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Guidelines on the structure and format of presentations

1. General : 

1.1. Presentations should be original and should have a critical nature engaging with 

a serious research problem which will explore new arenas of understanding and 

impart new knowledge. 

1.2. Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary approach is desirable. Eventhough this should 

not be imposed as a compulsory criterion resulting the exclusion of genuine  

disciplinary studies. 

1.3. Mere documentation or description of the primary data should be avoided.

1.4. The text submitted should be complete and should incorporate all necessary 

references, footnotes, caption for illustrations etc.

1.5. Papers should avoid linguistic bias, especially the generic use of male nouns and 

pronouns when referring to both genders.

2. Structure and Format : 

2.1. Papers should be submitted in typed form well in advance (atleast before one 

month of the date of presentation) in order to assure the quality of the presentation 

and to distribute copies of the full text among the members of the Initiative. 

2.2. Papers can be submitted either in English or in Malayalam and word processed in 

Times New Roman, 12 point, A/4 Size (English) or in Revathy, 12 point, A/4 size 

(Malayalam) in single space and only on one side of the paper with sufficient 

margin space. 

2.3. Each paper should have a title page carrying the full title of the paper, names and 

address of the author etc. An abstract of the paper which will not exceed 100 

words should also be included in the title page.

2.4. it is desirable to submit a soft copy of the paper along with the printed version

2.5. Full length of paper should not exceed 5000-8000 words (roughly around 20 

printed pages in A/4 Size). 

2.6. Change in the font and font size in the mid-text should be avoided.

2.7 Always use a single space between sentences and normally after all stopes, 

commas, colons and semi colons.

2.8 Leave single space between paragraphs; indent first line of new paragraph.

2.9 Three (spaced) points of ellipses will be used to indicate omissions within quoted 

material. Terminal punctuation will be retained before points of ellipses. Ellipses 

should be deleted at the beginning or end of a quotation if the first or final sentence 

is syntactically complete.

2.10.All verse quotations and prose quotations longer than fifty words should be intended.

3. References and Bibliography : 

3.1. References to sources should be carried within the text in brackets giving the 

name of the author, year of publication and page number. 

3.2. Notes and bibliography should be attached at the end of the main text. 

3.3. References should be listed alphabetically for the authors and chronologically for 

each author.

3.4. Do not use abbreviations in first or single references.

3.5. All references from journals or chapters from books should contain inclusive 

page numbers.

3.6. References in the text and in the references list will not carry both a date and the 

words “in press”. If a book is in press, then no date should be given in the text or 

the references.

3.7. Manuscripts should be cited in the text as personal communications and should 

not appear in the reference list, unless they are publicly available. If they are 

publicly available, please supply their location (collection, library, location etc.)

3.8. When a work by three authors is cited, all three authors will be named at the first 

mention in the text. e.g., (Fishman, Cooper and Conrad 1977). Thereafter they 

will be referred to as (Fishman et al. 1977). When a work by four or more authors 

is cited, they will be listed in the et al. form at the first occurrence.

3.9. When two or more name/date citations are cited simultaneously in the text, they 

will be arranged chronologically or alphabetically keeping the order of importance.

3.10.‘Ibid’ may be used for a repeated reference immediately following the first 

reference; eventhough 

3.11.op. cit can be used to refer the work of the same author previously mentioned.

4. Quotations, Italics etc. : 

4.1. Quotation marks should be consistently double, except for a quote within quote.

4.2. Titles of the books, journals, plays, long poems should be given in italics and 

titles of articles and of short stories and short poems is single quotation marks.

4.3. Interpolations by author within quoted material will be enclosed in brackets.

4.4. Italics will be used on the first introduction of a key term of statement.

4.5. For a parentheses within parentheses use square brackets within round brackets. 

Square brackets can also be used for additional comments.