THE JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS ISSN 1076-9005 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) GENERAL EDITORS Damien Keown (Goldsmiths, London) and Charles S.Prebish (Penn State) TECHNICAL EDITOR Wayne R. Husted (Penn State) CONSULTING EDITOR Stan Dunn (Rutgers) BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Mavis Fenn (St. Paul's College, Waterloo, Ontario) AREA BOOK REVIEW EDITORS Martin Baumann (University of Hannover) Ian Harris (St Martin's, Lancaster) Chuck Jones (Catholic University of America) Roy Perrett (University of Otago) COPY EDITOR Carla Deicke Grady HTML EDITOR Gawaine J. Banks (Northwest Missouri State University) EDITORIAL BOARD Masao Abe (Nara) George Bond (Northwestern) David Chappell (Hawaii) Lance Cousins (Manchester) Richard Gombrich (Oxford) Charles Hallisey (Harvard) Ian Harris (St Martins, Lancaster) Peter Harvey (Sunderland) Richard Hayes (McGill) Christopher Ives (Puget Sound) Leslie Kawamura (Calgary) Winston King (Emeritus, Vanderbilt) Kenneth Kraft (Lehigh University) William LaFleur (U.Pennsylvania) Karen Lang (Virginia) Reginald Ray (Colorado) Lambert Schmithausen (Hamburg) Robert Thurman (Columbia) Paul Williams (Bristol) 1. HOW DO I CONTACT THE JOURNAL? Send an email message to jbe-ed@psu.edu 2. HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE TO THE JOURNAL? Send an email message as follows: To: listserv@lists.psu.edu Subject: (leave blank) -------------------------- Subscribe JBE-L (your name here) Example: Subscribe JBE-L JANE DOE 3. HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THE JOURNAL? 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Both addresses are given below, with the USA address first. http:/jbe.la.psu.edu/jbe/jbe.html or http://www.gold.ac.uk/jbe/jbe.html 2) Anonymous FTP ============= ftp.cac.psu.edu in the directory /pub/jbe or scorpio.gold.ac.uk in the directory /pub/jbe 8. I AM THINKING OF SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE. IS THERE A STYLE GUIDE? Yes. Please see the file STYLE.TXT. 9. HOW DO I SEND YOU MY ARTICLE? Questions of this kind are addressed in further detail in the file STYLE.TXT, available from our sites. In brief, all you need do is upload your wordprocessor file to us as an attachment to an email message. Any popular wordprocessor format (PC or Mac) is acceptable, as is plain ASCII text. Alternatively you could send the file to us on a floppy disk. We do not accept material on paper other than in exceptional circumstances. 10. ARE SUBMISSIONS PEER-REVIEWED? Yes. Articles submitted for publication are sent to a minimum of two referees for blind review. 11. HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO PUBLISH AN ARTICLE AFTER I SEND IT IN? On average not more than four to eight weeks. 12. I AM AN ACADEMIC BASED IN THE UK. DOES ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION COUNT IN THE RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE? Yes. The funding councils have stated that paper and electronic publications will be assessed on an equal basis. Further details are available at http://www.gold.ac.uk/history/hyperjournal/rae.htm. 13. WHAT FORMAT IS USED FOR PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES? Up to and including volume 2, the official version of our articles was in plain ASCII text. From volume 3 onwards the journal's official publication format is Adobe Acrobat. An HTML version of all publications is also produced for the convenience of subscribers, but this does not show page numbers and may lack diacritics. Only the official versions should be used for citation purposes. 14. HOW DO I GET PRINTED COPIED OF THE ARTICLES TO READ? This depends on whether you have downloaded an ASCII file from volumes 1 and 2, or an Adobe Acrobat file from volume 3 onwards. ASCII FILES Once you have downloaded the ASCII file, run your wordprocessor and give the command to open an existing file. Set the file type to ASCII (may also be listed as "DOS Text" or "text file") and type the filename of the article you wish to read (e.g. Harris.txt). The article will then appear on your screen like a normal wordprocessor document, and can be printed out. ADOBE ACROBAT FILES Adobe Acrobat files are stored in the PDF format ("Portable Document Format"). You need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print them.(Note: the Reader is available free from many internet sites such as http://www.adobe.com). Instructions on how to obtain and configure it are provided on the journal's Home Page under "Publications in Adobe Acrobat format). Once you have the Reader installed (PC, MAC and UNIX versions are available), Download the PDF file you wish to read or print (e.g. King.PDF) from the Journal's site, and open it in the Acrobat Reader. 15. DOES IT MATTER WHETHER I USE A PC OR A MAC? No. Either will read ASCII files or Adobe Acrobat files. 16. I WISH TO CITE A JBE ARTICLE IN A PAPER I AM WRITING. HOW DO I GIVE THE REFERENCE? Quote the page numbers, volume and year just as you would in the case of a paper journal. Example: King, Winston L. 1995. "Judeo-Christian and Buddhist Justice", _Journal of Buddhist Ethics_ 2:67-82. September 9 1997