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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Articles should consist of 5,000 – 10,000 words. Comments and notes should consist of 4,000 – 6,000 words. Book reviews should consist of 1,000 – 2000 words. Judicial Trends’ and ‘Legislative Trends’ should consist of 3,000-5,000 words. The word limit prescribed above is inclusive of footnotes.

Submissions shall be shared in Microsoft Word Document format with the Times New Roman font. The font size shall be 12 for the text part and 10 for footnotes. Line spacing shall be 1.5 for text and single for footnotes.

Apart from the submission document, the author(s) should submit a separate cover page with a brief description of the author(s) including title, name, institutional affiliation, educational qualification, professional status; and acknowledgements (if any) in not more than 300 words. The main submission document should not contain any reference to the authors’ identity to enable anonymous peer review.

JCLC follows “Indian Law Institute, Rules of Footnoting”. Authors may visit the freely accessible website of the Indian Law Institute http://www.ili.ac.in/footnoting12.pdf.

All contributions to the JCLC must be submitted through the dedicated submission portal for that volume as specified in the call for papers for that issue of the Journal.

JCLC Email: jclc@clc.du.ac.in

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