How to Submit a Manuscript

Instructions to the Author

A submitted manuscript should be categorized by the author as original or review material. Authors are advised to do an Internet search on material relevant to their topics, and state clearly what they are adding to knowledge that is easily available to an educated lay person.

In discussing a relationship between topics, the mere placing of various pieces of information next to each other does not consist of itself a worthy publication. A meaningful connection has to be established between them.

The author must be fair with the reader by giving full traceable disclosure of the sources used. References should relate as much as possible to objective original material, not to subjective quotations from the author’s earlier works. Out-of-context quotes from secondary sources are not useful; citations from encyclopedias (including Wikipedia) should be avoided; newspapers and other media are not acceptable sources. Internet addresses might not be valid by the time the reader looks for them.

A balanced presentation should include detrimental facts and conflicting opinions, giving them due significance and mentioning their relative importance in mainstream viewpoints. Difficulties should be mentioned and discussed, not just disregarded or brushed aside. A one–sided approach is unfair to the reader.

3,000 words is the maximum limit for a manuscript, including a mandatory 200- word abstract.

The abstract is a self-contained summary of the main content of the manuscript. It should outline the main thrust of the presentation, explaining in a few sentences what the authors feel the paper achieves. The reader should be able to understand what the paper is about from reading the abstract alone.

Bibliography

Bht uses the author-date bibliographic form for references. Within the text of the manuscript, the author’s/s’ surname/s and the date of the reference source is placed in parentheses immediately after the discussion. At the end of the manuscript a References section lists all the works referred to in alphabetical order of the authors’ surnames. For a book reference, after the author and date include the title of the book, city of publication, publisher, and page numbers. If the reference is a chapter in an anthology, include the editor’s name/s and the volume title after the author/s and title of the chapter. For a translated work, include the name/s of translator/s. For journal articles, after the author and date include the article title, the journal title, volume and issue numbers, and page numbers.

All manuscripts must be submitted in two double-spaced typewritten copies or, preferably, sent by e-mail as a Word document or PDF file attachment. Please send all contributions to:

The Jerusalem College of Technology
Attn: Batsheva Binyamin
Administrator, B'OR HA'TORAH
POB 16031
Jerusalem 91160, Israel
Or to: Ilana Attia
Managing Editor
info@borhatorah.org
Tel./fax 972–2–642–7521