The Catholic Social Science Review

Style Sheet for Submissions to CSSR:

General Guidelines for Contributors:

The editors will consider for publication in The Catholic Social Science Review articles, book reviews, review essays, etc. in the social sciences or in the humanities (if dealing with social questions) that combine high quality scholarship and compatibility with the Church’s Magisterium.

A prospective contributor of a symposium, article, or documentation piece to the Review can submit materials to the appropriate editor either by an e-mail attachment (Microsoft Word or WordPerfect) or by mailing a 3-1/2 inch disk.

Regular articles and symposium submissions should be 5,000 words or less, including notes; book reviews should normally be 1000 words or less, and articles for the documentation section no more than 1500. Longer submissions will be considered.

Acceptance of a manuscript for publication may be conditioned on the author’s making changes deemed necessary or desirable by the Editorial Board.

The Review appears in October/November each year, and submissions made by December 1 have the best chance of appearing in the upcoming issue, unless that issue is already filled.

Contact Information for Respective Sections:

Articles and symposia: Dr. Mark Lowery, Lowery@udallas.edu Address: Department of Theology, University of Dallas, 1845 E. Northgate Drive, Irving, Texas 75062/(972) 721-5357

Book reviews or review essays: Dr. Carson L. Holloway, cholloway@mail.unomaha.edu Address: Political Science Department, 275 Arts and Science Hall University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182/(402) 554- 4862

Public and Church Affairs: Dr. Stephen M. Krason, scss@franciscan.edu Address: Political Science, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio 43952/(740) 283-6245, ext. 2366

Blind Review

Articles should be submitted ready for blind review. The author’s name should appear nowhere in the manuscript except right after the title.
Be sure to avoid references to your own scholarship that identify you as the author of the article. For example, avoid phases like: “As I have shown in another article...” or “See my recent article,”

Title and Abstract

Title should be centered, all UPPER CASE, and not in Italics.
Your name, without Ph.D. after, and your institutional affiliation, should be in italics, and centered.
The abstract is critically important, and should be approximately 100 words. Please put it in Italics, and do not include the word “Abstract” as a title. Should you use a book title within your abstract that would normally itself be italicized, do not underline it, but place it in non-italic print.

Headings

We do not have absolute uniformity in regard to headings, but only relative uniformity.
Put your headings in bold and do not use all upper case. (In WORD, at Format/Case, hit “title case”)
It is up to you whether you enumerate your headings.
If you have a single level of headings, they should all be centered, bold, not all upper case.
If you have two levels, the second level should be left justified, in bold and italics.
In most cases we would discourage a third level of headings.

Titles and Italicization

Italicize all book titles; do not underline. Likewise, if you have underlined a word or phrase for special emphasis, change that to italics.
In your endnotes, italicize all book titles and journal titles. (If your manuscript has heavy use of underlining, you can easily use the “find” and “replace” feature to change everything in an instant.)
Do not italicize ibid., id., i.e., and e.g.
Do not italicize foreign phrases commonly used in English, such as vis-à-vis, Zeitgeist, a fortiori, a priori.

Punctuation

All punctuation goes inside of quotation marks, and inside of endnote numbers, “like this,” and “like this.”
When using parenthetical remarks at the end of a sentence, the period goes after the last parentheses (like this). This includes situations where a source is placed in parentheses at the end of a sentence (Jones, 1980, p. 34).