Submission Guidelines
Articles
We anticipate the articles will be of interest to a wide and diverse audience. This will include people with both a non-academic and an academic interest in theology and health. Please, therefore, explain any technical terms and suppositions included.
The following guidelines apply to the submission of articles:
· Each manuscript should begin with an abstract, a 200-word summary of its content.
· Articles should be approximately 3000-4000 words in length. (In selected cases, we will consider articles both shorter and longer.)
· Manuscripts can be submitted for consideration via e-mail or by mailing a 3.5" disk (and hard copy) to the editors.
· Articles should be saved in rich text format.
· Notes should be numbered in the text and listed at the end of the manuscript (endnotes, not footnotes).
· Manuscripts should be typed in 12-point font, double spaced throughout (including the reference section).
· For all manuscripts, gender-, race-, and creed-inclusive language is mandatory.
· UK and not USA spelling is used i.e. colour not color; behaviour not behavior; [school] programme not program; centre not center; organization not organisation; analyse not analyze, etc.
· Single 'quotes' are used for quotations rather than double "quotes", unless the 'quote is "within" another quote'.
· Tables and figures should be valuable, relevant, and visually attractive. Tables and figures must be referred to in the text and numbered in order of their appearance. Each table and figure should have a complete, descriptive title; and each table column an appropriate heading.
· Citation
o Books
§ Brown, L B, Psychology And Religion: Selected Readings, London, Penguin Education, 1973
o Chapters in books
§ Arnal, William, E.,’Definition’, in Braun, W. and McCutcheon, R., Guide to the Study of Religion, London, Cassell, 2000
o Journal Articles
§ Williamson, W Paul, And Pollio, Howard R, ‘The Phenomenology Of Religious Serpent Handling: A Rationale And Thematic Study Of Extemporaneous Sermons’, Journal For The Scientific Study Of Religion 38 No 2 Pp. 203-218 1999
o Web Pages
§ Morgan, Peggy, The Authority Of Believers In The Study Of Religions, www.Uni-Marburg.De/Religionswissenschaft/Journal/Diskus/Morgan.Html, 1996, Accessed 11/11/02
Articles will be evaluated on the following criteria:
· Fulfilment of the paper's general/implied outline (i.e. please make your point)
· General relevancy to the Journal’s readership (i.e. Theology and Health, in their broadest sense)
· Scholarly treatment of topic (i.e. no unleashed diatribes)
Articles will not be evaluated based on:
· Author's academic achievement
· Author's theological conviction
· Author's previous experience/inexperience with the Centre
Poetry and Liturgy
The general formatting guidelines above should be noted.
We would prefer poetry to be no longer than 20 lines, and may be in any style.
Copyright
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
Authors retain the copyright to their work, although if the article/poem/liturgy is published elsewhere we ask that Breath is acknowledged as the original source of publication and that we are notified of this.
Manuscripts may be submitted to:
Breath
Centre for the Study of Theology and Health
Holy Rood House
10, Sowerby Rd
Thirsk
North Yorkshire
YO7 1HX
breath@holyroodhouse.org.uk