Editorial Board and Editors for the next issue of negotiations

Editorial Board

Dr Gautam Sarma

Santanu Phukan

Dr Abanti Barua Bharali

Dr Garima Kalita

Dr Arunabha Bhuyan 

Dr Merry Baruah Bora

Dr Dhrubajyoti Das

Department of English

Cotton UniversityGuwahati Assam



Editors

Dr Gautam Sarma
Dr Payal Jain
Jeetumoni Basumatary
Department of English
Cotton UniversityGuwahati Assam

Submission Guidelines

Only electronic submissions via e-mail as attached documents are accepted. Submissions are accepted only after a call for papers is announced for a particular issue. Authors are requested to preserve a copy of the soft file and send the same as attachment to the editors at engcotton@gmail.com. The author(s) will have to send a declaration via e-mail that the attached article is not being currently considered for publication by other publishing agencies.

Formatting

File Types:

The following doc (text) and image files are processed:
Text formats: MS Word 97—2007, Open Office Documents.
Image format: JPEG.


Format of the Articles:

Authors need to follow  the MLA style strictly while preparing the articles. The guidelines can be found here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Authors are requested to include the following in the format of their articles:
Full Title with subtitle, if any.
An abstract of the article of about 100-150 words.
Heading, sub-headings, illustrations should be well accommodated within the main body of the article.
The article should be of 5000 words approximately, inclusive of notes and references.
A bio-note of the author of around 100 words should be included as an attachment.

Footnotes should be avoided. Include Notes after the end of the article and before References. Referencing must follow the MLA style.

Ethics Policy

The editorial board of the journal expects the authors to submit  their original work without any trace of plagiarism.  Plagiarism would connote the unreferenced use of others' ideas, submission of a complete paper under 'new' authorship or even production of multiple papers with the same, or essentially the same, content by the same authors. The editorial board would view any instance of such plagiarism as unethical. Articles submitted are expected to bear the stamp of original research. In case, an article is found to have been plagiarized before publication, the editors would blacklist the author. If, on the other hand, an article is reported to have been plagiarized after its publication a notice with regard to the unethical conduct of author would be served by the editors.

Editors

Gautam Sarma

Department of English 

Cotton University

Guwahati

Assam

PIN: 781001

Merry Baruah Bora

Department of English

Cotton University

Guwahati

Assam

PIN: 781001

Email: engcotton@gmail.com

Editorial Board

Santanu Phukan
Kiran Chandra Bhuyan

Abanti Barua Bharali
 Arunabha Bhuyan 
Department of English
Cotton University
Guwahati, Assam

About the Journal

negotiations  (ISSN: 2250 – 0707) is a peer reviewed journal of the Department of English, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, India. The journal is published annually and purports to publish well-researched and original articles on the broad areas of language, literature and culture. 

  

The editorial board of the journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of review and research. Once a paper is assessed by the editors for suitability, it is double blind peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees.
  

This journal does not levy any publication charge from authors. 

Name of the Journal:                        negotiations

ISSN:                                                  2250 - 0707

e-ISSN:                                               Not applicable

Nature of Journal:                            Print Only

Periodicity:                                        Annually

Place of Publication:                         Guwahati

Country of Publication:                    India

Broad Subject Category:                  Arts and Humanities

Link:                                                   http://negotiationsecottonuniv.blogspot.in/

The link provides instructions to authors/reviewers:                                Yes

The journal has a well-defined peer-review and publication policy:       Yes

The journal has a well-defined ethics policy:                                             Yes

The journal has a declared frequency of publication each year:             Yes

Indexing of the journal:                                                                                In process

The journal levies submission/publication charges:                                   No

Since when is the journal published:                                                           2012