Journal of Ecumenical Studies –
Guidelines for Authors
Submissions
JES welcomes original manuscripts that focus on any
dimension of dialogue within or among religious traditions. The editors prefer
manuscripts of 15-35 (typed, double-spaced) pages in length, although shorter
articles may also be considered. Articles must not have been published
elsewhere, and should differ substantially from any of the author’s previous
publications. Please send your article as an attachment (MS Word, if possible),
together with a brief e-mail message introducing yourself and the article, to nkrody@temple.edu. Please also submit a
paper copy to the address below. Please
do not submit a manuscript that is simultaneously under consideration by any
other journal.
Review Process
If, after review by the editors, a
manuscript is deemed appropriate for peer review, it will be read by three
outside reviewers, selected for their qualifications to provide varying
perspectives on a given article. Excerpts of the reviewers’ comments will be
passed on anonymously to the author, whether or not the article is accepted.
The review process generally takes 4-10 weeks. We will return the paper copy of
rejected articles if requested. The managing editor will correspond with the
author of an accepted article regarding any requested revisions. Once a
manuscript is accepted for publication and is copy-edited, we will require a then-current
c. v. in order to prepare a biographical paragraph on the author. We prefer to
include the author’s religious affiliation, if possible.
Style Guidelines
If your manuscript is accepted for
publication, it will be edited to conform to JES’s house style, which
generally follows the Chicago Manual of
Style, 14th edition. In particular, please observe the following
conventions for footnotes:
Books
– Include subtitle, series title,
translator (if applicable). If there are
multiple authors listed on the title page, include up to four names in full;
for more than four, include the first followed by et al. If there are more than
four editors, include only the first and et al. If a book has both author(s)
and editor(s), use this form: Author, Title,
ed. Jean Jones (city: publisher, year), pp. 213-219.
Articles
– Use author and article title as
they appear on the first page of the article (if not in full there, then use
Table of Contents version). If a full date is given on the journal, include it
in this form: Author, “Title,” Journal
25 (March, 2002): 74-76; if only a year is given, include the journal volume
and number in this form: Author, “Title” Journal,
vol. 22, no. 3 (2002), pp. 74-76.
We avoid non-inclusive language
about people and do not use masculine pronouns for God. Extended quotations in
languages other than English should not appear in the text. If necessary to
include the original language, translate quotations into English and include
the original in footnotes. If a published English translation is available but
your research has employed the foreign-language version, quote the English in
the text and cite both the English translation and the foreign-language
original in the footnote. Brief phrases or words in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and
Cyrillic languages should be transliterated, and in other languages should
include all needed accents. If you quote from biblical or qur’ānic
texts, include the translation used. Please check all quoted matter very
carefully for complete accuracy. If you are using ellipses, it would be helpful
to provide a photocopy of the original material.
Please review back (regular) issues
of JES in order to see examples of
these and other stylistic conventions.
All
correspondence should be directed to: Nancy
Krody, Managing Editor
Journal
of Ecumenical Studies
Phone: 215-204-7714; Fax: 215-204-4569
e-mail: nkrody@temple.edu
website: www.jesiiid.org/jesindex.htm