INDIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE
General Instructions for the Contributors
About the Journal: Indian Journal of History of Science is a peer–reviewed quarterly, that publishes original research papers on history of science, technology, concepts including translation and critical assessment of original technical sources. It is devoted to the researches on the development of ancient-medieval and colonial-modem sciences in India form historical, social, philosophical, scientific and technological aspects with their international perspectives. It is published in March, June, September and December under the guidance of the Indian National Commission for History of Science by Indian National Science Academy. The papers are published on the understanding that they are not offered elsewhere for publication. Classical texts with English translation and explanatory notes are also accepted for publication serially in the Supplement section. Contributors to the Supplement are entitled to receive five free bound copies of their manuscript in book form after its publication. For the purpose of book review, two copies of book(s) may be sent to the Editor, Indian Journal of History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110002.
Manuscript Submission: The authors are expected to submit neatly typed version of the manuscript preferably using Times Roman (10-12 point) either in TeX or as a word file. The title page should contain the title of the paper, name and address of the author(s) and a short abstract of the paper not exceeding 250 words. A list of 6-8 keywords arranged alphabetically may also be provided below the abstract. Acknowledgements are to be placed separately at the end of the paper before References. The journal is printed in four colour, hence the authors are expected to provide high quality colour images for them to be suitably processed in order to maintain the publication standards of the journal. More detailed information can be seen in the link given. Manuscripts are to be submitted online using the link https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijhs/default1.aspx. Those who are unable to submit using that link may mail to ijhs@insa.nic.in.
Reference Style: The references provided in the article should be arranged in alphabetical order (the surname of authors for articles/books and names of manuscripts for the classical texts) with publication details as per the examples given below.
King, David (1981). The origin of astrolabe according to medieval Islamic source. Journal of the History of Arabic Sciences, 5 (2), 43–83.
Saraswati Amma, T.A. (1977). Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India. Varanasi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Pa?iganita of Sridharacarya (Abbrev: Pa?i) (1959). with an ancient Sanskrit commentary, ed. & tr. by Kripa Shankar Shukla, Lucknow: Lucknow University.
Sarma, K.V. (1988) Source materials on Indian mathematics and astronomy, in Subbarayappa B.V. & Murthy S.R.N. (ed.), Scientific Heritage of India, Bangalore: The Mythic Society.
Notes: The footnotes if any are to be given at the bottom of each page indicating their locations in the text by sequentially running super-numbers. References appearing in the notes or body of text should be short and indicated within first bracket with the name of the author, year of publication, and page numbers, e.g. (King1981, p.44; Pa?i. iii. 4; Saraswati Amma 1977, p.15; Sarma 1988, p.8).
Fonts and Diacritical Marks: In the running text of the paper submitted, wherever authors use Sanskrit words, or words of other languages, they are expected to use diacritical marks to enable the readers to announce the words properly. The Sanskrit verses in Devanagari should be typed using Unicode fonts preferably Shobhika Regular (Shobhika-1.05.zip, which can be downloaded from https://github.com/Sandhi-IITBombay/Shobhika/releases) followed by their Roman transliteration and English translation.