Guidelines

Guidelines

Publication Ethics for Authors

To maintain the relevance of research and the professional veracity of the author in writing the paper, a journal needs to maintain the research ethics. It is necessary to follow these guidelines to avoid plagiarism. Therefore, the author should follow some guidelines. Guidelines for the author(s) are given below.

➤The author(s) must submit their papers based on their original research works.

➤Any sort of plagiarism must be avoided by the authors.

➤Authors should avoid misinterpretation of research results.

➤Previously published work should not be submitted for publication.

➤Submitting the same paper to more than one journal will be considered as a very unethical behavior.

➤Appropriate approval should be taken to cite the works of others wherever necessary.

➤The main author should take the consent of all the co-authors before submission of the manuscript for publication.

➤In case any unethical practices are detected, the sole responsibility will be of the authors.

➤In case, the editor wants to communicate to the authors regarding the submitted manuscript or in relation to the post-publication requirement, it is the responsibility of the main author (here the first name in case of more than one authors) to inform all other co-authors about the communication made between the editor and the main author.

➤Changes in authorship and order of authors are not accepted after submission.
➤A conflict of interest may exist when result, conclusions or judgment regarding the research are influenced by factors such as financial gain, association with any specific ideology or personal relationships. All the authors are required to disclose any financial gain, personal relationship, organization or other associations that may influence or be perceived to influence their work. 

Instructions to Authors

➤ The paper should have been typed in the font of Times New Roman with a font size of 12, and 1.15-line spacing for English. For Hindi, the font should be "Kokila Unicode" with a font size of 16. 

➤ Name(s) of the author(s) along with their affiliations and full institutional addresses along with e-mail IDs must have been mentioned. 

➤ An abstract in 200–300 words along with 4 to 5 relevant keywords should be the part of the content. 

➤ There is no word limit for a paper, but the paper should ideally not exceed 10,000 words or 25 pages in length. 

➤ All notes must be listed as endnotes. 

➤ All sources cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and all items in the reference list must have been cited in the text. 

➤ All sources cited verbatim in the text must have been written within double inverted commas and it must have been mentioned as footnotes. 

➤ All the references should be in 7th/8th APA referencing format. 

➤ Non-English and uncommon words and phrases (in English paper) should have been italicized. Meanings of non-English words should have been given in parenthesis just after the words when those words occur for the first time. 

➤ Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. 

➤ Numbers from one to nine should have been written in words in the text, and 10 and above to remain in figures. 

➤ Quotations consisting of 60 or more words should have been separated from the text and set as block quotes. 

➤ Use 'percent' instead of % in the text. In tables, graphs, and within parenthesis, the % symbol can be used. 

➤ The following pattern of writing should be used while using phrases like- '20th century', 'the 1990s' etc. 15. Initials in names of people used in the text must have spaces and dots between them (e.g., B. R. Ambedkar, G. B. Pant, etc.). 

➤ Fuller/non-truncated number ranges should be used in the following pattern:  1987–1988, 2012–2015, etc. 

➤ Use of boldface or all capital letters should be avoided. Quotes/italics must be used for emphasis. Capitalization of different words like proper nouns, names of castes, regions etc. must be made consistent in the text. 

➤ Abbreviations should be spelt out at the first occurrence. Some common ones (US, GDP, BBC) being exceptions.

Short Instructions -

Paper Format :

English :

1. The paper should be in MS Word (.docx, .doc) format.

2. The paper should have been typed in Times New Roman, font 12, Line space 1.5.

3. Follow 7th/8th MLA/APA format strictly.

Hindi (हिन्दी):

1. शोध-पत्र MS word (.docx, .doc) format में होना चाहिए ।

2. शोध-पत्र Unicode (Kokila, Mangal) में, font 12, और Line space 1.5 होना चाहिए ।

3. कृपया 7th/8th MLA/APA format  में अवश्य रखें ।

Note: No file other than MS Office (.docx, .doc) will be accepted. 

Copyright Form Download -   PDF File   WORD File

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Submit your paper to the email - editor.tpijssh@gmail.com 

Format of Articles:

- Title
- Author's affiliation (Author Name, Department, College, State, Country, Mobile      Number and E-Mail id should be provided).
- The abstract should not be more than 400 words
- About 3 to 6 keywords should be provided.
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Subheading
- Result and discussion
- conclusion
- References

Plagiarism
Our journal follows a zero-tolerance policy towards plagiarism. Manuscripts are screened for plagiarism before, during, and after publication, and if found partly or fully plagiarized, those will be rejected at any stage of the processing.

Open Access

In case of acceptance after peer review, the author(s) has to choose to publish the paper under Open Access terms. The articles published in TPIJSSH are freely available to the public through an online medium without any charge. It is also freely available to the institutions. Open Access means anyone in the world can read and download the articles for free.