SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS

Editorial address:

Adam Hardy
Editor, South Asian Studies
The Welsh School of Architecture
Bute Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff CF10 3NB
UK

Submitting an article

In the first instance articles should be sent by email to the Editor at editor@basas.org.uk. Most articles in SAS are around 5,000 words: they should not normally exceed 12,000. Articles should be emailed in Word or pdf format; please include any illustrations with captions in the article document or in a separate pdf file. Each article should be accompanied by an Abstract of about 200 words, and information giving the author's institutional affiliation (if any) and email address, both of which will appear in the journal if the article is published.
There are no deadlines for submission, as articles are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Once an article has been accepted, a printed copy of the author's final version, double spaced, should be sent to the Editor. Images should be sent as good quality prints or slides, or on a disc at high resolution (at desired print size 300 dpi minimum for photos, 600 dpi minimum for line drawings). At this stage a copy of the text (the same as the printed version) should also be sent in Word format, either by email or on disc.

Whenever permission is required to reproduce an image, it is the author's responsibility to obtain this in writing. Credits should appear at the end of the captions (courtesy of the The British Museum).

Style

References should be given in endnotes, and generally should be for references, not for expanding on the text. They should appear as NOTES at the end of the article, after any ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Unless there is a particular reason there should be no Bibliography, as relevant references will have been given in the Notes.

From 2009 South Asian Studies is following the MHRA Style Guide (2nd edition, 2008). In principle this means British English spelling; however American authors submitting to SAS may use American English spelling. The Style Guide can be purchased, or downloaded free, from http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/index.html.

Briefly, references to books should be as follows:

S. Radhakrishnan, The Principal Upanishads (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1953), pp. 266-67.

and to articles:

O. Viennot, 'Le Problème des temples à toit plat dans l'Inde du Nord', Arts Asiatiques, 18 (1968), 23-84 (p. 29).

Use single quotation marks, with double ones for quotations within quotations. Quotations longer than about forty words should be set out in a column without quotation marks, with a blank line before and after. In general, spell out numbers one to a hundred (seventeen sheep, the seventeenth century, seventeenth-century sheep), unless they appear in lists or refer to weights or measures in a statistical manner (1 kg, 15 kg, 3 lb, 4 cm, 12 m, 2 ft).

In SAS, the use of diacritical marks for romanised Sanskrit words etc. is a matter of author's preference. If diacritical marks are used, Word versions of the text are acceptable only in Gandhari Unicode font. This can be downloaded free from the internet. Where diacritical marks are not used, accepted anglicised spellings should be employed: Shiva and Vishnu, not Siva and Visnu. Conventions for designating eras are also left to the author's preference: 625 BC and AD 1526, or 625 BCE and 1526 CE.