Submissions

 

Submission

The Jahrbuch für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften is characterized by a personal and trusting communication as well as an individual and appreciative assistance between editorial staff and authors. In order to be able to deal with the characteristics of each unique publication process from the first submission through to the published article, we do not use automated journal management in our work, but would like to be in personal contact with our authors, reviewers, typesetters or proof-readers.

Therefore, please submit your article via email (jcsw@uni-muenster.de). Contributions may be received in all common file formats (MS-word, OpenOffice-Writer). In any case, the editorial staff will confirm receipt of the manuscript to you asap.

What can be submitted?

You can submit articles for the section „Open section“ to a freely chosen topic. Please read the detailed call. It is also possible to submit conference reports for the section "Bulletin".The authors for the other sections are invited by the editorial team.

The deadline for the submission of a complete manuscript in English or German is January 31. The decision about publication will be made by mid-April.

Manuscript Requirements and Author Guidelines

Information on manuscript design (scope, citation method, bibliography, etc.) can be obtained here.

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.

1) The contribution is neither published nor submitted to another journal yet (otherwise, an explanation is added in “Comments for the Editor”).

2) The file is available in Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.

3) As far as possible, DOIs are indicated in the literature references.

4) The article is available with single-spaced line and 12 pt font size. Highlighting is marked by italic font, not underlined (with exeption of the URLs); all the illustrations, graphics and charts are inserted at the suitable position (not at the end of the text).

5) The text’s style and citation is set up according to the author’s guideline which you can find here.

6) If the contribution is submitted for one of the peer reviewed sections, please consider the relevant information (Ensuring a Blind Peer Review).

Privacy statement

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