A N SINHA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES
Each paper is to be accompanied by an abstract of around 100-150 be followed by key words
Margin: 1.5 INCHES on the sides
1.0 INCHES on top and bottom
Sections should not be numbered
Heading 1 – 12 point bold
Heading 2- 12 point, not bold, italics
Heading 3, 10 point, not bold, not italics
Font: Times New Roman
Font size: 12 points for main text
Font size: : 10 points for Abstract
Line spacing: 1.5 for text
Alignment: justified for Text
Alignment: Central alignment for tables, figures and their titles
: Left alignment for section headings
Vernacular words in italics
Figures between - 1 to 10 - are to be written in words and b Full forms of all acronyms should be acronym will do.
Table title to be placed above the table
Tables should be centrally aligned in the page
Font size: 11 points for tables and sources below tables and figures
Line spacing: 1.0 for tables, titles of tables and figures
Appropriate source should be placed below the figure
written in italics and not the actual source
Source not be and should be written in bold
Figure title to be place below the figure
Figures in MS excel format
Figures should be clear and legible
Figures should be centrally aligned in the page
Font size: 11 points for tables and sources below tables and figures
Line spacing: 1.0 for titles of figures
Appropriate source should be placed below the
written in italics and not the actual source
One or two authors: example- (Clark 2010) or (Clark and Johnson 2013) (use surname)
More than two authors: example- clark et al 2011) (Where Clark is the first author)
In case of organizational reports etc: example-(UNICEF 2014)
Quotes: to include page no also. Example (Clark 2011:30); Quotes to be placed Under inverted comma.
Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G.,& Williams, J. M. (1995): The craft of research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Stephan, W. G. (1985): Intergroup relations. In G. Lindzey & E. Aronson (Eds.),the handbook of social psychology, 599-688, New York Random House
Shrout, P. E., Hunter, J. E., Harris, R. J., Wilkinson, L., Strouss, M. E., Applebaum, M. I., et al. (1996): Significance tests: Should they be banned from APA journals? Symposium conducted at the 104th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 1996
Prasad Prashan H (1987): Towards a theory of transformation of Semi-feudal agriculture, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 22,No.31,pp.1287-90
Kortepeter, M. G., & Parker, G. W. (1999). Potential biological weapons threats. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 5, No 4. Retrieved January 20,2003, From http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/kortepeter.htm
Dewey, R. A. (2004): APA Style Resources by Russ Dewey. Retrieved from http://www.psywww.com/resource/apacrib.htm