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2013 Two-part Festschrift for Roger Omanson 64/1 April 2013 Stine & Towner Bascom Zogbo Clark Ellingworth Sipil Porter Bullard

64/2 August 2013 Crisp Ebojo Schenker Lind Winedt Soesilo (Omanson)

From whom do papers come? Articles in TBT Queue

Persons present GBT BT Partners Others

Redressing the balance We welcome/invite/encourage papers from nBS TOs Papers in your specialist area Papers arising from your practice

If you are not confident in the form or langauge required, discuss with your mentor Also welcom from partners and wider BT community

Technical and Practical Technical = 6000 words, footnotes and full reference list Practical = 4000 words, limited reference list Of the 25 articles in queue 2 are inherently Practial Papers 4 are adaptable to PP form 19 are inherently Technical Papers

SO... Practical queue is much shorter!!

Good Practical Papers Narrative History Personal or Communal or Project focussed

Linguistic Survey, Planning, Dialects etc.

Biblical/Exegetical/Translation Issues Identify an issue Survey information available Propose solution/s or principles

Submitting Papers

How to help your editors... Download and use the Style Guide! Submit article as Word, and if using unusual fonts, images, graphics etc., also a PDF to show what you want it to look like

Each manuscript should include i. Title page with full title and subtitle (if any) ii. A separate sheet giving full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus short biographical note. This sheet will not be included in the copy sent to peer reviewers. iii. An abstract of 100-150 words. iv. Up to 10 key words

Peer Review Single Editorial Board De Vries, Harmelink, Heeg, Hermanson, Johnson, Meadowcroft, Miller-Naud, Ogden, Scholz, van der Merwe, Wendland

When necessary other specialists Two reviewers do blind peer review Third if necessary to break a tie!

Special Issues? LXX and Bible Translation Dialect, Language planning and Bible Translation Translation Studies and the Practice of Bible Translation

YOU MAY BEGIN WRITING!