India Quarterly
A Journal of International AffairsIndia Quarterly (IQ) is the flagship publication of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi and publishes in collaboration with M/s SAGE Publications, New Delhi (since January 2009).
India Quarterly is a refereed journal of international affairs. It was originally launched in 1945; its focus was on India and Asia. India has changed since then as has the texture of global politics and the journal now accepts papers on themes in global and regional politics that are likely to impact India’s interests.
The aim of the Journal is to encourage scholars,analysts and policy makers from India and abroad to contribute original articles on matters concerning international relations and national foreign policies.
The Journal promotes critical and objective analysis on any theme of importance relating to foreign policy and international affairs. Its purview includes regional and global concerns such as environmental issues, energy security, the international ramifications of identity-centric conflicts, cross-border movements of people and related concerns of human trafficking, illegal weapons transfers, terrorism human security, and global and regional political economy.
The opinions expressed in the India Quarterly are those of the authors and need not necessarily be in conformity with the views of the ICWA.
India Quarterly is indexed in ‘International Political Science Abstracts’ and ‘ABC of Political Science’ and Scopus. The copyright and all rights of reproduction and translation of material published in India Quarterly are reserved by the Council. Application for permission to translate or reproduce any material contained in them should be made to the Editor, India Quarterly.
Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: The Editor, India Quarterly, at Indian Council of World Affairs, Sapru House, 01, Barakhambha Road, New Delhi 110 001. Manuscripts should be submitted via email only to ?editor.iq@icwa.in.
Please refer to our Guidelines for Contributors to India Quarterly before submission of your manuscript.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
As the flagship publication of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), India Quarterly is a prestigious peer-reviewed journal that has been at the forefront of scholarly discourses since its inception in 1945. It has been publishing well-researched and scholarly articles that provide insights into various dimensions of international relations. The journal values interdisciplinary contributions that bridge various fields, such as political science, economics, history and law, offering comprehensive perspectives. It welcomes contributions from around the world, with diverse viewpoints and deeper understanding of regional and global issues. The journal aims to solicit insightful articles on international relations grounded in empirics and theories. It aims to enhance understanding on international affairs and foster informed debate on regional and global issues. The journal welcomes articles that are of relevance to policy issues besides their academic inquiry.
The scope of the journal is wide-ranging. It covers traditional issues of inter-state competition, cooperation, confrontation and conflict plus emerging areas of non-traditional issues, including climate and environment, energy and human-security challenges. Matters of global, regional and national security concerns, such as terrorism, nuclear dangers, arms race, cyber issues and the impact of new technologies on international relations are also within the scope of the journal.
The opinions expressed in the India Quarterly are those of the authors and need not necessarily be in conformity with the views of the ICWA.
Peer Review Process: The journal conducts a rigorous peer review process by experts in the field to ensure high standards of quality and relevance.
Book Reviews and Commentaries: In addition to research articles, the journal also publishes book reviews; and commentaries that provide critical insights and reflections on current international affairs.
| Nutan Kapoor Mahawar | Acting Director General & Additional Secretary, Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi, India |
| Chintamani Mahapatra | Founder & Honorary Chairperson, Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies |
| Preeti Nalwa | Foreign Policy and International Relations Analyst |
| Sachin Tiwari | Research Fellow, Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies, New Delhi, India |
| G Balachandran | Consulting Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India |
| Deepak Bhojwani | Former Ambassador, Government of India, India |
| Aparajita Biswas | Professor, Bombay University, Mumbai, India |
| Sanjay Chaturvedi | Professor, South Asian University, New Delhi |
| Nandan Unnikrishnan | Vice- President, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India |
| Ibrahim Awad | Professor, American University, Cairo, Egypt |
| Kanti Bajpai | Professor and Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Gopalan Balachandran | Professor, International History and Politics, The Graduate Institute, Geneva |
| Rajen Harshe | President, Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, India |
| Indivar Kamtekar | Professor,Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| Gilbert Khadiagala | University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| Fyodor Lukyanov | Professor, Research Director, Faculty of World Economy and International Affair, National Research University, Moscow, Russia |
| Lalit Mansingh | Former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, India |
| Amitabh Mattoo | Professor, School of International Relations, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Dirk Messner | Professor, United Nations University, Bonn |
| C Raja Mohan | Professor and Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Chris Ogden | Associate Professor, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom |
| K Raghunath | Former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, India |
| Dhruv Raina | Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| Rajesh Rajagopalan | Professor, Centre for International Politics and Diplomacy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| Yan Xuetong | Professor and Director, Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
Submission Guidelines for India Quarterly
- Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be addressed to: The Editor, IndiaQuarterly, at Indian Council of World Affairs, Sapru House, Barakhambha Road, New Delhi 110 001. Manuscripts should be submitted via email to editorindiaquarterly@gmail.com.
- Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
- Contributors must provide their affiliation; complete postal and e-mail addresses and telephone numbers. In case there are two or more authors of an article, the corresponding author’s name and affiliation details should be clearly specified.
- Please submit a two-sentence brief bio stating the author's current affiliation, primary research interests and/or most notable publications.
- It is the author’s responsibility to disclose any potential conflict of interest regarding the manuscript.
- Authors will be provided with a copyright form once the contribution is accepted for publication. The submission will be considered as final only after the filled-in and signed copyright form is received. In case there are two or more authors, the corresponding author needs to sign the copyright form.
- Preferred length of an article is between 7,500 and 8,000 words including references. All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words together with approximately six keywords.
- Book reviews should be between 1,200 and 1,500 words with full details of the book reviewed including the subtitle, the name of the author, place of publication, name of publisher, year of publication, number of pages and the price. Notes should be numbered serially and presented as endnotes. Notes, other than website sources (with access date), must contain more than a mere reference.
- All figures, i.e., diagrams, images, photographs and tables should be placed at the end of the contribution and numbered in the order they appear in text. Table and figure locations should be indicated in text by callouts (e.g., ‘[See Table 1]’) inserted after the respective paragraphs. Each table or figure should have a heading, an explanatory caption, if necessary, and a source or reference.
- Tables should be submitted in MS Excel or MS Word. All figures should have a resolution of minimum 300 dpi, 1,500 pixels, min width 4 inches and their format should be TIFF or JPEG. Do not provide an excessive formatting for tables and figures. Due permissions should be taken for copyright protected photographs/images. Even for photographs/images available in the public domain, it should be clearly ascertained whether or not their reproduction requires permission for purposes of publishing (which is a profit-making endeavor). All photographs/scanned images should be provided separately.
- Limit the levels of heading within an article to two, or at most three. Avoid lengthy headings and do not number them.
- British spellings throughout (‘labour’ not ‘labor’, ‘centre’ not ‘center’); universal ‘s’ in ‘-ise’ and ‘-isation’ words.
- Single quotes throughout; double quotes used within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed.
- Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text and indented with one space with a line space above and below supported by specific page source.
- Use ‘nineteenth century’, ‘1980s’. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent not %). Use thousands, millions and billions, not lakhs and crores.
- Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimised, but used consistently. Avoid excessive use of italics for emphasis, but use them for book titles, journal names, as well as foreign words.
- Permissions and Releases
Material taken directly from a copyrighted source should be clearly identified, and the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce it must be submitted in a separate file. Note: Obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material is the author’s responsibility, as is payment of any fees the copyright holder may request.
Further information and a template Permission Request Letter is available on SAGE’s Journal Author Gateway (http://www.sagepub.com/authors/journal/permissions.sp ).
Identifiable images of people should be accompanied by a signed release granting permission for their likeness to be reproduced in an article. Authors can download the Audio-Visual Likeness Release Form at
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- A consolidated listing of all books, articles, essays, theses and documents referred to (including any referred to in the tables, graphs and maps) should be provided at the end of the article.
- Arrangement of references: Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work. In each reference, authors’ names are inverted (last name first) for all authors (first, second or subsequent ones); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work unless the work has more than six authors. If the work has more than six authors, list the first six authors and then use et al. after the sixth author’s name.
- Chronological listing: If more than one work by the same author(s) is cited, they should be listed in order by the year of publication, starting with the earliest.
- Sentence case: In references, sentence case (only the first word and any proper noun are capitalized – e.g., ‘The software industry in India’) is to be followed for the titles of papers, books, articles, etc.
- Title case: In references, Journal titles are put in title case (first letter of all words except articles and conjunctions are capitalized – e.g., Journal of Business Ethics).
- Italicize: Book and Journal titles are to be italicized.
- Citations and References should adhere to the guidelines below (based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition). We will consider manuscripts for publication only if they are written in accordance with this style.
In text citations:
One work by one author: (Kessler, 2003, p. 50) or ‘Kessler (2003) found that among the epidemiological samples..’.
One work by two authors: (Joreskog & Sorborn, 2007, pp. 50–66) or Joreskog and
Sorborn (2007) found that.
One work by three or more authors: (Basu, Banerji & Chatterjee, 2007) [first instance]; Basu et al. (2007) [Second instance onwards].
Groups or organizations or universities: (University of Pittsburgh, 2007) or University of Pittsburgh (2007).
Authors with same surname: Include the initials in all the in-text citations even if the year of publication differs, e.g., (I. Light, 2006; M.A. Light, 2008).
Works with no identified author or anonymous author: Cite the first few words of the reference entry (title) and then the year, e.g., (‘Study finds’, 2007); (Anonymous, 1998).
If abbreviations are provided, then the style to be followed is: (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2003) in the first citation and (NIMH, 2003) in subsequent citations.
Two or more works by same author: (Gogel, 1990, 2006, in press)
Two or more works with different authors: (Gogel, 1996; Miller, 1999)
Secondary sources: Allport's diary (as cited in Nicholson, 2003).
References:
Books:
Patnaik, Utsa (2007). The republic of hunger. New Delhi: Three Essays Collective.
Edited Books:
Amanor, Kojo S., & Moyo, S. (Eds) (2008). Land and sustainable development in
Africa. London and New York: Zed Books.
Translated books:
Amin, S. (1976). Unequal development (trans. B. Pearce). London and New York:
Monthly Review Press.
Book chapters:
Chachra, S. (2011). The national question in India. In S. Moyo and P. Yeros (Eds),
Reclaiming the nation. (pp. 67–78). London and New York: Pluto Press.
Journal articles:
Foster, J.B. (2010). The financialization of accumulation. Monthly Review, 62(5),
1−17. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225 [Doi number optional]
Newsletter article, no author:
Six sites meet for comprehensive anti-gang intiative conference. (2006, November/December). OOJDP News @ a Glance. Retrieved from http://www.ncrjs.gov/html
Note: Please do not place a period at the end of an online reference.
Newspaper article:
Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.
In-press article:
Briscoe, R. (in press). Egocentric spatial representation in action and perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Retrieved from http://cogprints.org/5780/1/ECSRAP.F07.pdf
Non-English reference book, title translated into English:
Real Academia Espanola. (2001). Diccionario de la lengua espanola [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (22nd ed.). Madrid, Spain: Author.
Special issue or section in a journal:
Haney, C., & Wiener, R.L. (Eds) (2004). Capital punishment in the United States [Special Issue]. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 10(4), 1−17.