Author Guidelines:
Annquest is an online open accessed  interdisciplinary journal  that aims to provide scholars and academicians a medium to articulate their views in all areas of Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The journal manifests our vision to stimulate intellectual activity, to build a collective knowledge base and to provide a portal to record and disseminate the thoughts and perspectives of scholars and academicians.  The journal is published bi-annual – June and December.

Before submitting an article, each Author should make sure that his/her text adheres to the following      format standards for publication:

Research paper sub-division – The research paper should consist of the title page, keywords, abstract, text, footnores, tables, figres/illustrations and appendix(if any).

Title page – must contain title of the paper, author(s) name(s), authors’ affiliations,and e-mail id, telephone, and fax numbers of the corresponding author.

Font-Single-space;  11point Times New Roman bold and italics rather than underlining (except URL Addresses).

Tables/Graphs – insert within the text at the appropriate places rather that at the end of your document.  All notes to tables should be given at the bottom of the respective table. 

Pictures/Videos/Audios – insert within the text at the appropriate places rather than at the end of your document.  Also, submit these images/videos/audio files as separate files to be stored on journal ————————– (upload them as supplementary files).  Pictures (JPEG, GIF), Audio(MP3, AIFF, WAV), Video(Quicktime, MPEG, AVI, or WMV) are accepted formats.

Footnotes – should be listed consecutively in the text with superscript Arabic numerals.  All footnotes typed serially in double space should be given separately at  the end of the text.  If there are bibliographical references and footnotes,  references should follow the footnotes in a separate sheet.    

Style and Bibliography Standards –

Books:

Allen, T. (1974). Vanishing wildlife of North America. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.

Journals:
Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.

Web sites and web pages:
Devitt, T. (2001, August 2). Lightning injures four at music festival. The Why? Files. Retrieved January 23, 2002, from http://whyfiles.org/137lightning/index.html

Title  – Concise and informative. Please remove the information of authors’ names, emails, and affiliations for double-blinded review process.

Abstract – no more than 250 words.  The abstract should indicate experimental design of the paper, significant findings and conclusion. 

Keywords – 3 to 6 keywords. Key words should adequately

URL – all URL addresses in the text and bibliography/references should be active and ready to click.

Length of the articles – 15 pages maximum.

 Editorial Process:
The primary objective of the editorial process is the selection of the highest quality of papers for publication in the journal.   Every article is processed by a masked peer review of single blind. The criteria used for the acceptance of articles are: contemporary relevance, updated literature, logical analysis, relevance to the global problem, sound methodology and contribution to knowledge. The AnnQuest will only consider papers that are not previously published and not currently under consideration elsewhere.  Selection of articles will be purely based on the experts’ views and opinion. The accepted manuscript may be edited for style and language. Papers with immediate relevance would be considered for early publication.   At the AnnQuest, papers are assigned to editors, at which point the assigned editor has full responsibility concerning the publication decision of an article.  Editorial decisions (e.g., reject, accept, or request revision) are made by the editor.  The decision of the editor is totally based on the advice of the referee(s).  The journal is very reluctant to consider appeals of rejected papers. 

 

Authorisation and Declaration – Authors must accept full responsibility for the content of their articles.  The members of the Editorial Board and the publisher of the journal are not responsible for the statements and opinions expressed by the authorsr in their articles/write-up published in the journal.   Authors are required to obtain permissions to reproduce previously copyrighted materials from other sources in both print and electronic form. While submitting the paper the author(s) must give a declaration that “the article has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere”.

COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT 

Please complete and sign the form and send it with the final version of your manuscript. It is required to obtain written confirmation from authors in order to acquire copyrights for papers published in the journal so as to index them to various repositories. 

Title of paper:
Author(s):
The undersigned hereby transfer any and all rights in and to the paper including without limitation all copyrights to the ANNQUEST. The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the paper is original and that he/she is the author of the paper, except for material that is clearly identified as to its original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners where required. The undersigned represents that he/she has the power and authority to make and execute this assignment. 

This agreement is to be signed by at least one of the authors who have obtained the assent of the co-author(s) where applicable.

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Author’s Signature   &    Date

 Typed or Printed Name

 Institution or Company

 

Submission fee:
For the time being there is no submission fee for authors.

Authorisation and Declaration – Authors must accept full responsibility for the content of their articles.  The members of the Editorial Board and the publisher of the journal are not responsible for the statements and opinions expressed by the authors in their articles/write-up published in the journal.   Authors are required to obtain permissions to reproduce previously copyrighted materials from other sources in both print and electronic form. While submitting the paper the author(s) must give a declaration that “the article has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere”. 

Privacy Statement:
The names and email addresses in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.