Submissions and Guidelines

Conversations

It is intended that a significant part of each publication will be devoted to articles, with a maximum of eight per issue. Preference will be given to articles directed to a UCA readership, and can be from any of the theological disciplines and related areas. There will also be room for short articles such as opinion pieces; book reviews; reports on conversations, conferences, important committee work; and resource sharing.

The next issue of UCA Conversations will be soon. Contributions and comments are most welcome. Please send these to Sue Blackwood at assistant [at] uft [dot] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au

Guidelines for Contributors

Contributions (of up to about 5,000 words) toward Conversations are welcome! Contributions can be refereed to DEST standards if required by the author. Selected student papers from the United Faculty of Theology are also welcome, as are poetry, prayers or other liturgical pieces of general theological interest.

When submitting an article please send it as an email attachment in MS Word format. Any images associated with the article should be in a separate j-peg file. The main text should indicate clearly where they are to be inserted. Footnotes should be used where necessary.
An abstract of up to eight lines should be included together with a short biographical piece of approximately 50 words.

Formatting of article:

Text:

in Times New Roman font, 12-point
paragraphs indented on the first line
one blank line between paragraphs
one space between sentences
justified

Headings:

All sub-headings to be left aligned
main headings in bold, secondary headings in italics

Quotations:

less than four lines: set within single quotation marks, within paragraphs
more than four lines: indented in separate paragraph, single spaced and in 10 point font

Biblical references to conform to the style and abbreviations suggested by the Catholic Biblical Association of America as detailed in the list of abbreviations found below.

Capitalisation and punctuation should conform to the Australian Government Style Manual

Footnotes:

at the bottom of the page

example of book reference:
B. S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979, p. 516
example of article reference:
G. H. Wilson, ‘The Shape of the Book of Psalms’, Interpretation 46/2 (1992), pp. 129-42.
example of essay cited from a collected volume:
A.M. Cooper, ‘The Life and Times of King David according to the Book of Psalms’, in R.E. Friedman (ed.), The Poet and the Historian: Essays in Literary and Historical Biblical Criticism, HSS 26; Chico CA: Scholars, 1983, pp. 117-31.