The American Catholic Philosophical Association American Catholic  Philosophical Quarterly Submission Guidelines

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ACPQ Paper Guidelines

Please follow these guidelines when preparing your manuscript for submission:

§The manuscript should be printed on one side of 8 ½” × 11” (or, for European contributors, A4) paper. Leave margins of at least one inch on each side.

§Once a paper is accepted for publication, the author is to submit a clean copy of the paper (including a 125-word abstract) along with a computer disk indicating the title of the document and the program used. Disks must be IBM compatible; please do not use Mac discs. Be sure that the hard copy matches the document found on disk.

§Make sure that the text is double-spaced throughout, including notes and block quotations. Do not justify the right margins of your manuscript. Use only one font and font size, also limiting the use of templates to the necessary minimum (such as, one template for the body of the text, one for block quotations, and one for footnotes).

§House style mandates the use of double quotation marks, with single quotations used exclusively for the second level of quotation. Minimize use of italics and avoid use of bold characters. Only foreign words should be italicized consistently. We follow American practice for punctuation at the end of quotations. Thus, all punctuation precedes the closing quotation marks, with the exception of colon, semicolon, and question mark (unless the latter is part of the quotation).

§Go through your manuscript on disk and look for any extra spaces between words, stray tabs, undesired line breaks, errant font notations, or anything else that may alter how the text looks when printed.

§Hard returns (the equivalent of a typewriter’s carriage return) and tabs should never be used within a sentence or paragraph. Use hard returns only to end paragraphs, block quotations, titles and headings. Use only one single hard space after any and all punctuation; do not use two spaces at the end of a sentence.

§Never insert hyphens manually at end of lines.

§Spell-check the final draft of your manuscript. Be sure that all superscripted note numbers are in correct order.

§Long dashes (in typesetting jargon EM dashes)—like these—should be used to set off phrases. Between all numbers use EN dashes by entering CTRL + the character “dash” on the number keypad. If you are unable to enter EN or EM dashes, type EN dashes as single hyphens and EM dashes as two hyphens with no space on either side.

§Use a tab (not multiple spaces) to indent your paragraphs. Do not use the space bar to position text in any way; instead, use the specific computer command that will place text where you want it (e.g., center, flush right, flush left).

§Ellipses should be generated in MS Word by means of the command CTRL/ALT + the character “period.”

§All bibliographical references should be in footnotes. Please avoid using a Works Cited list, a bibliography, or endnotes.

§Please make sure that the bibliographical details in your footnotes are complete. Format them as follows:

For Books and Monographs:

Author’s name [first name first], Title, number of edition and/or of vols. [if applicable], ed. Editor’s Name [if applicable], trans. Translator’s Name [if applicable], Series and vol. no. [if applicable] (City: Publisher, date), pages [numbers only].

Example:

Jan A. Aertsen, Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas, Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 52 (Leyden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1996), 165–73.

For Journal Articles:

Author’s Name [first name first], “Title,” Journal Title [no punctuation] volume (date): pages [numbers only].

Example:

Hubert L. Dreyfus, “Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 (1996): 1–16.

Always provide the complete pagination of articles cited; more specific references should be added by using the word “at.”

Example:

Hubert L. Dreyfus, “Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 (1996): 1–16, at 14.

§Headers: You may divide the article into sections by using roman numerals. A section heading may be incorporated as an italicized first phrase or first sentence of the first paragraph under the section. No further demarcation of sub-sections is permitted.

Example:

Self-Perception and Self-Knowledge. In the philosophy of the commentators, self-perception becomes an increasingly important topic…

§The ACPQ does not generally print pictures or diagrams.

§For matters not covered here, please consult The Chicago Manual of Style,14^th ed. (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1993).

Finally, please refer questions to the ACPQ editorial office:

ACPQ Editorial Office
University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Ave.
JCR 241
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096

E-mail: acpq@stthomas.edu
Tel. 651-962-5000

Editor: David Clemenson
Associate Editor (for book reviews): Catherine Deavel
Managing Editor: Ann M. Hale

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