Citation Style Guide & IAST Standards

Standardized referencing formats (Chicago 17th / APA 7th) and Indic Diacritics Transliteration

Referencing Schema

Crossref DOI Integration · Chicago Manual of Style 17th Ed. · IAST Diacritics

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1. Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition) Examples

PIJCACE prefers Chicago Author-Date or Notes & Bibliography formats. Every entry must include full author names, accurate volume/issue numbers, and persistent DOIs formatted as URLs.

Book Citation

Abhinavagupta. 1987. The Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta. Translated by Daniel H. H. Ingalls, J. M. Masson, and M. V. Patwardhan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Journal Article Citation

Bharadwaj, Arjun. 2025. "Aesthetic Transmutations: Reinterpreting Rasa Theory in Modern Performing Arts." Poorvam International Journal of Creative Arts and Cultural Expressions 1, no. 1: 14–28. https://doi.org/10.63752/pijcace.v1i1.26

2. Indic Sanskrit Transliteration Scheme (IAST)

All Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Indic philosophical terminology must follow the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) standard diacritics with Unicode fonts (Noto Sans / Noto Serif).

Vowels: ā, ī, ū, ṛ, ṝ, ḷ, ḹ, e, ai, o, au, ṃ (anusvāra), ḥ (visarga)

Consonants: k, kh, g, gh, ṅ; c, ch, j, jh, ñ; ṭ, ṭh, ḍ, ḍh, ṇ; t, th, d, dh, n; p, ph, b, bh, m; y, r, l, v; ś, ṣ, s, h