Instructions to Authors

 Papers intended for publication in the TRANSACTIONS OF THE INDIAN CERAMIC SOCIETY should be addressed to the Hony Editor, Transactions of the Indian Ceramic Society, Care : Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata – 700 032 (India).
Submission of a paper implies that the results reported have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Any reproduction in the manuscript of full tables, diagrams etc from other published sources must be accompanied by publishers’/authors’ written permission. Prospective authors in need of clarifications are requested to consult the Hony Editor. Once a paper is accepted authors are assumed to have transferred the copyright of the paper to Indian Ceramic Society.

Several categories of communications are published: (i) Topical Reviews – extended description of the current status in the science/technology of a particular area in glass, ceramics and related fields. These are generally invited. Contributing authors willing to write reviews are requested to consult the Hony Editor. (ii) Papers – critical accounts of original basic, applied or industrial work. (iii) Opinions (usually invited) / Achievements / Status Reports – Expert comments on specific topics / important information that merit dissemination.

3.1 Typescripts with double spacings on one side of the paper leaving enough margin in the left hand side are to be submitted in duplicate. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered. References, tables and captions to illustrations are to be typed in separate sheets. Electronic submission of papers (e-mail : editor_incers@cgcri.res.in) is also encouraged.

3.2 Authors’ Details : Full address information of every author, including the e-mail id of the corresponding author should be provided clearly in the manuscript.

3.3 An abstract for a paper / review article is to be provided at the beginning which should be brief indicating scope of the work and principal findings. It should not normally exceed 200 words, and should be followed by 4 to 5 keywords.

3.4 General Presentation : Introductory material, including a review of the literature, should not exceed what is necessary to indicate the reason for taking up the work and the essential background. Description of techniques and equipment should generally be included in short in the experimental section of the paper. If possible, results and discussion may not be intermingled; the discussion should be restricted to logical interpretation as a basis for conclusions supported by the results. Information density must be high, and verbose and roundabout expressions should be avoided.

3.5 Tables should be numbered with Roman numerals in the order in which they are referred to in the text. Each table should be accompanied by a title which makes the information intelligible without reference to the text.
The number of columns should be kept to a minimum. Long column headings should be avoided by the use of explanatory footnote indicated in the table by superscript letters. Presentation of same data in tabular and graphical form is not desirable; in all such cases the graphical form is preferred.

3.6 References : The author is responsible for accuracy. Literature reference should be in separate sheets at the end of the paper in the order in which they appear and are numbered in the text. The reference numbers should be cited as superscripts in the text.
Each reference should give the following information in the sequence set out below :

(i) Papers, Conference Proceedings etc :
A. Gedanken, Y. Koltypin, N. Perkas, M. Besson, L. Vradman, M. Herskowitz and M. V. Landau, Trans. Ind. Ceram. Soc., 63, 137-44 (2004).
L. A. Chick, J. L. Bates, L. R. Pederson and H. E. Kissinger, “Synthesis of Air Sinterable Lanthanum Chromite Powders,” pp.170-79 in: Proc. 1st. Int. Symp. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Ed. S.C. Singhal, The Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ, USA (1989).

(ii) Books :
E. B. Shand, Glass Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, pp. 38-42, McGraw-Hill Book Co, New York, USA (1958).
W. D. Kingery, “The Thermal Conductivity of Ceramic Dielectrics,” pp. 182-235 in: Progress in Ceramic Science, Vol. 2, Ed. J. K. Burke, Pergamon Press, London, UK (1962).

(iii) Website references are also acceptable.

3.7 Mathematical formulae should be written carefully in the exact form in which they are to be printed. Care should be taken to distinguish between capital and small letters and subscripts and superscripts. A zero should be used before decimals (0.231, not .231). Fractional exponents should be used instead of root sign.

3.8 Diagrams are to be drawn with black ink on white tracing paper and numbered with Arabic numerals. Legend preferably should not duplicate information in the text. The number of diagrams and photographs should not be more than is absolutely necessary. Co-ordinate paper should not be used. Drawings should be suitable for reduction to column width (8.5 cm). Lettering should be large enough to be approximately 1.5 mm high after reduction.

3.9 Photographic prints should be unmounted, and must be of highest quality on glossy paper with a full range of tones and sharp contrast. Details in a photograph, which must be more clearly shown, should be indicated on an overlay; this is particularly important with photo- and electron-micrographs. One set of original micrographs should be sent as glossy, high-contrast, black/white originals for better reproduction. In case of electronic submission all the photographs/micrographs should be scanned in high contrast format.

4. Reprints