Authors Guideline

For Articles

The Journal publishes articles related to Pakistan’s foreign policy, regional and global issues, women’s concerns in international relations, IR theory, terrorism and security studies and emerging environmental concerns.

To be considered for publishing in the journal Pakistan Horizon articles should be original. It should not be under consideration elsewhere and formatted according to the style sheet of Pakistan Horizon. The standard length of articles for publication is between 5000 to 7000 words including footnotes. Acronyms should be spelt out in full when used for the first time. Articles should be submitted as an MS Word document with an abstract (150 - 200) and keywords summarizing their contents. It should be properly documented in Kate L. Turabian's pattern. All contributions should be accompanied by a short introduction of the author including his/her designation and affiliation. Papers can be sent for publication in Pakistan Horizon at piiaresearch@gmail.com.

Book Review Guidelines

Pakistan Horizon welcomes book reviews from researchers and scholars on works relevant to international affairs, foreign policy, diplomacy and related subjects. Reviews should critically engage with the book's arguments and place the work within its broader context. Reviewers should analyze the author's approach, identify key contributions, and discuss both strengths and limitations.

Original, unpublished book reviews should be submitted as MS Word documents along with a brief biography including designation and institutional affiliation of the writer. We follow HEC guidelines on plagiarism and once accepted, the review becomes exclusive to Pakistan Horizon and cannot be withdrawn or published elsewhere. If you have a conflict of interest with the author or publisher, please refrain from submitting. 

Requirements

  • Only current publications will be considered for review
  • The book must be relevant to international affairs, foreign policy, diplomacy and related subjects
  • Word limit: 1,000–1,200 words (excluding bibliographic details and author attribution)

Format

Bibliographic details should appear at the top of your review in the following format:

Title of book by author name, place of publication: publisher, year of publication, number of pages [X].

Author Attribution

Include your full name, designation, and institutional affiliation at the end of the review.

Submission Details

  • MS Word format (Century Schoolbook, 12pt)
  • Properly documented in Kate L. Turabian style
  • Pakistan Horizon strictly follows British spellings, abbreviations, and quotation marks—see Writing Format guidelines
  • No submission or publication fees
  • Send to: piiaresearch@gmail.com

Writing Format

Spelling rules

British spellings are always used. Check the spellings of words and phrases from the Oxford Dictionary only.

Numbering and symbols

Numbering from 0-9 will be written in words and, from 10-onwards will be written in digits.

Sign of percentage is not to be used and percent should be written as ‘per cent’ (notice the space).

Currency

Currency signs are not to be used in any case. Use complete names of all currencies.

Dating format

The dating format is ‘29 March 2009’ and specific eras should be written as the 1950s, 1960s or 1980s.

Quotations

Only single quotation marks are used. However, quotes within quotations should be in double quotations.

The author said, ‘Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said that love is “to be delighted by the happiness of another.”’

Indent quotes should not have quotation marks. See bellow

Famous lines from a novel named A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens are as follows:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. . . .

From its opening statement, A Tale of Two Cities moves us through a world of paradox and contradiction. The thematic statement of the opening paragraph is supported in the rest of the book by a number of images and metaphors. . .

(Please note that we do not change anything in the quotations)

Headings

Main headings should be in bold (upper-lower case) while subheadings should always be in Italics (upper-lower case). See below

Diplomacy

It is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats.

Types of diplomacy

There are a variety of diplomatic categories and diplomatic strategies employed by organizations and governments to achieve their aims, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.

Note: Do not use colons in headings.

Names and designations

Names of personnel and their designations to be checked from the official government sites.

Designations of former dignitaries to be written in lowercase.

E.g. president Asif Ali Zardari, president George W. Bush, prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillani.

Designations of serving dignitaries to be written in uppercase.

E.g. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, President Barack Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron.

Names of official treaties, conventions, organizations and policies will always be in uppercase. However, always check the official naming format.

E.g. Indus Waters Treaty, Vienna Convention, Camp David Accords, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).

Uniformity in names should be maintained throughout the article. The same is the case with abbreviations and full-forms (if using either of the two).

Abbreviations

Do not include dots in any abbreviation.

E.g. US or UN, not U.S or U.N.

Foreign language words

Foreign language words that are not commonly used to be written in italics.

E.g. lebensraum

Footnote Style

BOOK

Single Author

Sajjad Hyder, Foreign Policy of Pakistan (Lahore: Progressive Publishers, 1987), p.12. Arif Hasan, Participatory Development (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 30. Co-Author

Mushahid Hussain and Akmal Hussain, Pakistan: Problems of Governance (Lahore: Vanguard, 1993), p.4.

More than Three Authors

Milton Osborne, Beverly Male, Jesicca Rao et al., Refugees: Four Political Case Studies

(Canberra: Australian National University, 1981), p.38.

Editors as Authors

Changqing Cao and James D. Seymour (eds.), Through Dissident Chinese Eyes: Essays on Self-Determination (New York: M.E Sharpe Inc, 1998), pp.59-67.

Chapters in a Book

Ahmed Rashid, ‘The Afghan Conundrum’, in Maleeha Lodhi (ed.), Pakistan: Beyond the Crisis State (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 305-318.

Journal

Farzana Shakoor, ‘The Kargil Crisis: An Analysis’, Pakistan Horizon, Vol. 52, No. 3, July 1999, p.50.

Ashton B. Carter, ‘America’s New Strategic Partner?’, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006, p. 33.

Magazine

‘Endgame in Tripoli’, The Economist (London), Vol. 398, No. 8722, 26 February-4 March 2011, p. 21.

Newspaper

News Items

Just mention Newspaper, place and date. Dawn (Karachi), 20 February 2011.

Newspaper Articles

Zubeida Mustafa, ‘Will they return home?’, Dawn, 25 May 2005.

Editorial

‘An unintelligent stance’ (editorial), Dawn, 24 January 2006.

Interviews

Yashwant Sinha’s interview with Hindustan Times (New Delhi) as reported by Dawn (Karachi), 7 April 2003.

Statements

Statement by President George Walker Bush on the economic situation in the US, as reported by The New York Times (New York), 18 September 2008.

Conference Papers

Brig (Retd) Agha Ahmad Gul, ‘Iran’s Pursuit of Peaceful Nuclear Technology: An

Evaluation, paper presented at a conference held at The Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi, 22 November 2011.

Halil Ibrahim Yenigun, ‘Unveiled Muslim identity in the West: A Muslim Perspective’, paper presented at AMSS Annual Conference, Virginia, 24-26 September 2004, p.2.

Published Reports: include writer’s name, chapter’s title of the main report like of FIIA or IAEA: if available put it, otherwise give as the author has given.

Timo Behr and Mike Aaltola, ‘The Arab Uprising Causes, Prospects and Implications’, FIIA briefing paper 76, March 2011.

UNHCR, ‘The State of the World’s Refugees 2000: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action’ (Oxford: OUP, 2000), p.279.

The 9/11 Commission Report (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004), p.367.

Tunis Infortunisie, ‘Ben Ali Expresses ‘Deep Regret’ at the Start of War Against Iraq’, CRS Report for Congress, 20 March 2003.

Daniel Novotný, Abdessemad Belhaj, Marek Čejka, Alice Savovová and Jan Kuźvart, ‘The Changing Security Situation In the Maghreb’, Research Paper 3/2011, April 2011, http://www.anatem.info/articles/securite_maghreb.pdf, accessed 26 March 2011.

News Agency

David Alexander, ‘US-Afghan withdrawal will be gradual: Gates’, Reuters, 5 June 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/05/us-afghanistan-gates, accessed 19 August 2011.

Website

Chris McGreal and Jack Shenker, ‘Hosni Mubarak resigns – and Egypt celebrates a new dawn’, 11 February 2011, www.guardian.co.uk

Dale Gavlak, ‘Arab education falling behind’, 5 February 2008, www.bbc.com http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq_national_strategy_20051130.pdf, accessed 25

March 2011.

For International Newspapers, News Agencies, Reports, Documents: UN resolutions, IAEA, CRS we can include the website addresses if available, otherwise give as it is:

UNSC, ‘United Nations Security Council Resolution 1696 S/RES/1696(2006)’ 31 July 2006, http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/iaeairan/unsc_res1696-2006.pdf (UN Resolution).

‘UN nuclear watchdog chief expresses concern about anti-Iran rhetoric from US’,

International Herald Tribune, 28 October 2007,

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/28/america/NA-GEN-US-Iran.php, accessed 29

October 2007. (Newspaper).

Sam Roe, ‘An Atomic threat made in America’, Chicago Tribune, 28 January 2007, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-061209atoms-day1- story,0,2034260.html (Newspaper).

Report by the Director-General IAEA, ‘Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran’, 27 February 2006, http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Board/2006/gov2006-15.pdf

‘News Center: In Focus: IAEA and Iran’ 2008. (It was incomplete and with wrong date, while in the paper, the information contained the date 2003), so the given below source was accessed.

News Centre: In Focus: IAEA and Iran, ‘Statement by the Iranian Government and Visiting EU Foreign Ministers’ 21 October 2003, http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/iaeairan/statement_iran21102003.shtml

Fredrik Dahl, ‘UN inspectors revisit Iran's Arak heavy-water site’, Reuters, 30 July 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/07/30/us-iran-nuclear-inspectors- idUSDAH02145320070730, accessed 31 July 2007. (‘accessed 31 July 2007’ is the date mentioned by the author not by Research Department and if there is no date mentioned by the author then we don’t need to find). (News agency).

Op.cit.,

Arif Hasan, op.cit., p.50.

Ramaswamay R. Iyer, ‘Arbitration & Kishanganga project’., op.cit.

Arif Hasan, Participatory Development, op.cit., p. 30.

Ibid., p.12.

Footnote number is placed after the Quotation mark. He stated that ‘our military culture must reward new thinking innovation, experimentation.’ 2

He stated that ‘our military culture must reward new thinking innovation,

experimentation? 5

 

SAMPLE PAGE 

Within the system. As you already know that there are several points of Islamic individuals’ opinions, leaders and parties that they rejected to take part in party elections, saying that elections are divisive, anti-Islamic and are not in tune with Islamic understanding, so Turkish experience is also important in this sense.1

To understand, why the Turkish political Islamists have had this operational point, as Serif Mardin points out and have been succeeded in Turkish exceptionalism. We need to look at the Ottoman experience and analyze it from the perspective of secularism, pluralism, if not democracy and from the perspective of Islam-state law relations. Why do we look at the Ottoman experience? We see that not only the 19th-century development so westernization and secularization, but also even from the beginning of the Ottoman, to a certain extent, had a kind of secular political and legal system2 and this might surprise some people who would think that the Ottoman state was a Sharia state, but actually, even those rulers were practising Muslims even those rulers tried to base their arguments and their legal reasoning and their decisions on Sharia. But when we especially focus on and look at the actual content of their reasoning and political decisions and political structures we would see that the empire was not much different from any other empire either in the East or in the West.4 For instance, if you think about succession in the Ottoman empire, the succession of the monarchy you would see that in a very secular fashion a son would inherit his father’s throne. This is purely a secular human affair. So, Islam does not tell people, according to religion, Qura’an and Sunna that your son should be the next king.5 this is purely secular on the bases that his father was the king and he owned all this empire and he was the ruler, but with the secular reasoning, his son becomes the next king. This is not different from the British experience.6

  1. Arif Hasan, Participatory Development (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 30.
  2. Farzana Shakoor, ‘The Kargil Crisis: An Analysis’, Pakistan Horizon, Vol. 52, No. 3, July 1999, 50.
  3. Arif Hasan, op.cit., 50.
  4. ‘Endgame in Tripoli’, The Economist (London), Vol. 398, No. 8722, 26 February-4 March 2011, p.
  5. Dawn (Karachi), 20 February 6. Ibid., p.12.

 

The reference of unpublished thesis can be given.