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Author Guidelines

The journal is actively looking for submissions of high-quality articles covering any aspect of the field of world Christianity, whether theological, historical, or social scientific in approach. The editor (swc-editor@ed.ac.uk) will particularly welcome submissions in the near future on the following topics: gender relations in world Christianity; health and healing; Christian worship and hymnody; interpreting and preaching the Bible; church-state relations.

For more details, contact the editor: swc-editor@ed.ac.uk

Style Guidelines

Please click here to download full style guidelines for Studies in World Christianity.

Images

Guidelines for submission of digital material can be found here.

Books for Review

Books for review should be sent to:

Terry Barringer
Studies in World Christianity
Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide
Westminster College
Cambridge CB3 0AA
UK

Email: tabarringe@aol.com

Authorship

In order to be considered an author or co-author of an article in Studies in World Christianity, a person must:

1) have made substantial contributions to the work  

2) be willing to accept accountability for the work that was done and its presentation in a publication.

The contributions to the manuscript of anyone who does not meet this criteria should be listed in the acknowledgements section. For example, things like general mentoring, collecting data, acting as study coordinator or providing comments on early versions of the manuscript do not constitute authorship, but should be noted in the acknowledgements for an article.

For any other questions on authorship (or other aspects of publication ethics) please click here.

Peer Review Process

All articles accepted to be considered for possible publication are peer-reviewed through an anonymised reviewing process. All identifying marks should be removed from your submission. Do not include your name anywhere in your article (in running headers and footers, for example), and try as far as possible to remove it from your file Properties. Please submit a separate document with title of article, abstract, your name, contact details and short biography.

The review process normally takes approximately three to four months. Please note, manuscripts are reviewed on the understanding that they are not under submission elsewhere.

Appeal Policy

Even in cases where the editor did not invite resubmission of a rejected article, some authors may ask the editor to reconsider a rejection decision. These are considered appeals, which, by policy, must take second place to the normal workload. In practice, this means that decisions on appeals often take several weeks. 
Appeals are considered by the editor and associate editors of the journal.  Decisions are reversed on appeal only if the editors are convinced that the original decision was a serious mistake, not merely a borderline call that could have gone either way. Further consideration may be merited if a referee made substantial errors of fact or showed evidence of bias, but only if a reversal of that referee’s opinion would have changed the original decision. Similarly, disputes on factual issues need not be resolved unless they were critical to the outcome. 
If an appeal merits further consideration, the editors may send the author’s response and/or the revised paper to the original referee or referees. On occasion, particularly if the editors feel that additional expertise is needed to make a decision, they may obtain advice from an additional referee.

Open Access and Self-Archiving

All EUP journals are published on a Green Open Access basis, whereby authors are allowed to deposit a pre-publication version of their contribution on their personal or departmental web page and in their institutional repository. Authors are also permitted to deposit a pre-publication version of their contribution in a non-commercial subject repository one year following publication in print. The Version of Record of the article, as it appears in the journal following layout and proof correction, may not be deposited by authors in institutional repositories. Please visit our Copyright and Open Access Licenses page for full details of our self-archiving policy for all EUP journals.

Authors can also choose to pay a fee to make their article freely available online immediately via the EUP journals website through the Edinburgh Open scheme which provides an optional Gold Open Access route to publication in all Edinburgh University Press journals. Please visit our Open Access page for full information on the scheme.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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).
  • 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 manuscript does not exceed the article word count.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word format.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Articles

Manuscripts should normally be between 5,000 and 8,000 words, including all references, but excluding the abstract. Please submit articles in Word or OpenOffice formats. Over-length articles will not be considered.

Please include at the beginning of your article an abstract of between 150 and 250 words, and a list of no more than eight key words. This will assist greatly in making your article discoverable by electronic search engines.

A biographical note of no more than three sentences about the author should also be inserted at the end of the text and before the references or endnotes. Such notes normally include reference to nationality, present post, and research interests or publications. An email address should be included.

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