Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe

Submissions Policy

Manuscript submissions: Submissions to Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe are fully peer-reviewed by members of the editorial board and their designees. Submissions must be submitted electronically.

General Information: All articles should be translated into English. The editors prefer the Chicago Manual of Style but will receive manuscripts in other formats (Harvard, APA, etc.). A good overview of Chicago style may be downloaded here. Endnotes will be linked to the text and can be descriptive as well as documentary. Unsolicited manuscripts should not exceed eight-thousand words exclusive of endnotes and should fit broadly into one or more of the categories outlined by the journal's editorial policies. Materials submitted to Religion and Society must not have been previously published nor submitted for publication elsewhere while under review by our editors. Inquiries should be directed to the Editors at this address. All submissions should be accompanied by the author's name, current institutional affiliation, postal and e-mail addresses. Paper manuscripts will not be returned. In most cases, authors will be notified within ninety days whether or not their submission has been accepted.

Electronic publication allows for the addition of images, maps, tables, and other visual or auditory aids, and the editors encourage authors to include such with articles when appropriate. Authors should make certain that all submitted materials are clear of copyright claims or that they obtain permission as required by law. Religion and Society reserves copyright privileges for all materials published.

Acceptance: If a submission is accepted, the author will sign a contract with Religion and Society assigning copyright to Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe and its learned society, ISORECEA. After making corrections and revisions, the author should submit the accepted manuscript via an e-mail attachment or on 3.5" disk formatted for an IBM-compatible PC, indicating on the disk what word processing program was used. On the same disk please include the following: 1) the complete manuscript saved as an ASCII generic text file; 2) endnotes in a file separate from the manuscript; and 3) an abstract of fifty or fewer words in a separate file. Please include at the top of the first page of the manuscript, the title, your name, your current academic rank (or equivalent), and your institutional affiliation. Send disk and one revised hard copy to Peter Torok at the Department of Religious Studies, Egyetem u. 2, 6722 University of Szeged, Szeged, HU. Normally, the revised manuscript will be copyedited and uploaded to the Religion and Society site within three months after receipt of the disk. At the present time, Religion and Society does not provide authors with offprints of published materials, but we will notify you by email when your manuscript is published online.

Solicited essays should conform to the same criteria but are not restricted by word length requirements.

Book reviews should be no longer than 750 words. Scholars interested in submitting book reviews to Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe should contact Book Review Editor Robert Peter. Book reviewers should consult the Book Review Style Sheet before submitting reviews.