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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another press for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in the Microsoft Word file format
  • 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 text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Press.

Author Guidelines

ISP does not accept unsolicited submissions. If you are interested in publishing with us, please email the Editor-at-Large of Interreligious Studies Media, Axel M. Oaks Takacs: axel@irstudies.org. He will work directly with you to answer your questions and explain the process.

Review Process

Manuscripts will undergo a threefold editorial review process. First, the manuscript proposal will be desk reviewed by the Editor-at-Large. If it is found to fall within the purview of ISP's publishing interests and its academic standards, it will then be reviewed by ISP's Editorial Board. If they agree to move forward with the manuscript, then we will invite the author(s) or editor(s) to submit their manuscript for blind peer review. At this stage, the manuscript—monograph or individual chapters for an edited volume—will be anonymously peer reviewed by at least two outside reviewers.

IRSP official Style Guide 

OVERVIEW

Submissions for Interreligious Studies Press should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), 18th edition, and, in matters unaddressed there, to the 2" edition of the SBL Handbook of Style. All submissions should follow US orthography. Consult Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (12" edition) for any queries.

Chicago style footnotes should be used for both source and discursive notes. It is the responsibility of the authornot the copyeditor to ensure that references are complete and accurate. Please ensure that all bibliographic notes include all required information and that all website links are live. See the section below on "Reference Footnotes" for further details and specific examples.

FORMATTING AND ELEMENTS TO INCLUDE

Font and spacing: Times New Roman 12, single spaced, use one empty line between paragraphs and other elements (for example, leave an empty line after the title, author's name, abstract, etc.) If a known issue with diacritics prevents you from using Times, please alert the editor/copyeditor in advance of final submission.

Elements to include, in order:

Title: in bold, title casing (that is, not in all caps)

  • Body of text:
  • Single spaced with one empty line between paragraphs.
  • Indent at beginning of paragraphs except for first paragraph after section heading, including chapter title.
  • Use bold for section headings, italics for subheadings; use title casing for headings and subheadings (that is, not in all caps).
  • Note: Do not use more than one level of subheading.
  • Use footnotes, not endnotes.

GENERAL STYLE ISSUES

Abbreviations and contractions

Render the following with no full point: NATO, USA, EU, BC, AD, etc.

Contractions should have a full point (Mr., St., edn.), as should abbreviated words, in both singular and plural forms (vol., vols., ed., eds.).

Copyright Notice

ISP is an open-access press. As a condition of publication in Interreligious Studies Press (ISP) all authors agree to the following terms of licensing/copyright ownership:

  • First publication rights to original work accepted for publication is granted to ISP, but copyright for all work published by ISP is retained by the author(s).
  • Works published in ISP will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License (CC-BY-NC International 4.0). By granting a CC-BY-NC license in their work, authors retain copyright ownership of the work, but they give explicit permission for others to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the work, as long as the original source and author(s) are properly cited (i.e. a complete bibliographic citation and link to the ISP website) and the use is for noncommercial purposes. No permission is required from the author(s) or the publishers for such use.
  • Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in ISP.
  • Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in ISP as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the ISP's website.
  • It will be the responsibility of the authors to secure all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their manuscript. Authors will be required to provide written evidence of this permission upon acceptance of their manuscript

Preservation and Archiving

ISP recognizes the importance of preserving scholarly content for the long term. Our Preservation and Archiving Policy ensures that all published books remain accessible, discoverable, and protected against data loss. All content published by ISP is indexed and preserved in the following systems:

  • ATLA Religion Database
  • PKP Preservation Network
  • Our own website

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