Submission Guidelines

Overview:

The Faith and Therapy eZine is a open access, online publication addressing the topics in areas of counseling, psychology, and faith. We encourage and accept articles on all aspects of practicing counseling and psychology using the Christain faith as a foundation.

Submissions:

The submissions should be approx. 1500-3000 words, address a topic of importance that both pastors and therapists would find helpful, and offer practical solutions to issues they face from an integrative perspective (hence the name of the eZine, Faith & Therapy). The audience will be professionals, clergy, and students, so the writing should be professional, but reader-friendly.

Manuscript Types

• Theoretical/Conceptual Papers: These papers present non-empirical work related to understand issuesing in relation to theory and application, to find the frontier of research on a problem, to relate a problem to existing theory, or to put a conceptualized problem in the context of previous research. Approx. 1500-2000 words.
• Position Papers: Position papers can describe a problem or an issue with a suggested solution or direction. These papers should support the position with both a logical argument and a review of the theory and/or the research literature.Approx. 1500-2000 words.
• Case Studies: Case studies highlight a particular challenge and setting in which faith and therapy were used to address that challenge. They present what theory and/or the research literature reports on the problem or issue, what was done to try to solve or explore it, the results of the project and implications and suggestions for others interested in addressing similar challenges or in future research. Approx. 2000 - 2500 words.
• Research Papers: Full-length papers concerned with the scholarly use of faith in therapy. These papers would discuss the research literature on the scholarly use of faith in therapy. The paper will show application(s) of faith in actual situations with participants, and include some measure (both quantitative and qualitative research is encouraged) of the learning impact of the combination of faith and therapy on participants. Approx. 2500 - 3000 words.

Required items:

• State Manuscript Type - (See manuscripts types above)
• Title - 10 words max
• Abstract  - 100-150 words
• Article (length dependent on type of manuscript)
• Article images and graphs (jpeg or gif) - submit separately
• References
• Author(s) Bio - 100 words max
• Author photo (minimum 300dpi)
• Permission to Publish Consent Form

Manuscript Format:

• APA Format
• Double spaced
• Times New Roman 12pt font
• Article length - approximately 1500-3000 words.
• Headings - levels of headings should accurately reflect the organization of the paper, all of the headings of the same level must appear in the same format.
• Abbreviations - avoid unnecessary abbreviations and explain necessary ones the first time they appear.
• References - references must follow APA standards and items listed in the reference list must appear in article text

Submission:

• Using the Faith and Therapy article Submission Form, submit your abstract, article, bio, separate article images and graphs, photo, Permission to Publish consent form to faithandtherapy@regent.edu.

Review:

The article will be:

• collected and reviewed for submission requirements by the copy editor and the editor.
• reviewed and edited by the publication reviewers and the editor.
• typeset and formatted for publication.

Copyright:

By submitting a manuscript authors are confirming that it contains original unpublished work and is not submitted for publication elsewhere at the same time.

Authors must provide written permission to use previously published text, tables or figures from other sources, or tests or portions of tests.

All Authors must complete the Permission to Publish Consent Form.

Additional Advice:

• If you can put anything into bullet form, or short paragraphs of bullets, this adds to readability
• Also, case studies, real life examples (always protect confidentiality) keep things interesting
• Refer to Scripture, but refrain from including long lines of Scripture.  Most people can get to a Bible if you provide the reference