Formatting Guidelines

  1. All submissions must follow the 21st edition of The Bluebook Citation Style. (A Uniform System of Legal Citation) Non-conformity will be a ground for rejection.

  2. Submissions must be in Times New Roman font, with size 12 and line spacing 1.5.

  3. All footnotes must be in Times New Roman font, with size 10 and line spacing 1.

  4. The submissions of manuscripts must be made in .doc/.docx formats only.

  5. The documents must not contain any identification markers. E.g., the name of the author after the title, or any other metadata on Word.

  6. Preparing Figures, Statistics, Schemes and Tables: All Figures, Schemes and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearances (Figure 1, Scheme 1, Figure 2, Scheme 2, Table 1, etc.). All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.

  7. Corresponding author will be updated on the status of the review of their piece. In case you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to reach the Board atlawjournal@bmscl.ac.in

  8. Certificate of Publication:The E-Certificate of publication is given to all the authors published in each issue without any additional cost. The certificate is given to the authors as soon as the publication is live.
Contact Details:

The Editor-in-chief

B.M.S College of Law
Basavanagudi, Bengaluru-560019
Email: lawjournal@bmscl.ac.in