As part of the submission process, authors are required to click off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items. Submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

All submissions must meet the following requirements:

• The author(s) must peruse all the specifications outlined in the author guidelines. They must be aware of the article processing costs which are R8,000.00 per article and are payable before the article is published.
• The submission should not be previously published, and should not be submitted to another journal for consideration (except when an explanation has been provided to the Editor-in-Chief).
• The submission file must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• All referencing follows the adapted Harvard style of the JSR. Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references must be provided.
• The text must be typed in 1.5 space; Times New Roman; 12-pitch font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses and DOIs); while all illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text must adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• For empirical research, authors are required to submit an ethical clearance letter received from their institution to do the research they have undertaken for their manuscript. For authors who have not received ethical clearance from their institutions, proof of consent from research participants is required. There may be instances where empirical research has been done but ethical clearance was not required. If this is the case the authors are requested to submit a short note explaining why ethical clearance was not required for their empirical study.
• The author(s) must ensure that the article falls within the journal’s scope. The journal’s main area of interest is the phenomenological and comparative study of the diversity of religions, religious traditions, and the religious movements and formations of Southern Africa. Since we foster the equal recognition of all religions, research on the prevalence, relevance, and practicing of World Religions in both local and global contexts is also encouraged. Research contributions may focus on any of the dimensions of religion, religiously shared, or specific values, and the historical and/or current problematization and contextualization of religions or religious discourse. Articles that primarily or only focus on theology or exegetical religious text studies will not be accepted for publication.
• Author(s) must submit a Turnitin or iThenticate report with their manuscript. The JSR follows the UJ Press plagiarism policy.

For more details, please refer to https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/plagiarism