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.
The submission is your original work.
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.
Author Guidelines
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Environmental Theology strives to provide a forum that is accessible to all those working in areas which impact theological approaches to environmental thinking. This is by necessity an explicitly interdisciplinary conversation, and so we welcome submissions from any discipline or area of research which engages theologically with environmental themes or concerns. Each issue will include a collection of papers on a particular doctrinal theme, along with other papers which pertain to environmental theology more broadly. (Upcoming themes are posted on the journal website, found HERE).
The journal publishes feature articles (typically 6000-8000 words, although we have no fixed length requirements for submissions); discussion papers (shorter essays); and book reviews.
ARTICLES & DISCUSSION PAPERS
In preparing an article or discussion paper for submission, please:
Include an article abstract of 100 words maximum
Include a separate cover page with your name and affiliation, with the title, to facilitate anonymous peer review. All articles will be anonymously peer reviewed. To ensure the integrity of the anonymous review, Authorname(s) must be removed entirely from the text. If necessary to ensure blind review, authors who cite their own works should substitute the word 'author' for his or her own name in the text and/or in the citations and reference list.
Use footnotes rather than endnotes.
Follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
American and UK styles are both acceptable as long as they are internally consistent.
Gender-inclusive language is preferred (e.g., 'humanity' rather than 'man'), as is using a diversity of personal pronouns. For further text reference help, the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors is recommended, as is the Chicago Manual of Style.
Environmental Theology operates a double-blind peer-reviewing process whereby the identities of reviewers and authors are concealed from each other. We aspire to achieve a four-week turnaround period for the review process..
BOOK REVIEWS
Environmental Theology publishes both invited and submitted book reviews of 800-1500 words. Reviews, and suggestions for books to be reviewed, should be submitted by e-mail to: Publishers are invited to submit copies of books of interest to our readers for consideration of review in the journal. Please send print copies to the following address:
It is a condition of publication that authors agree to licence their articles as part of the Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND).
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