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Author Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in The Journal of Pastoral Theology. Style specifications for submissions are below. If you have questions, please contact the editors.

To submit a manuscript, you must enroll as an author as well as a reader. You can add this role by editing your profile from the link at your "User" Home page.

Authors who are not subscribers to the journal will receive a complimentary one-year subscription, beginning with the issue in which their work appears.

  1. Please submit the article or book review electronically, with a minimum of formatting.
  2. PAGE LENGTH: Articles of 15 double-spaced pages are preferred. A length of more than 20 pages will not be accepted. Preferred font is Times New Roman 12.
  3. MARGINS: 1 inches on all sides.
  4. IN-TEXT NOTATION (APA style):
    a. Graham writes, “. . . . .” (1992, p. 7).
    b. If author’'s name is not used to introduce quote: (Graham, 1992, p. 7).
    c. Block quotation: no quotation marks, place period at the end of the sentence and have the parentheses follow the period. (1992, p. 7).
    d. Two or more works within same parentheses, one author, earlier to later: (Graham, 1992, 1997); more than one author, alphabetically: (Graham, 1992; Ramsay, 1991).
    e. One work, two authors: both names every time reference occurs (Gibbs & Huang, 1991).
    f. One work, multiple authors: at first reference cite all authors (Bradley, Ramirez, and Soo, 1994); for subsequent references, include only surname of first author followed by “et al.” (Bradley et al., 1994).
    g. Republished works (James, 1890/1983).
  5. HEADINGS are helpful for organization, formatted as follows:
    Level 1: Bold, Centered, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
    Level 2: Flush left, Italicized, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading
  6. ENDNOTES (substantive notes only):
    Please use endnotes, do not use footnotes, and use Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3).
  7. BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCES (APA style):
    a. Book, one author: Breuggemann, W. (1984). The message of the Psalms. 
    Minneapolis: Augsburg.
    b. Edited book: Gibbs, J. T., & Huang, L. N. (Eds.). (1991). Children of color: Psychological interventions with minority youth. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
    c. Article, one author: Hunter, R. J. (1995). Five questions and polemical suggestions for the future of pastoral theology. Journal of Pastoral Theology, 5, 8-20.
    d. Article, one author, in edited collection: Taylor, S. (1995). Feminist classroom practice and cultural politics: “Girl number twenty,” and ideology. In J. Holland, M. Blair, & S. Sheldon (Eds.),Debates in feminist research and pedagogy (pp. 12-25). Clevedon, UK: The Open University.
  8. REFERENCE LIST follows endnotes.
  9. FOR MORE APA FORMATTING: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.html

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it currently under consideration by another journal (or, if either of these conditions is true, an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  7. If the work contains research with human participants, a copy of Institutional Research Board approval, or a written explanation of protections for human participants, is included with the manuscript.
 

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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed one year after publication under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
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