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IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE: The Journal's Managing Editors are not able to accept any submissions for the time being (30 March 2010)

Copyright : Authors submitting articles, essays, reviews or papers for publication, warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright; that the work submitted is entirely their own work; and they will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty.

JRRT requires first electronic publication rights, which means your work should not be available elsewhere on the Internet when we publish it, nor can it be currently submitted to any other on-line publication. It may have appeared in print.

JRRT will not own the copyright to your work: Your words remain your responsibility. We do recommend that you assign a creative commons licence. This is very easy ... http://creativecommons.org

Privacy Policy : The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Who can submit material for publication? : All interested individuals are strongly encouraged to submit their work to JRRT for possible publication. Most important is that articles, essays, papers and reviews are of a high standard, they are of interest to JRRT readers, they make a point, and they are written in good English. The managing editors reserve the right to accept or reject any submission for whatever reason they deem fit and may not be bound to offer any reason for rejecting a submission, although they may endeavour to give critical comment. Editorial decisions are final.

How do authors submit their work? : Authors submit their article, essay paper or review to Managing Editor, Martin Samson by email attachment to msamson@iprimus.com.au Your file attachment must be in either MS Word or RTF file formats. If you are submitting a review or an article please include the details requested in [1] below. If you are submitting a paper, two documents need to be submitted ....

[1] Name and contact details followed by a short introduction to the author of not more than 150 words, including any publication titles and references if applicable. (This is retained by the managing editor prior to possible publication.)

[2] The work itself, - preceded by an abstract of at least 150 words and no more than 250 words. Because our peer-review process is 'blind' the file containing your work, and the work itself, must bear no reference or sign that could in any way indicate your identity. Please double check that this is the case before the file is sent.

Please see the section below which describes style requirements.

How large can submissions be? : JRRT papers are normally between 4000-8000 words, but consideration will be given to articles or papers that are longer or shorter. Book reviews can be around 800-1500 words; articles and essays 1500 - 3000. Submissions should only be as long as they need to be to make and support their point or argument or finding. The reader's interest and attention span is of prime importance.

Review Process And Editorial Policy
Papers are initially reviewed by the Managing Editors, who then pass suitable submissions to two reviewers who have appropriate expertise. All reviews are “blind,” i.e., the identity of the author is withheld from the reviewers. Reviewers generally provide comments or feedback to the author via the Managing Editor. Manuscripts may be rejected, accepted outright, or accepted subject to revision. Reviews typically take 6-8 weeks. The editors have the right to make changes to manuscripts in the interests of readability. Any such changes will be notified to authors before publication.

Quality Of Submitted Papers : The Managing Editor will immediately return papers without peer-review if they do not pass the following essential 'entry criteria':

• Relevance to the Journal's audience;

• Originality of the content of the submission (i.e. that the paper adds something detectable to the state of knowledge);

• Clarity: The paper makes it clear just what its contribution to the state of knowledge is and places its contribution in an appropriate context and framework;

• Organization: Clear layout, appropriate summary, references and bibliography as required – along with some discussion in the paper regarding the contribution that the paper makes within the context of renewal in the fields of religion and theology;

• Language: Written in good English.

Style Guidelines :

• Please use 'double-spacing' with Times Roman or Ariel fonts size 12;

• Please do not insert line breaks in the text or special spacing for formatting;

• Papers should be well-written and carefully copy-edited before submission;

• Do not indent paragraphs - but bulleted lists may be indented; All Titles and Section Headings should be lower case but in bold type and, apart from the paper heading, numbered (Arabic) e.g. 23. The Implications of Heresy. This is because this online journal uses no page numbers. Numbered sections allows references to be made in citing the article.

• All references, sources, citations, and notes should be sequentially numbered (Arabic) in square brackets [32] throughout. Your paper, article or review should then have a sequentially numbered, corresponding endnote list of full references, sources, citations, and notes plus a bibliography. Please ensure that the listed information is clear and, where necessary, sufficiently comprehensive to be verifiable. Please also provide page references where necessary for verification or further research; (For a comprehensive citation style guide - check here >> )

• Please do not use any sort of indexing or footnoting tool or software within your submission;

• All Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit or any other language not employing Roman lettering must be romanized;

• When using an acronym, spell out the complete term the first time you use it and present the acronym in parentheses:
       First use: "The Qualitative Sociology Review (QSR) includes..."
       Later: "QSR also includes...";

• Foreign words in your text should be italicized or underlined. Commonly used foreign words or terms, however, should appear in regular type. Examples are per se, ad hoc, et al.
  
  
• Do not use abbreviations such as etc., e.g., or i.e. in your text. You may use these abbreviations in parenthetical information, however:
  For example, some terms used in specific areas of sociology are not readily understood by the general sociologist (e.g. cultural capital, etc.).

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