About Us Submission Guidelines
CTS Journal Article Submission Guidelines•Submit both a hard copy and an electronic version of your article and a paragraph summarizing your thesis and main arguments. You will be required to submit photocopies of the title pages (and the reverse sides of title pages) of all the works for which you provide incomplete or inaccurate documentation.
•Use Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed, and The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., as guides for grammar, punctuation, style, and documentation.
•Whenever possible, quote from primary sources.
•Spell out the names of biblical books in the body of the article (e.g., Romans); abbreviate them in the footnotes (e.g., Rom.).
•Use SPIonic font for Greek and SPTiberian font for Hebrew (you may download these free fonts from http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/fonts/). In your article, do not use Greek and Hebrew text gratuitously.
•Use Times New Roman 11 pt font for the body of the article and 10 pt for the footnotes.
•Make sure your article has a thesis and is well organized. Give evidence to validate your points. Focus on issues rather than on writers who oppose your view.
•Passive constructions should be used sparingly.
•If possible, avoid first and second person pronouns.
•We prefer, though do not require, that the English Bible quotations come from the NKJV.
•The text of block quotations must be single-spaced and 10 pt in size. If the material in a block quotation begins with the paragraph in the original, it must be indented four spaces. If it does not, it should begin flush left.
•The periods constituting an ellipsis must be spaced (use non-breaking spaces: Ctrl+Shift+Space in Microsoft Word).
•Your article should be no more than 10,500 (both text and footnotes) words in length.
•If your article should require two parts, it is your responsibility to divide it into two roughly equal parts. Begin Part 2 with an introduction that orients the reader to what you did in Part 1.
•Edit your work carefully. Spell checker and grammar checker may help you pinpoint some of the problems in your writing. Use a thesaurus (unless you are using technical terms, synonyms usually improve the quality of writing).
•Submit a short bio, which will be placed at the end of your article (use biographical notes in previous CTS Journals as examples). Please include your e-mail address.
