Articles
should be submitted either direct to the Editor or to the Church
Society office - contact us.
A
typical article is 5,000 words long.
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If
possible any item for publication should be sent both
electronically and by paper. Articles
can be e-mailed or sent on CD or DVD. Files should
be in MS-Word or Rich Text Format.
Typed copies
should be double spaced, with wide margins and single-sided. |
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The article should be accompanied by a short paragraph
outlining the main points of the argument. |
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Layout for Articles |
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3.1 |
Title |
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3.2 |
Author's name |
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3.3 |
Text (using subheadings if wished). Paragraphs
are not intended, but a line is left between each
one. |
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Author’s name and designation |
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3.5 |
End notes (numbered cumulatively) |
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Layout for notes: |
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Note numbers are placed either at the relevant place
within a sentence or after the full stop at
its end. |
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When published, the notes will appear as foot notes.
They are all set out in full and op
cit and ibid are not used. The exception to this practice occurs when constant
reference is to
be made to a publication. On the first occasion an abbreviation precedes the
title and only
the abbreviation is used thereafter. E.g. CW (C-------‘s Works (publisher’s
detail)) p xx |
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Typical end notes: |
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J Smith Book Title (London: Brown & Brown
1924) p17 |
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Freddie Green ‘Article title’ Book Title A
Jones and B Black edd (London: Brown & Brown 1924)
pp17, 49 |
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C White ‘Article title’ Periodical
Title vol X 1947 p4
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NB Virtual absence of punctuation |
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Layout for reviews |
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Title |
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Author |
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Place of publication: Publisher Year of publication
No of pages Price hb/pb ISBN... |
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Text – see 3.3 above |
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Reviewer’s name |
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Abbreviations and contractions |
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Stops are not used after these.
e.g. 1 Cor the Rev J Smith WCC p pp ed edd Dr Mr St
OT and NT should be used in notes and reviews but written out in full for articles. |
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Brackets |
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Ordinarily (...), but if necessary (...(..)...).
In quotes authorial interjections are in square brackets. |
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Capitals |
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Capitals are used for words in titles and
subheads of articles or book titles except:
The, a(n), prepositions and conjunctions. |
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Use in text is limited to particular meanings,
titles and words derived from proper nouns e.g. Anglican
Anglicans Bible Bishop Smith Christian Church of England
Evangelicals Marxist Parliament Protestant Reformed
Roman Catholic (not Catholic) Scripture Trinity. |
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Capitals are not used for general meanings e.g: biblical bishop church evangelical
gospel.
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Capitals are not used for pronouns relating
to the Deity. |
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Dates and numbers |
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3 May 1997 unless opening a sentence when
May 3 1997 is used. |
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The 1990s not the 1990’s |
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Numbers under 10 are expressed in words |
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24 BC/AD24 25 per cent |
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Pages: pp26-8, 105-6, 497-9, but 15-16 and
115-116 |
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Greek |
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Breathings and accents are shown. |
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Italics |
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In the text of articles and reviews these
are used for:
titles of books, periodicals, articles, plays and films.
foreign words (other than classical/NT Greek) which have not been assimilated
into English. |
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Quotations |
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Brief quotations are shown ‘...’ within
the text. |
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Where
a quotation is contained within a quotation it is shown ‘...’ ‘...’ ‘...’ Except
when the
quotation marks include the whole of a sentence, the final stop follows the closing
quotation mark.
E.g. he said ‘...’. Quotations of three or more lines are indented
5 spaces throughout and quotation
marks are not used. |
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