IJIAMR is a Double-Blind Peer Review System in order to bring in a high-quality intellectual platform for researchers across the world thereby bringing in total transparency in its journal review system. The journal welcomes submissions in all areas related to Biological Science, Economics and Management Studies, Environmental Studies, Indigenous knowledge, Society & Sustainable development, Information & Data Sciences, Language & Literature, Library information Sciences, Physical & Chemical Science, Social science, Arts & Humanities and Gender Studies. Manuscript must be in English prepared on a standard A4 size paper setting. It must be prepared in 12-point Times New Roman. Authors are instructed to follow the author guidelines strictly without which the article may not be accepted for publication. Authors are advised to check the guidelines and check list before submitting the article for publication.

Title:

The title should be concise and informative. It should be followed by the author name and the institution name and address by indicating suitable superscripts. Title page should contain title of the paper in bold face, title case, names of the authors in normal face, upper case (font size 12) followed by the address(es) in normal face lower case. An asterisk (*) must be placed after the corresponding authors name as superscript whose email id, fax, telephone number can be given. Corresponding author has the responsibility to ensure that all co-authors are aware and approve the contents of the submitted manuscript.

Sub-titles:

Do not capitalise the titles unnecessarily unless required: Ex: ABSTRACT can be capitalised but instead of giving as INTRODUCTION give it as Introduction without capitalizing.

Abstract:

This section should detail the problems, experimental approach, major findings and conclusion in one paragraph and should appear on the second page. Avoid abbreviation, diagram and references in the abstract.

Keywords:

Author(s) must give key words which can identify the most important subjects covered by the paper. They must be placed at the end of the abstract.

Introduction:

The manuscript should include the purpose of the investigation and relating the manuscript to similar previous research. Only information essential to the arguments should be presented.

Images:

Images should be supplied without being inserted in tables, borders or any other format, they can be copy pasted in the required space. It will be better if the images are given in the last page, the quality of the image and the size should be proper. Tables should be given using tables options, do not draw tables using lines, the table width should be properly given, Also do not insert any tables as image format, it should be editable. The title of the table should be bold and should not contain any text box. Supplied images should be of required quality. Authors are advised not to submit inferior quality images.

Tables:

All tables should be numbered in order, the word Table should be bold. The table number should be properly given, large size tables should be split into two or more tables so that it can be accommodated within the page size. Table width and cell sizing should be even and all the content should be centred. Number of the tables should be given over the tables and without any border, shading. Ex: Table 1: Table showing the number of villages covered under this study.

Figures:

All figure number should be arranged in order; the figures should not be supplied separately but pasted in the proper place. Figure number and title should be given below the figure; the content of the figure should be explained in the title of figure. All images supplied should have enough resolution, inferior images will be removed. Do not give the figures and tables in the last page; provide them wherever necessary in the article. Provide the figure name and number below the figure and also do not form the images in two columns. Ex: Figure 1: Image showing the map of the study area.

Equations:

All equations should be numbered in order from starting and the notations used in the various equations should be given after the abstract. Authors are insisted to follow standard notations and SI units system even though it's not mandatory.

References

All references must be arranged first alphabetically and then it may be further sorted chronologically. If the reference is provided from the same Author (s) in the same year it must be identified by the letter "a", "b", "c", etc which is placed after the publication year. Ex. (2000,"a") References should be the last part of the article following the below given format.

Prakash. R., & Ramesh G.R., (2008). Article title, Journal of American Society of Civil Engineers, 23(2),12-15.
Prajesh G., (2004). Article title, Journal of Applied Engineering, 45(2),13-17.

Books:

P. K.Gupta., (2006). Introduction to Operations Research, 3rd. Ed. McGraw Hill Inc, 34-96.

Book chapter:

Botkin,J., (2006). What do you meant by Ecosystem in: Environmental Science of Living Plater, 3rd edition, E-age Publishing, New York.

Conferences:

Ganeshkumar. B, " Geospatial technology for disaster management", International Conference on Disaster Mitigation and Management, PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, pp 234-238.

Note: Reference should be in APA Format (http://www.apastyle.org/faqs.html#8 or http://www.apastyle.org ). Reference Citation in text:

If the reference is of a Single author: the author's surname (without initials) and the year of publication: Two authors: Both authors Surname and the year of publication. Three or more than three authors: First author's surname followed by "et al.,". Example: (Baskaran, 1998), (Rabia and Pedikri, 2008), (Podilinski et al., 2004). Citing web reference can be like the journal article reference.