Guidelines for Submission
Audience
Blogs on CoronAsur : Religion and COVID-19 are written for a broad audience interested in religion, anthropology, history and related topics. All articles should be written with a non-specialist, public audience in mind, including policy makers, the media, students, and the general public.
Write in a natural style that avoids acronyms and academic terms not widely used outside of specific disciplines.
Requirements
The following are required material for the CoronAsur blog:
Word count
Approximately 1000 words
Format for sharing
Share a Google doc or email a Word doc.
Paragraph length and spacing
- Keep paragraphs short. No longer than 4 sentences.
- We adhere to the one space after the period philosophy, not two.
Formatting
- Use headers and sub headers to break up your post.
- Avoid big blocks of text.
- When writing headlines be specific and indicate a benefit to the reader
- Use bullet or numbered lists.
Spelling
CoronAsur uses UK English and the Collins Dictionary for spelling and punctuation (available free online).
References
We do not accept footnotes or endnotes. All referencing should be in the form of links rather than citations. Links should point to more detailed information and, if possible, to an open access publication or website. Please integrate all content into the main body of your article.
Editing
All posts submitted are reviewed for length, clarity, and style, primarily to ensure posts are appropriate for the blog format. Authors work with Contributing Editors to finalise their contribution, but all final editorial decisions rest with the Editor.
We reserve the right to make final copy edits, including formatting and title changes as necessary.
Images
Images should be included in the same file as the written submission. All images MUST have descriptive captions. Please make sure that the images are high-resolution and that you either own the images or have the right to reproduce them. Each article requires at least one image for publication on the blog.
Author bio
- Author bio should be 50 words max.
- Link to your email, Institution, Twitter, LinkedIn
Promoting
Please plan to promote your post throughout your social networks. We ask that you share it more than once on multiple networks over multiple days.
Published contributions are released under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence and, if republished elsewhere afterwards, should include our publication name (‘CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19’) and the original link.