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AUTHOR GUIDELINES & SUBMISSION CHECKLIST
Thank you for choosing TAMILIYAL. This template follows the good-practice expectations used by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) for transparency of policy, licensing, ethics and article metadata. Please read Part A, prepare your manuscript in Part B, and sign Part C before submitting. Delete every yellow guidance box and every square-bracket placeholder from your final file.
A1. Journal Particulars & Policies at a Glance
| Journal title | TAMILIYAL (தமிழியல்) |
| Description | Peer-reviewed, international, monthly journal of Tamil Studies |
| ISSN | [XXXX-XXXX] (Online) · [XXXX-XXXX] (Print, if applicable) |
| Frequency | Monthly (12 issues per year) |
| Publisher | [Name of publisher / institution, City, State, Country] |
| Language of publication | [Tamil and English] |
| Subject coverage | [Tamil language and linguistics, literature, epigraphy and manuscriptology, history, folklore, philosophy, culture and cultural studies, translation studies, digital humanities] |
| Open-access policy | Immediate open access. All content is free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to, without registration or subscription. |
| Licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) [edit if the journal adopts a different CC licence] |
| Copyright | Authors retain copyright and publishing rights without restriction. |
| Peer review | [Double-blind] peer review by at least [two] independent reviewers, followed by editorial decision. Editors do not handle their own submissions. |
| Article charges | [No article processing charges (APC) or submission charges / State the amount and when it is payable] |
| Plagiarism screening | Every submission is screened with [tool name]. Similarity above [15]% (excluding references) may lead to return or rejection. |
| Publication ethics | Follows the COPE Core Practices. Complaints, corrections, retractions and expressions of concern are handled as per the journal’s published ethics statement: [URL]. |
| Archiving & indexing | [Digital preservation service / national archive / institutional repository]; each article receives a DOI: [DOI prefix]. |
| Self-archiving | Authors may deposit any version (pre-print, accepted, published) in any repository or personal website, with citation of the original publication. |
| Editorial office | [Editor-in-Chief name] · [editorial@journalwebsite.org] · [postal address] |
A2. Manuscript Types
| Type | Description | Length (recommended) |
| Original Research Article | Full-length study presenting new data, sources, analysis or theory. | [5,000–8,000 words] |
| Review Article | Critical, systematic or historiographical survey of a field or topic. | [6,000–9,000 words] |
| Short Communication | Brief, focused findings, a new source or a methodological note. | [2,000–3,000 words] |
| Critical Edition / Translation | Annotated edition of a text, inscription or manuscript, or a translation with introduction. | [As agreed with editors] |
| Field Report | Documentation of fieldwork, oral tradition, archives or corpus building. | [3,000–5,000 words] |
| Book Review | Evaluative review of a recent scholarly book. | [1,000–1,500 words] |
A3. Formatting Specifications
| Element | Requirement |
| Page and margins | A4; 2.54 cm (1 inch) on all sides; page numbers in the footer. |
| Fonts | English: Times New Roman, 12 pt. Tamil: a Unicode font only (e.g. Nirmala UI, Latha or Noto Sans Tamil), 12 pt. Legacy non-Unicode Tamil fonts (TAB, TAM, Bamini and similar) cannot be accepted, because they make text unsearchable and unindexable. |
| Spacing and alignment | 1.5 line spacing, justified body text, single spacing in tables and references. |
| Title | Maximum [15] words; in English and in Tamil. |
| Abstract | [200–250] words in English and in Tamil. |
| Keywords | [4–6] keywords in English and in Tamil, separated by semicolons. |
| Headings | Up to three levels: 1. / 1.1 / 1.1.1 |
| Tamil in English text | Give Tamil terms in Tamil script with Roman transliteration in italics and an English gloss in single quotation marks on first use. Use one transliteration scheme consistently (see Appendix B: ISO 15919). |
| Tables and figures | Number consecutively (Table 1, Figure 1), cite each in the text, place captions above tables and below figures. Tables must be editable Word tables; figures at 300 dpi or higher, with alt text. |
| Citations and references | APA 7th edition. Every in-text citation must appear in the reference list and the reverse. Provide DOIs as https://doi.org/… links wherever they exist. |
| Anonymity | [If double-blind:] upload an anonymised manuscript without Section B1 (author details), acknowledgements or self-identifying references, plus a separate title page. |
A4. Pre-Submission Checklist
| ☐ | The manuscript is original, has not been published, and is not under consideration elsewhere. |
| ☐ | A similarity/plagiarism report has been checked and is within the journal’s limit. |
| ☐ | Title, abstract and keywords are given in both English and Tamil. |
| ☐ | All authors are listed with affiliation, e-mail and ORCID iD; the corresponding author is marked. |
| ☐ | Tamil text is in Unicode; a single transliteration scheme is used throughout. |
| ☐ | References follow APA 7th edition, with DOIs or stable URLs where available. |
| ☐ | All tables and figures are numbered, captioned, cited, and legible in greyscale. |
| ☐ | Permission has been obtained for any third-party material (images, inscriptions, manuscripts, archives, long quotations). |
| ☐ | Ethics approval and informed consent are stated for research involving people, communities or restricted archives. |
| ☐ | Funding, conflict-of-interest, data-availability and AI-use statements are complete. |
| ☐ | Author contributions are stated using the CRediT roles. |
| ☐ | The Author Declaration and Licence Agreement (Part C) is signed by all authors. |
| ☐ | All yellow guidance boxes and bracketed placeholders have been removed. |