JFSSC: Submission Guidelines

Call for Articles: The Art of Change

We invite articles for Issue 4 of The Journal for Faith, Spirituality and Social Change exploring the relationship between politics and faith, spirituality and social change. The editors are pleased to respond to an abstract or outline of any proposed article.

Contributions should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words with Harvard referencing and a 100 word abstract. The article itself must be anonymous for the purposes of peer reviewing, but please include a separate biographical statement of no more than 50 words with the title of the paper, the authors institutional affiliation (if any) and an e-mail address. Articles should be sent in Microsoft Word format with any images attached in JPEG format. Please read our guidelines for contributors before you start, as this will help ensure a speedy and successful submission. Articles will usually be subject to revision in the light of peer review advice before publication.

Shorter articles for Reflections are especially welcome from non-academic practitioners. Reflections provides a forum for more exploratory material, which may be an interim report discussing an on-going project, creative work or a controversial article to provoke debate.

We are always happy to receive articles or proposals on other areas of research that we can consider for future issues.

Your contributions are the life-blood of The Journal and we encourage quality submissions from both scholars and practitioners.

Guidelines for Authors
Following these simple guidelines will help ensure a speedy and successful submission.

• Include all bibliographic information in your article. Properly and consistently reference using the Harvard system.
• Carefully copy-edit your text. We will not correct poor spelling and bad grammar except by agreement with those who have English as a second language.
• Use footnotes, not endnotes, if they are required.
• Once we have received your article it will be sent to an appropriate specialist in the field for peer-review. When you receive a copy of the peer-reviewer advice, please re-work and re-submit your article as promptly as possible.
• We will keep you informed of the progress of your article at each stage in the process. As The Journal is published twice a year authors can normally expect a 6 month interval between submission of a draft text and publication.

Editorial Policy
The Journal is interested in publishing a broad and international range of articles that will appeal to everyone, from academic researchers to government agencies and NGO's to interested members of the public. Although we have no historical or geographical restrictions, articles discussing contemporary issues are preferred. Interim reports and articles discussing on-going projects are welcome, especially for our Reflections section. If you would like to suggest an item for review or if you would like to offer your services as a reviewer, please contact the Editors.

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