Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe

Style Sheet for Book Reviews

Thank you for agreeing to review a book for Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe. Reviews are a vital part of the Journal.

When you receive your review copy, please send a short message to the book review editor at Robert Peter confirming receipt of the book.

Within eight weeks, please submit your review to the book review editor for approval and editing. He will send it to the managing editor for publication.

Please refer to the guidelines below as you write.

CONTENT Religion and Society seeks reviews that:

1. Tell plainly what the book says and for whom it is written. Most readers read reviews first to find out what books say. In addition, a careful assessment of the book's intended audience is of particular interest to the readers of an interdisciplinary journal such as Religion and Society.

2. Set the author's argument in a broad context of scholarly analysis. Reviewers should bear in mind that scholars from a variety of disciplines will read the review. The perspectives of the reviewer's own discipline will be of great interest, but reviewers should avoid assessments based solely on issues of interest to those in a single field or subfield.

3. Suggest whether the author achieves the book's stated purpose and assesses the significance of that goal. Criticism is welcomed, of course, but it should be made only on courteous and constructive terms. The editor will ask reviewers to rewrite sections that breach this standard, and in rare cases, will refuse a submission for this reason.

Writing should be concise yet lively, and should strive to balance a personal voice with careful analysis. At their best, reviewers are both actor and audience.


STYLE AND FORMAT

• Please limit your review to 750 words.
  
  
• All reviews should be submitted via email to the book review editor at Robert Peter. Please save the document as a text file and attach it to the email message.
  
  
• Reviews should be single-spaced, flush at the left margin, and 60 to 75 columns wide.
  
  
• The following information should appear at the top of the review:
  
  AUTHOR. FULL TITLE OF BOOK. PLACE OF PUBLISHING: PUBLISHER, DATE OF PUBLICATION. NUMBER OF PAGES. REVIEWED BY NAME OF REVIEWER, AFFILIATION, FOR RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE.
  
  
• Please supply page numbers for all quoted passages. Use the first name in the initial reference to any person (including the author). With organizations or acts, use the full name in the initial reference; all subsequent references may use initials or acronyms. Please supply publication dates of any books mentioned in the review.
  
  
• Please proofread the text of the review carefully.
  
  
• Questions should be directed to the book review editor at Robert Peter.
  
  
  COPYRIGHT
• All reviews commissioned by Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe are the exclusive property of the Journal. Reviews are considered a work made-for-hire, and, as such, all copyright rights to the review shall be owned by and be in the name of the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA). ISORCEA in turn grants all review authors the right to reprint their reviews in any format that they choose, without the payment of royalties, subject to giving proper credit to the original publication with Religion and Society. ISORECEA also permits its reviews to be copied for non-profit educational use provided proper credit is given to the review author and the Journal.
  
  
• All reviews will carry the following copyright statement:
  
  Copyright © 1997-2006 by Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, all rights reserved. This work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe. For other permission, please contact Briane Turley, Managing Editor, at bkt9m@yahoo.com.
  
  STATUS OF ELECTRONIC REVIEWS
  Professional ethics dictate that a scholar can publish only one review of a book. Religion and Society reviews count as that one review. As indicated above, Journal reviewers have permission to republish their reviews provided that proper credit is given to the Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, but should not agree to write a separate review of the same work for a print journal.