About the Journal

Bigard Journal of Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal interested in original research mainly in Philosophy and other areas of Humanities in general. It accepts articles from all areas of philosophy, including critical cultural studies. The mission is to expand philosophical debate on all critical and rational issues facing humanity.

The journal publishes the following types of material:

  • Original research articles (including footnotes and references of less than 10,000 words but more than 4000 words). 
  • Topical Collections.
  • Discussion notes (of articles published in the journal).
  • Critical essays on recent books.
  • Book reviews 
  • Article symposia.  

Journal Type: Open access

The journal is owned by the Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria, an affiliate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome, Italy.

Author’s guideline

Manuscript Submission

The manuscript to be submitted must NOT have been published before; that is NOT under consideration for publication anywhere else; that all co-authors, if any, have approved its publication as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out; that is free from plagiarism of any sort. If there is any compensation claim, the publisher will not be held legally responsible.

Permissions

Authors who intend to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Otherwise, any of such material received will be presumed to have originated from the authors.

Online Submission

Please send your article to journalofphilosophy@bigardenugu.org 

Source Files

Regarding source files to be submitted at any point in time, please ensure that it is editable. Otherwise, the article will not be considered for review. Please always submit your manuscript in common Word processing formats such as .docx or LaTeX.

Editorial procedure

Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Therefore, the author/s must remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout peer review without revealing their identities.  

  • Author names, affiliations and any other potentially identifying information should be removed from the manuscript text and any accompanying files (such as figures of supplementary material);
  • A separate Title Page should be submitted, containing the title, author names, affiliations, and contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page; If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s).
  • Authors should avoid citing their own work in a way that could reveal their identity.

Book reviews

Unsolicited book reviews are not accepted for publication in the Bigard Journal of Philosophy. However, book reviews do not pass through the process of peer review. So, it ought not to be submitted anonymously.

Abstract

Please submit an abstract of between 200 to 300 words. The abstract should be uncomplicated containing no undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords

Please provide about 4 to 6 keywords that will be used for indexing purposes.

Text Formatting

The submitted manuscript should be in Word and PDF versions.

Abbreviations

Please use universally acceptable abbreviations, but define them at first mention and then use them consistently thereafter.

Citation

This will be compulsory when your article has been accepted for publication. However, it may be good if you adopt it before submission.

Footnote      

  • Book With Single Author When Quoted for the First Time:
  1. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, My Transition Hours (Kingwood: Ezekiel Books, 2018), 20.

*Immediate quotation of the same book, same page:

  1. Ibid.

**Immediate quotation of the same book, different page

  1. Ibid., 24

NB: Ibid can be used many times as long as it appears on the same page with the quotation referred to.

  • Use of ‘Short Form’ and ‘Ibid’ in Subsequent Cases.

            The “short form” is used in a subsequent quotation from the same source when there is/are intervening citation(s) from other sources. In this case also, ‘Ibid.’ can also be used to follow a Short Form. Thus,

  1. Aloysius O. Ezeoba, African Eschatology: Igbo Perspective (Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018), 22
  2. Jonathan, My Transition Hours, 30.
  3. Ibid.

 12.3. Book with Two or Three Authors

  1. Mick Gordon and Chris Wilkinson, Conversations on Religion (London: Continuum, 2008), 34.
  2. J. I. Otosileze, O. O. Eze, and Tom Inyiama, English for General and Special Purposes (Enugu: Snaap Press, 1994), 75.

12.4. Book with Four or More Authors

  1. Mary L. Gautier, et al., Same Call, Different Men: The Evolution of the Priesthood Since Vatican II (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2012), 76.

12.5. Translated or Edited Books[1]

  1. Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, trans. Katherine Jones (New York: Vintage Books, 1939), 47.
  2. Charles Sanders Peirce, The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, ed. P. Weioss (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931), 23.

12.6. Book with Editor in Place of Authors

  1. F. C. Ogbalu and E. N. Emenanjo, eds. Igbo Language and Culture (Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1975), 75.

NB: the author’s name is only abbreviated if it appears as such on the cover of the book cited. Otherwise, it is written in full always

12.7. Book Chapter in an Edited Work

  1. M. A. Onwuejeogwu, “Early Peopling and Cultural Diversity,” in A Survey of the Igbo Nation, ed. G. E. K. Ofomata (Onitsha: Africana First Publishers, 2002), 120.

 12.8. Journal Article, Hard Copy and Online Copy

  1. J. Obi Oguejiofor, “Ecclesia in Africa and the Truth about Inculturation,” Bigard Theological Studies 17, no. 1 (1997): 64.
  2. J. Obi Oguejiofor, “Ecclesia in Africa and the Truth about Inculturation,” Bigard Theological Studies 17, no. 1 (1997): 64, accessed Jan 12, 2007, http://www......

NB: there is no preposition ‘in’ before stating the name of the journal, contrary to what we see in the case of a book chapter

12.9. Short Form of Book Chapter and Journal Article

  1. Onwuejeogwu, “Early Peopling and Cultural Diversity,” 120.
  2. Oguejiofor, “Ecclesia in Africa and the Truth about Inculturation:” 64.

12.10. e-book (cf. Manual, 17.1.10)

  1. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, My Transition Hours (Kingwood: Ezekiel Books, 2018), 20, accessed June 30, 2018, http://www....

 12.11. Preface or Forward Written by Someone in Another Author’s Book (cf. Manual, 17.1.8.1).

  1. R. Pannikar, forward to Theological Approach to Understanding Religions, by Dominic Veliath (Bangalore: Kristu Jyoti College, 1987), vii.

 12.12. Publication of an Organization without Specified Author or Editor (use the name of the organization as author)

  1. American Bar Association, The 2010 Federal Rules Book (Chicago: American Bar Association, 2010), 225.
  • Magazine article (Hard Copy and Online Copy)
  1. Cyriacus Arinze Nnadi, “Family Roles at the Crossroads: Tracing the Bearings to Youth Development,” The Thinker 25, 2017-2018, 47.
  2. Cyriacus Arinze Nnadi, “Family Roles at the Crossroads: Tracing the Bearings to Youth Development,” The Thinker 25, 2017-2018, 47, accessed on June 20, 2018, http:/www….

 12.14. Newspaper

  1. Cyriacus Arinze Nnadi, “Family Roles at the Crossroads: Tracing the Bearings to Youth Development,” Newswatch, June 25, 2017, 47.

12.15. Classical Works

  1. Augustine, City of God, bk 3, ch. 4.
  2. Plato, The Republic, bk. V.
  3. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theology, bk. II, a. 3, q. 7.

12.16. Classical Work Published as Modern Book

  1. Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, bk. 1, ch. 3, art. 4 (83), in The Works of Josephus, trans. William Whiston (Pealody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers Inc., 1987), 33.
  2. Vatican II, Sacrosanctum concilium, n. 14, in Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents, ed. Austin Flannery (Bandra, St Pauls, 2001), 27.

12.17. Encyclopedia and Dictionary (Hard Copy and Online Copy).[2]

  1. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 15th ed., s.v. “Covenant.”
  2. Advanced English Learners Dictionary, 5th ed., s.v. “Intentionality.”
  3. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 15th ed., s.v. “Covenant,” accessed May 30, 2017, http://www...
  4. Advanced English Learners Dictionary, 5th ed., s.v. “Intentional,” accessed on May 30, 2018, http://www....

12.18. Unpublished Thesis, Dissertation or Memoir

  1. Jude Ndubuisi, “Place of the Holy Spirit in the Modern World” (Bachelor Degree Project, Bl. Tansi Seminary Onitsha, 2018), 35.

12.19. Lecture Notes and Seminar Papers

  1. Humphrey Ani, “The Epistemology of Lonergan” (lecture note, Bigard Memorial Seminary Enugu, May 20, 2019), 5.
  2. Ikejiani Clerk, “The Igbo Worldview” (paper presented at a Conference organized by the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka, September 3-7, 1986), 5.

12.20. Interviews

  1. Oke Ezeh, interview by Ani John, Enugu, September 4, 2018.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

            Bibliography refers to the list of books and other sources that the researcher consulted in the course of the work. Below is a variety of sources that the researcher can use in the memoir or long essay, and how they should be documented in the bibliography.

  • Book with Single Author When Quoted for the First Time:

Jonathan, Goodluck Ebele. My Transition Hours. Kingwood: Ezekiel Books, 2018.

  • Books with Two or Three Authors.

Gordon, Mick and Chris Wilkinson. Conversation on Religion. London:     Continuum, 2008.

Otosileze, J. I., O. O. Eze, and Tom Inyiama. English for General and Special             Purposes. Enugu: Snaap Press, 1994.

  • Books with Four or More Authors

Gautier, Mary L. et al. Same Call, Different Men: The Evolution of the Priesthood             Since Vatican II. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2012.

NB: i. When the entry is long, the bibliography is indented on the second line (and any subsequent lines); ii. When there is more than one author, only the first author’s names are reversed in the bibliography; ii. When there are four or more authors, only the first author is listed with the phrase ‘et al.’

  • Translated and Edited Books.

Freud, Sigmund. Moses and Monotheism.  Translated by Katherine Jones. New     York: Vintage Books, 1939.

Peirce, Charles Sanders. The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Edited by P. Weioss. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931.

NB: In the bibliography, the translator or editor’s names are not reversed. They are written as in the footnote, that is, first name before surname.

  • Book with Editor(s) in Place of Authors

Ogbalu, F. C. and E. N. Emenanjo. Eds. Igbo Language and Culture. Ibadan:             Oxford University       Press, 1975.

NB: the author’s name is only abbreviated if it appears as such on the cover of the book cited. Otherwise, it is written in full always

  • Book Chapter in an Edited Work.

Onwuejeogwu, M. A. “Early Peopling and Cultural Diversity.” In A Survey of the Igbo Nation. Edited by. G. E. K. Ofomata, 117-130. Onitsha: Africana First        Publishers, 2002.

Note that the bibliography lists the pages covered by the article or chapter in the edited book quoted. The same is true for a bibliography of journal articles.

  • Journal Article, Hard Copy and Online Copy

Oguejiofor, J. Obi. “Ecclesia in Africa and the Truth about Inculturation.” Bigard Theological Studies 17, no. 1 (1997): 61-70.

Oguejiofor, J. Obi. “Ecclesia in Africa and the Truth about Inculturation.” Bigard Theological Studies 17, no. 1 (Jan-Jun 1997): 61-70. Accessed Jan 12, 2007. http://www......

  • e-book (cf. Manual, 17.1.10)

Jonathan, Goodluck Ebele. My Transition Hours. Kingwood: Ezekiel Books, 2018.             Accessed June 30,       2018, http://www....

  • Preface or Forward in Another Author’s Book (Cf. Manual, 17.1.8.1)

Pannikar, R. Forward to Theological Approach to Understanding Religions, by             Dominic Veliath.         Bangalore: Kristu Jyoti College, 1987.

  • Publication of an Organization Without Specified Author or Editor (Use the Name of the Organization as Author)

American Bar Association, The 2010 Federal Rules Book. Chicago: American Bar             Association, 2010.

  • Magazine, Newspaper, Encyclopedia, Dictionary, and Classical Work.

            Do not include magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and classical work in the bibliography, except if it is critical to your work or frequently cited in the work.

  • Classical Work Published as Modern Book

Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews, bk. 1, ch. 3, art. 4 (83). In The Works of             Josephus Translated by William Whiston. Pealody, MA: Hendrickson             Publishers Inc., 1987.

Vatican II, Sacrosanctum concilium, n. 14. In Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents, edited by Austin Flannery Bandra, St Pauls, 2001.

  • Unpublished Thesis or Dissertation or Memoir.

Ndubuisi, Jude. “Place of the Holy Spirit in the Modern World.” Bachelor Degree Project, Bl. Tansi Seminary Onitsha, 2018.

  • Lecture Notes and Seminar Papers.

Ani, Humphrey. “The Epistemology of Lonergan.” Lecture note, Bigard Memorial             Seminary Enugu, May 20, 2019.

Clerk, Ikejiani. “The Igbo Worldview.” Paper presented at a Conference organized by the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka, September        3-7, 1986.

Footnotes

Footnotes, instead of endnotes, can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.

Contact

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Phone: 07040355364; 08033454682

E-Mail: journalofphilosophy@bigardenugu.org

[1] In the bibliography, translator or editor’s names are not reversed. They are written as in the footnote, that is, first name before surname.

[2] s.v. means ‘sub verbo’ – under the word – that is, the word or theme you studied in the dictionary or encyclopedia.