The INTAMS review welcomes unsolicited contributions. Manuscripts submitted to the INTAMS review should not be under assessment by another journal at the same time.
Major articles for publication will normally be refereed (peer reviewed). The final decision about inclusion rests with the Editorial Board.
The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes in all articles, solicited or unsolicited, in the interests of clarity, brevity or uniformity of style.
Overall copyright is assigned to the INTAMS review.
One copy of the number in which the article appears and off-prints of the article will be supplied to the author free of charge.

Guidelines for Manuscripts

Manuscript: Manuscripts should be between 4000 and 6000 words in length, excluding bibliography and footnotes, and should be typed double-spaced. Manuscripts submitted on disk or by email should by preference be written in WordPerfect or MicrosoftWord format. The electronic version must be accompanied or followed by a printed version.

Summary: Articles should be accompanied by an abstract. An abstract is a comprehensive summary of the essential contents of the article which enables readers quickly to survey the contents of an article. It should be 300-400 words in length.

Note on the author: Each manuscript should include a separate note (maximum 100 words) indicating the author's name, title, present post, employer, most recent or major publications, and current projects.

References: should conform to traditional footnote style, giving full first references and author's surname and a short title in subsequent references.
Each reference should contain the following elements:

a. Reference to a book:

• AUTHOR 1/AUTHOR 2/AUTHOR 3/AUTHOR 4: Title of the book: 1st sub-title; 2nd subtitle, place of publication: publisher, editionyear (name of the series; volume number), page numbers.
• EDITOR 1/EDITOR 2 (ed.): Title of the book: 1st subtitle; 2nd subtitle, place of publication: publisher, editionyear (name of the serial; series number), page numbers.
Example:
P.L. REYNOLDS: Marriage in the Western Church: The Christianization of Marriage during the Patristic and Medieval Periods, Leiden: Brill, 1994 (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae; 24), 23-24.

b. Reference to an article or a chapter in an edited book:

• AUTHOR 1/AUTHOR 2: "title of the article/chapter", in: NAME OF THE AUTHOR/EDITOR: title of the book: 1st subtitle; 2nd subtitle, place of publication: publisher, editionyear (name of the serial; series number), page numbers.
Example:
L. ÖRSY: "Married Persons: God's Chosen People", in: K. DEMMER/A. BRENNINKMEIJER-WERHAHN (eds.): Christian Marriage Today, Washington: CUA Press, 1997, 38-54.

c. Reference to a journal article:

• AUTHOR 1/AUTHOR 2: "title of the article", in: name of the periodical volume/number (year), page numbers.
Example:
M. HENGEL: "Apostolische Ehen und Familien", in: INTAMS review 3 (1997), 62-75.

Alternatively, the author-date method of citation may be used, i.e. the surname of the author and the year of publication are inserted in the text at the appropriate point, in parentheses (REYNOLDS, 1994), and a complete reference list is given at the end.

Abbreviations: should be spelled out whenever possible.
References to the books of the Old and New Testament can be given in an accepted abbreviation style.

Italics: should be used whenever words or passages are to be accentuated. Terms in a foreign language which are not yet part of the language of the article should be italicized as well. In type-written manuscripts, italics are replaced by the use of underlining.

Guidelines for Book reviews

Contents: Book reviews should describe the content of the work in a summary way and evaluate it critically, judging its strengths and weaknesses.

Author: After the initial mention of the author’s name, all subsequent references are to be by initial only, followed by a period, e.g. L. or L.’s.

Length: Between 600 and 800 words.

Format: Bold typefaces and underlining are to be avoided; for emphasis the italic typeface should be used.

Citations: Direct quotes from the book are to be indicated by citing the page(s) in parentheses, using the bare number only, no "p." or "pp." or "S.".

Language: Book review manuscripts are accepted in the four languages of the INTAMS review, i.e. English, French, German, and Italian (preferably the language of the book under review).
We ask reviewers who do not write in their native language to have their texts revised by a native speaker before submitting it to the INTAMS Journal.

Heading: The heading should bear the author's name, book title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, and number of pages. Thus: LAWLER, MICHAEL G.: Marriage and the Catholic Church: Disputed Questions, Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002. – XIII, 226 p.

Support: By e-mail attachment to dominique.vanhaelst@intams.org or intamsreview@intams.org (MS Word or WordPerfect).

Editing: The editors reserve the right to edit book reviews for length, clarity, style, or tone.

Requests: The INTAMS review accepts requests to review forthcoming books.

May 2008