Submit to The Lonergan Review

Submissions and Guidelines

• Types of Publications
• General Formatting Instructions
• Formatting and Style Guidelines
• References
• Spelling
• Citation Policy
• English Corrections
• Authorship
• Editorial Independence
• Conflict of Interests

Types of Publications

Regular articles should be approximately 5,000 words in length, including footnotes.

Book reviews should normally be between 1,500 and 2,500 words. They should not be a mere summary of the book but also offer critical insight into the arguments presented. Reviewers are, therefore, encouraged to meaningfully engage with the books they are reviewing, with the freedom to outline their own opinions on the subject matter.

General Formatting Instructions

• The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific, and relevant.
• Articles should be prepared for blind review. The author’s name or affiliation should not appear in the document; this includes references to previous work in the endnotes.
• Articles should be submitted in “.docx” format.
• Include relevant biographical information in the email accompanying the submission.
  • Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The PubMed/MEDLINE standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, and country. At least one author should be designated as the corresponding author, and his or her email address and other details should be included at the end of the affiliation section.
  • Abstract: The abstract should be a maximum of 200 words. It should be a single paragraph and follow the style of structured abstracts but without headings. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain information or conclusions that are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
  • Keywords: Three to five pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. We recommend that the keywords are specific to the article, yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.
  • Funding: All sources of funding for the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work. Funding information can be entered separately into the submission system by the authors during the submission of their manuscripts. Such funding information, if available, will be deposited to FundRef if the manuscript is finally published. Please add: “This research received no external funding” or “This research was funded by [name of funder] grant number [xxx]”. Check carefully that the details given are accurate and use the standard spelling of funding agency names at Crossref.org; any errors may affect your future funding.
  • Acknowledgments: In this section, you can acknowledge any support given that is not covered by the author's contribution or funding sections. This may include administrative and technical support or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).
  • Author Contributions: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND has approved the submitted version (and version substantially edited by journal staff that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.
    For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used:
    
    "Conceptualization, X.X., and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”
    
  • Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state, "The authors declare no conflict of interest."

Formatting and Style Guidelines

• Font: Garamond
• Spacing: Single
  • Title: 14pt, Bold
  • Body: 12pt, Normal
  • Indented Block Quotes: 11pt, Normal
• Italicize book titles and foreign words.
• Do not italicize common Latin abbreviations.
• Quoted material should be indicated by double quote marks, not single ones.
• Indented block quotes should not have quotation marks. Single quote marks should be used for quoted material within the block quote.
• Use Roman Numerals (I, II, III) to distinguish sections, if desired.
• Indicate a subsection by an italicized, left-justified subheading without a number or letter.
• Use longer em dashes (—) rather than en dashes (–) to add content to a sentence. There should be no space on either end of the elongated dash.
• Please use the serial (or “Oxford”) comma when listing items.
• Avoid the use of contractions except in quoted material.

References

• All references must be endnotes. Convert any footnotes to endnotes before submission.
• Endnote citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (2017)
• After a first full citation of a source, a shortened reference should be used for subsequent references consisting of: Author’s Last Name, Shortened Title, Page No.
• Do not use p. or pp. to indicate pages; simply list the page or page range.
• All references to Lonergan’s work should quote from the Collected Works and use the following format:
  • Bernard Lonergan, Insight, vol. 3 CWL, eds. Frederick Crowe, S.J. and Robert Doran, S. J., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992), 111
  • After initial citation: Lonergan, Insight, 11

Spelling

• Please spell out reference to centuries, e.g.: nineteenth century, twentieth century.
• All spelling should be American spelling except in quoted material.
• Please use ’s to indicate possession even if a word ends in s.

Citation Policy

• Authors should ensure that where material is taken from other sources (including their own published writing) the source is clearly cited and that where appropriate permission is obtained.
• Authors should not engage in excessive self-citation of their own work.
• Authors should not copy references from other publications if they have not read the cited work.
• Authors should not preferentially cite their own or their friends’, peers’, or institution’s publications.
• Authors should not cite advertisements or advertorial material.

In accordance with COPE guidelines, we expect that “original wording taken directly from publications by other researchers should appear in quotation marks with the appropriate citations.” This condition also applies to an author’s own work. COPE have produced a discussion document on citation manipulation with recommendations for best practice.

English Corrections

To facilitate proper peer-reviewing of your manuscript, it is essential that it is submitted in grammatically correct English. If you are not a native English speaker, we recommend that you have your manuscript professionally edited before submission or read by a native English-speaking colleague.

Authorship

The Lonergan Review follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines, which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
• Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content AND
• Final approval of the version to be published AND
• Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

The acknowledgments should list those who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship. The International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) provides more detailed guidance on authorship.

Any change to the author list should be approved by all authors, including those who have been removed from the list. The corresponding author should act as a point of contact between the editor and the other authors, keep co-authors informed, and involve them in major decisions about the publication. We reserve the right to request confirmation that all authors meet the authorship conditions.

Editorial Independence

Lack of Interference With Editorial Decisions

Editorial independence is of utmost importance, and The Philosophy Documentation Center (PCD) does not interfere with editorial decisions. All articles published by PCD are peer-reviewed and assessed by our independent editorial boards, and the PCD’s staff are not involved in decisions to accept manuscripts. When making an editorial decision, we expect the academic editor to make their decision based only upon:

• The suitability of selected reviewers;
• Adequacy of reviewer comments and author response;
• Overall scientific quality of the paper.

Conflict of Interests

According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.”

All authors must disclose all relationships or interests that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include but are not limited to financial interests (such as membership, employment, consultancies, stocks/shares ownership, honoraria, grants or other funding, paid expert testimonies and patent-licensing arrangements) and non-financial interests (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, personal beliefs). The corresponding author must include a summary statement in the manuscript in a separate section, “Conflicts of Interest,” as part of the biographical information included int he accompanying email submission.

See below for examples of disclosures:

Conflicts of Interest: Author A has received research grants from Company A. Author B has received a speaker honorarium from Company X and owns stocks in Company Y. Author C has been involved as a consultant and expert witness in Company Z. Author D is the inventor of patent X.

If no conflicts exist, the authors should state:

Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.