Author Guidelines
Instructions to Authors/Author Guidelines
- Translated work of some other author’s content is not accepted. The authors can publish research papers, case reports, and review articles in this journal. The authors can translate their own work, published in some other journal, and submit for publication in TPJ.
- It is the author’s responsibility to follow plagiarism guidelines and give credentials to the original authors wherever necessary while writing the articles. Aram hospital will not hold responsibility for breaching of plagiarism criteria by the authors after publication in TPJ.
- The authors, who wish to publish in TPJ, have to register in TPJ and use the submission portal in the website Submissions .
- The submission file in Tamil language should be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format. 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 should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- While submitting their article through the portal, the author should also submit an abstract in English language along with keywords (both in English and Tamil).
- The citation format should be APA style as given in the following examples, adopted from APA guidelines.
APA citation examples:
|
Material Type |
In-text Citation |
Bibliography |
| A book | (Sapolsky, 2017) | Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books. |
| Chapter in an edited book (If the chapter is from an authored book, use the book citation) | (Dillard, 2020) | Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge. |
| An article in a print journal | (Weinstein, 2009) | Weinstein, J. (2009). “The market in Plato’s Republic.” Classical Philology, 104(4), 439-458. |
| An article in an electronic journal | (Grady et al., 2019) | Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185 |
| A website | (Bologna, 2019) | Bologna, C. (2019, October 31). Why some people with anxiety love watching horror movies. HuffPost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anxiety-love-watching-horror-movies_l_5d277587e4b02a5a5d57b59e |
American Psychological Association, sponsoring body. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association: The Official Guide to APA Style. Seventh edition., American Psychological Association, 2020.