Instructions to Authors

  1. Submission of Manuscript -

Authors must submit original articles which has not been published earlier in books, journal, blogs etc. Multiple submissions by an author are also not encouraged. Authors should not submit an article which is already under review for some other journals. In such cases, the article would be rejected. Since Quest follows a double-blind peer review process, no names or forms of identification should be used in the main manuscript. The final submission should contain the following (in separate files)

  1. Cover letter with Author name, email address and contact number for correspondence, one-line author note for each author stating current designation and affiliation along with the title of the article.
  2. The main article should begin with a Title, followed with an abstract of 200 words and upto eight key words. The article should be divided into headings and sub-headings. There should be clear cut research question(s), well defined methodology, findings etc. 
  3. Original, unpublished research papers in any of the humanities and social sciences are welcome. Articles should not be less than 5000 words and not more than 7000 words (excluding abstract, references, figures etc.) All figures and tables must be prepared in MS Office (Word/ Excel) and not in .jpeg or other non-editable formats and attached as a separate file. It should be clearly mentioned in the article where a certain figure needs to be inserted. Tables should be numbered as table 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc. Figures should be numbered as fig a, fig b and so on. 
  4. Review articles should not be more than 3000 words.
  5. Quest prefers the use of endnotes and not footnotes though endnotes affect the flow of the readers and should be used minimally.
  6. Quest follows in-text citation method comprising the last name of the author and year of publication (for instance anything related to the work Hind Swaraj would be cited as [Gandhi 1909]. Any quotation would be followed by a page number or numbers like [Gandhi 1909; 10-12]). 
  7. Articles should be written using Times New Roman font, size 12, with 1.5 spacing. 
  8. The heading of the title should be in bold.
  9. There should be a list of references for all books, journal articles, online materials, newspaper articles, government documents, films, audio etc used for writing the article.
  10. See Chicago style for citation details. 
  11. Any article found to be plagiarised at any stage after publication would be subject to retraction.
  12. The authors are required to submit a declaration form after acceptance of the article regarding
  1. Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions
    1. Authenticity of the research work
    2. Claim of authorship
    3. Plagiarism
    4. Generative AI
    5. Conflicts of Interests.
    6. Agreement of Publishing the Version Records.
  1. Conflict of Interest -

Authors should possibly avoid any conflict of interest. Conflict of interests can be financial or non-financial in nature. To maintain transparency, any associations which can be perceived by others as a conflict of interest must also be declared.

A conflict of interest can occur when one’s employer, or sponsor have a financial, commercial, legal, or professional relationship with other organizations, or with the people working with them, that could influence the research.

Authors are required to give full disclosure at the very beginning, regarding this. 

The journal editor will firstly use this information to inform their editorial team. Then they will publish such disclosures to assist reviewers in evaluating the article. The editor may instead decide not to publish the article on the basis of any declared conflict of interest.

Authors can declare the conflict of interest in the cover ready letter of the manuscript during the submission of the article for the journal’s online peer-review system.

  1. Note on Authorship -

It is the collective responsibility of all the individuals who have conducted the work to determine who should be listed as authors, the order in which authors should be listed and who would be the corresponding author (with whom the journal editors would communicate through email).

The journal editor will not decide on order of authorship and cannot arbitrate authorship disputes. Where unresolved disputes between the authors arise, the institution(s) where the work was performed will be asked to investigate. If any issue regarding authorship arises after the publication of the research article, it would be retracted till any such dispute is amicably resolved. Under no situation the Editor(s), Publisher(s), or anyone associated with Quest can be held responsible for any such dispute.

There can be multiple authors (not more than four) but only one author will be treated as the corresponding author. No changes to the list of authors or the name of corresponding author will be entertained after submission.