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GreenSpirit Journal

Information for Contributors

General

We welcome contributions, especially from GreenSpirit members. These may be articles, comments, letters, book reviews, poems, reflections on past events – whatever has heart and meaning for you, as long as it is relevant to the aims and concerns of Creation Spirituality and seems likely to be of interest to most members of GreenSpirit. We shall honour the content and spirit of any material submitted, and will make minimal editing alterations so as to preserve your own expression and 'voice': these alterations will be done in consultation with you. Articles should not exceed 1800 words except by arrangement with an Editor. If you wish to contribute, it is best to ring or e-mail the relevant Editor first, with your idea (see schedule below). If you get the go-ahead, please send in your article etc as soon as it is ready. Naturally we cannot guarantee inclusion, but we will be in touch with you as soon as possible after you contact us.

Time-table
The deadlines for the submission of contributions are:
1st February (send material to Marian)
1st June (send material to Marian)
1st October (send material to Don)

Editorial Team

General Editors
Marian McCain. Ball Cottage, East Ball Hill, Hartland, Devon EX39 6BU
Tel: 01237 441118. Send E-mail
Don Hills. Angel Wings, King Street, Combe Martin, Devon EX34 0DB
Tel 01271 889028. Send E-mail

Call for Submissions

Frequently, out of the submissions we receive for a particular issue of the Journal, by some mysterious, synchronistic process a theme will crystallise.
At other times, we nudge things along by having a theme in mind and commissioning or reprinting articles or essays that speak to it.

The following recommendations for the preparation of texts and illustrations are more of a wish-list than a set of standards. If you can prepare your contribution within these guide lines please do so, but it is not vital. We can cope with most forms of presentation.

Soft Copies – the preferred format is .doc (Word) or .rtf but most text formats (Vista users please avoid .docx) can be processed. As the text will be re-formatted to fit the standard layout of the Journal .pdf files should not be submitted. Please keep any text formatting to a minimum. E-mail, floppy disk or CD Rom are all acceptable media for submitting texts (and illustrations, see below)

Hard Copies – All hard copies will be copied by scanning so clean listings and typescripts are acceptable; please avoid underlining and any marking of the texts. In order to be scanned successfully photocopies have to be of good quality and preferably on white paper.

Conventions for the preparation of texts
‡ No tab or spaces at start of paragraphs		‡ Single spaces between sentences
‡But there a darker note emerged in his address.‡He hoped there was not malicious fairy had been forgotten and coming uninvited should curse the children, ‘You two brats will grow up politicians; your every thought and act shall have an ‡arrière-pensée; everything you shall determine shall not be for its own sake or on its own merits but because of something else.’ ‘If this should happen, then the best that could befall – and that is how it may turn out ‡– would be for the children to fall into eternal slumber, never to be heard of again in the courts and markets of mankind.’‡ The World Bank should have been modelled on an institution like the Bank of England ‘where the separation of management and ownership permits a more socialised view of the enterprise’s goals.’6 ‡ Many millions of people now protesting all over the world would be glad if these institutions fell into ‘eternal slumber’. The World Bank is now not only a Bank but also a Development Agency, so inevitably politics and economics are here inextricably interlinked. ‡References 6. Charles Hession. John Maynard Keynes (Macmillan 1984), pp. 353-5.
			‡ Only foreign words, titles and your emphases in italics. Please check accents
			‡ n – dash
			‡ Single quotes are, in general, preferred
			‡ Full stop, end quote, superscript reference. In this order. Or end quote, full stop, superscript reference if appropriate
			‡ Book References Author, full stop, title in Italics (Publisher, date) comma, page ref. full stop Articles Author, full stop, title in upright (Journal name in Italics, Volume no. or date) comma, page ref, full stop

Soft Copies – All the common graphics formats are acceptable (bmp, tif, jpg, gif, pdf). Illustrations are usually reproduced at not more than quarter page and usually not less than 55x55mm. Copies should be provided to give reasonable resolution in this range of size. As a rough rule of thumb a .jpeg file of a 10x15cm photo should not be les than 200Kb. Scanned illustrations should be scanned at definitely not less than 150 pixels per inch. 

Hard Copies – All illustrations will be copied on a scanner and preferably should not be larger than A4. Reasonable quality line drawings and other forms of art work are acceptable as are sharp photographs and good quality photocopies.

All Illustrations – Except for the outside and inside cover graphics, all the text illustrations are reproduced in black and white or shades of grey. If you submit colour illustrations they will be reduced to shades of grey and this should be considered in selecting suitable pictures; clarity and good contrast are the key factors. Contrast and sharpness can be enhanced in the editing process but there are limits to what can be achieved.

Hard copies will be returned if requested, but only after the journal has been printed.