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Submissions
To submit your manuscript, please use the form below. The subject line should contain the (working) title of your article. The main text box should contain a 200-word abstract, a 20 to 50-word biographical note, and any additional comments you would like to make. Your name should NOT appear on the manuscript itself, as this will be sent on for blind review.
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Author Guidelines
Submissions of academic articles and book reviews are warmly welcomed. All manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the electronic submission system (see right-hand column).
Submissions must be accompanied by a 200-word abstract on the electronic submission form. The author’s name must be provided on the submission form, but must NOT appear on the manuscript itself, to facilitate blind review.
All submissions undergo a blind peer-review process. If recommended for publication, authors will be sent a publication agreement and a list of editorial notes and/or corrections. They are requested to make amendments and/or corrections promptly and thoroughly.
Authors receive two copies of the issue in which their article appears free of charge (one copy for reviewers), and are given the opportunity to purchase further copies at a 15% author’s discount.
HOUSE STYLE:
Notes:
Notes are always footnotes. Full bibliographical details are given in the first reference to a book or article, as follows:
(a) Book or chapter in a book:
Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (London: SPCK, 2005), p. 5 [or: pp. 5-12].
or
Paul Fiddes, ‘Lewis the Myth-Maker’, in Andrew Walker and James Patrick (eds.), A Christian for all Christians (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990), pp. 132-56 (here p. 135).
(b) Article:
Dermot Quinn, ‘Lewis, Chesterton, and the Uses of Enchantment’, The Chronicle 3, no. 2 (2005), pp. 4-10.
For subsequent references, the short title system should be used, e.g., Jacobs, Narnian, p. 56; Fiddes, ‘Myth-Maker’, pp. 72-5; Quinn, ‘Enchantment’, p. 6.
Ibid. and op.cit. (art.cit.) may be used when the reference is immediately clear.
Series and periodicals titles should not be abbreviated.
Quotations:
Extended quotations (4+ lines) should be blocked. In blocked quotations, no quotation marks are used around the quotation itself.
Quotation marks for non-blocked quotations should be single (‘…’), except for quotes within quotes (‘He asked, “What is your name?”’.). Closing quotation marks should be placed inside final punctuation (as in the example above).
Footnote indicators should be placed outside the final quotation and punctuation marks (‘Lewis was fond of beer’.24).
Quoted material, translations and page references must be exact.