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.
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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).
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The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format.
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Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
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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.
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The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Submission guidelines for the Journal of the Oxford Graduate Theological Society
The editors of the Journal welcome all submissions pertaining to academic theology and the study of religion, without favour or prejudice towards any particular scholarly field.
Submissions may not have been previously published or be under review by another publication.
By submitting to the Journal, authors accept the terms of Open Access publishing. See the Journal’s “Copyright Notice” for further information on Open Access details.
Style
Submitted texts may be in either British or American English, but please ensure that the spelling and punctuation of one or the other is applied consistently throughout, with guidance from the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition.
Authors are advised to consider a broad audience both in and outside their respective fields. Authors should review their manuscripts before submission to ensure that their research is widely intelligible to those in other areas of research.
Citation
Please ensure that submissions include properly formatted citations and bibliography. Referencing should follow Chicago Style’s footnote and bibliography system:
Footnotes
1. Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 773–74.
2. Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers, trans. Richard Crouter, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 18–20.
Bibliography
Schleiermacher, Friedrich. On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers. Translated by Richard Crouter. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
For further examples of the system, consult Chicago Style.
Non-English Language Sources
Authors seeking detailed guidance regarding the formatting of foreign-language, Biblical or other ancient sources are invited to consult The SBL Handbook 2nd edition. It should be noted that SBL guidelines have been written to supplement the Chicago Manual of Style and that therefore Chicago Style is the authoritative reference.
Authors may include text in languages other than English along with an English translation. Authors should adhere to standard, scholarly transliteration systems when representing languages that use writing systems other than the Latin alphabet. Please ensure that non-English characters are Unicode supported. For more information, see here.
How to submit
Submissions should be made through the online submission platform.
Please ensure that texts and files are free of any author-identifying information.
The Journal is not able to accept hard-copy submissions.
Supplementary images, figures and diagrams
Where a submission makes use of supplementary files – such as images, film stills, graphs, or diagrams – these should be submitted separately in JPEG format and numbered sequentially. Please ensure that texts including such material clearly indicate where it should appear and please ensure that appropriate captions have been provided.
Length
Submitted texts generally should be in the range of 7,500–12,000 words, inclusive of footnotes and bibliography, but this is not a strict rule. Submissions that the editors have deemed unsuitable for reasons of length may be returned with a request for revision.
Keywords and abstract
For the purpose of academic indexing, each submission should be accompanied by 4–8 keywords and an abstract of 250–500 words.
Copyright Notice
By submitting to JOGTS, authors accept the terms of Open Access publication. JOGTS is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
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