About the Journal

The ADVANCED JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES (AJHSS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access international journal, published annually in electronic format. The journal publishes research articles of exceptional significance. The AJHSS include Multidisciplinary Subjects.

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Aims and Scope:

The ADVANCED JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES (AJHSS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access international journal, published annually in electronic format. The journal publishes research articles of exceptional significance. The AJHSS include all discipline of Arts and Social sciences.

Editorial Policy:

To publish in AJHSS, a paper must be real merit that represents a clear and insightful exposition of significant aspects of contemporary research in Multidisciplinary Subjects. The manuscript must be an original research work that has neither appeared in nor is under review by another journal. The manuscript will be reviewed by two independent referrers to be decided by the Editors/ Editorial Board. 

Frequency – Our journal is annually published, once a year collectively. Again individual issues can be published as soon as they are ready. Individual issues are devoted to specific themes, proposed by guest editors, and designed to attract cutting-edge research from across and between the disciplines in academia.  The language of publication is Multiple Languages. Themes should, therefore, be designed to invite as broad a range of interpretations as possible.  A substantial book review section keeps readers informed about new publications in the field, and the Call for papers is generally notified through all accessible mediums (Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, International platform of call for paper) and through our website well in advance.

Copyright :

Upon submission of an article, the authors will have to agree that the copyright of the article will be automatically transferred to the publisher, after acceptance for publication. 

Publisher Information :

Publishing Body
Midnapore College (Autonomous)
Address
Post-Midnapore, P.S-Kotwali, Dist-Paschim Mednipur, Midnapore, West Bengal, 721101
Editor In Chief
Dr. Gopal Chandra Bera (Principal), Midnapore College(Autonomous)
Email : mcm.principal@gmail.com

Guidelines for Submission of manuscripts to AJHSS

1. Advanced Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences(AJHSS)), a journal of Midnapore College (Autonomous) accepts original texts which may contribute to advancing multidisciplinary research on national and international social reality, to promote reflection of and discussion on research instruments and methods, and to disseminate information and knowledge within the academic circle of social science and the humanities disciplines.
   Guidelines on the Publication Ethics based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on the Publication Ethics (COPE) (available at http://publicationethics.org/) are followed herewith.

2. AJHSS publishes issues edited by the Editorial Board (non-thematic issues).
3. The Call for papers is generally notified through all accessible mediums (Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter) and through our College Website well in advance.
4. The manuscripts submitted to AJHSS must be unpublished and authored by the person(s) submitting them. Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the manuscript. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour are unacceptable. The manuscripts must clearly identify the source of every item that is not original (e.g. text excerpts, illustrations, tables, etc.), and make explicit reference, whenever necessary, to permissions obtained from copyright holders and/or authors. In the latter case, if the manuscripts include items protected by intellectual property rights, authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders.
5. Submission of a paper to AJHSS is a certification by the author(s) that the manuscript has not been otherwise published (in print or digital format, in any language), or submitted at the same time to any other publication.
6. Manuscripts will be submitted only in English except language subjects (Bengali Sanskrit and Hindi).
7. There will be no submission, processing or publication fees.
8. Authors submitting their works to AJHSS for publication as original articles confirm that the submitted articles/papers represent their own contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works without clearly citing the source. All the papers go through a plagiarism detection software (Turnitin). Although the AJHSS editorial policy is to publish original manuscripts, the Editorial Board may decide in exceptional cases to publish a previously published text, based on criteria of scholarly and intellectual relevance and opportuneness after taking prior permission from the author/s or copyright holder/s. In that case, the manuscript will only be published with an authorization from the owner(s) of the intellectual property rights/copyright holders.
9. The corresponding author with the journal requires to ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that there is a full consensus of all co-authors in approving the final version of the paper and its submission for publication.
10. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editors and cooperate with them to retract or correct the manuscript.
11. The Editorial Board reserves the right to publish or reject manuscripts, and informs the authors of its decision within a reasonable time frame. This decision is supported by an evaluation of the manuscripts based on a blind peer-review system, carried out in two consecutive stages:
    a) Initial assessment by the Editorial Board, which decides on the manuscript’s submission to the following stage of the process, involving its evaluation by anonymous reviewers; this decision is made taking into consideration criteria of relevance, interest and quality, defined according to the journal’s editorial policy, as well as the manuscript’s conformity to the submission guidelines contained in this document.
    b) Detailed evaluation of the selected manuscripts by anonymous reviewers through a double-blind peer review system. Reviews resulting of this process will be used as a basis for the final decision on the manuscript’s publication.
12. The Editorial Board may suggest revisions to authors, according to the recommendations made by the reviewers, and ask for a new evaluation of the revised paper in order to make the final decision on its publication.
13. In the case of manuscripts submitted to the second stage of evaluation, if they are not accepted for publication, AJHSS will inform the authors of the reasons for this decision, generally attaching the reviewers’ opinions and sending them to the authors.

General Guidelines for Authors

• All quotations from foreign authors should be translated, except in special cases that justify the use of the original version. The original text of any quotation translated by the author should also be sent in a separate file.
• Brief quotations (1-3 lines) should appear in the body of the text between quotation marks.
• Longer quotations should be indented and formatted in a smaller font size than the text without quotation marks.
• Epigraphs, if any, should be brief.
• Interpolations should be enclosed in square brackets [ ].
• Omissions are indicated by 3-point ellipses within square brackets […].
• The titles of the works cited should be in italics, in the case of books, or between quotation marks, in the case of articles. Italicize titles of books, journals, government documents. Put titles of book chapters and titles of journal, magazine, or newspaper articles in “quotations marks.”
• Notes should appear at the bottom of the page, consecutively numbered.
• Footnote numbers should be superscript and placed after the punctuation mark. Example: “as can be easily seen.³”
• Place the title in the center of the page and bold it.
• It is not necessary to include personal communications in the reference list, such as personal emails or letters. These specific sources only need in-text citations, which are found in the body of your project.
• Paper will be typed in Times New Roman point 12 and reference will be typed in point 10.
• For papers in Bengali/Hindi/Sanskrit language font will be Unicode.
• Word limits for submitted articles will be 3000-5000 words including references. References will be made through endnotes.
• First submission will be in pdf version. Authors will have to send word file of the articles/papers once it is accepted by the reviewer and editorial board as and when communicated.
• The entire page should be double spaced.
• Use a hanging indent for all citations. The first line of each citation needs to be flush against the left margin. Any additional lines are indented in a half inch.
• If you have two sources by the same author, place them in order by the year of publication.
• Indent each paragraph after the introductory one. Only the paragraphs beginning immediately after a subheading will not be indented.
• The complete list of works cited in the text (and only these) should be included at the end, with the title “References”, alphabetically ordered by the authors’ last name. In the case of more than one author, the names should be separated by semicolons. The authors’ first name should never be abbreviated (e.g. Wallerstein, Immanuel, and not Wallerstein, I.). In the case of a translation, the reference should include the translator’s name. In addition to the place of publication, the publisher should always be indicated. When referring to journal articles or chapters in anthologies or edited books, the pages of the text cited should be indicated.

Guidelines for References/Footnotes
All manuscript would follow MLA 8^th Style sheet.
Basic Format for Book reference

 Books by a Single Author
Thapar, Romila. From Lineage to Sate. New Delhi. Oxford University Presss, 1990. Print.

Books by Two or More Authors
Chandra, Bipan, et al. India After Independence. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2008. Print.

A work in an anthology or collection or edited volume
Chandavarkar, A. G. Money and Credit: 1858:1947. The Cambridge Economic History of India: Vol-II C.1757-2003. Ed. Dharma Kumar. New Delhi. Orient Longman Limited, 2005. 762-780. Print.

Journal, Magazine, Newspaper Articles- Print Versions
Carter, Nancy Carol. “The Special Case of Alaska: Native Law and Research.” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 22.4 (2003): 11-46. Print.

Add <URL> in case of web version of above sources.
Please refer to MLA Style 8th edition for any other type of sources.

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR OPEN ISSUE
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2

ADVANCED JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES (AJHSS) invites the submission of articles offering historical, multidisciplinary, theoretical, and cultural approaches for its Volume 1 Issue 2.

Submissions should be emailed to ajhss@midnaporecollege.ac.in by no later than 31st August 2023.  All submissions must include a cover letter that includes the author’s full mailing address, email address, telephone number, and professional or academic affiliation.

Articles should be between 3,500 and 5,000 words long (including bibliography and endnotes).

Please note that, if relevant submission and formatting guidelines are not met, manuscripts will not be deemed eligible for publication.

More information on submission can be found at https://midnaporecollege.ac.in/arts-journal/

Submission Deadline: 31st August 2023
Expected Date of Publication: 31st October, 2023

Editorial Team

The journal will be published annually by Midnapore College (Autonomous), Midnapore, West Bengal, India. Supplementary issues based on seminar/conference proceedings are also be published.

Editorial Board :

Editor-in-Chief :
Dr. Gopal Chandra Bera, Principal, Midnapore College (Autonomous)
principal@midnaporecollege.ac.in

Dr. Giridhari Panda, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sanskrit, Midnapore College(Autonomous), Midnapore, W.B.
M.A., Ph.D
giridhari.panda@midnaporecollege.ac.in

Dr. Aparnita Bhattacherjee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Midnapore College(Autonomous), Midnapore, W.B.
M.A., Ph.D
aparnita.bhattacharjee@midnaporecollege.ac.in

Dr. Manishree Mandal, Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography, Midnapore College(Autonomous), Midnapore, W.B.
M.Sc., Ph.D
manishree.mandal@midnaporecollege.ac.in

Dr. Annapurna Nanda, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Midnapore College(Autonomous), Midnapore, W.B.
M.A., Ph.D
annapurna.nanda@midnaporecollege.ac.in

Mr. Tanmoy Kundu, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore College(Autonomous), Midnapore, W.B.
M.A.(Double), UGC-NET
tanmoy.kundu@midnaporecollege.ac.in

Dr. Elisabetta Marino, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy.
M.A., Ph.D
marino@lettere.uniroma2.it

Prof. Narayan Chandra Jana, Professor & Former Head, Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India
M.Sc., PhD
ncjana@geo.buruniv.ac.in

Ms. M. Nelani De Costa, Lecturer, Department of English and Linguistics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
mn.decosta@sjp.ac.lk

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