Pointers for Finalisation

1. You need to provide a Table of Contents, which needs to be italicised entirely (Times
New Roman - 12).
2. The indent spacing before and after each heading needs to be of 12 pts.
3. Ensure that everything in the abstract is italicised.
4. Everything must be in British English – ‘criticize’ would be ‘criticise’, ‘-or’ would be ‘-
our’ etc. Please keep an eye out for this.
5. Check that non-English words are italicised.
6. Check for redundancy in terminology. E.g. – ATM machine, HHI Index etc.
7. Check that every case is defined in this manner: Paridhi Poddar v. Srivats Shankar
(‘Paridhi Poddar’). Check that subsequent usages of the case in the short form are not
italicised.
8. ‘Hereinafter’ is not to be used. Short forms should be defined thus: The Indian Penal
Code (‘the IPC’).
Earlier format: Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Awards
(hereinafter New York Convention)
New format: Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Awards ('New
York Convention')
9. Check that the hyperlink is removed in case of website citations.
10. Check that the ampersand (‘&’) is used when co-authors are cited/short-cited; e.g., ‘Gupta
& Bansal’, not ‘Gupta and Bansal’.
11. Supra citations should be preceded only by the author’s last name; e.g., Gupta, supra note
4, not Aishwarya Gupta, supra note 4.
12. Check that dashes are used correctly. It should be “The hills are alive – although there is
nobody to enjoy it – with the sound of music” and not “The hills are alive- although there
is nobody to enjoy it- with the sound of music”
13. Check that compounded words are hyphenated correctly. E.g. – “state-sponsored”, “trade-
restrictive”, “content-neutral”.
14. Check that there is a comma after the year in this situation: “In May, 2015, the Ministry
issued…”. Please do not insert a comma if the sentence contains only the year.
15. Check that articles are placed correctly before specific terms. Common examples would
be the placement of ‘the’ before ‘court’ or ‘CCI’ etc.
16. Check that the article is written in first person. “The author” should be changed to “I”.
17. Check that the section symbol is used (§) and not the word to denote a section of a
legislation (both main body and footnote). Also check whether ‘a’ is capitalised when
referring to an article in the Constitution/any other legal document. Make sure that it is
referred to as “Article XX” in the main body but “Art. XX” in the footnote.
18. If a quotation has left out parts of the original source, please use “[…]” to indicate that
something is missing. E.g.–“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she
were alive. […] Fra Pandolf’s hands worked busily a day, and there she stands.”
19. Footnotes/quotations which are greater than fifty words should be indented by half an
inch on either side.
GANDHI, supra note 14 (The onus for a report based on a factual narrative, really lay in
the response of the British Adminstration to Indian grievances. As Gandhi notes:
 “The Right Honourable Mr. Chamberlain, however, while in full sympathy
with its object, in his reply to the deputation headed by the Hon'ble Mr.
Dadabhai is said to have stated that our grievances were more sentimental than
material and real and that, if he could be shown any instances of real
grievance, he should deal with them effectively.”

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18. Check that “th” after a number is superscripted. E.g. – 14 and not 14th.
19. Check for general spelling/grammatical errors in the title, abstract and main body of the
paper as well as spacing and indent. Follow the stylesheet for more on presentation of the
paper.
20. Check that supras and ids are correctly numbered.
21. Percentage should be denoted in words, i.e., “ten percent” and not “10%”.
22. Single and double-digit numbers should be written in words. Triple-digit numbers onward
should be in numerals.
23. Footnotes to be after any punctuation point and not before.
24. Currency symbols are not to be used. Use the textual version instead; e.g. – USD, INR,
GBP, etc.
25. Format of the date, anywhere in the article: Any date mentioned in the Law Review
article has to be in this format: January 4, 2010.
26. All paragraphs must begin with a 1 inch (2.54 cm) indent.
27. No punctuations are to be italicized (for example: Id.)
28. Statute and cases should be re-written in footnotes. Do not use ‘supra’ for the same.
However, Id can be used.
29. Cases should not be italicized in footnotes. In the main text, the name of the
case must be italicized only when it is mentioned for the first time (the definition and
its subsequent usage should not be italicized). The "v." between the names of the
parties should not be italicized.
30. Do not put fullstop before closing the brackets. It needs to be put only once,
that is, after closing brackets
It should be (It is a sunny day).
and not (It is a sunny day.)
28. Use ‘ ’ while providing emphasis on a single word/phrase. If quoting anything, use “ ”
29. The first letter of all words of the title of articles should be capitalised (with the
exceptions of words like: of, the, at, etc.)
30. Footnote for cases should be after the definition.

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:

1. Check for complete information in the footnotes, e.g. if for an online source, the date
is not mentioned in the footnote, make a note of this as it is missing information as
per our present style sheet.
2. For things you are unsure about/if you think that it changes the meaning of the
sentence- then please leave a comment.
3. Check if every proposition in the paper has been footnoted.