INFORMATION
SHEET
FOR
BOOK REVIEWERS
The
typical book review in ROP runs from 900 to 1200 words. Reviews should
include a clear summary of the book's thought or argument and, equally
important, a critical assessment of the book in light of the existing
literature or some other useful frame of reference.
The
book review section is one of ROP's major strengths. Books
reviewed--about 60 per year--and reviewers are selected with care. Our hope is
to continue a tradition of book reviewing marked by excellence of both literary
style and analysis.
A
Review should be headed with a bibliographic citation for the book including
the author, title, location of publication, publisher, date, pages and price.
Note the following examples:
John Finnis, Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. and
Germain Grisez: Nuclear Deterrence, Morality, and Reality. (
Gregory S. Kavka: Moral Paradoxes of
Nuclear Deterrence. (
The
review should be typewritten (double space). All quotations must be brief and
left in the body of the text. Footnotes are not used in reviews; please incorporate
bibliographic references into the text itself, giving a full citation except
for the place of publication. All quotations from the book reviewed should be
followed by the page number from which they have been taken; for example, (p.
81). For further information regarding the requirements and traditions of
style, please check a back copy of ROP.
Place
your name at the end of the review exactly as you want it to appear. Please
submit your review via e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word document format to
e-mail Rop.Editor.1@nd.edu.
Submission
of a review to ROP will constitute your guarantee that the review has
not appeared or will not appear elsewhere unless released by ROP.
Relevant to our identification of contributors, please include in your
communication with us, a couple of sentences of current information on your
position and activities, and do inform ROP of any changes in position or
institutional affiliation prior to publication of your review.