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Guidelines for Authors

  1. Papers are invited from authors on the following topics:

    Projects carried out by students during their Practice School / internship programme ; their applications; benefits realized in terms of increasing productivity, quality improvement, etc.

    Contribution of Work-integrated Learning and other training programmes towards the human resource development of organizations.

    Experience of individuals and organizations participating in any type of industrial training, distance learning, Work integrated learning programmes and other training programmes.

    Experience of individuals, industries and educational institutions participating in collaborative research and the benefit of such collaborative prograamme.

    Academic research work which has relevance or can be of interest to industries / businesses

    Industrial / business processes, methods or research that has academic relevance

    Reviewed technical articles which are either results of such university-industry linkage programmes or will promote such linkages, benefit of such linkages to universities / organizations

     
  2. The following guidelines should be adhered to while preparing the Manuscript:
    (a) Manuscript should be in English, typed in double spacing in double column. with 1˝ inch margin to the left and 1 inch margin on other sides of paper (standard A4 size).
    (b) Keep 1 inch space between columns.
    (c) Use Times New Roman 14 font (bold) for the title of the paper, Times New Roman 12 font (bold) for author(s) name, affiliation and heading. Text of the paper should be Times New Roman 12 font.
    (d) Abstract should be typed in single line spacing and in single column (approximately 150 words).
    (e) Authors can submit the soft copy of the article to: bitscurie@gmail.com.
    (f) While submitting the paper, mention the subject as “Paper submission for CURIE Journal”.

     
  3. Papers involving technical work should be within 2500-3500 words. Papers involving professional / managerial articles can be limited to 1500-2500 words.

     
  4.  Structure of the paper: Recommended structure of the paper would be:
    Introduction, background and purpose of the study; details of methods, procedures used; findings, discussion. Appendices (in case of technical papers) may be used to amplify details where appropriate.

     
  5. The first page of the manuscript should have information of the following in the same order: (a) Title of the paper (b) Name(s) of author(s) (c) institutional affiliation, full address, email ID and (d) an abstract not exceeding 150 words.

     
  6. Tables and figures should be typed along with the text. Each Table and figure should have a number and caption at the top. In case if the figure/table does not fit under one column, in such cases figure/table can be centered to the page.

     
  7. References should be indicated in the text by giving the surname of the author(s), with the year of publication in parentheses. If more then one paper by the same author(s) from the same year is cited, a, b, c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. All references should be alphabetically listed at the end of the paper.


    Referencing style:
    For journal papers:
    Burgess, A.G., Morgan, I. and Vollmann, T.E. (1993). Cellular manufacturing: its impact on the total factory, International journal of production research, Vol. 31(9), pp 2059-2077.

    For textbooks:
    Burbidge.J.L. (1979), “Group Technology in the Engineering Industry”, Mechanical Engineering Publications Limited, London, pp 100-102.

    For Thesis / Project Reports
    Shivashankar.K (1999), “Group Technology an integrated planning and implementation concept for small and medium batch production” (Unpublished Practice School Report of BITS, Pilani), Ashok Leyland, Mumbai, pp 100-120.
     
  8. Brief details about author(s): On a separate sheet enclose brief details about each author (not exceeding 60-70 words). Download this Article