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Guidelines for Manuscript Submission

Manuscripts are to be typed on one side of the paper double spaced with ample spaces. For anonymity in the reviewing process, paper title, name(s) of the author(s) and address for correspondence should be placed on a separate sheet. The first page of the manuscript should include the title only.

Each manuscript must accompany the undertaking of the author(s) that the said manuscript has neither been sent to any other journal or to any other publisher.

Three copies of the manuscript are to be sent to the Editor at the following address:

Dr Sunil Behari Mohanty, Post: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry - 605 002

The manuscript should also be sent by e-mail to aiaer@rediffmail.com

An abstract of 150 words should accompany each manuscript.

A manuscript should not normally exceed 6,000 words.

New paragraphs should be indicated by clear indentation. Quoted passages longer than 3 lines should be indented throughout.

There should not be endnotes and footnotes.

Single foreign words and phrases should be italicized.

All pages should be numbered.

Tables and Figures should be avoided; if included, must not be included as part of the text. These have to be provided in separate sheets and the approximate position of tables and figures must be indicated in the manuscript.

Tables should be numbered by Roman numerals and Figures by Arabic numerals. Manuscripts should run between 20 and 50 pages in 12-point type.
Articles should be submitted as Word documents

Bibliographical references should be arranged alphabetically and should be given at the end of the text in the following format.

Book:

Mukherjee, J. K. (2005) Principles and Goals of Integral Education. Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.

Book with Two or Three Authors

Joshi, K. & Artaud, Y. (1974) Explorations in Education. Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry

Book with More than Three Authors:

Bransford, J. D., et al. (2000) How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School (Expanded Edition). National Academic Press, New York

A Commission Report:

Delors, J. (1996) (Chairman) Report of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty First Century. UNESCO, Paris.

Kothari, D. S. (1966) (Chairman) Report of the Education Commission (1964-66). Govt. of India, New Delhi.

Edited Book

Cochran-Smith, M. & Zeichner, K. M. (Eds.) (2005). Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahnwah, New Jersey.

A Chapter in an Edited Book:

Jayaswal, S. R. (1974) Integral child education. In Dowestt, N.C. & Jayaswal, S. R. (Eds.) Education of the Child, 39-42. Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.

Passi, B. K. (1997) Non-formal innovative strategies for basic and primary education in India. In Lynch, J., Modgil, C. and Modgil, S. (Eds.) Education and Development: Tradition and Innovation, Vol.3, Innovations in Developing Primary Education, 45-66. Cassell, London.

Thilaka Suresh (2003) Teacher education in Tamil Nadu.. In Balsubramaniam, P. S. & Vimala E.. Punithumar (Eds.) Teacher Education in India: A Praxis Reader. 175-181. St. Christopher's College of Education, Chennai.

Articles:

Lomax, P. (1993) Management of training for education: an action research. Journal of All India Association for Educational Research 5, 2, 1-7, June

Titles of the journals should not be abbreviated.

Newspaper Article (Author an individual)

Mohanty, S. B. (1982, February 21) Teacher training: a farce or a necessity? The Hindu, p.14

Newspaper Article (No individual as author )

New Puducherry Times (2009, May 22) Workshop on research paper writing at St. Christopher's College of Education. p.10.

Dissertation or unpublished working paper, discussion paper, etc.

Raghavan, J. (1984) A Critical Study of Sri Aurobindo’s Conception to the Building of Modern Indian Philosophy of Education. Ph.D.Dissertation, Nagpur University, Nagpur.

Work by an Organisation

United Nations (1998) The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004 (UN Document HR/PUB/DECADE/1997/1). Author, New York.

Conference Paper

Malhotra, S.P. (2008) Epistemological Issues Related Quality Research in Education. Paper presented at the Conference of the All India Association for Educational Research, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir, India.

In-Text Citations

In-text references should be mentioned in the in the text as: author, year of publication and page, e.g.,

Different categories are as follows:

Single author

(Malhotra 2006, p.67);

Two authors

(Malhotra & Mohanty 2009, p. 67)

More than three authors

While citing first time: (Malhotra, Mohanty, Mishra & Senapaty 2009, p.54)

In subsequent citation: (Malhotra et al. 2009, p.66)

Organisation as an author

According to the All India Association for Educational Research (1987,p.34),…

Two or more works in the same Parentheses

(Malhotra 2009, p.67; Mohanty 2009, p.57)

Two or More Works by the same author in the same year

(Malhotra 2009 a, p.55) (Malhotra 2009b, p.43) …..

Authors with the same last name

(C.A. Malhotra 2009, p.44; S.P. Malhotra 2006, p.53)