Submissions



We welcome your contributions for publication. We encourage you to submit your work as an attachment to the General Editor using the Contact Form.

If you prefer to submit your contribution by using the U.S. Postal Service, please send a hard copy along with a disk to the General Editor at the following address:

General Editor (Submissions)
The Princeton Theological Review
P.O. Box 821
Princeton, NJ 08542

All submissions should be in final form.


General Submission Protocol

  1. Consult the Call for Papers and decide whether your submission is an appropriate match for the upcoming issue’s stated topic or theme.
  2. If you are uncertain whether your submission will be relevant, please contact the General Editor, using the Contact Form, with your questions or concerns. Please be advised that a positive response to these concerns by the PTR staff does not guarantee your final submission will ultimately be published in the journal.
  3. If you are submitting an article, the length should be 4500-5000 words. If you are submitting a reflection, the length should be 1200-1500 words. If your submission exceeds these word limits, PTR reserves the right to edit your piece to an appropriate length.
  4. Please ensure all submissions are sent in electronic format (preferably using Microsoft Word) by the stated deadline in the Call for Papers. Within two weeks, you will normally receive a response from PTR staff acknowledging receipt of your submission.
  5. Final decisions regarding submissions to be published will usually be made within one month, and you will be informed as to whether or not your submission will be published shortly thereafter.
  6. If your submission is accepted for publication, the editors of PTR will make those appropriate and necessary editorial changes or corrections to your submission that do not relate to matters of content. Any questions relating to content will be returned to you prior to publication.

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Book Review Submission Protocol

  1. Consult the Call for Papers and decide whether your submission is an appropriate match for the upcoming issue’s stated topic or theme. Books to be reviewed should generally be no more than three years old.
  2. If you are uncertain whether your submission will be relevant, please contact the Book Review Editor, using the Contact Form, with your questions or concerns. Please be advised that a positive response to these concerns by the PTR staff does not guarantee your final submission will ultimately be published in the journal
  3. Book reviews should be from 750-1,000 words. If your submission exceeds these word limits, PTR reserves the right to edit your piece to an appropriate length.
  4. Please ensure all submissions are sent in an electronic format (preferably using Microsoft Word) by the stated deadline in the Call for Papers. Within two weeks, you will normally receive a response from book review staff acknowledging receipt of your submission.
  5. Final decisions regarding submissions to be published will usually be made within one month, and you will be informed as to whether or not your submission will be published shortly thereafter.
  6. If your submission is accepted for publication, the editors of PTR will make those appropriate and necessary editorial changes or corrections to your submission that do not relate to matters of content. Any questions relating to content will be returned to you prior to publication.
  7. Only books for solicited reviews are to be purchased for the reviewer. For all other reviews the reviewer is responsible for obtaining her or his own copy of the work.

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Formatting Guidelines

  1. Submissions should be single spaced with a space between each paragraph, each paragraph tabbed, and in Times New Roman font.
  2. Footnotes, not endnotes, should be used. Please use cardinal numbers (1,2,3), not Roman numbers (i,ii,iii).
  3. Since this journal is published in the U.S.A., please use standard American spelling (e.g., color, not colour).
  4. In general, PTR employs the following style guidelines:

    a.-- For full quotations place a period within a quote (including footnoted quotes) unless a citation is given, in which case the period follows the citation outside of the parentheses.† E.g, “The man walked into the room.”f.n.† OR “The man walked into the room” (“The Good Book,” 34).†

    b.-- Place commas inside quotations found in the middle of sentences. E.g.. The man walked into the "room," the room with the big fat canary.

    c.-- Latin phrases and book titles should be in italics, including in the footnotes.† Chapter titles should be in quotes.

    d.-- Page numbers, especially in footnotes, should be given without "p." For instance, Tom Figglesworth, The Big Canary (New York: Random House, 1979), 35.†

  5. When submitting your materials please, include one sentence providing your biographical and/or institutional information. E.g., Bob Joe Fox is an M.Div. senior at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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