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Bulletin of the

Royal Institute for

Inter-Faith Studies (BRIIFS)

Submissions to BRIIFS

The Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies encourages scholars who share its interests to submit essays, articles and notices for possible publication in forthcoming issues. Our specifications appear below. For more information, contact the editor, Mona Deeb.

BRIIFS Specifications

Submission of Articles Unsolicited manuscripts in English or French may be sent to the editors provided they are not currently being considered for publication elsewhere. (Please note that, because it is an interdisciplinary journal, BRIIFS only publishes technical or highly specialized material in its special conference issues.) Articles and essays must be accompanied by an abstract (max. 225 words) and a cover letter that includes a brief biography (50-100 words). After being screened by the editors, papers will be anonymously reviewed by a minimum of two referees and then returned to authors for revision, if necessary, prior to acceptance/publication. If heavy substantive editing is required, the manuscript may be returned to the author before being refereed. All papers are copy-edited before publication to conform to BRIIFS style, which favours British spelling and usage. A final proof will be sent to the author, or lead author, for the correction of typographical or factual errors. Authors should respond to proofs within one week or approval may be assumed. The author is encouraged to refrain from making lengthy changes or additions to the text at this time.

General Essays and articles should be 8,000-12,000 words in length; notices should not exceed 2,000 words. Manuscripts may be sent to the editors by e-mail attachment at briifs@riifs.org. A hard copy and disk should also be sent by post. Windows users should save files as Word 6.0/95; Macintosh users as Word 5.1 for Mac. Files should also be submitted in rich text format (rtf). The hard copy of the manuscript should be printed on standard A4 paper according to the following criteria. The text should be double-spaced, with generous margins on all sides, and pages should be numbered consecutively. The title should be printed, along with the author’s name and institutional affiliation, on a separate title page attached to the manuscript. Both the electronic file and hard copy are subject to the specifications below.

Specifications and Transliteration The tab key should be used for all indentation. The text should be neither justified nor hyphenated at the end of a line. Manuscripts must be prepared using standard 12-point Times or Times New Roman and their italic and boldface variations (where necessary). Although there are a number of specially-designed fonts that permit authors to add diacritics to words transliterated from Arabic, Hebrew and other languages that do not use Latin characters, these diacritics are not transferable to the desktop publishing program that BRIIFS uses. Hence, diacritic marks must be marked on a hard copy of the manuscript in ink and the entire word underlined. Unless they appear in the transliterated title of a work, all foreign words found in the Oxford English Dictionary shall be considered English words and do not need diacritics. Proper nouns and the titles of well-known literary works in Arabic need only the hamza and the ‘ayn in the text. The names of contemporary persons or places may be spelled according to usage in the quality press and without any diacritic marks, including the hamza and ‘ayn. Authors citing Ottoman Turkish sources may either transliterate them or use modern Turkish orthography.

Citations Endnotes are preferred to parenthetical references, although either method is acceptable. Whichever method is used, citations should follow the rules in the Chicago Manual of Style; since this guide is the source for Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (6th ed.), the latter may also be consulted. Authors who prefer endnotes are urged to avoid using the footnote insertion feature that exists on word processing programs. Instead, the number of the note should be inserted in the text in parentheses, and the number and note typed at the end of the essay/article. No bibliography is required if a full citation is given in the notes when a source is first encountered. Authors who prefer parenthetical references should append a reference list after the endnotes.

Offprints The author or lead author of an essay or article is entitled to 25 free offprints of the article. For the purchase of additional offprints, the editor must be notified well in advance of publication. Late notification may lead to the assessment of a surcharge, payable by the author.

Copyright Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to quote copyrighted material in their own articles. The copyright for any article published in BRIIFS belongs to the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies. Written permission must be obtained from RIIFS for reprint rights.

Submission of Book Reviews Book reviews should be 1200 words in length. The length of review articles will be set by the book review editor and the reviewer. All book reviews and review articles must follow the specifications mentioned above. Unsolicited book reviews may be accepted for publication, but review articles will not. Books for review may be sent to the Editor.

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