Geographies of Religions and Belief Systems seeks to forward the geographic study of religion and belief systems through the publication of high-quality peer-reviewed articles and book reviews showcasing research frontiers, methods and methodologies, pedagogy, and relevant advances in complimentary disciplines. The journal seeks to publish via the World Wide Web one issue per year with substantive articles concerning the broad range of topics in the geography of religions and belief systems.
Geographies of Religions and Beliefs Systems publishes articles with
diverse topical foci, variable epistemological, theoretical, and methodological
approaches, and a range of researchers, from accomplished senior scholars
to those in early career stages. Hence, the following four types of articles
will be considered for publication:
1) Full length articles
Full length articles should be no more than 10,000 words and should describe fully developed research with final conclusions.
2) Scholarly Essays
Essays should be no more than 4,000 words and may describe beginning or ongoing projects. They do not necessarily have to report final conclusions.
3) Comment, Exchange and Debate
Dialog in the form of comments, exchange and debate should be limited to 2500 words.
4) Reviews
Reviews should be approximately 1000 words in length.
Submissions
Articles may be submitted at any time. All articles should be submitted
electronically in Word, WordPerfect, or Rich Text format and will be fully
double-blind peer-reviewed electronically. Therefore, authors should avoid
recognizable references to themselves or their institutions until the
paper is accepted for publication. Illustrations should be embedded in
the text. All main text should be Times New Roman 12 point, double-spaced,
with ragged (not justified) right margin.
Page 1 should include the title, the author(s) name(s), address, e-mail address, and telephone number. A short bibliographic sketch of each author should appear on this page; typical information is the person's highest degree and granting institution, plus main teaching and research interests, especially as relates to this paper. Page 2 carries the title of the paper, an abstract of no more than 100 words, and up to five key words. The text of the paper begins on page 3. Pages should be numbered.
Style, Spelling, and Usage
Manuscripts should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition
(2003). The journal's spelling authority is Merriam-Webster Collegiate
Dictionary.
References should be cited in the text using the author's surname, year
of publication, and page numbers (for direct quotations), for example:
(Burghassi 1998), (Foxall 1998, 43), (Pearce 1998, 222-224). Separate
names within one citation with semicolons.
All works cited should be listed alphabetically by author's surname in
a double-spaced list at the end of the manuscript.
Examples:
Book:
Lane, Belden. 2001. Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative
in American Spirituality. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Article:
Sitwell, O.F.G. 1981. Elements of the cultural landscape as figures of
speech, Canadian Geographer 25: 167-180.
Book Chapter:
Jakle, John A. 1990. Social stereotypes and place images: People on the
trans-Appalachian frontier as viewed by travelers, in Place Images in
Media: Portrayal, Experience and Meaning, ed. Leo Zonn, 83-103. Savage,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
For details, see the Chicago Manual of Style.
Notes should be kept to a minimum in length and number and should be typed
double-spaced before the reference list at the end of the manuscript.
Note numbers in the list of notes should be full-size numbers followed
by a period (not superscripts). Acknowledgments, if any, should comprise
the first, unnumbered, note.
Illustrations
Maps, graphs, diagrams, and photographs should be clear. Because the journal
is produced online, color illustrations are welcome. All illustrations
should be numbered consecutively and referenced in the text, either in
parentheses (Fig. 1) or within a sentence "As Figure 1 shows,…"
Captions should begin with the figure number and should include source
notes. All illustrations must be submitted electronically as separate
files in jpg format and not embedded in the text.
Tables should be prepared in the word-processing program used for the text. Omit rules (lines) in tables as much as possible while still preserving clarity. A source note should be included at the bottom of the table. Tables should be numbered consecutively and referenced in the text. The title goes above the table, beginning with the table number. Tables should be embedded in the text.
Copyright
The copyright of Geographies of Religions and Belief Systems rests with
the Geography of Religion and Belief Systems Specialty Group of the Association
of American Geographers.
Inquiries and submission of manuscripts should be addressed to Elizabeth
J. Leppman, Editor, ejleppman@windstream.net.
Telephone: 859-245-4325
.
Inquiries concerning book reviews should be addressed to Robert Stoddard,
Book Review Editor, rstoddar@unlserv.unl.edu.
Telephone: 402-472-3573.