Submission Guidelines

i) Please send us your articles in a .docx format only to ramjaspolreview@gmail.com.

ii) Please attach your name, institution, position, contact number, and essay type.

iii) Adherence to the RPR Style Guide is mandatory.

iv) Upon being forwarded to the Editorial Board for the peer-review process, you affirm that the comments and the document will not be shared elsewhere. 

v) In case the essay is not confirmed within two days, we request you to assume it rejected.

 

General Expectations

 

i) The Board encourages submission of entries from students, professors, or any professional irrespective of their discipline, experience, institutions, or political leanings.

ii) Please ensure that you have gone through our styling guide, the link to which can be accessed here.

iii) Entries should contain nuanced and articulate claims backed by veritable sources; sources might include reputable news sources, academic journals, reports from think-thanks, and books.

iv) Only articles pertaining to political science shall be accepted. 

v) The Editorial Board expects the articles to either advance the knowledge of political issues or lead to a better understanding of the same. 

vi) We appreciate and promote theoretical and empirical articles equally.

vii) Selection of articles will be done through a double-blind peer review to ensure the criteria are met, and that the standards are maintained without bias. Post which, the article shall be sent to the Editor-in-Chief for the final round of editing and selection.

viii) We allow the legitimate and consented usage of direct quotes and statements in the article, but they must be limited to less than 10 per cent of the essay.

ix) We do not allow any artificially generated content.

x) The article should be written in a font size 12 in EB Garamond throughout the essay including the title, heading, and subheadings. The content must be justified.

xi) The piece must be original and should not have been published anywhere else. 

xii) The author is allowed to publish the work only on their blog site after one month of publication with a proper hyperlinked note mentioning that their piece had been originally published by Ramjas Political Review.