Submissions

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Author Guidelines

You can submit an MS Word, Libre Office, or RTF document. The text should be single-spaced. Use a 12-point font, preferably Times New Roman; employ italics rather than underlining for emphasis; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points rather than at the end. If using non-standard fonts, please embed them in your document.

We follow the standard SBL guidelines with footnotes (SBL Handbook of Style 2nd ed.). You may use these output styles for Endnote or Zotero if you prefer to use these tools.

If possible and applicable, submit your bibliography also in a separate field during the application to expedite linking.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another press for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in the Microsoft Word, RTF, or OpenDocument file format.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The Author affirms that all figures, pictures, or any other media used in this work are of their authorship, written permission was obtained for use in this project under a CC BY license, or they are already available in a proper CC license or equivalent.
  • All authors declare that they made a substantial contribution to the work and that they are accountable for the work and its published form. The authors gave proper credit to the work of others, both in citations and in acknowledgment of contributions.
  • Where available, stable URLs for the references have been provided (i.e., they don't include the school's login to a database). DOIs are used when available.
  • The author or all the authors in an edited work agree that the work, once accepted, will be published under CC BY 4.0 International license.
  • The authors declared any and all conflicts of interest to the editors. By this, we mean any relation with for-profit or not-for-profit third parties whose interests may be affected by the content of the manuscript. Disclosure represents a commitment to transparency and does not necessarily indicate a bias. If you are in doubt about whether to list a relationship/activity/interest, it is preferable that you do so.
  • The author(s) agree with the seven core doctrines of the Christian faith:
    • The Trinity: The one true God eternally exists as three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; one in nature, equal in glory, but distinct in relationships.
    • The full deity and full humanity of Christ.
    • The spiritual lostness of the human race.
    • The substitutionary atonement and bodily resurrection of Christ.
    • Salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
    • The future physical return of Christ.
    • The authority and inerrancy of Scripture.

Copyright Notice

Copyright

The author(s) or editor(s) retains copyright on work published by Klisia unless specified otherwise.

Licensing and publication rights
Klisia requires book authors and editors to publish their work in open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows commercial usage of your work, which is necessary for making hard copies in places with poor internet access, for libraries, and to be offered to retailers. This is the most flexible license used by Rice University's OpenStax and other initiatives to make textbooks accessible. It allows you as the author to distribute your material under a different license elsewhere, publish it for profit, or transform it without concerns with the Klisia version.

This license applies to your work and all images (photographs, illustrations, graphs, maps) that you decided to add. It is your responsibility as the author to obtain images that are CC BY 4.0, public domain, or obtain explicit permissions from the copyright holder to publish them under CC BY 4.0. Ideally, images should be in TIFF format as it has no image degradation. JPEG files are accepted, but we request that the author do not edit and save it, as every time this is done, there is image degradation. If your image is suitable for this, vector-based extensions are allowed, such as SVG, EPS, and AI.

What does this mean, in practice?

Klisia is an open-access publisher, which means that all online content is freely available without charge to the reader. While readers will pay for print editions, these are under the same open license (CC BY 4.0), and the free online edition is referred to in print editions. With this type of license, readers are encouraged to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the books or use them for any other lawful purpose without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided that the work is appropriately cited.

There is another interesting use-case of this license, as other authors may use chapters of your book (or even the whole book) to contextualize it for their audiences, while giving attribution to you for the main text.

Let’s imagine one of your chapters is called “A biblical response to corruption.” It might be translated into Portuguese and contextualized in this way (text will be in English for clarity):

            “A biblical response to corruption” by Jane Doe (your translated chapter with attribution)

            “Living out a biblical response to corruption in Brazil” by João Ninguém (the Brazilian author’s take on how your chapter could be contextualized for that particular reality)

This allows for much needed contextualization while preserving your work and research, for the good of the global church.

Submission fee

Thanks to a generous donation, at this moment, Klisia does not charge a submission fee for evaluating monographs.

Editorial process and peer-review

One internal editor will be assigned to your manuscript upon submission, and will read your manuscript to ensure if fits with these submission guidelines. At this point, the editor may refuse publication (e.g., for doctrinal issues), ask the author for clarification or changes, or, simply refer to an external peer-reviewer.

External peer-reviewers are academic experts in the area, with a heart for the global church. They may ask questions and make suggestions to you, before approving the manuscript. Peer-reviewers will have access to the author(s)' identity and professional affiliation. 

Minimizing conflict of interest

Editors and peer-reviewers are asked to decline their participation in the publication process when the decision-making process could be impaired by any matter of conscience, as they submit to the Holy Spirit's guidance. In such cases, another editor or peer-reviewer will be assigned.  

Funding and your book publication

Klisia is not a self-publishing facilitator, but rather an open-access theological publisher with academic integrity. While you, the author, will not “pay-to-publish,” there are costs related to the publishing process. The submission fee (presently waived) allows for the evaluation and editorial decision to be independent of the publication itself. Klisia will not accept funding before an editorial decision is made.

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and donations allow the publication of our books. After your book is accepted for publication (Hurray!), we will set up a webpage with a donation form for your book, so our donors may provide direct contributions on top of resources from our general fund, when available. The Holy Spirit will guide the church to be generous. 

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