Submission Guidelines
Submission Policy for Articles
We express our gratitude for your desire and passion to submit an article to Ethne: Online Journal for Pentecostal and Missional Leadership. Here are guidelines to follow as you prepare the article:
General Comments
• Ethne editors assume your article has authorial integrity and legitimacy,[comma] that all citations are accurate, and that anything you quote or paraphrase is properly cited.
• You should not present articles that appear in other publications in the same or a different language.
• You should not submit an article to more than one journal simultaneously.
• Your article should include a brief abstract summarizing its content.
• Articles should be approximately 10-15 pages (double spaced) or about 2,500-3,750 words.
• Articles should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents via email to ethnes@antsonline.org
• We accept for consideration articles written in English only. (You need to use the word “accept” in a limited sense: accept for publication.)
• We accept for consideration articles submitted in electronic format only.
Formatting
• Please use the Turabian 7th edition for general questions regarding style, punctuation and notation.
• Articles should be double-spaced.
• The body of the article should be printed in size 12 point font, preferably Times New Roman.
• Sentences should only have one space between the period and the first letter of the next sentence. Use the “search” and “replace” to resolve this formatting issue quickly.)
• We encourage submissions to include hyperlinks when appropriate.
• We encourage submissions to include visual images when appropriate (legal pictures, etc.)
Technical and Grammatical Details• Please avoid use of all caps anywhere in the article.
• All non-English words and titles should be italicized.
• If a non-English word is placed in parenthesis, both the word and the parenthesis should be italicized.
• All words that require non-Latin fonts should be transliterated.
• Block quotations should only be indented 4 spaces from left margin, and extend all the way to the right margin.
• “Authors must utilize the in-text or parenthetical citation format for all references. The use of citation footnotes or endnotes is not permitted.”
• Use a computer generated “em dash” (—) instead of two hyphens (--). Obtain the em dash by going to “insert” then “symbols.” Note: there should be no space before or after the em dash.
• Use computer generated ellipses points ( … ) rather than three periods (…). Obtain ellipses by going to “insert” and then “symbols.” Note: there should be one space immediately before and after the ellipses points.
• When listing a series of three things, use two commas (e.g., red, white, and blue)
Writing Style• Try to avoid verbs of being (am, is, are, were, being)
• Try to avoid the overuse of trite emphasis words such as “really”, “very,” “tremendous,” “greatly”
• Do not confuse “than” and “then”
• Do not confuse “which” and “that”
• Do not confuse “lead” and “led” (the past tense of lead is not lead, this is a soft metal).
• Do not confuse “while” (which refers to time/during) with “although”
• Do not use Firstly, Secondly, “Thirdly,” etc. It is simply “First,” “Second,” “Third”
Word Substitute one/one's a person; a believer, a Christian, Christian leaders, etc. it/this state what “it” is referring to Note, the proper form of the following words:
One word Two Words Hyphenated words Preferred spelling Christlike decision making long-standing worshiping interpersonal problem solving
mind-set
adviser (academic) laypeople
team taught real-life Multifaceted twenty-three
sociocultural
well-being
threefold three-month Biblical References
• Make sure to follow book abbreviations as found in Chicago Manual of Style. Use the form that includes the period (Gen.) as opposed to the form that does not (Gn).
• Make sure multiple scripture references are in proper sequence as found in the Bible.
• If quoting one verse and referencing others state: (Jn. 3:16; cf. Jn. 1:1).
• Note: According to Chicago, even if some Scripture references are used within the text, they are still abbreviated. (Only references to whole books and chapters are spelled out).
• In biblical referencing, Turabian and Chicago Manual discourage the use of f and ff.
• Do capitalize in reference to deity: He, Him, Bible, Scripture, the Early Church, the Church
• Do not capitalize in reference to deity: himself, biblical, body of Christ, godly/godliness
Endnotes• Please use endnotes rather than footnotes.
• Make sure there are no spaces between the number and the note (1Author’s Name, Title…)
• In endnotes, replace 2nd edition with 2d ed.
• In endnotes, there should be no comma after title: title (place: publisher, date), page.
• Block quotations should not be endnoted (see previous comments)
• Make sure to place a period and a comma after Ibid. (Ibid., 27.)
Endnotes and Bibliographies:
• Titles are to be italicized, not underlined.
• Follow first choice abbreviations for states. (Left column T 2.13; C14.17)
• Make sure to use 2d ed. rather than 2nd edition.
• Make sure you are consistent in how you list publishing companies (not Zondervan in some places, and Zondervan Publishing House in others).
• In Bibliography “Vol.” is capitalized (in endnotes it is not “vol.”)
