Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

JPC&C publishes articles such as the following.

  • Concrete and detailed reports of significant areas of pastoral/spiritual care work, with discussion
  • Research Studies of importance to the pastoral/spiritual care mission of religious communities
  • Articles advancing understanding of the practice of Clinical Pastoral Education and Pastoral Counselling/Psychotherapy
  • Articles that explore the distinctive as well as the common characteristics of Ministry/Spiritual Care in relation to other helping professions and/or institutions
  • Reflections and Poetry relevant to the practice of pastoral care and counseling
  • Book Reviews and Notes
  • Pastoral Abstracts
  • Continuing Education Quizzes

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Unchecked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Brief Communications

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Personal Reflections

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Invited Commentary

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Verbatim

Verbatim to generate professional growth and reflection

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Poems

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

In The Media

Editors
  • Florence Gelo
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews and Notes

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Pastoral Abstracts

Editors
  • W. Brown
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Continuing Education Quiz

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Full article submissions receive peer review by three reviewers. Reviewers consider the content and style of all submissions with particular attention to the author's familiarity with current literature and trends in the field. Reviewers also focus on the new and novel nature of this contribution to the field. Reviews are typically complete within three to six weeks from formal acknowledgement of the receipt of submission.

 

Publication Frequency

Journal items are published collectively, as part of an issue with its own Table of Contents. Issues are published online in mid-March, mid-June, mid-September, and mid-December. Double issue Print versions (identical content) are provided to subscribers requiring same in early August and early February.

 

Author Self-Archiving

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 


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