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

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

Shorter:	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

Shorter:	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

Shorter:	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)