What We Are
EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly) is a professional journal serving the worldwide missions community. EMQ articles reflect missionary life, thought and practice. Each issue includes articles, book reviews, editorials and letters. Subjects are related to worldwide mission and evangelism efforts and include: successful ministries, practical ideas, new tactics and strategies, trends in world evangelization, church planting and discipleship, health and medicine, literature and media, education and training, relief and development and missionary family life.

Our Purpose
The purpose of EMQ is to increase the effectiveness of the evangelical missionary enterprise by:

• providing a forum for communicating new concepts, strategies and resources
• reporting, analyzing and interpreting significant trends in missions
• encouraging and assisting mission personnel in their personal and professional growth
• providing a platform for the discussion of important mission issues

About Our Readers

• They include: short-term and career missionaries, mission executives, mission scholars, mission professors, mission students and missionary candidates, mission pastors, lay leaders and mission supporters.
• Over half of our six thousand readers live and work overseas.
• They serve with over forty different denominations and sending agencies.
• They are well-educated; two-thirds of them have graduate degrees.
• Eight out of ten are men.
• Thirty-five percent fall within the thirty-five to forty-four age bracket.
• They work at more than thirty different missionary ministries, most of them as church planters and teachers.
• They are most interested in cultural and biblical values, Christianity and culture, church and culture, discipleship processes, evangelism methods, church planting methods and leadership training methods.
• They do not see EMQ as a scholarly journal; rather they see it as a very readable, informative, stimulating and practical publication.
• Five times as many readers describe EMQ as extremely practical compared to extremely theoretical.

Our Editorial Philosophy
EMQ is open to anyone who has a fresh idea about anything pertaining to world missions. We are not a scholarly journal written for academics, but we do want material that is academically respectable, reflecting careful thought and practical application to missions professionals and especially working missionaries. We like to see problems not only diagnosed, but solved either by way of illustration or suggestion.

We prefer articles about deeds done, showing the why and the how, claiming not only success but also admitting failure. Principles drawn from one example must be applicable to missions more generally. EMQ does not include articles which have been previously published in journals, books, websites, etc.

Criteria by which We Evaluate Articles

1. Importance of subject to our readers.
2. Freshness and creativity.
3. Clarity and readability.
4. Development and depth.
5. Support and resources.
6. Convincing arguments.
7. Accuracy and validity.
8. Overall treatment of a subject.

How to Submit Articles and Book Reviews

1. Before sending your article or review, email emq@wheaton.edu to ask the editor if he is interested in the subject or book. He may have a similar article on hand, he may have already assigned the book to someone or your subject may not be on his agenda.
2. Think about your word length. 3,000 to 3,500 words for articles; 400 words for reviews.
3. Submitted articles need to be formated to EMQ editorial standards (see "Editorial Guidelines for Submitted Articles" below).
4. Send copy by email to emq@wheaton.edu with the subject line reading "Article submission." You may also send a hard copy, double-spaced, to EMQ, P.O. Box 794, Wheaton, Illinois 60187. Please include a disk which has the electronic version.
5. If sending a hard copy, enclose a photo, a biographical sketch of yourself, email address and your social security number (necessary for payment) if you are American.

If referencing a source within an article, the quote, idea or fact should be followed by: author last name, year and page number (e.g. Thomas 1992, 34)

All reference materials should be included in the reference list at the end of the article. For books in reference lists, the format is:

Last name, first name, year, book title, where published and publisher

For journals in reference lists, the format is:

Author last name, first make, year, article, journal name, editor (if available). Date of journal, issue number, page number.

For information found on a website, the format is:

Author last name, first name, year, name of article, name of publication, date of publication, date of access, website url

How We Treat all Articles and Reviews

1. We give a prompt acknowledgment that we received your piece.

2. We may make suggestions for improvements and return it to you if we are interested in your subject.

3. We usually are scheduled a year or more in advance for a publication, and may not be able to give you a prompt decision.

4. If we do more than routine copy editing, we normally return our edited version for your approval before we print it.

5. We pay $100 upon publication for articles; $25 for book reviews.

1. A sparkling opening to grab the reader; state the central problem or issue in a broad missions context.
2. A succinct overview of the contents. Do not try to cover everything. Strip it down to its essence.
3. The author's contributions that are new. We want fresh insights. How does she or he help us solve a problem or grow?
4. Succintly state anything you think the author has missed or stated wrongly. No nit-picking please.
5. A lively style and tone. Be upbeat. Keep sentences short. Use short, simple words. No academic, technical jargon.
6. Add two or three related books as a separate item at the end. Include title, author, city of publication, publisher, date of publication.
7. Overall length: 400 words. (That's one page in EMQ.)
8. We pay $25 on publication of the book review, which may be edited for style and space.