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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.
  • Chicago Style guide, 17th edition applied (British English spelling)
  • contribution is not published elsewhere
  • contribution is exclusively submitted to ATJ for consideration of publication
  • contribution is free from plagiarism
  • only footnotes are used (no in-text citation or endnotes)
  • tables and figures have been numbered and labeled
  • biographical note submitted
  • abstract is added to articles
  • 4-6 keywords identified
  • bibliography (CMOS, 17th edition) is included in articles
  • Competing interests declaration added
  • Permission obtained to publish photos, datasets, and other materials included in the contribution
  • if confidential data is processed (e.g., interview transcripts) a data security protocol is followed
  • I am aware that I will need to rework an article draft at least twice according to peer review comments

Author Guidelines

Africa Theological Journal welcomes contributions of theological interest relevant in Africa.

We expect that submissions aim at high academic standards in terms of topic, contents, methodology, relevance, focus, coherence, avoidance of plagiarism, and other relevant aspects.

Submissions for articles will undergo a two-step peer review procedure. This means that authors must be ready to revise their papers at least two times after initial submissions.

The style of ATJ follows Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition with British English spelling. Free access to CMOS is found, e.g., here: Chicago Manual of Style (Purdue University) For convenient formatting of footnotes and bibliography in the proper style, we want to inform about the possibility of using research assistant tools for organising and referencing to literature, e.g., Zotero.

For biblical references, we follow the SBL style guide. Free access to SBL style guide is found, e.g., here: SBL style guide (University Northwestern - St. Paul)

All articles need a title, 4-6 keywords, abstract, body, bibliography, and any other relevant material.

With the submission of an article the author(s) have to send a short biographical note about each author.

 

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