Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture

All manuscripts must be in the English language. On extremely rare occasions, we may be persuaded to run an article in more than one language, only after the English version has been accepted.

Articles normally range from 3,000 to 9,000 words and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. The editors prefer the documentary-note or humanities style over the author-date system or social-science style. Double-spacing, including endnotes, is mandatory.

Submissions should be in Word or PDF, sent via email attachment to the editors. If accepted a copy in Word is required.

Submissions should be prepared according to prevailing academic standards, including citation of sources and quotations.

The contributor’s name should appear only on page 1, then the title and manuscript begin on page 2.

Please number the manuscript pages consecutively in the upper-right-hand corner.

The editors prefer electronic submissions. Please e-mail submissions to logos@stthomas.edu.

If sending by mail, please send two copies of the manuscript to the editors at:

LOGOS
The University of St. Thomas 
2115 Summit Ave., Mail #55-S 
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096 

Please do not send the only existing copy of your work.

Multiple submissions 
The editors assume that your essay is not being simultaneously considered for publication in other journals.

Required Information 
All submissions should be preceded by a header containing the title of the material, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers.

Author’s proofs 
Once your article is scheduled to appear in an issue, you will be notified about the tentative schedule. Uncorrected author’s proofs along with your copyedited manuscript will be sent to you approximately six weeks before publication. You should give these prompt attention and provide the editors with corrections. Extensive revision, however, will not be possible at that stage.

Complimentary copies 
In lieu of offprints, you will be provided two copies of the issue of LOGOS in which your article appears.

1. Please submit your article for blind review. Make sure that your name does not appear anywhere on your submission except for the header page. Check that your manuscript is double-spaced (including block quotations and endnotes), and that you have included page numbers.

2. Check that endnotes are used. Do not use footnotes. Type all endnotes at the end of the manuscript following the last page of text. See the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, pages 593–754 for a complete review of documentation and notes.

3. Check endnote style: it should be according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. For example:

Book:

• Walker Percy, The Message in the Bottle (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), 258-64.

-or-

• Theodore W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin, The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940, ed. Henri Lonitz, trans. Nicholas Walker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).

Article:

• Kathleen Scullin, "Reading the Life of Walker Percy," Logos 1, no. 4 (1998): 30-33.

Second citation when it immediately follows the first*:

• Ibid., 264.

Second citation when it does not immediately follow the first

• Percy, Message, 259.

Do not use op. cit. or loc. cit. Frequently cited works by the same author (e.g., in a literary study) may use abbreviations in the text, with full titles at first appearance.

* Use and overuse of ibid. When a number of successive references are made to a single work, the full reference may be shortened by the use of page or line references, with or without abbreviations, placed in parentheses in the text, with full citations provided in an endnote at the first mention. See the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, sections 16.36-16.58, pp. 602-607.

4. Read and compare your electronic version to your hard copy. Check that they match exactly.

Submissions are promptly recorded, forwarded to the editors, and an acknowledgment is sent to the author(s).  Decisions regarding an article take about 3-4 months.

LOGOS will be copyrighted by its publishers, unless notified by an author. Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to LOGOS the right to publish the text both electronically and as printed matter, and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive. We request that authors not make their articles available on free sites such as ResearchGate and Academia for six months after publication. The editors will routinely grant gratis permission to reproduce our pages for classroom or other noncommercial uses. Publishers wishing to reprint material from LOGOS will be given your most recent address from our files and advised that it is their responsibility to notify the author to obtain the necessary permissions. Conversely, the editors would be grateful if you would extend the courtesy of notifying us of subsequent reprints, inclusion in anthologies, and other uses of work that originally appeared in LOGOS.