Guidelines for Contributors

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1. General Information
Ecclesia Reformanda is a journal of Reformed theology; contributions are therefore expected to be compatible with historic Reformed theology, as expressed in such documents as the Westminster Standards, Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, Canons of Dort, or 39 Articles of the Church of England.

All articles and reviews submitted for publication should conform to the guidelines here set forth. Manuscripts of articles and review articles should be sent as a Word or RTF file to the editor. If the article contains non-roman fonts, please also include a PDF file. Soft copies are strongly preferred, but alternatively, articles (not book reviews) can be sent in hard copy to:

The Editor
Ecclesia Reformanda
112 Stephens Road
Tunbridge Wells
TN4 9QA

Book reviews should be sent as a Word or RTF file to the book reviews editor.

Please include your contact details (postal address and email), and confirmation that the article has not been published elsewhere and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. If it has been published online, please give information as to where, and when it was published. At the end of the body of the article, but before the endnotes, please include your name and location as you wish it to appear in the Journal.

Articles should be no more than 7,500 words long, excluding endnotes. Review articles should be no more than 4,000 words long, excluding endnotes. Book reviews should be no more than 1,500 words long. Authors are asked to write concisely, and to avoid lengthy endnotes.

2. Form of the Manuscript
2.1 Paper size and margins
The MS should be A4 in size, with margins of at least 2.5 cm on all edges of the paper.

2.2 Spacing
All lines, including endnotes and indented quotations should be double-spaced.

2.3 Spelling
Please use British spelling.

2.4 Font styles
The title and subtitle of the article should be in CAPITALS, separated by a colon.
Section headings should be in bold type.
Sub-headings should be bold and italic.
Italics should be used within the text of the article for foreign language words, and may be used sparingly for emphasis. They should be italicized in the ms.
Please note that, ms, and mss should be printed in small caps, as should Lord and Yhwh. b.c., a.d., (which are preferred to c.e. and b.c.e.) should also be printed in small caps. Note that a.d. comes before the date (e.g., a.d. 70), whilst b.c. comes after the date (e.g., 587 b.c.). Years b.c. are written in full to avoid ambiguity (e.g., 255-53 b.c. is different from 255-253 b.c.); years a.d. may be ellided to two digits (e.g., 1914-18).

2.5 Quotations
First level quotation marks are single (‘thus’); second level double (“thus”). Quotations of more than 50 words should be indented, in which case no quotation marks are used.

Omissions within prose quotation should be marked by an ellipsis (…). Omitted lines of poetry should be marked by an ellipsis on a separate line, e.g.,

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
…
But his delight is in the law of the Lord.

3 Endnotes
3.1 When published, footnotes will appear at the bottom of the page. However, in ms, please use endnotes.

3.2 Endnotes should be numbered consecutively, in Arabic numerals. The number in the text should follow the appropriate word, and come after any punctuation. The endnotes themselves should be double-spaced.

4 Foreign Languages
4.1 Foreign words and quotations should be printed in italics (unless in Hebrew or Greek script).

4.2 Hebrew and Greek
Hebrew should normally be pointed, and left untransliterated. Greek should be accented, and, again, untransliterated. Please use the standard Hebrew and Greek fonts available at the SBL website:
http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/Resources_BiblicalFonts.aspx.

5. Bibliographical References
Please ensure that all bibliographical references are confined to footnotes, and that they conform to the following formats.
5.1 Initial references
The first time an item appears in a footnote, the following forms should be used:
5.1.1 Book
Fergus Kerr, Theology after Wittgenstein, 2nd edn. (London: SPCK, 1997).
5.1.2 Book in Series
Oliver Crisp, Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered, Current Issues in Theology, 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
5.1.3 Edited Book
Colin E. Gunton, ed., Trinity, Time and Church: A Response to the Theology of Robert W. Jenson (Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2000).
5.1.4 Translated Book
Herman Bavinck, The Doctrine of God, trans. William Hendriksen (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1977).
5.1.5 Chapter from Book
N. T. Wright, ‘The Letter to the Galatians: Exegesis and Theology’, in Between Two Horizons: Spanning New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology, ed. Joel B. Green and Max Turner (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000): 205–36.
Or, if quoting or citing a particular page:
N. T. Wright, ‘The Letter to the Galatians: Exegesis and Theology’, in Between Two Horizons: Spanning New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology, ed. Joel B. Green and Max Turner (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000): 205–36, at 223.
5.1.6 Journal Article
Andrew Burgess, ‘A Community of Love? Jesus as the Body of God and Robert Jenson’s Trinitarian Thought’, IJST 6 (2004): 289-300.
5.1.7 Internet Publication
David Instone-Brewer, Marriage and Divorce Papyri of the Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish World (2000) <http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Brewer/MarriagePapyri/Index.html> [last accessed 5 November 2007].
5.1.8 Unpublished Work
Martyn Calvin Cowan, ‘New World, New Temple, New Worship: The Significance of a Preterist Reading of the Book of Revelation for the Theology and Practice of Christian Worship’ (M.Th. Dissertation: Oak Hill Theological College, 2004).

5.1.9 Other
The SBL Handbook of Style should be consulted for other, non-standard references.

5.2 Subsequent References
When a work is cited for the second time, and thereafter, a short-title form should be used, e.g.,
Bavinck, Doctrine of God, 67.

Please do not use the following abbreviations: ‘ibid.’, ‘op. cit.’, ‘loc. cit.’
5.3 Page References
Do not use the abbreviations ‘f.’ and ‘ff.’; specify the exact range of pages (or verses).
Do not use the abbreviations ‘p.’ and ‘pp.’; simply give the page numbers, e.g.,
Crisp, Divinity and Humanity, 13-16.

5.4 Abbreviations of Commonly Used Periodicals and Reference Works
Titles of commonly used periodicals and reference works may be given in abbreviated form (e.g., BDAG, NIDOTTE, WTJ, JSOT). A list of standard abbreviations can be found in The SBL Handbook of Style.

6. Book Reviews and Review Articles
6.1 Bibliographical information
Book reviews, and review articles, should commence with the book details, laid out as follows:

Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology
James K. A. Smith
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic; Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004. 291 pages, £9.99, ISBN: 1-84227-350-7

6.2 Endnotes
Please avoid the use of endnotes in book reviews. If page numbers are cited, they should be included in parentheses in the body of the review. Footnotes may be used in review articles, in which case they follow the format outlined in §5, above.