Guidelines for Authors

The contribution needs to be unique, unpublished previously, and simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.

Title Page

Each submission should include a title page with the article's name, the name(s) of the author(s) and affiliation(s), the contact person's phone number, email address, and address for correspondence (in the event that the paper is co-authored). The article's text should only be presented with its title on the following page, without the name(s) of the author(s).

Abstract

An appendix with a 200–250 word informative abstract is required. The self-explanatory abstract should accurately convey the work's objective, method, conclusions, and uniqueness/value.

Keywords

At least six to eight appropriate and short keywords separated by commas should be included which will encapsulate the core topic of the paper. Keywords are to be incorporated just after the abstract.

Technical Requirements

The article should be provided in Microsoft Word format. A PDF version of the same word document must also be accompanied along with the scanned copy of the Declaration form (format available in IJLIT website) signed by author/s.

Article should preferably be within 4500 words in length. This takes into consideration all text including references and appendices. Only relevant tables or charts should be incorporated in the text. Irrelevant and lengthy tables or charts may disqualify the submitted article.

Newly introduced terms, words in foreign language and titles of journals should be provided in italics in text. But commonly used Latin words or abbreviations, such as et al, e.g., i.e., op. cit., viz. should not be italicized.

For the first time usage of a non-standard abbreviation in the text, both the spelled-out version and the short form in parentheses should be presented. After defining the abbreviation, only the abbreviation should be used if it comes later on in the text.

Article should be typed in Times New Roman font keeping margin 2.5 cm in all sides. Line spacing should be 1.5. The font size of title should be 14 in bold. Other than title all parts of article will be in font size 12. Font size of other headings should be 12 in bold. Font size of sub-headings and sub-sub- headings should be 12 in bold italics.

Headings should succinctly indicate the distinctions between hierarchies of headings. Headings, sub- headings and sub-subheadings should be put down accordingly by numbering with decimal sub- divisions (e.g. 4, 4.3, 4.3.1, so on) in Indo-Arabic numerals.

All the headings in text, tables and charts should be in lower case, except the first letter and such cases like proper nouns, abbreviations, etc. where capitals must be used.

Alignment: Title (centre), headings; sub-headings; sub-sub-headings (left), headings of tables (left) and figures (centre). Text of article should be justified.

All figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, Web Pages/screenshots and photographic images) should of high quality and legible. Minimum number of small and simple tables should be kept in articles. All tables and figures should be numbered consecutively with Indo-Arabic numerals.

References

References to published literature should be presented following Publication Manual of American Psychological Association (APA), 7th Ed. All the references should be checked carefully for completeness, accuracy and consistency. In text citation should be given in the following way: (Kessler, 2003) using the first neared author’s name or (Kessler & Kurtines, 2006) citing names of two, or (Kessler, Kurtines, & Kisangau, 2006) citing three authors, or (Kessler et al., 2006) when there are more than three authors. At the end of the paper a reference list in alphabetical order should be supplied.

For books

Biswas, A., Nausheen, S., & Chakrabarti, B. (2011). An introduction to library management. Kolkata: Progressive

For Book Chapter

Mc Kenzie, H., Boughton, M., Hayes, L., & Forsyth, S. (2008). Explaining the complexities and value of nursing practice and knowledge. In I. Morley & M. Crouch (Eds.), Knowledge as value: Illumination through critical prisms (pp.209-224). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

For Reference Book

VandenBos, G. R. (Ed.). (2007). APA dictionary of psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

For Conference Proceedings (published in book form)

Katz, I., Gabayan, K., & Aghajan, H. (2007). A multi-touch surface using multiple cameras. In J. Blanc- Talon, W. Philips, D. Popescu, & P. Scheunders (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 4678. Advance Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (pp.97- 108). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540- 74607-2_9

Journal Article

Biswas, A., & Chakrabarti, B. (2014). Place of doctoral research in Library and Information Science: looking back through the recommendations of commissions and committees in India. Indian Journal of Library and Information Science, 8(3), 253- 263.

Webpage with an author

Welch, N. (2000, February21). Toward an understanding of the determinants of rural health. Retrieved from http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/welch.htm

Webpage with no author

ANCI national competency standards for the registered nurse and the enrolled nurse. (2000). Retrieved from http://www.anci.org.au

Newspaper Article

Bagnall, D. (1998, January 27). Private schools: Why they are out in front. The Bulletin, pp. 12-15.

Government Publication

The Health Targets and Implementation (Health for All) Committee. (1988). Health for all Australians. Canberra, Australia: Australian Government Publishing Service.

Company and Industry Reports

Magner, L. (2016). Coffee shops in Australia (IBIS World Industry Report OD5381). Retrieved from IBIS World database.

Doctoral dissertation, from an Institutional Database

Adams, R. J. (1973). Building a foundation for evaluation of instruction in higher education and continuing education (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved fromhttp://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/

(For more details consult chapter 6 and chapter 7 of Publication Manual of American Psychological Association, 7th ed.)

Submission Preparation Checklist

• It is strongly suggested to authors to check their manuscripts thoroughly before submitting for publication in IJLIT to avoid typographical and grammatical errors, inconsistencies and violation of the author guidelines.
• All the references related to In-Text Citations only should be arranged alphabetically at the end of article strictly following the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th
• Questionnaire has to be attached (if it is used to collect data).
• Manuscript should also be tested with good plagiarism test software (e.g. Turnitin/Urkund) before submitting and the detailed report should be attached.
• After checking all the pros and cons the article in Microsoft word and PDF format should be sent to “chiefeditorijlit@gmail.com” along with plagiarism test report, the scanned copy of the declaration form (format available in IJLIT website) signed by Corresponding author and other relevant documents.