Submission Guidelines

As regards article only scholarly research oriented or theory based submission in the field of literature and literary theory will be accepted for review and publication. Along with article, book reviews, interviews, poems, short stories and travelogues will also be accepted for review and publication. Submission via post will not be accepted. All submission will carry a clear colour photograph with a short bio within 200 words. Only electronic submissions via e-mail at iresearch@cpdi.asia as attached Micro Soft word file properly typed will be accepted.  All submission must be in Font: Times New Roman, Font Size: 12, Line Spacing: Double Spaced and submitted only as MS Word File. All articles should strictly follow the Edition Style of Citation and Documentation. Author(s) has to submit two articles. The first one must include name and affiliation details in the body of the submission. The second one will contain only article without name and affiliation. The second one will be sent for peer review. Author(s) has to send a declaration right below “Works Cited” of the first one in the following format:

“I/We, (Name of author(s), have read the submission guidelines and agreed to the policy of the journal. My/Our submission is original and does not contain plagiarized material. If any issue regarding copyright infringement arises, I/we will solely bear the responsibility.”  

All other submission (book reviews, interviews, poems, short stories and travelogues) will also carry the same declaration.

The format of the Research Article(s):

Authors are requested to follow our  Edition Style while preparing the articles. For quick and detail guide of Edition Style of Citation and Documentation. Authors are also requested to include the following in the format of their articles:

1. The title including subtitle (if any) will be written in Times New Roman, Font Size 14, Bold

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2. Name and affiliation of the author(s) will be placed right below the title

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3. An abstract of the article of about 150-200 words along with 4-5 Keywords will be written right below the name and affiliation of the author(s).

4. The main body of the text written after the abstract should be prepared in such a way that no formatting is needed afterwards. In-text citations in support of end-text referencing must be given. Without proper in-text citation as per  guidelines of Edition Style, the article may have chances of rejection. The main body must be written in  Style of Citation and Documentation.

5. The word limit for the research paper is 2000-4000 words including Abstract and at least 5 Works Cited with numberings. However, the word limit is not strict. It may exceed few words.

6. All portions of the articles should be double spaced.

7. Author(s) should be careful regarding grammatical and typographical errors.

8. All articles/research papers submitted for review must be in English. No other language is entertained as the journal as stated in the title is English.

9. Plagiarism of article will be duly checked in plagiarism software so it is the duty of author(s) to read publication ethics as explained in Publication Ethics for Authors & Editors prior to submission.