Author’s Guidelines for Manuscript Submission
Submission of Manuscript
All papers must be submitted via https://santiniketansahityapath.org.in/submit-paper. If the submission is successful, Prantik Gabeshana Patrika (PGP) will send confirmatory e-mail to the email address of the corresponding author. If contributors have not received an acknowledgement and reference number within a week of submission, they are requested to check their spam folders for the mail and write to us at prantikgabeshana@gmail.com
After an initial evaluation, papers of high interest will be sent out for external peer review. While PGP aims to notify authors of acceptance, rejection, or need for revision within two months of submission, the demands on referees may not always permit attaining this target evaluation and peer review timeline. Nevertheless, PGP aims to have manuscripts reviewed within four months.
Articles submitted for publication must be original, previously unpublished, and not being considered for publication elsewhere. Contributors must specify the same in the article submission email.
All contributions must be accompanied by:
- Title of the article (maximum of 15 words)
- Author name, email address and contact number for correspondence, one-line author notes for each author stating current designation and affiliation, and author photographs (optional).
- An Abstract (maximum of 300 words)
- Keywords (Four to six keywords)
- Main text (including tables and figures, if any. Figures, tables, maps, etc, must be provided in MS Office (Word/ Excel) or other editable formats, wherever possible.)
- References (use references and bibliography at the end. author-date format)
The length of each article must not exceed 6,000 words. References are not included in the word count but should be limited to literature cited only to maximize discussion in the main text.
The articles must be sent in a MS WORD file written in Unicode (preferably Mangal for Hindi, Avro for Bengali, Times New Roman for English with 12-point font size and typed 1.5-space on A4 paper setting. Please follow “Akademi Bangla Abhidhan” (Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi) for correct spelling for submission in Bangla.
Guidelines on Style for Authors
The authors are requested to follow the following styles in preparation of their papers which will help in quicker processing their papers. Authors are requested to pay particular attention to citation, referencing and the limited use of endnotes.
I. Endnotes
PGP uses Endnotes, and not Footnotes.
II. In-text citations
Author-date
Referring to the works of others in the text is done by using what is known as parenthetical citation. For example,
“One of the reasons for seeking a clearer view of the intellectual accomplishments in India’s past relates to a bias in self-perception” (Sen 2005).
All author-date citations will go in the text, with full references in the bibliography.
Please do not use ibid. or op.cit. All such citations must follow the author-date citation approach, even when there are repeated citations.
Page numbers
Provide the author and date, followed by a colon and the specific page number (in the case of verse, provide line numbers) in the text.
For example,
According to Tagore, “Nature becomes really and truly intimate in strange and lonely places.” (1960: 56).
Or,
Eliot’s theories on sensibility are also a poet’s way of explaining his own work (Leavis 1964: 36–43).
III. Citations and References
1. Article in a scholarly journal
Author(s) (Year): “Title of article,” Title of journal, Volume, Issue, pages.
For Example,
Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Raj Kumar Kundu (2023): “Transition from Agriculture to Non-Agriculture Occupations in West Bengal, India: Causes and Way Forward”, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development (AJAD), Vol. 20, No.2 pp 51-68.
2. Government publications
Cite the author of the publication if the author is identified. Otherwise start with the ministry, committee, agency, or any subdivision that served as the author, followed by the date, title, place, and publisher.
For Example,
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (1979): “Debate on the Geopolitics of Oil,” Monsoon session, 1978, Lok Sabha, New Delhi: Government Press.
3. Books
The basic form for a book citation is Last name, First name (Year of publication): Title of book, Place of publication: Publisher.
Book with one author:
Tagore, Rabindranath (1960): Glimpses of Bengal,Calcutta: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
Book with more than one author: (First author name is written last name first; subsequent author names are written first name, last name.)
Bhalla, G. S. and Gurmail Singh (2001): Indian Agriculture: Four Decades of Development, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Online citations
Providing only the URL is not sufficient. Citations of electronic sources should include an author or editor, the title of the text, date, the title of the website, the electronic address, and page or paragraph numbers. If the date when the source was accessed is crucial to the argument, include it in brackets at the end.
IV. Tables and Figures
Please cite each table or figure in the main text. Follow the same rules for citing tables or figures in the appendixes. Please take care to list all units in a table/figure. List all legends in a figure. All sources should be mentioned in full.
Publication Ethics
PGP adheres to ethical practices in publication and aspires that each paper in every volume and issue it publishes is of high quality and integrity. This journal intends to follow globally recognized policy of copyright permission which the authors require to check thoroughly. Authors are requested to follow the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines of ethical publication practices. A self-declaration of the author about the originality of his/her/their article is to be attached along with the article.
