Submissions of academic articles, book reviews, and original poetry are warmly welcomed. All manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the Editor.
If recommended for publication by the readers, authors will receive a list of editorial notes and/or corrections. They are requested to make amendments and/or corrections promptly and thoroughly.
The journal does not currently take any copyright except for photographs and translations, and does not require first publication rights for poetry. Manuscripts should not usually exceed 5000 words.
Authors will receive three copies of the issue in which their article appears free of charge (one copy for reviewers), and will be given the opportunity to purchase further copies at a reduced price.
HOUSE STYLE:
Formatting:
Texts should be submitted in .doc, .rtf or .txt format.
Notes:
Notes are always end notes. In the endnotes, 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 3/2 (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.
Titles of series and periodicals 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.
Abstract & Biographical note:
Please include a 200-word abstract, and a 20- to 40-word biographical note about yourself in the third person.