Submissions

• Submissions
• Peer-review process
• Guidelines

Submissions

Eye of the Heart welcomes articles from scholars, academics, post-graduates and students. We are looking for original material; we may republish seminal works that lay the ground work for further study.

We invite submission of scholarly articles on metaphysics, theology, philosophy, cosmology, mythology, symbolism, sacred art, religious forms, the spiritual life, alchemy, sacred architecture, the sophia perennis, and other esoteric currents.

All submissions should be prefaced by a query letter including the following:

• Your name, address and contact details.
• A personal introduction, including relevant scholarly affiliation and publications.
• A synopsis of your article.

We will assess the suitability of the article for Eye of the Heart based firstly on the synopsis. Simply sending an article to us does not guarantee we will consider it.

At this stage of the journal's development we are not publishing reviews.

We do not publish poetry or works of fiction.

For ease of preparation we prefer electronic submissions (see Guidelines); however, hardcopy submissions are acceptable. Unsolicited hardcopy submissions will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

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Peer-review process

Articles that satisfy the peer-review process will be recognized as such; articles that do not fit the academic criteria for peer-review but are deemed of value will be published under a non peer-reviewed category.

1. All manuscripts are assessed for suitability by the editor in consultation with the editorial board.
2. Suitable manuscripts are sent to an appropriate reviewer, as chosen by the editor, for blind review. A member of the La Trobe University academic staff, including the editorial board but not the editor, may act as the reviewer, where sufficient appropriate expertise is available.    
3. Conditional on the reviewer’s report the manuscript is either: declined, accepted or accepted pending amendments.
4. Manuscripts submitted by La Trobe University academic staff are assessed for suitability by the editor. Suitable manuscripts are sent to an appropriate reviewer, as chosen by the editor, for blind review. Manuscripts submitted by La Trobe University academic staff are reviewed by scholars who are not affiliated with La Trobe University. Conditional on the reviewer’s report the manuscript is either: declined, accepted or accepted pending amendments.
5. The editor of Eye of the Heart may submit manuscripts to be assessed by another member of the editorial board. Pending their assessment they are responsible for sending the manuscript to an appropriate reviewer for blind review. Manuscripts submitted by the editor are reviewed by scholars who are not affiliated with La Trobe University. Conditional on the reviewer’s report the manuscript is either: declined, accepted or accepted pending amendments.

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Guidelines

• Style
• Notes-Bibiography

We do not want submission guidelines to diminish your interest to submit. As such the following guidelines aim for simplicity and ease. At the same time we aim for bibliographical utility and consistency between articles. In this respect, Eye of the Heart follows a basic form of The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Ed.) "Notes-Bibliography style."

Electronic submissions should be in an IBM-compatible format, preferably Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Your biographical information should be included in the same document as the article.

Style

All material should be written in clear, grammatical, and fluent English.

Articles should be submitted in a clear font (such as Times New Roman) in 12pt with 1.5 line spacing. Indented block quotes and footnotes should be in 10pt. Times New Roman includes Greek, Hebrew and Arabic fonts. If you are using a specialty font please forward this with your submission.

Side margins should be at least 3cm wide, with block quotes further indented.

Notes-Bibiography

• The Notes-Bibliography style allows for either footnotes or endnotes. Although we would, in general, recommend footnotes
• Footnotes are created by the footnote function of the word processing software, which will
  generate a numbered marker in the text. The footnote markers in the text should be
  superscript Arabic numerals. Footnotes are numbered consecutively, beginning with 1.
  
• Insert footnotes at the end of the sentence or at the end of a clause, following any
  punctuation.
• Notes can be used for comments as well as for bibliographical references.
• Full details must be given in the footnote at the first mention of any work. This means that a separate bibliography is not required.
• Subsequent citations should be shortened, whenever possible.  Do not use the abbreviation op. cit.
• The short form of a citation consists of the family name of the author(s) and the main title of the work cited, publication date and page number/s (e.g. Smith, Religious Studies, 1987, 45.)
• Multiple citation: A note that applies to more than one location should be cross-referenced
  (e.g. 18. See note 3 above.)
• Multiple references: Several citations or comments can be included in a single footnote,
  separated by a semi-colon.
• The specific page reference follows the bibliographical details.
• The abbreviation Ibid. (from the Latin “ibidem” meaning “in the same place”) refers to a single
  work cited in the footnote immediately preceding.

BOOK

• For a work by more than three authors, the citation in the footnote should give the name of
  the first author in full, followed by "and others", with no intervening comma.
• If the author or editor is unknown or not given, the title is used as the first element of a
  citation in the footnote.
• If there is no personal author or editor, a corporate body responsible for the work can
  be cited as the author.
• The title is given in italics.
• For a book published electronically, include the URL.

ARTICLE

• The article title is enclosed in quotation marks, and not italicized.
• The title of the journal is italicized.
• Only cite the specific page numbers to which you are referring.
• When citing an electronic journal article, give the URL.

THESIS

• Example: 1. Neville Douglas Buch, "American Influence on Protestantism in Queensland since
  1945" (PhD thesis, University of Queensland, 1994), 142.

AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL

• As far as possible, cite audiovisual material in the same way as you would cite a book.
  Include details of the format of the material, e.g. video, DVD, CD-ROM, audiocassette,
  compact disc.

WEB PAGE

• When citing web sites, include as much as possible of the following data as can be
  determined: author of the content, title of the web page, title or owner of the site, URL.
• If there is no author as such, the owner of the site may be cited as the author.
• The title of the web page is enclosed in quotation marks, and not italicized. If there is a
  separate title for the web site, it should be italicized.
• The Chicago Manual of Style advises that "access dates in online source citations are of
  limited value", so do not include the date accessed unless you feel that it is essential.
  

If you require further information, refer to:The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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