Editorial Policy New Testament Studies is an international peer-reviewed periodical whose contributors include the leading New Testament scholars writing in the world today. The journal publishes articles and short studies in English, German, and French on a wide range of issues pertaining to the origins, history, context and theology of the New Testament and early Christianity. All contributions represent research at the cutting edge of the discipline. The journal welcomes submissions that reflect the discipline’s current methodological diversity.
While New Testament Studies is published under the auspices of SNTS (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas), membership or otherwise of the Society is not a factor in the review of submitted articles. Peer review is carried out by the Editor in conjunction with an Editorial Board of around 20 members, each of whom serves a three-year term. We aim to publish original and innovative work that opens up new lines of enquiry and engages with an appropriate range of secondary literature in more than one language.
The Editor of New Testament Studies normally serves a five year term of office. As from 1 January 2014, the present Editor is Prof Francis Watson of Durham University ([email protected]).
Submissions Materials submitted for publication should be sent to the Editor, Professor Francis Watson, through the ScholarOne online submission and peer review system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nts). We aim to complete the review process within three months of submission. The system requires the author to confirm that the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and that it conforms to the specifications indicated in these Instructions for Contributors. Authors should also draw the editor’s attention to any overlap with books or articles published or likely to be published in the near future. Articles that appear elsewhere in the same or a different language should not be submitted to this journal.
The peer review process is strictly anonymized. Contributors should ensure that their material bears no indication of their identity either at the head of the article or in references to their own work in the text or footnotes. Such references can be inserted as appropriate on completion of the peer review process.
Authors of articles published in the journal assign copyright to Cambridge University Press (with certain rights reserved) and, on acceptance of a paper for publication, should submit a copyright assignment form to enable the editing and publication process to get under way. Please visit Open Access Publishing at Cambridge for information on our open access policies, compliance with major finding bodies, and guidelines on depositing your manuscript in an institutional repository.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not hold copyright and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.
English Language Editing Services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the editor and any reviewers. We list a number of third-party services specialising in language editing and / or translation, and suggest that authors contact as appropriate. Please see the Language Services page for more information.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge published journal. Text preparation Submissions should not normally be longer than 8500 words, including footnotes (i.e. about 20 pages of the current NTS format). All materials should be double-spaced, including footnotes and citations. Special materials (e.g. lists, tables, charts, diagrams) should be submitted as separate files, and the location of such material in the main text should be indicated clearly (e.g. ‘insert figure 1 here’). Contributors are asked to supply an abstract of their article or short study, not exceeding 100 words in length, and a list of up to six keywords (to facilitate online searches).
Authors should follow the guidelines below and check the format of their own contribution with that of a recent issue of the journal. For consistency UK English is preferred e.g. -ise not -ize.
Fonts Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Coptic text can be set in their appropriate scripts. Unicode fonts are preferred, but commonly used fonts such as SPIonic are also acceptable. Hebrew, Aramaic, or Syriac should be left unpointed. Greek words should not be transliterated unless there is an established tradition for doing so (e.g. pneuma, parousia).
Quotations of five or more typewritten lines in any language will be printed as a separate paragraph and in type smaller than that used in the body of the article (without opening and closing quotation marks). Such quotations should be double spaced in the typescript. For shorter quotations within the main body of the text, single quotation marks should be used (double for quotations within quotations). The closing quotation mark should precede punctuation except in the case of an exclamation mark or question mark belonging only to the quotation, and a full stop if the quotation contains a grammatically complete sentence starting with a capital letter or similar.
Respect for accuracy in verbatim quotations demands that the spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations of the original publication be reproduced exactly, even if they differ from the style of this journal. Should the quotation contain an error, this may be indicated by [sic] or [?] at the author's discretion. It should be made clear whether italics are original or have been added.
Other formatting features to note: please use round rather than square brackets within parentheses: e.g. (as argued by Paul (Rom 7.1–6)). All headings and openings should be indented
Biblical references in should be in the format, Gen 2.4–8; Matt 13.16, 18, 21; 1 Cor 4.11–5.3 (for the abbreviations of the biblical books see note 16). Please note the use of the en rule (long dash) rather than a hyphen within number ranges: thus, Rom 1.1–3 not Rom 1.1-3.
Elision of numbers: use style ‘143–4, 111–12’; BCE dates are not to be elided.
Excluding for example LXX for ‘Septuagint’, all roman numerals as well as ‘BCE’ and ‘CE’ should be presented in small caps rather than full caps.
Footnotes should be double-spaced and numbered consecutively. Long, complicated footnotes should be avoided. Bibliographical references should eliminate punctuation and unnecessary words as far as possible, especially commas and abbreviations such as vol., pp., cols. Words like `Series', `Press', `Verlag' should normally be eliminated and retained only where necessary (e.g. Cambridge University Press); likewise the names of translators. The publisher and place of publication must be included in the first notice of a work, and omitted thereafter. In the case of reprinted volumes the date of the original publication is preferred, although (e.g.) reprinted, New York: Ktav, 1970 is acceptable. Subsequent editions should be indicated by use of a superscript number (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 20062). The (abbreviated) title of a series is to be put within the parentheses that follow on from the title.
Some examples:
J. Ziesler, Pauline Christianity (London/New York: Oxford University, rev. edn. 1990) 43–6. M. Bouttier, En Christ: étude d' exégèse et de théologie pauliniennes (Études d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses 54; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1962) 10–12. W. Schrage, Der erste Brief an die Korinther (1 Kor 1,6–6,11) (EKKNT 7/1; Zürich/Braunschweig: Benziger/Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1991) 108–27. C. F. D. Moule, The Phenomenon of the New Testament (SBT 2/1; London: SCM, 1967) 62–3, 66–7. E. Trocmé, ‘Un christianisme sans Jésus-Christ?’, NTS 38 (1992) 321–36, at 322. M. Hengel, Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine in the Early Hellenistic Period (2 vols.; London: SCM, 1974) I.166; II.108–9 n. 392. P. Rossano, ‘La parola e lo spirito: riflessioni su I Tess 1,5 e I Cor 2,4–5’, Mélanges bibliques en hommage au R. P. Béda Rigaux (ed. A. Descamps and A. de Halleux; Gembloux: Duculot, 1970) 437–44. J. Tyson, ed., Luke-Acts and the Jewish People: Eight Critical Perspectives (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1988).
Once the full information for a book or article has been given, a shortened title (not an acronym) is to be used: for example, Bouttier, En Christ, 138. General references to works previously cited, e.g. op. cit., art. cit., a.a.O., etc., must be avoided, along with f. or ff. (and equivalents) for ‘following’ pages or verses; the proper page or verse numbers are to be cited. These should be given in as concise a form as possible, except that the 1 is retained in the numbers 11–19: so 101–2, 130–45, but 112–13 and 1914–18 (this applies also to dates).
Abbreviations of titles of biblical books (with the Apocrypha):
English French German English French German
Gen Gn Gen Zeph So Zef Exod Ex Ex Hag Ag Hag Lev Lv Lev Zech Za Sach Num Nb Num Mal Ml Mal Deut Dt Dtn 1-2 Esdras 1-2 Esd 1-2 Esr Josh Jos Jos Tob Tb Tob Judg Jg Ri Jdt Jdt Jdt Ruth Rt Rut Wis Sg Weish 1-2 Sam 1-2 S 1-2 Sam Ecclus Si (or Sir) Sir 1-2 Kings 1-2 R 1-2 Kön 1-2 Cor 1-2 Co 1-2 Kor 1-2 Chron 1-2 Ch 1-2 Chr Bar Ba Bar Ezra Esd Esr 1-2 Macc 1-2 M 1-2Makk Neh Ne Neh Matt Mt Mt Esther Est Est Mark Mc Mk Job Jb Hiob Luke Lc Lk Ps(s) Ps(s) Ps(s) John Jn Joh Prov Pr Spr Acts Ac Apg Eccles Qo(or Qoh) Koh Rom Rm Röm Cant Ct Hld Gal Ga Gal Isa Is Jes Eph Ep Eph Jer Jr Jer Phil Ph Phil Lam Lm Klgl Col Col Kol Ezek Ez Ez 1-2 Thess 1-2 Th 1-2 Thess Dan Dn Dan 1-2 Tim 1-2 Tm 1-2 Tim Hos Os Hos Titus Tt Tit Joel Jl Joel Phlm Phm Phlm Amos Am Am Heb He Hebr Obad Ab Obd Jas Jc Jak
Supplementary illustrative material
Supplementary illustrative material will appear only in the electronic online version. A link to the supplementary illustrative material will be inserted during proof preparation. The main text of the article must stand alone without the supplementary material although it should be mentioned within the text. Supplementary material must be supplied as a separate file/s, clearly identified as supplementary material. It will not be copy-edited or typeset and authors are entirely responsible for the presentation of the supplementary material. The following text must be included at the end of the article:
Supplementary material To view supplementary material for this article, please visit [supplier will insert link].
Figures Figures should be supplied as separate files preferably in TIFF format. When sized for reproduction they should be no less than 600 dpi. Images supplied in colour will be reproduced in colour in the online version but converted to mono for the printed issue. Additional charges will apply should you wish to retain the use of colour for the printed.
For further information, please refer to the Cambridge Journals Artwork Guide, which can be found online at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/journals/journals-artwork-guide
Colour charges apply for all colour figures that appear in the print version of the journal. At the time of submission, contributors should clearly state whether their figures should appear in colour in the online version only, or whether they should appear in colour online and in the print version. There is no charge for including colour figures in the online version of the journal. If you request colour figures in the printed version, you will be contacted by CCC-Rightslink who are acting on our behalf to collect Author Charges. Please follow their instructions in order to avoid any delay in the publication of your article.
Offprints Authors of articles and short studies will receive a pdf file of their contribution and a complimentary issue upon publication.
