Submitting Articles & Images:
Perspective encourages all interested parties to submit articles, opinions, poems, artwork, photography, and other types of entries. These may focus on general scholarship and teaching or reflect individual projects and proposals. We also invite readers to respond to ideas presented in previous issues through letters, book reviews, and rebuttals.
Potential contributors may submit articles and visual entries (in both hard copy and electronic file format) to any member of the editorial board. Please include a short (100 words or less) biographical sketch.
Style Guide:
To the extent you can, please observe the Chicago Manual of Style,15th edition, using endnote format, and including full bibliographic information.
- For books: author's full name; full title (including subtitle); editor or translator; edition (if not the first) and/or volume number; series title if applicable; city, publisher, and date; page number or inclusive page numbers.
- For periodicals: author's full name, full title of article (including subtitle), title of periodical, volume, issue number, date, and page reference. Include a URL for Internet sources.
- For scriptural references: standard parenthetical format without abbreviation.
Here are some examples in context.
Citing a scripture and a book:
A third challenge to Christianity, almost opposite to that of persecution, particularly in maintaining doctrinal purity, was the temptation for Christians, who are supposed to be peculiar (1 Peter 2:9), to give in to culture creep or assimilation. Early Christian apologists discussed this issue often. Tertullian, for example, believed that Christians should have nothing to do with Greco-Roman culture.14
Notes:
14. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., The Ante-Nicene
Fathers, vol. 3 (Grand Rapids Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company, 1989), 246.
Citing a periodical:
The need for BYU-Idaho students to go abroad and increase their language competency and cultural awareness was acknowledged as early as the implementation of the Chinese associate degree program at Ricks College.2
Notes:
2. Research suggests that in situ study is indispensable for Chinese
language students. See Cornelius C. Kubler, "Study Abroad as an
Integral Part of the Chinese Language Curriculum," Journal of the
Chinese Language Teachers Association 32:3 (1997): 15-30.
