COMMUNIO VIATORUM
Communio viatorum publishes original studies, articles, and book reviews in English, German, and French. Authors whose mother tongue is not the language of their submitted article are kindly asked to have it proofread by a native speaker.
As of 2024, the journal Communio Viatorum has transitioned to an open-access publication, issued by Charles University Karolinum Press.
Submissions
Submissions should be sent electronically to the editorial address: cv@etf.cuni.cz in text format doc, docx or rtf.
Review policy
All studies and articles published in Communio viatorum must be relevant to the journal’s professional focus and successfully pass a double blind peer-review process. The editorial board reserves the right to decide on the relevance of a submitted text. To be admitted to the peer review process, the paper must not have been previously published, must not be simultaneously submitted to another journal, and must adhere to the author guidelines. The editors send an anonymized version of the paper to two independent experts for review. Upon receipt of the reviews, the editors inform the author of the outcome (acceptance without reservations, acceptance with reservations, or rejection). In the case of acceptance with reservations, the author is invited to respond to the reviewers’ recommendations and to revise the manuscript accordingly.
Author proofreading
Before publication, authors will receive typeset proofs for final review. At this stage, only minor changes to the text are permitted. Authors are expected to proofread their texts carefully and return them promptly to the editor.
Survey and articles
The normal length of the article is 20 000 to 40 000 characters, including spaces and footnotes. The possibility of larger texts should be consulted with the editors.
The submission must be structured as follows:
– Title in the language of the article
– Author(s) name(s) and addresses (full name, institutional affiliation, postal address and e-mail address)
– Title in English if the article is not in English
– Abstract in English: 800–1000 characters
– Keywords in English: 4 to 6 words
– The main text: it is recommended to divide it into sections marked with a heading. Headings are not numbered. For footnotes, the automatic function of the word processor is used. The prescribed citation style (see below) should be followed.
Book reviews
The normal length of the review is 6000 to 15 000 characters including footnotes.
The submission must be structured as follows:
– Title: consists of the bibliographic data of the book under review in the following form: author’s name and surname: title of the book, place of publication: publisher, year, number of pages. ISBN XXX.
– Main text
– Author(s) name(s) and addresses (full name, institutional affiliation, postal address and e-mail address)
References to the book under review are given directly in the text in round brackets; references to other books and articles are placed in footnotes.
Text format
In your manuscript, use the default paragraph style (Times New Roman, 12 pt font). Do not use bold font. Italics may be used to emphasize important concepts and foreign terms.
Quotations are indicated by quotation marks, not italics.
Hierarchy of quotation marks: “quote ‘embedded quote’ continuation of the main quote”.
For quotations in Hebrew, Greek, Coptic, or Syriac, please use the SBL fonts or the SP Legacy fonts available for download from: https://www.sbl-site.org/educational/biblicalfonts.aspx.
Footnotes should be formatted in Times New Roman, 10 pt. font. The first footnote, linked to the article title, could indicate the relevant program or project associated with the text.
Please distinguish between a dash (–) and a hyphen (-). The dash is used e.g. between page numbers, the hyphen in compound words.
Examples of citation style
References to the bibliography are given in the footnotes. No summary bibliography follows a text. The full bibliographic reference is to be given at the first occurrence, the abbreviated form at the next one(s). If the cited document has a DOI, is is to be mentioned as the last item in the footnote.
The bibliography in footnotes should be formatted as follows:
Monographs
Juan Luis Segundo, The Liberation of Theology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1976).
Subsequent references following immediately could use: Ibid., 100–110, or a shortenedform: Segundo, Liberation of Theology, 100–110.
Edited works
Stephen Bevans and Katalina Tahaafe-Williams (eds.), Contextual Theology for the Twenty-First Century (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011).
Subsequent references: Ibid.,100–110, or: Bevans and Tahaafe-Williams (eds.), Contextual Theology, 100–110.
A chapter from a book
John Caputo, “Apostles of the Impossible: On God and the Gift in Derrida and Marion,” in John Caputo and Michael Scanlon (eds.). God, the Gift and Postmodernism (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999), 185–222.
Subsequent references: Ibid., 207–209, or: Caputo, “Apostles,” 207–09.
An article in a journal
Petr Macek, “God end Evil in Process Theism,” Communio viatorum 66:2 (2024), 94–106. DOI: 10.14712/30296374.2024.10.
Subsequent reference: Ibid., 100–102, or: Macek, “God and Evil,” 147–48.
Internet sources
Raúl E. Zegarra, “Context-Attentive Theology: On the Rearticulation of Experience in Theological Inquiry”, Open Theology 10:1 (2024), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2024-0019, or if no DOI is available, please provide the website of the text: https://journals.scholarsportal.info/details/23006579/v10i0001/nfp_ctotroeiti.xml (accessed 11. 11. 2024).
Subsequent reference: Ibid., 20240019, or: Zegarra, “Context-Attentive Theology,” 20240019.
Open access policy
Communio viatorum is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available on the journal’s website. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, or link to the full text of articles in this journal, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without needing prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Copyright notice
The journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License to articles and other works we publish. If you submit your paper for publication by Communio viatorum, you agree to have the CC BY license applied to your work. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions.
Author fees and honoraria
The journal does not charge any fees for accepting the articles, having them peer reviewed, editorially processed, and published. However, authors do not receive honoraria for their contributions. Each author receives one author’s copy.
