The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion is a multi-disciplinary journal that publishes articles, research notes, and book reviews on the social scientific study of religion. Published articles are representative of the best current theoretical and methodological treatments of religion. JSSR does not publish review articles or articles geared toward clinical or other practitioner audiences. Substantive areas include both micro-level analysis of individuals' experience with religion and macro-level analysis of religious organizations, institutions, and social change. While many of the articles published in the journal are sociological, the journal also publishes the work of psychologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and economists. The journal does not publish theological treatments of religion.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submission and Preparation of Manuscripts
1. Send manuscripts to
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, c/o Marie Cornwall, Editor
Department of Sociology
2043 JFSB
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
email: jssr@byu.edu
2. Submit 3 hard copies and an electronic version of each manuscript. Submissions should be 35 pages maximum for articles and 15 pages for research notes, including all supporting materials. Number all pages consecutively. Authors should keep copies of their manuscripts.
3. Nonmembers must include a $10 processing fee (or may join the Society at time of submission and have the fee waived). Checks or other instruments must be drawn in U.S. dollars. In the case of plural authorship, one author must hold membership. A non member may choose to join the Society at the time the article is submitted, in which case the fee will be waived.
STYLE GUIDELINES
To facilitate an interdisciplinary format, JSSR continues to correspond closely with the 13th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961, 1982). A style sheet is also available from JSSR; however, the following general rules apply:
1. To help expedite and facilitate copy editing:• Double space entire manuscript, including abstracts, extracts, notes, references, captions, etc.
• Leave margins of at least 1" on top, bottom, and sides. Do not justify right-hand margins or use automatic hyphenation on word processor.
• Keep format simple, minimizing the use of boldface, all capitals, centering, etc. Underline to indicate italicized material.
2. Submit a cover page stating date submitted, title, acknowledgments, and information on author(s) to include position, affiliation, and mailing address. Omit name(s) of author(s) elsewhere in the manuscript, except when citing previous work, which should always be done in the third person and in such a way that reviewers cannot identify author(s). BE SURE REVIEW COPIES ARE ANONYMOUS.
3. Include a brief abstract (100-150 words). Include title on abstract page, but omit name(s) of author(s).
4. Notes will be allowed only for content - not references - and only when necessary. Prepare notes on separate pages (if your word processor has the capability for bottom-of-page footnotes, do not use that feature). Place notes at end of manuscript.
5. Place tables, charts, etc. last, with one table/figure per page. Approximate the location of each within the text, e.g., "Table 1 about here."
6. Citations
7. Reference Format
8. Reference Examples
Greeley, Andrew. 1972. The denominational society. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman.
Iannaccone, Laurence R. 1992. Sacrifice and stigma: Reducing free-riding in cults, communes, and other collectives. Journal of Political Economy 100(2): 271-91.
Slee, Nicola. 1991. Cognitive development studies of religious thinking. In Stages of faith and religious development, edited by James Fowler, Karl Nipknow, and Friedrich Schweitzer, 130-48. New York: Crossroads.