Author Guidelines

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Submission and Peer Review Process

Once the submission materials have been prepared following the Author Guidelines, you should submit manuscripts online at https://omegalpha.zizioulas.org.

For any help with registration and submissions, please contact journal@zizioulas.org.

This journal does not charge submission fees.

Only articles that have not previously appeared or been submitted concurrently elsewhere will be considered for publication. Nor does the journal accept submissions that contain material the author has published or is publishing elsewhere. The editors welcome responses to articles published in the journal. The journal does not publish responses to book reviews, unsolicited book reviews, unsolicited review essays, or two-part articles. Submissions are not to exceed 8,000 words in length (including footnotes).

OmegAlpha offers Free Format Submission for a simplified submission process. Articles that are accepted will have to be formatted according to the journal's style before being published.

Before you submit, you will need:

- Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files—whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.

- An ORCID iD, freely available at https://orcid.org.

- The title page of the manuscript, including:

a) Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address.

b) Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following:

data availability statement,
funding statement,
conflict of interest disclosure,
ethics approval statement,
permission to reproduce material from other sources.

Important: the journal operates a double-blind peer-review policy. it is absolutely important for the peer-review process to anonymize your manuscript by supplying a separate title page file.

To submit, login at https://omegalpha.zizioulas.org and create a new submission. Follow closely the submission steps and submit the manuscript.

Data Protection

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication.

Funding

You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. You are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature.

Authorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.

Reproduction of Copyright Material

If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners.

The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying the journal with that permission upon submission.

Title Page

The title page should contain:

a brief informative title containing the major key words,
the title should not contain abbreviations,
a short running title of less than 40 characters,
the full names of the authors,
the author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted,
acknowledgments,
an ORCID iD, freely available at https://orcid.org.

Main Text File

Manuscripts can be emailed either as a single document (containing the main text, tables, and figures), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. Should your manuscript reach the revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.

All submissions must also contain a short (150 to 200 word) abstract of the article and a word count.

To facilitate the double-blind review of submissions, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript itself, but rather on a separate cover letter.

Reference Style

This journal accepts Chicago style of bibliography and notes: please refer for all the categories here:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

Numbers

Do not use p. or pp. with page numbers. Inclusive numbers should follow these patterns: 15-18; 25-28; 25-33; 101-8; 145-49; 345-55. With page numbers use hyphens, not dashes. Mark for a thin space between the number and the f. or ff., as in 31 f. or 67 ff.

In Scripture references, hyphens should join inclusive verse numbers, while en-dashes join inclusive chapter numbers; in the same way, commas should separate verse numbers and semicolons should separate chapter numbers (e.g., Matt. 4:24-25; 12:9-14; John 3–4; 1 Cor. 15:1-11, 29-34).

Use figures with all specific numbers over ninety-nine (“fifty-three pages” but “103 years later”). Spell out round numbers in general (“one hundred,” “five thousand,” “ninety thousand”) but use figures for numbers of more than two words (“73,000,” “100,000”).

Use “first” and “second” and so on to introduce a series, not “firstly,” “secondly,” etc.

The names of centuries should be spelled out, e.g., the thirteenth century, not the 13th or the 13th century.

Peer Review

This journal operates under a double-blind peer review model. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias.

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles

The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission.

After Acceptance

First Look

After your paper is accepted, your files will be assessed by the editorial office to ensure they are ready for production. You may be contacted if any updates or final files are required. Otherwise, your paper will be sent to the production team.

When an accepted article is received by the journal's editorial team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to sign a publication license at this.

Copyright & Licensing

You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or to publish in Open Access under the terms of one of the Creative Commons Licenses.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online/with their proofs included as a pdf. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned through the website, within 72 hours of receipt of the email.