Instructions for contributors:

The Enneagram Journal, a publication produced by the International Enneagram Association, features the latest and best in Enneagram writing, theory, and research.

The Enneagram Journal welcomes manuscripts pertaining to Enneagram work, including original research, and theoretical or critical pieces in the areas of spirituality, psychology and psychotherapy, business applications, the arts, education, health care, and innovative applications.   The Enneagram Journal invites all voices and points of view within the Enneagram community and endeavors to preserve high intellectual standards within the context of a lively, creative, interchange.

Submissions (excluding research articles) will be evaluated in terms of originality, quality of thinking and writing, accuracy (where appropriate), coherence, contribution to the community, and ethical presentation. Submissions should include source citations and a bibliography or reference section.

Research articles will be evaluated according to academic rigor and adherence to scientific method (where appropriate), originality, quality of thinking and writing, coherence, contribution to the community, and ethical presentation.

Ordinarily (unless a compelling argument is made), data- or text-based research articles must follow specific guidelines depending upon method. Quantitative manuscripts should adhere to conventions and report appropriate statistics. Qualitative research should articulate the standards employed to assure the quality and verification of the interpretation presented.

Manuscripts must not have been published elsewhere in a peer review journal or be currently under consideration for any other peer review publication. Manuscripts published in other places may be considered. Manuscripts are evaluated by blind review, so author identification must be removed from all pages except the   title page, which is retained by the editor.

Please submit   a copy of the manuscript as a Word document via email along with the title page with authors’ contact information and biography in a separate document as described below.   An electronic version is the only version required. Do not identify the author(s) except on the title page, which should be a separate document. Please put the lead author’s first name in the subject heading of the document title.

Please put your name, telephone number, email address, and mailing address on the separate title page with a 35-50-word professional biography. Articles should be no longer than 6000 words, including references, appendices, endnotes, tables, and figures, and book reviews should be no longer than 1500 words. Please type all manuscripts double-spaced in Courier 12 and leave margins of at least 1 inch on all sides, with an 8.5 x 11 inch format. All manuscripts should be in final form, including references and should be in APA format (see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for APA format).   We will review all manuscripts on the basis of style, content, and adherence to high ethical standards in the treatment and communication of the Enneagram.

Please send to:

• Sandy Hatmaker at the IEA office at administration@internationalenneagram.org.

Absolutely no electronic versions should be submitted in .pdf format.

Manuscripts meriting review will be read anonymously by three referees. In most cases, authors can expect decisions within 2 months.   The final deadline for the July 2010 issue will be March 31, 2010.

Publication of any submissions will be at the discretion of The Enneagram Journal editorial board. Because one purpose of The Enneagram Journal is to foster interesting and productive discourse, the editorial board also reserves the right to publish commentaries on published manuscripts in the same or subsequent issues or in online forums.   Authors of accepted manuscripts will be asked to email the entire manuscript, plus cover page, to our copy editor, who will review any major changes with the authors before going to press. Authors are responsible for organization, clarity, and conciseness; for all statements made in their work; for ensuring confidentiality in case material.

Authors are obliged to identify any use or incorporation of any material subject to any third-party copyright upon submission of the manuscript and to obtain licensing or other permission necessary for publication of any incorporated third-party copyrighted material in The Enneagram Journal.   Copyright for original works accepted and published in The Enneagram Journal will be shared equally by the authors and the International Enneagram Association and subject to mutual licensing for republication.