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Author Guidelines

Formatting Guidelines

Bible and The Contemporary World publishes dissertations and articles from the program of the same name in the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, with the understanding that they are the original work of the authors named and that they are being offered only to Bible and the Contemporary World.

Submissions of any of the following are welcome: essays, research articles, review articles, conference papers, lectures, and book reviews.

Shorter articles should be up to 5000 words (inclusive of endnotes). Longer articles should be 15,000 words, plus or minus 10%. Summaries/abstracts of proposed articles should be provided (not more than 100 words long).

Articles and book reviews should be submitted in 12 point font size, with double-line spacing.

Articles should be formatted according to according to the Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982-2010). Recent editions (15th or 16th) should be used for clear guidance on referencing electronic media, including websites, blogs, etc.

Footnotes should be in the Chicago “notes and bibliography” format.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Copyright Notice

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 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).