Contributor Agreement

This short agreement covers what happens when you submit a piece for publication on The Indic Journal (theindicjournal.com/). Please read it before submitting, and feel free to ask questions before you agree to anything.

1. What you are agreeing to

By submitting an article, you confirm that the work is your own original writing, that you have not copied or closely paraphrased it from another source without proper attribution, and that you have the right to grant us permission to publish it.

2. Publishing rights

You grant The Indic Journal the right to edit, publish, and display your article on our website and our associated social media channels, including making editorial changes for clarity, accuracy, length, house style, and legal review before publication. You will always retain authorship credit through your byline.

You retain copyright ownership of your own writing. You are free to also publish the same piece elsewhere afterward, including in your own portfolio, personal blog, or future employer’s publication, though we would appreciate a mention that it originally appeared on The Indic Journal if you do.

3. No payment, no employment relationship

This is an unpaid, voluntary contributor arrangement. You will not receive payment for articles published under this agreement. This arrangement does not create an employment relationship, an internship, or any obligation of fixed hours, ongoing work, or continued publication. Either you or The Indic Journal may end this arrangement at any time without obligation to the other.

4. Editorial control

The Indic Journal retains full editorial discretion. We may edit your submission, request revisions, decline to publish a submitted piece, or remove a previously published piece if it is later found to contain factual errors, plagiarism, or content that does not meet our editorial standards. We will discuss significant edits with you before publishing where reasonably possible.

5. Accuracy and originality

You confirm that the facts, quotes, and claims in your submission are accurate to the best of your knowledge and properly sourced, and that the work does not infringe on anyone else’s copyright. If a factual error is later identified, we will follow our standard Corrections Policy, which may include updating or removing the piece.

6. Conduct

We expect contributors to engage with editorial feedback constructively and professionally. We reserve the right to end a contributor relationship if a contributor submits plagiarised work, behaves abusively toward our editorial process, or repeatedly disregards editorial guidance.

Agreement

By submitting your article for consideration, you confirm that you have read and agree to the terms above.

Contributor name: _____

Date: _____

Email: _____