Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Religion
Submission Guidelines and Requirements
The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion is actively seeking new and established authors to submit manuscripts for publication. The JRER requires electronic submission of manuscripts. There is no page limit, but most publications will be about twenty manuscript pages.
JRER is a peer-reviewed academic journal. Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style.
Please email submissions, inquiries for articles, or reviews to:
Dr. W. David Nelson, Editor-in-Chief
e-mail: jrer@thesrer.com
Please read carefully the guidelines below. Manuscripts that do not meet these guidelines may be returned. Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of JRER will be reviewed. There are no fees payable to submit or publish in the JRER.
The JRER publishes original research articles and reviews that match the Journal’s aims and scope. As part of the submission process you are required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you own or have the rights to the work, that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyrighted works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the JRER, and that it is neither being considered for publication elsewhere nor has already been published elsewhere.
Peer Review Process
The JRER adheres to a rigorous double-blind review policy in which the identities of both the referees and the author(s) are concealed from all parties. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees and their reports are forwarded directly to authors within approximately 8 weeks accompanied by an editorial decision regarding its publication in the Journal.
Submitting Your Manuscript
Articles must be submitted to the Journal electronically as an email attachment. It is essential that the following guidelines are observed. We may ask you to revise your article if it is not supplied in house style.
Manuscripts should be formatted using one and a half line spacing, printed on one side only, and numbered consecutively throughout. Margins of approximately one and a half inches should be used.
A short abstract of 100-150 words must be supplied with your article.
All articles will be refereed and should normally be 5000-8000 words in length.
Articles should use footnotes rather than endnotes.
Authors of articles and book reviews will be sent a first proof and will normally be expected to return these within two weeks of receipt. Corrections should be confined to typographical errors or to specific questions raised by the editors.
Authorship and Acknowledgements
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to a submitted article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their professional status. A student is generally listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:
· disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input;
· identify any entities that paid for this assistance; and,
· confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.
Individuals who provided writing assistance do not qualify as authors and should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company/institutions and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
Upon Acceptance and Publication
The Managing Editor of the JRER will keep you informed about your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be made available to the corresponding author(s) and corrections should be made directly or notified to the Journal promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorizing the change.
Manuscript Preparation
The JRER follows its own journal style. Authors should study recent previous issues of the Journal carefully and follow these guidelines:
Quoted matter, if more than four lines, should normally be indented, without quotation marks.
Quotations of up to four lines should form part of the text, and should be indicated by single quotation marks. Double quotation marks should be used only for quotations within quotations.
In general, foreign words should be italicized, both in main text and footnotes. Foreign language fonts should be used where possible.
Headings: The levels of heading, if more than one, should be distinguished by type style, e.g. roman (centered) for first-level head; italics (left aligned) for a second-level head.
Underlining should be used for words that the author wishes to emphasize in the body of the paper. The use of quotation marks is to be reserved for quoted material or for commonly disputed terms.
For further reference, The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Clarendon Press 1981) is recommended.
Reference Style
The JRER conforms to the following conventions for footnotes. Please note articles from periodicals or titles of book chapters are printed within single quotation marks. Book/journal titles are in italics.
Book titles are in italics.
Journal article:
Steve Smith, 'The Underlying Issues of Syntax: Guidelines and Principles', Contemporary Grammar 15:3 (1992), pp. 144-99.
Book:
Sarah F.. Johnson, The Best Practices of Authorship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 5th ed., 1989), pp. 66-98..
Sarah F. Johnson, The Best Practices of Authorship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Chapter/article in a collected volume:
H. Hayim, “Songs of Ancient Birds,” in W. Whitefield and K. Klogg (eds.), All Things Birds in Late Antiquity (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2nd ed., 1945).
Short title
When a book, a chapter or an article is referred to again, after its first occurrence, a short-title form is used, e.g. Hayim, “Songs of Ancient Birds,” p. 235.
The following conventions should be observed in the footnotes:
When the reference is to a nineteenth-century or older work the publisher's name may be omitted.
Page references should be in the following form: pp. 92-98, pp. 153-79 but pp. 107-109, pp. 107-114. Avoid the use of 'f.' and 'ff.'
For more than three authors or editors it is permissible to use et al.
In the bibliography, multiple entries for an author may be arranged either in chronological or alphabetical order.
Title and subtitle. Between the title and subtitle of a book there should be a colon, not a full stop (though occasionally a book has a more complicated title and a full stop is more appropriate).
More than one place of publication. When a publisher has more than one office, only the first stated or the head office should be given.
More than one publisher. Where a book has been published by more than one publisher, use the following style:
Exeter: Paternoster Press; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Plagiarism
The JRER expects authors to include a declaration of any possible conflicting interests and to uphold ethical standards. The Journal takes issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. The Journal seeks to protect the rights of its authors and will investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. The Journal also will protect the reputation of the Journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software.
If an article or submission is found to have plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article or submission is contested, the Journal reserves the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article or submission; taking up the matter with the head of department, dean, or appropriate administrator of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
Information and Permissions Required With Your Submission
You must provide contact details and academic affiliations for all authors and co-authors and identify who is to be the primary author(s). These details must match what appears on your manuscript. The affiliation listed in the manuscript should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a manuscript note at the end of the paper. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files.
Please ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.