Journal of Infrastructure Development

Submission Guidelines for Journal of Infrastructure Development

Aims and Scope: The purpose of this journal is to carry out informed public debates on infrastructure policy, given that in most developing countries, infrastructure is as much related to policy as it is to markets. This journal provides a platform for healthy trade and debate regarding new ideas in the infrastructure sector. The journal looks at issues and concerns regarding infrastructure in India and in other countries in the world. Infrastructure includes physical, social, economic and financial infrastructure as well as what we can loosely term market infrastructure (enabling environments like extension services in agriculture and proper commercial laws). The journal also looks at infrastructure issues specific to other countries at present but that may be relevant to India at a later date.

This is a policy journal and, hence, deals with issues that are of immediate relevance in the area of infrastructure. Although the journal focuses on issues topical to India, its reach and interest is outside India as well.

All papers will go through a summary review process at the editorial office in India. When they pass that test, they will only then go out to members of the editorial board. All refereeing will be ‘double-blind’.

1. Manuscripts: All articles should be typewritten using double-spacing throughout, including tables, references and footnotes. Submission of manuscripts should be made both electronically and as a hard copy. The electronic version of the article should be e-mailed to the Managing Editor, Journal of Infrastructure Development at infrastructure@idfresearch.org .
    
2. Contributors must provide their affiliation, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and telephone numbers with their articles. If there are two or more authors, then the corresponding author’s name and address details must be specified clearly.
    
3. Authors will be provided with a copyright form once the contribution is accepted for publication. The submission will be considered as final only after the filled-in and signed copyright form is received.
    
4. Abstracts: An abstract of not more than 180 words and 4–6 keywords should follow the title page.
    
5. Headings: Effort should be made to limit the level of headings within each article. However, should the need arise, clearly number all headings, e.g.: 1, 1.1; 2, 2.1.
    
6. Style: Where alternative forms exist, choose ‘-ise’ spellings instead of ‘ize’. Use British spellings rather than American (‘programme’ not ‘program’; ‘labour’ not ‘labor’ etc.).
    
7. Quotations: Single quotes should be used. Double quotes must be used within single quotation marks. Do not change the spellings of words in quotations. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text with a line space above and below and indented from the left margin.
    
8. Hyphenation: Pay attention to consistency in the hyphenation of words. Do not alternate, for example, between ‘macro-economic’ and ‘macroeconomic’. A distinction is, however, made between noun and attributive adjective: ‘the middle class’ but ‘the middle-class ethics’.
    
9. Abbreviations: No stops are needed between capitals, e.g., CPI, UNESCO, MP. Include a final full stop in abbreviations (words shortened by omitting the end), such as , vol. and ed., but not in contractions (words shortened by omitting the middle), such as Mr and Dr.
    
10. Numbers: Write numbers in figures (not words) for exact measurements, quantities and percentages. Use thousands, millions, billions and not crores and lakhs. In text, use ‘per cent’; in tables ‘%’. In the case of decimals, use ‘0.8’ rather than ‘.8’. Maintain consistency in the number of decimal places after the decimal point. Thus, use either ‘7.8’ and ‘10.0’ or ‘7.89’ and ‘10.00’ throughout the article. In more general description, numbers below 10 should be spelt out in words and above 10 in figures.
     
11. Figures and tables: Tables should be typewritten, each on a separate page and numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals. Distinguish between figures (diagrams) and tables (statistical material) and number them in separate sequences. Tables and figures to be indicated by numbers separately (see Table 1), not by placement (see Table below). All Figures and Tables must be cited in the text. Caption and Source details for figures and tables should be mentioned irrespective of whether or not they require permissions. Figures and tables should be provided in editable format
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12. All photographs and scanned images should have a resolution of minimum 300 dpi and 1500 pixels and their format should be TIFF or JPEG. Due permissions should be taken for copyright protected photographs/images. Even for photographs/images available in the public domain, it should be clearly ascertained whether or not their reproduction requires permission for purposes of publishing (which is a profit-making endeavor).
     
13. Equations: All but the very short mathematical equations should be displayed on a separate line and centred. Equations must be numbered consecutively on the right margin, using Arabic numerals in parentheses. To reduce errors in typesetting, please differentiate clearly between the letter l (ell) and the numeral 1 (one), the letter o (oh) and the numeral 0 (zero) and marginal notations.
     
14. Notes: Notes should be consecutively numbered and presented at the end of the article, not at the foot of the page. An acknowledgement or statement about the background of the article will be set before the list of references in the article. In general, notes should contain more than a mere reference. They should be referred to in the text by numerical superscripts.
     
15. Citations and References: References in the text should follow the author-date system—for example: ‘Smith (1999, 21)’. Citations should be first alphabetical and then chronological, for example, (Ahmed 1987, 1990; Sarkar 1987; Wignaraja 1960).

Here are a few examples of in-text citations:

One work by one author: (Sarkar 1987, 145) or ‘as mentioned by Sarkar (1987, 228–30)’.

One work by two authors: (Schuman and Scott 1987, 50–66); (Armstrong and Malacinski 1989; Pickett and White 1985)

One work by three authors: (Heatherton, Fitzgilroy and Hsu 2008, 188–89)

One work by more than three authors: (Schonen et al. 2009)
[Only the name of the first author is used, followed by et al. (and others). Note that et al. is not italicised in text citations.]

Groups or organizations or universities: (BSI 1985); (ISO 1997)

Works with same authors and year: (Fogel 2004b, 218); (Fogel 2004a, 45–46)

Authors with same surname: Include the initials in all the in-text citations even if the year of publication differs, e.g., (C. Doershuk 2010) and (J. Doershuk 2009).

Works with no identified author or anonymous author: (True and Sincere Declaration 1610); (Stanze in lode della donna brutta 1547) or (Stanze 1547) [Short form of the title and year]

Two or more works by the same author: (Wong 1999, 328; 2000, 475)

Forthcoming works: (Faraday, forthcoming)

Reprint editions and modern editions (more than one date): (Maitland [1898] 1998)

Direct quotations:
As Edward Tufte points out, ‘A graphical element may carry data information and also perform a design function usually left to non-data-ink’ (2001, 139).

or

As Edward Tufte (2001, 139) points out, ‘A graphical element may carry data information and also perform a design function usually left to non-data-ink.’

1. References:
   At the end of the article, a consolidated alphabetical list of all books, articles, essays and dissertations referred to (including any cited in the tables, figures, graphs and maps) should be provided. The list should be typed in double-space and begin on a separate page. They should be in alphabetical order, unnumbered and follow the samples below. In the reference list, provide full name of author/s instead of just initials, wherever applicable. In case of multiple authors, provide names of all the authors. We follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 16^th edition in the formatting of the reference details. The brief style of referencing for some common types of references is as follows:

• Book (One author):
  Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin.
   
• Book (Two authors):
  Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. 2007. The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: Knopf.
   
• Book (Three or more authors):
  Heatherton, Joyce, James Fitzgilroy, and Jackson Hsu. 2008. Meteors and Mudslides: A Trip through . . .
   
• Edited book:
  Soltes, Ori Z., ed. 1999. Georgia: Art and Civilization through the Ages. London: Philip Wilson.
   
• Book chapter:
  Gould, Glenn. 1984. ‘Streisand as Schwarzkopf.’ In The Glenn Gould Reader, edited by Tim Page, 308–11. New York: Vintage.
   
• Journal article:
  Blair, Walter. 1977. ‘Americanized Comic Braggarts.’ Critical Inquiry 4 (2): 331–49. [Wherever issue number is not available, give some specifications such as—Supplement/Special Issue/July-Sept., etc.]
   
• Works with same authors, same year:
  Two or more works by the same author in the same year must be differentiated by the addition of a, b, and so forth (regardless of whether they were authored, edited, compiled, or translated), and are listed alphabetically by title. Text citations consist of author and year plus letter.

  Fogel, Robert William. 2004a. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. New York: Cambridge University Press.

  ———. 2004b. ‘Technophysio Evolution and the Measurement of Economic Growth.’ Journal of Evolutionary Economics 14 (2): 217–21. doi:10.1007/s00191-004-0188-x.
   

• Groups or organizations or universities
  BSI (British Standards Institution). 1985. Specification for Abbreviation of Title Words and Titles of Publications. London: BSI.

  ISO (International Organization for Standardization). 1997. Information and Documentation—Bibliographic References. Part 2, Electronic Documents or Parts Thereof. ISO 690-2. New York: American National Standards Institute.
   

• Anonymous or unknown author:
  Stanze in lode della donna brutta. 1547. Florence. A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purpose and Ends of the Plantation Begun in Virginia, of the Degrees Which It Hath Received, and Means by Which It Hath Been Advanced. 1610. London.
   
• Forthcoming work:
  Faraday, Carry. Forthcoming. ‘Protean Photography.’ In Seven Trips beyond the Asteroid Belt, edited by James Oring. Cape Canaveral, FL: Launch Press.
   
• Reprint editions and modern editions:
  Maitland, Frederic W. (1898) 1998. Roman Canon Law in the Church of England. Reprint, Union, NJ: Lawbook Exchange.
   
• Books in other languages:
  Lele, R.K. 1964. Marathi Vruttapatrancha Itihaas (A history of the Marathi press). Pune: Continental Prakashan.
   
• Translations:
  Bourdieu, Pierre and A. Accardo, eds. 1999. The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society. Translated by P.P. Ferguson, S. Emanuel, J. Johnson and S.T. Waryn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
   
• Dissertations:
  Deshpande, Satish. 1991. ‘To Mold and Harness: Race and Disciplinary Power in California’s Capitalist Agriculture.’ PhD diss., University of California.

1. Book reviews: Book reviews must contain the name of the author and title/subtitle of the book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, date of publication, number of pages and price. Please use the following style:
   Ric Shand (ed.), Economic Liberalization in South Asia. Delhi: Macmillan, 1999, 536 pages, Rs 550.

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