Call for Papers

Book with One Author

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Nikhilananda, S. (2023). Hinduism: Its Meaning for Liberation of Spirit. Fingerprint! Pub.

Book with Multiple Authors

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Corti, L., Eynden, V. V. den, Bishop, L., & Woollard, M. (2019). Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice. SAGE Publications Ltd.

Edited Book by Single Editor

Editor Last Name, First Initial. (Ed.). (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Doe, J. (Ed.). (2020). Contemporary Issues in Sociology. Springer.

Edited Book by Two Editors

Editor Last Name, First Initial., & Editor Last Name, First Initial. (Eds.). (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Doe, J. A., & Smith, R. B. (Eds.). (2020). Contemporary Issues in Sociology. Springer.

Chapter in Edited Book

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the chapter. In Editor First Initial. Last Name & Editor First Initial. Last Name (Eds.), Title of the book (pp. page range of the chapter). Publisher.

Example: Smith, J. A., Johnson, R. B., & Williams, S. C. (2020). Understanding the effects of social media on mental health. In M. Brown & L. White (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Sociology (pp. 45-67). Springer.

Chapter in a Edited Book by Three Authors (Multiple Editors of Book)

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Ageev, M., Dobrov, B., & Loukachevitch, N. (2006). Socio-Political Thesaurus in Concept-Based Information Retrieval. In C. Peters, F. C. Gey, J. Gonzalo, H. Müller, G. J. F. Jones, M. Kluck, B. Magnini, & M. de Rijke (Eds.), Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories (pp. 141–150). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11878773_15

Journal Article

Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, Volume(Issue), Page range. DOI or URL

Example: Bartol, T. (2012). Non-agricultural databases and thesauri: Retrieval of subject headings and non-controlled terms in relation to agriculture. Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 46(2), 258–276. https://doi.org/10.1108/00330331211221873

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, Volume(Issue), Page range. DOI or URL

Example: Chan, K., Yeung, P., & Chung, K. K. H. (2024). The effects of foreign language anxiety on English word reading among Chinese students at risk of English learning difficulties. Reading and Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-024-10513-y

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, Volume(Issue), Page range. DOI or URL

Example: Smith, J. A., Johnson, R. B., Williams, S. C., & Brown, L. M. (2020). Understanding the effects of social media on mental health. Journal of Psychology, 25(4), 112-125. https://doi.org/10.1037/jop0000012

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., ..., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, Volume(Issue), Page range. DOI or URL

Example: Wilkinson, M. D., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, Ij. J., Appleton, G., Axton, M., Baak, A., Blomberg, N., Boiten, J.-W., da Silva Santos, L. B., Bourne, P. E., Bouwman, J., Brookes, A. J., Clark, T., Crosas, M., Dillo, I., Dumon, O., Edmunds, S., Evelo, C. T., Finkers, R., … Mons, B. (2016). The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data, 3(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18

Please ensure to insert all authors in the reference list of the given citation and insert &() before the name of the last author. If there are more than 20 authors, insert the first 19 authors followed by an ellipsis (...) and then the last author's name.

Website Article with Author

Last name, First initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Title of the Website. URL

Example: Williams, S. (2021, January 15). The future of renewable energy: Challenges and opportunities. Renewable Energy News. https://www.renewableenergynews.com/future-renewable-energy/

Government Report

Government Agency. (Year). Title of the report. Publisher. URL or DOI

Example: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. (2015). Statistics Related to Climate Change - India. Central Statistics office. https://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/publication_reports/climateChangeStat2015.pdf

Ebook

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title of the book [Ebook edition]. Publisher. DOI or URL

Example: Garcia, M. (2018). Introduction to Neuroscience [Ebook edition]. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66071-0

Newspaper Article (Print)

Last name, First initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Newspaper Name, Page number(s).

Example: Roberts, P. (2020, December 5). New study reveals alarming trends in global warming. The New York Times, p. A1.

Newspaper Article (online)

Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Newspaper Name. URL

Example: Qamar, F., & Pandit, J. M. (2023, December 27). Need to be careful about tech-driven human resource management in HEIs. Financialexpress. https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/need-to-be-careful-about-tech-driven-human-resource-management-in-heis/3349057/

Make sure to italicize the newspaper name and capitalize only the first word of the title, the first word after a colon or em dash, and proper nouns.

Conference Paper

Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the paper. Title of the conference proceedings (pp. page range). Publisher. URL or DOI

Example: Goyal, G. R., & Mehta, H. D. (2015). Multi-objective optimal active power dispatch using swarm optimization techniques. 2015 5th Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/NUICONE.2015.7449590

Make sure to italicize the title of the conference proceedings and capitalize only the first word of the title, the first word after a colon or em dash, and proper nouns.