NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Indian Pugwash Society welcomes research articles on WMD proliferation, arms control, disarmament, space security, export controls, nuclear technology and other related issues. Articles should be crisply written and should address contemporary debates in the policy arena.

Manuscripts submitted for the consideration of the Indian Pugwash Society should be original contributions and should not have been submitted for consideration anywhere else. Please confirm to the following guidelines before submitting the manuscript for consideration.

 WORD LIMIT

Ideally, the manuscript should be about 1200-1500 words, excluding endnotes.

 FORMATTING

All manuscripts must be typed in Arial (Size 10) or Times New Roman (Size 12) font with 1.5 line spacing on (A4 page) with 1 inch margins on all sides. It will be the responsibility of the author to ensure that there is no spelling or grammar mistake in the submitted manuscript. Make sure that there are no comments, annotations, or hidden text whatsoever in the final version of the manuscript that you submit to us.

 ENDNOTES

Endnotes in the manuscript should contain complete citations to any material cited. Also please bear in mind that the purpose of endnotes is to help the curious reader to easily locate the material cited. Towards that end please adhere to the following style sheet while giving endnotes:

• Book- Single Author
Ashok Kapur, India’s Nuclear Option: Diplomacy and Decision Making (New York: Praeger, 1976), 205-207.

• Book- Multiple Authors
Baldev Raj Nayar and T.V. Paul, India in the World Order: Searching for Major-Power Status (New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2004), 30.

• Edited Book
P.R. Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema and Iftekharuzzaman, eds., Nuclear Non-proliferation in India and Pakistan: South Asian Perspectives (New Delhi: Manohar, 1996).

• Article or a chapter in an edited volume
Arundhati Ghose, “Disarmament and India’s Nuclear Diplomacy: Evolution of a ‘Reluctant’ Nuclear Weapon State” in Indian Foreign Policy: Challenges and Opportunities, eds. Atish Sinha and Madhup Mohta. (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2007), 980.

• Journal Article
A. G. Noorani, “India’s Quest for a Nuclear Guarantee”, Asian Survey 7, no. 7 (1967): 498.

• Magazine Article
Raj Chengappa, “Testing Times”, India Today, December 31, 1995, 49.

• Newspaper Article
K. Subrahmanyam, “The CTBT Puzzle”, Economic Times (Mumbai), June 8, 1996.

• Internet Source
Gaurav Kampani, “After Pokhran II: Revising the CTBT and NPT”, Rediff on the Net, July 16, 1998, http://209.194.80.218/news/1998/jul/16bomb.htm (accessed April 16, 2008).

• Conference Paper
Rajesh M. Basrur, “Realist Perspectives on Great Power Politics”, paper presented at the conference on India and the Major Powers, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, February 23-24, 2006. (Before quoting or citing from the conference paper please make sure that the author has not specified that the paper is not for citation).

• Government Document
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Disarmament: India’s Initiatives, 1988, 57.

• Dissertation/Thesis
Soumika Singh, “CTBT and Nuclear Disarmament” (Ph.D. Thesis, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2000), 42.

• If the same reference is to be cited after a few other references/citations, write the surname of the author followed by the citation number e.g.: Karnad, no. 14. If more than one work of the same author is to be cited, use this format: Bajpai, Nuclear Weapons, pp. 16-17 and Bajpai, “India’s Nuclear Posture”, p. 269.

• If two successive citations/references refer to the same source, use Ibid.

 STYLE

Please ensure that following style is adhered to in the manuscript.

• Please use British spellings throughout; universal ‘s’ in ‘-ise’, ‘-isation’ words. However do not change spelling in quotations.

• Use of italics should be minimised, but it should be consistent whenever used.

• Time Period: Write twentieth century rather than 20th century. Spell out dates using month, day, year format: for eg. “May 11, 1998.”

• Spell out the first reference to any acronym or abbreviation, followed by the acronym or abbreviation in parentheses if it is referred to again in the article. For example if using CTBT: spell out the first reference as Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), and subsequently as CTBT.

 SUBMISSION

Please email your manuscript as an attachment (in MS-Word format) to indianpugwash@gmail.com with “Article Manuscript for Consideration” in the subject line of the email.

Along with manuscript, please provide a 50-100 word abstract (that cogently summarises the main arguments put forward in the article), your institutional affiliation (if any) and contact details. Please also specify whether we should include your email id along with the article. Any brief acknowledgements or disclaimers may be placed at the end of the manuscript.

We will acknowledge the receipt of the manuscript within two working days. The editorial team’s decision will be final. The editorial team retains the right to suitably modify the manuscript.

For further queries/information, please do not hesitate to write to us at indianpugwash@gmail.com