Author Guidelines
AJT STYLE SHEET
ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS
Preferred length of article is 5,000 -6,000 words and 1,000-1,500 words for book reviews.
Text should be double-spaced.
Indent first line of each paragraph.
Include an abstract of 100-150 words and 5-7 keywords.
Articles must conform to Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers (8th edition).
FONTS
Times New Roman 12 points
FOOTNOTES
1. Books
Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of A Theory of Practice, trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 4-9.
Subsequent citations: author’s surname, short title, page number
Bourdieu, Outline, 54.
Do not use Ibid.
2. Essay in an Edited Collection
Martin Elsky, “Words, Things and Names: Jonson’s Poetry and Philosophical Grammar,” in Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Pittsburgh: University Press of Pittsburgh, 1982), 35.
Subsequent citations:
Elsky, “Words,” 35-36.
3. Journals
Mahmoud M. Ayoub, “Roots of Muslim-Christian Conflict,” The Muslim World 79 no. 1 (Jan. 1989): 25-26.
Subsequent citations:
Ayoub, “Roots”: 35.
4. Magazines and Newspapers
Barbara W. Tuchman, “If Asia Were Clay in the Hands of the West,” Atlantic (Sept. 1970): 72.
5. Theses and Dissertations
Ng Liming, “Christianity and Social Change: The Case in China, 1920-1950” (Ph.D. diss., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1970), 74.
6. Electronic Publications
Besides the usual information (as indicated above), include: URL and date of access.
a. Online Book
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, ed. Henry Churchyard, 1996, http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html (accessed 10 Sept. 1997).
b. Articles
Steve Coates, “A Dead Language Comes to Life on the Internet,” New York Times on the Web 28 Oct. 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/web/docsroot/library/cyber/week/1028Latin.html (accessed 20 Apr. 1997).
• Use footnotes and not endnotes.
• Full bibliographical information must be given in the first citation.
• A list of references is not required.
SECTION HEADINGS
First level heading: centered, bold, headline-style capitalization:
Globalization of Chinese Christianity
Second-level heading: centered, regular type, headline-style capitalization:
Globalization of Chinese Christianity
Third level: flush left, italic type, headline-style capitalization:
Globalization of Chinese Christianity
AUTHOR’S BIODATA
Please include only the following:
Name (surname CAPITALIZED), terminal degree and awarding institution, current position/work/role, and institution’s name and location.
E.g. Peter John ROBERTSON (Ph.D., Duke) is an associate professor of New Testament and academic dean at United Theological College, Bangalore, India
CHIANG Ming Shun (Ph.D., Cambridge) is a lecturer in church history at Trinity Theological College, Singapore
BIBLICAL LANGUAGES
Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic words must be transliterated.
A NOTE ON ASIAN NAMES
For traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese names, the surname comes before given names even if the author cited uses the Westernized form. E.g. Wang Ming Dao, Cho Yonggi.
CITATION OF WORKS IN NON-LATIN-BASED ASIAN LANGUAGES
Footnote citations of works in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and other non-Latin-based languages should be given in their original scripts using the Turabian format. In the main body of the article, references to authors’ names and key terms must be transliterated. Direct quotations must be translated into English.
BOOK REVIEW
Provide the following information in this sequence:
Author’s name, title, place of publication, publisher, date, number of pages, ISBN, price, type of binding:
Dennis Ngien, Gifted Response: The Triune God as the Causative Agency of our Responsive
Worship, Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2008, xvii + 182 pp., ISBN: 978-1842276105, £14.99, paperback.
Word limit: 1,000 to 1,500 words
BIBLE ABBREVIATIONS
Note: Use shorter form in citations (Jl 2: 1–10) and full names in the text (e.g. Peter’s citation from Joel 2:28-32 to explain the Pentecost event....)
Old Testament
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Full Name: |
Am |
Amos |
1 Chr |
1 Chronicles |
2 Chr |
2 Chronicles |
Dn |
Daniel |
Dt |
Deuteronomy |
Eccl |
Ecclesiastes |
Est |
Esther |
Ex |
Exodus |
Ez |
Ezekiel |
Ezr |
Ezra |
Gn |
Genesis |
Hb |
Habakkuk |
Hg |
Haggai |
Hos |
Hosea |
Is |
Isaiah |
Jer |
Jeremiah |
Jb |
Job |
Jl |
Joel |
Jon |
Jonah |
Jo |
Joshua |
Jgs |
Judges |
1 Kgs |
1 Kings |
2 Kgs |
2 Kings |
Lam |
Lamentations |
Lv |
Leviticus |
Mal |
Malachi |
Mi |
Micah |
Na |
Nahum |
Neh |
Nehemiah |
Nm |
Numbers |
Ob |
Obadiah |
Prv |
Proverbs |
Ps (plural Pss) |
Psalms |
Ru |
Ruth |
1 Sm |
1 Samuel |
2 Sm |
2 Samuel |
Sg |
Song of Solomon |
Zec |
Zechariah |
Zep |
Zephaniah |
New Testament
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Full Name: |
Acts |
Acts of the Apostles |
Col |
Colossians |
1 Cor |
1 Corinthians |
2 Cor |
2 Corinthians |
Eph |
Ephesians |
Gal |
Galatians |
Heb |
Hebrews |
Jas |
James |
Jn |
John (Gospel) |
1 Jn |
1 John (Epistle) |
2 Jn |
2 John (Epistle) |
3 Jn |
3 John (Epistle) |
Jude |
Jude |
Lk |
Luke |
Mk |
Mark |
Mt |
Matthew |
1 Pt |
1 Peter |
2 Pt |
2 Peter |
Phlm |
Philemon |
Phil |
Philippians |
Rv |
Revelation (Apocalypse) |
Rom |
Romans |
1 Thes |
1 Thessalonians |
2 Thes |
2 Thessalonians |
1 Tm |
1 Timothy |
2 Tm |
2 Timothy |
Ti |
Titus |
Apocrypha
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Full Name: |
Bar |
Baruch |
Bel and Dragon |
Bel and the Dragon |
Sir |
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) |
1 Esd |
1 Esdras |
2 Esd. |
2 Esdras |
Jdt |
Judith |
1 Mc |
1 Maccabees |
2 Mc |
2 Maccabees |
Pr. of Man. |
Prayer of Manasses (Manasseh) |
Song of Three Children |
Song of the Three Holy Children |
Sus |
Susanna |
Tb |
Tobit |
Ws |
Wisdom of Solomon |
Additions to Esther |
Additions to Esther (Rest of Est) |