Submission Guidelines for Church Polity 
Rev. November 2020

About
Church Polity: International Studies in Protestant Church Polity  is a peer-reviewed international journal of church polity from and for the Protestant world. The journal provides a forum for discussion on matters of church polity across denominational and national boundaries. Contributions are welcomed for a variety of approaches that provide for historical, theological, biblical, and legal analyses of church polity topics from around the Protestant world. Church Polity originates from the Society for Protestant Church Polity, an international network of church polity scholars and practitioners. 

 Articles will have a 7,000 word limit plus an abstract of 250 words.

Book Reviews will have word limit of 800 words.

Style guidelines
Except as otherwise provided here, the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition shall be followed. 

1. The notes citation system shall be followed.

2. Line-Spacing:

   1.  Double: All the basic text

   2. Single: Footnote, Indented Block quotations

3. Font: 

   1. Times New Roman. 

   2. Set the size at 12 (footnote: 10). 

   3. Headings (Parts/Chapters) are capitalized and bold. 

   4. Primary Subheadings are in title style and bold; flush left.  

   5. Secondary Subheadings are in title style and italicized; flush left.  

   6. Tertiary Subheadings are in title style and underlined; flush left. 

4. Punctuation: 

   1. The comma after a penultimate item in a list (the “Oxford Comma”) before the conjunction shall be used. 

5. Pagination: 

   1. Put all page numbers at the bottom of pages, centered. 

Submissions
Articles and Book Reviews may be submitted to Matthew van Maastricht, co-editor, at mvanmaastricht@nbts.edu

There are no submission fees.