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GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Journal of All India Association for Educational Research is a peer reviewed journal. 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 also include the title.

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 editor@aiaer.net with a copy to aiaer@rediffmail.com

An abstract of not more than 150 words should accompany each manuscript.

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 italicised.

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.

A manuscript should run between 20 and 50 pages in 12-point type and should not normally exceed 6,000 words.

Manuscripts 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.

Edited Book

Cochran-Smith, M. & Zeichner, K. M. (Eds.) (2005) Studying 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.

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) Is teacher training a farce ? 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, Chennai. 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

Petegem, P.V. (2009) Internal and external evaluation of schools: two sides of the coin called ‘quality assurance of education.

Key note address delivered at the Annual Conference of the All India Association for Educational Research, Lucknow, India, December 28-30.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS

In-text references should be mentioned in the in the text as: author, year of publication and page. Different categories are as follows:

Single author

(Chaturvedi 2006, p.67)

Two authors

(Rajmani & Dewasthalee 2009, p. 67)

More than three authors

While citing first time: (Miyan, Fernandes, Passi, Malhotra & Mishra 2009, p.54)

In subsequent citation: (Miyan 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

(Priscilla 2009, p.67; Thilaka 2009, p.57)

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

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

Authors with the same last name

(C. A. Rajasekar 2008, p.44; S. Rajasekar 2006, p.53)

COMMON ERRORS FOUND BY REVIEWERS OF MANUSCRIPTS

*Inadequate review of recent literature

*Mention of wrong facts and figures (For instance, elementary education is now fundamental right, manuscript mentions it as

found in article 45 of Directive Principles)

*Inadequate discussion giving comparison of findings of the study conducted by the author(s) with the findings of other studies

*Reference mentioned in the text does not appear in the reference list at the end of the article.

*Reference in the text, let us say, “Hussain, 1997”, whereas the reference list at the end gives “Hussain, 1987”, for the same source.

*Spelling of the surname mentioned in the text does not match with the spelling of the surname in the Reference list

*Mistake in name of the place of publication

*Mistake in name of the publisher

*Mistake in the year of publication

* Giving Foot notes, although the journal does not accept it

*Mistake in arranging reference list as per journal reference style

*Spelling errors in the text (Spell check in computer does not take care of all errors)

*Grammatical errors in the text

* Inconsistency in Tense

*Inconsistency in presentation

*Missing words / sentences at the time of correction

*Inconsistency in use of language version:: UK English / USA/ English

*Unnecessary formatting

*Going beyond word limit for an article for a journal

* Using ‘Ibid.’; 'Op. cit'; 'Loc. cit' in the running text;

*Language used in manuscript indicates one author, whereas letter / title page mention more than one author;

*No Signature of each author in the letter to the Editor

*Incomplete address and non mention of E-mail ID and Tel. No. of the author(s )

*Name and address of the author (s) including E-mail ID and title of the manuscript not on a separate page