Submission Policy for Articles

We appreciate your desire to submit an article to the Encounter: Journal for Pentecostal Ministry. As you prepare your submission, please follow the guidelines below.

General Comments

• It is assumed by the editors of Encounter that all submitted work is legitimate to the author, that all citations are accurate, and that anything quoted or paraphrased is properly cited.
• In no case should articles that appear elsewhere in the same or a different language be submitted.
• Submissions should include a brief abstract summarizing the content of the article.
• Articles should be approximately 10-15 pages (double spaced) or about 2,500-3,750 words.
• Articles should be submitted as Microsoft Word documents via email to encounter@agts.edu.
• Encounter accepts contributions in English only.

Formatting

• Please use the Turabian 6th Edition for general questions regarding style, punctuation and notation. (APA may be acceptable for submissions from the counseling field.)
• Articles should be double-spaced.
• The body of the article should be printed in size 12 font, preferably Times New Roman. Section headings may be size 14.
• Sentences should only have one space between the period and the first letter of the next sentence, T 3.54. (Do a “find” and “replace” to take care of this problem quickly.)
• We encourage submissions to include hyperlinks.
• We encourage submissions to include visual images when appropriate (legal pictures, etc.)

Technical and Grammatical Details

• Please avoid use of all caps anywhere in the article.
• All non-English words and titles should be italicized.
• If a non-English word is in parenthesis, both the word and the parenthesis should be italicized.
• All words that require non-latin fonts should be transliterated.
• Block quotations should only be indented 4 spaces from left margin, and extend all the way to the right margin.
• Block quotations should not be endnoted; rather the quote should be noted like this "(Bonhoeffer 1967, 47)" after the quote.
• Use a computer generated “em dash” (—) instead of two hyphens (--). Obtain em dash by going to “insert” then “symbols.” Note: there should be no spaces before or after the em dash.
• Use computer generated ellipses ( … ) rather than three periods (…). Obtain ellipses by going to “insert” and then “symbols.” Note: there should be one space immediately before and after the ellipses.
• When listing a series of three things, make sure to use two commas (red, white, and blue)

Writing Style

• Try to avoid verbs of being (am, is, are, were, being)
• Try to avoid the overuse of trite emphasis words such as really, very, tremendous, greatly.
• Make sure you don’t confuse “than” and “then”
• Make sure you don’t confuse “which” and “that”
• Make sure you don’t confuse “lead” and “led” (the past tense of lead is not lead, this is a soft metal).
• Make sure you don’t confuse “While” (which refers to time/during) with “Although”
• Do not use Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, etc. It is simply First, Second, Third.
• Try to avoid the overuse of the following words:

• Note, the proper form of the following words:

Biblical References

• Make sure to follow book abbreviations as found in Chicago Manual of Style. Use the form that includes the period (Gen.) as opposed to the form that does not (Gn).
• Make sure multiple scripture references are in proper sequence as found in the Bible.
• If quoting one verse and referencing others state: (Jn. 3:16; cf. Jn. 1:1).
• Note: According to Chicago, even if some Scripture references are used within the text, they are still abbreviated. (Only references to whole books and chapters are spelled out).
• In biblical referencing, Turabian and Chicago Manual discourage the use of f and ff.
• Do capitalize in reference to deity: He, Him, Bible, Scripture, the Early Church, the Church
• Do not capitalize in reference to deity: himself, biblical, body of Christ, godly/godliness

Endnotes:

• Please use endnotes rather than footnotes.
• Make sure there are no spaces between the number and the note (¹Author’s Name, Title…)
• In endnotes, replace 2nd edition with 2d ed.
• In endnotes, there should be no comma after title:  title (place: publisher, date), page.
• Block quotations should not be endnoted (see previous comments)
• Make sure to place a period and a comma after Ibid.  (Ibid., 27.)

Endnotes and Bibliographies:

• Titles are to be italicized, not underlined.
• Follow first choice abbreviations for states. (Left column T 2.13; C14.17)
• Make sure to use 2d ed. rather than 2nd edition.
• Make sure you are consistent in how you list publishing companies (not Zondervan in some places, and Zondervan Publishing House in others).
• In Bibliography “Vol.” is capitalized (in endnotes it is not “vol.”)

Updated: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:22 AM