghats, India. Conservation and Society
1:113-136. |
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| Books |
| Forman,
R.T.T. and M. Godron. 1986. Landscape Ecology. John
Wiley, New York, USA. |
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| Edited
volumes |
| Gaston,
K.J. (ed.). 1996. Biodiversity: A Biology of Numbers and
Difference. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK. |
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| Articles
from edited volumes |
Lakshman,
W.D. 1989. Lineages of Dependent Development: From State Control
to the Open Economy in Sri Lanka. In: The Challenge in
South Asia: Development, Democracy and Regional Cooperation
(eds. P. Wignaraja and A. Hussain), pp. 105-163. Sage Publications,
New Delhi, India. |
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| Unpublished
works |
| Sandee,
H.1995.Innovations in Production. Ph.D. thesis. Amsterdam: Free
University. Netherlands. |
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| Book
Reviews |
Book
reviews must contain the name of the author and title/subtitle
of the book reviewed, place of publication and publisher,
date of publication, number of pages and price. Please use
the following style:
Ric Shand (ed.). 1999.
Economic Liberalization in South Asia.
Macmillan, New Delhi, India. 536pp., Rs 550.
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| Format
for Submission |
Manuscripts
for publication are accepted in electronic format and may
be sent by e-mail to editor@conservationandsociety.org. Authors
are required to submit a mandatory manuscript submission form
along with each new manuscript. Text should be submitted as
MS Word documents. We suggest you use jpeg format for photos
and gif for graphs and compress such files before sending
them to us. Please do not use PDF files for submitting manuscripts.
Figures, tables, graphs and photos may be submitted as part
of the main manuscript or as separate files. The file name
format - first author surname_date of submission_type (for
example brown_22dec04_manuscript.doc, brown_22dec04_figures.jpg,
etc) is to be followed. |
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Mention
‘MS – FIRST AUTHOR SURNAME’ in the subject
line of the e-mail. All authors will receive an acknowledgment
within five days of the receipt of the manuscript along with
a manuscript number. |
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| If
you are unable to send manuscripts by e-mail please mail them
on a CD to |
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Editor,
Conservation and Society,
No. 659, 5 th A Main, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka,
India.
Telephone: (91) (80) 2353 0069 & (91) (80) 2353 3942 Ext:
30, Fax.: (91) (80) 2353 0070.
All authors will be notified of receipt of the manuscript.
Please notify us of changes in address, affiliations and other
relevant details. |
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| Correspondence |
All
correspondence regarding submitted manuscripts should be with
editor@conservationandsociety.org
Or
Editor, Conservation and Society
No. 659, 5 th A Main, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka,
India.
Telephone: (91) (80) 2353 0069 & (91) (80) 2353 3942 Ext:
48, Fax.: (91) (80) 2353 0070. |
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