Please submit manuscripts with a separate cover sheet, seeing that your name appears nowhere else in the body of the paper, in order to facilitate blind peer-reviewing. Articles should be in the ballpark of 6,500-8,000 words (inclusive of footnotes).

Unsolicited book reviews will be considered, although most will be invited (and you may also ask to be invited). Book reviews should be in the ballpark of 3,000 words. Review essays can run up to 5,000 words.  Discussion Notes can run up to 3,000 words.

Please use footnotes rather than endnotes, and follow Chicago Manual of Style.  Any submissions not in Chicago style will be returned to the author for re-formatting.  (For book reviews, use internal citation style.)  Please use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced.  Since all citation information will be contained within footnotes, no separate bibliography or works cited page is necessary.

Sample footnotes:

Article
1. John Smith, “Virtue Ethics,” Virtue Studies 25, no. 2 (1990), pp. 112-42.

Book
2. John Smith, Virtue Ethics (New York: Eudaimon Press, 2011).

Anthology
3. John Smith, “Virtue and Liberty,” in Human Flourishing, ed. Janet Miller (New York: Eudaimon Press, 2011), pp. 125-57.

If you must use paper mail, please submit two copies, double-spaced and printed in Times New Roman 12-point font, and if at all possible accompanied by a copy on flash drive. Click here for the address.

If you want to email a submission to reasonpapers@gmail.com (the preferred submission mode), you may attach Word files or WordPerfect files in most versions, and we’ll almost certainly be able to open it, but we reserve the right to complain if we have trouble.