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Preparation of Manuscripts

Three copies of each manuscript must be submitted. The paper should be typed on one side only, double-spaced with ample margins. The first page must give: title of paper, contributors names, the full address of the author designated to receive proofs/correspondence, a current email address, and the total word count of the article (articles over 6000 words will not normally be considered). A short abstract of about 100 words must be included for publication. Manuscripts will not normally be returned unless stamped addressed envelope is enclosed.

A letter of submission should accompany each paper with full details of the address and email of the corresponding author. Authors are also asked to submit their final version of their contribution electronically by email attachment.

Contributions should be sent to the Editors: Dr Andrew Hass, Department of Religious Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK. Email: andrew.hass@stir.ac.uk.
North American correspondence should be directed to: Professsor Eric Ziolkowski, Department of Religious Studies, Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042-1708, USA. Email: ziolkowe@lafayette.edu

References

References should be in the order made in the text and numbered accordingly. These numbers should be inserted above the line on each occasion a reference is cited. Numbered references should appear at the end of the article and should consist of the author's name and initials, year, title of paper, full title of journal, volume, initial and terminal page numbers. References to books or chapters within them should include names and initials of editors, page numbers, place of publication and name of publisher e.g.: M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985), pp. 49-50. James G. Williams, The Innocent Victim: Rene Girard on Violence, Sacrifice and the Sacred. Religious Studies Review 14 (1988) 320-6. Biblical references should be cited thus: Genesis 23:13-14.

Proofs

Authors will receive a PDF proof of their article by email and it is essential that a current email address is supplied with the manuscript. Proofing instructions will accompany the PDF file but the proof should be checked immediately and returned to the editorial office.

Offprints

Three copies of the issue in which an author publishes will be supplied free of charge. Authors can buy offprints at reasonable prices by returning an offprint order form. Reviewers will receive a copy of the issue in which their review appears.

Copyright

Manuscripts submitted will be expected to contain original work and should not have been published in abridged or other form elsewhere. It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In granting the licence, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that Literature & Theology is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.

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Funding

Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

  • The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
  • The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
  • Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
  • Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
  • Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].