Submission Guidelines

OralityTalks is an interactive digital-only multimedia orality journal. We are academically thorough in our research but creative in publication and presentation.

Some issues may follow a theme, but any topic related to orality in Christian ministry is welcome.

Authors can expect to be invited to present their articles in one of our webinars and are expected to reply to any comments on their submissions in the forum.

General Rules

Use this template when composing articles for the OralityTalks Journal.

  • Length:
    • Aim for a length of 3-4000 words for articles (including all references).
    • 1-2000 words for case studies, interviews, book reviews.
    • 15-30 minutes for audio/video submissions (add citations on a separate file indicating the time of each citation).
  • The submission is not yet published or submitted for publishing in another publication.
  • You are the creator and owner of the content.
  • Use standard word processing software.
  • Provide hyperlinks for any available resources.
  • We encourage using text highlights like bold, italics, and underlining, emojis 😉, and visuals like figures and images (make sure you have the license for those).
  • Use APA citation style.
  • Avoid footnotes.1
  • After submission, authors will be notified if the editorial team plans to publish and if any changes need to be made.
  • The team has the right to make editorial changes but will allow the author to check the edits before publication.

Publication Checklist

Include this information/files when submitting your article.

  • Include a portrait of yourself as a separate file.
  • Add a short bio of no more than 100 words that introduces you to the audience.
  • Add an abstract of 100-200 words.
  • Give us 3-5 keywords that describe your article.
  • Under what email can you be reached?
  • Attach any media like 🖼️pictures, 🔈audio, or 🎞️videos that complement your article.
  • We encourage authors to introduce themselves in short videos and even record a presentation of their contribution as 🔈audio or 🎞️video, as we like to publish them alongside the written material.
  • Every contribution will be rated in its orality reliance level ranging from ■■■■■ to ■□□□□.
  • Submit everything to journal@oralitytalks.net.

Legal

Contributors agree to our terms:

  • Personal information (name, email, bio, photo) will be published as part of the article and will not be used for any other reason or shared with other third parties.
  • Accepted submissions will be published under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Authors retain the copyright of their original material.
  • Papers may also be submitted to other publications mentioning that the original work was published at OralityTalks and linking it to the original article. We encourage them to post their work on online repositories.
  1. Put everything in the main text body, please. ↩︎