Submission of Articles

Submission Guidelines: South Asian Cultural Studies (SACS)

The South Asian Cultural Studies (SACS) welcomes original research articles for peer-reviewed publication. Submitted manuscripts should present innovative, critical, and contextually grounded contributions related to architecture, urbanism, heritage, and spatial practices within Global South contexts.

• Submission of manuscripts: authors should send three identical copies (each fully numbered and typed in double spacing throughout, on one side only of A4).

• Cover Letter: Indicate in the cover letter accompanying an article that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication by another journal.

• Each manuscript should contain: Title pages with full title and subtitle (if any) for the purpose of blind refereeing. Full name of each author with current affiliation and full contact details plus a short biographical note should be supplied on a separate sheet. An abstract should not exceed 100–150 words.

• Articles should be approx. 4000–6000 words, excluding references. Text should be clearly organized with a logical hierarchy of headings and subheadings, and quotations exceeding 40 words should be displayed and indented in the text.

• End notes: if superscript numbers in the main text should signal necessity and be listed at the end of the text before the references. References should follow Harvard style whereby references are cited in the text by author and date, with a full alphabetical listing at the end of the article.

• Book reviews should be approx. 500–1000 words.