Respected Spiritual Leaders,
Greetings!
I take immense pleasure in inviting you for contributing research papers for our biannual Research Journal – Children Spirituality Review.
The aim of this journal is;
i. To bring holistic development and personal transformation in youth through spirituality.
ii. To develop the Spiritual Models, Stories, Poetry for transforming the mind of the youth.
iii. To promote effective communication and the distribution of Spiritual theory and practice focuses on children’s spirituality.
iv. To promote children’s spirituality as an important educational focus within wider contexts.
Apart from, requesting you to contribute papers, we also request you to forward this mail to your network to contribute their concepts & models.
Papers shall be arranged in the following order of presentation.
1st Page
Title, subtitle (if any), author’s name, affiliation, and e-mail. Respective affiliation’s addresses and e-mails of co-authors should be clearly indicated. You might wish to afford approximately 50 words of biographical information on authors.
The main title of the paper should be kept relatively short, approximately 50 characters including spaces, however inclusion of a subtitle might aid in clarification.
2nd Page
A self-contained abstract of up to 250 words summarizing the paper and its conclusions; and between 5 and 10 keywords, which will reflect the core themes of the paper (anticipating possible search terms that might be used by a potential reader). These will be used to facilitate electronic searches based on content.
Subsequent pages
Authors are requested to write as succinctly as possible, but not at the expense of clarity.
Explanatory or descriptive passages shall not break the flow of the main text, rather be expressed as end notes or as appendices.
Formatting and styling of the document shall be kept to a minimum. Pages should be A4 size with no header or footer information.
Headings (Introduction, Section 1, Section 2… References) shall be formatted as Arial size 14pt bold italic (or Microsoft Word style Heading 2)
Sub-headings shall be formatted as Arial size 12pt bold. (or Microsoft Word style Heading 3)
Main body of text shall be formatted as Arial size 11pt justified. (or Microsoft Word style Normal)
All tables, graphs, diagrams and other drawings shall be clearly referred to and numbered consecutively and all figures must have captions. In all figures taken or adapted from other sources, a brief note to that effect is obligatory, below the caption. Text within large tables and images may be reduced in size in order to fit the page.
Lists may be formatted as either bullet points (unordered lists) or numbered 1, 2, 3… (ordered lists)
Short quotations within the body of text should be presented: “between quotation marks and italicised” (followed by author-date in parentheses).
References:
Please try to maintain in a way that all bibliographic references shall be complete, comprising: authors and initials, full title and subtitle, place of publication, publisher, date, and page references.
References to journal articles must include the vol ume and number of the journal and page extent.
Few examples for your reference:
– Springer, B. and Springer, S. (1990) ‘Human resource management in the US – celebration of its centenary’, in Pieper, R. (ed.) Human Resource Management: An International Comparison. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 41-60.
– Torrington, D. Weightman, J. and Johns, K. (1989) Effective Management: People and Organisations, Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall.
– Walton, R.E. (1972) ‘How to counter alienation on the pla net’, Harvard Business Review, November-December, pp. 70-81
End notes
To be numbered consecutively and placed after the list of bibliographic references. They should be indicated in the text by use of parentheses, e.g. ‘(see Note 1)’. Automatic numbering in word-processing software is not acceptable.
Please feel free to write to me in case of any concerns
Thanks & Regards,
Thanks & Regards,
Dr.Francisca S Rebello.
From: Francisca <rebello.fs@in.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Subject: Call for papers – Children Spirituality Review – biannual Journal
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