Journal Details
Instructions for Authors***Note to Authors: please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to Editors.*** Papers accepted become the copyright of the Journal, unless otherwise specifically agreed. Contributors should bear in mind that they are addressing an international audience. Manuscripts that do not conform to the requirements listed below will not be considered for publication or returned to their authors. Submissions will be seen anonymously by two referees.
Authors are asked to bear in mind that they are addressing an international audience. While they can expect their readers to be generally informed about Islam and its relations with Christianity and other faiths, they should not presume expert knowledge about detailed areas of scholarship. It is assumed that articles submitted for consideration by the editors have not been published elsewhere, either in whole or in part.
Articles should be sent to Professor David Thomas (d.r.thomas.1@bham.ac.uk), in the form of e-mail attachments in simple Word format. For purposes of anonymity through the refereeing stages, the title alone should appear at the beginning, and references elsewhere that might lead to easy identification of the author should be omitted. All articles should be prefaced by an abstract of 150-200 words. The author's postal and e-mail addresses, together with brief biographical details of about 50 words, should appear on a separate page. All pages should be numbered. Articles should not exceed 10,000 words. Footnotes to the text should be avoided wherever possible. Articles which the editors judge to have merit will be sent anonymously to two referees, and authors may be asked for changes and adjustments in the light of the referees' reports.
Tables and captions to illustrations. Tables must be typed out on separate sheets and not included as part of the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and also typed out on a separate sheet. Tables should be numbered by Roman numerals, and figures by Arabic numerals. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to symbols. Figures. Please supply one set of artwork in a finished form, suitable for reproduction. If this is not possible, figures will be redrawn by the publishers. References should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parentheses. If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form. For books: Scott, P. (1984) The Crisis of the University (London, Croom Helm). For articles: Cremin, L.A. (1983) The problematics of education in the 1980s: some reflections on the Oxford Workshop. Oxford Review of Education, 9, 33-40. For chapters within books: Willis, P. (1983) Cultural production and theories of reproduction, in: L. Barton & S. Walker (Eds) Race, Class and Education (London, Croom Helm). Titles of journals should not be abbreviated.
Style guidelines
Description of the Journal's article style Description of the Journal's reference style, Quick guide Any consistent spelling style is acceptable. Use single quotation marks with double within if needed. This journal requires a short paragraph of bibliographical details for all contributors.
If you have any questions about references or formatting your article, please contact authorqueries@tandf.co.uk Word templates are available for this journal.
Please open and read the instruction document first, as this will explain how to save and then use the template. If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk Copyright. It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to the University of Birmingham. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
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