Submissions

Author Guidelines

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

General Guidelines on the Preparation of Manuscripts

1. All manuscripts submitted to Scientia: The International Journal on the Liberal Arts must be original contributions and that the submission has neither been previously published, nor it is before another journal for consideration;
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format;
3. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end;
4. Where available, URLs for the references should be provided in the manuscripts.

Length of the Manuscripts

For a Journal Article:

1. Manuscripts are expected to have between 6,000 – 9,000 words including notes, abstract, and list of references;
2. Manuscripts must also be accompanied by an abstract of 200-250 words, the author’s institutional affiliation, and five keywords.

For Book Reviews:

1. Manuscripts for book reviews are expected to have between 1,500-2,000 words;
2. Several books may be reviewed in one continuous essay i.e. Review Essay of 3,000-4,000 words;
3. Essential parts of the book reviews are as follows:

• Background of the author of the book;
• Main arguments discussed in the book;
• Context and key points of the arguments;
• Contribution of the author and/or the material;
• Review of the structure of the arguments, facts, data, analysis, and/or methodology employed by the author;
• Conclusion and critical appraisal.

Citation Guidelines

1. The journal adheres to the author-date form found in the University of Chicago Manual of Styles (17^th ed);
2. Extended quotations from works written in languages other than English should be translated to English in the manuscript’s quotations.  Quotations longer than four lines should be italicized, indented, and without quotations marks;
3. Titles of books and periodicals should be italicized.  Titles of articles should be enclosed in quotation marks and not underlined or italicized.  Arabic numerals should ordinarily be used for all volume numbers of printed books, journals, and manuscripts;
4. Do not use ibid. or op.cit. in footnotes.  Use the author’s last name or, in case of more than one work by the same author, the author’s last name and a key word from the work’s title;
5. It is the responsibility of the author to secure written permission to use any images they propose to accompany their manuscripts;
6. Samples can be accessed through.

Guidelines to the Authors to the Review Process

1. Scientia: The International Journal on Liberal Arts follows the double-blind-peer-review policy to all qualified manuscripts;
2. Since the journal policy is blind-review, all information in the main text that provide the identity of the author of the manuscript must be removed to the body, notes, and the document description of the file;
3. Decisions to the submitted manuscripts will be provided by the Editorial Board based on the review process (link of the review process) 3-5 months after receipt of the manuscript by the Editorial Board. Decisions can be unconditional acceptance (accepted without need for revision), conditional acceptance (minor revisions), or rejection of the manuscript;
4. Whatever the result based on the aforementioned, the Editorial Board immediately informs the author.  In case of conditional acceptance (with minor revisions), the authors should integrate the revisions suggested and give the edited manuscript back to the Editorial Board within 3-4 weeks after receipt of the feedback.  Failure to do so may mean deferral of publication of the manuscript.

Manuscript Submissions:

Manuscripts may be submitted using any of the platforms below:

1. Submission to Login, or Register.
2. Electronic mail submission to mangeles@sanbeda.edu.ph or sbuscientia@sanbeda.edu.ph.