Diligentia: Journal of Theology and Christian Education

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Author Guidelines

Please download and use the DILIGENTIA _Author Template (Word .doc) and follow the Author Guidelines as determined by the Editorial Board.

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.

3. Where available, URLs or DOIs for references have been provided.  Get persistent links for your reference list by using the CrossRef Simple Text Query.

4. The reference system of article following the 17th edition or newest version of Chicago style.

5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal

6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

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1) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

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