Submissions

Author Guidelines

PUBLICATION GUIDELINES

All submissions must be prepared in accordance with the instructions below.

1. Text format:
- please submit your manuscript online via the OJS edition platform in Word format;
- number of pages and font sizes: body of the text = maximum 20 pages A4, 12-point font size Times New Roman, double-space; footnotes = 10-point font size Times New Roman, single-space;
- Greek characters can be used only in long quotations; single Greek words and expressions should be written in Latin (e.g.: adynaton, arete, doxa, kouros);
- abstracts (250 words) and keywords (five) are mandatory, both in English and in the article’s language;
- languages accepted: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Italian.

2. Abstract:

The abstract should present the structure of the article and describe: the problem under investigation, the study method used, the main results obtained, the conclusions and the implications for theory and/or practice, and (if applicable) the innovative contribution to the state of the art.

3. Quotations:
3.1. General Guidelines:
a) italic:
– in Latin quotations and translations included in the body of the text;
– titles from ancient documents/works, modern monographs and journals:
b) quotation marks (“ ”) in modern text quotations;
c) do not use italic in Latin abbreviations (op. cit., loc. cit., cf., ibid., in,...).

4. References
4.1. Books
Book references in the body of the text are not permitted. All references must figure in footnotes, at the end of each page and in short version: Author Year: Page eg.: Bell 2004: 123-125
The complete bibliographical references are included in the final list of references: Bell, A. (2004), Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City. Oxford: University Press.
– later editions will be referred as: (2005, 2nd ed.);
– to the Editor will correspond the abbreviation (ed.) or (eds.) and to the coordinator the abbreviation(coord.) or (coords.).

4.2. Book's chapters
Bibliographical references in the body of the text are not permitted. All references must figure in footnotes, at the end of each page and in short version: Author Year: Page(s) eg.: Murray 1994: 3
The complete bibliographical references are included in the final list of references: Murray, O. (1994), “Sympotic History”, in O. Murray (ed.), Sympotika. A Symposium on the Symposion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 3-13.

4.3. Journals:
Bibliographical references in the body of the text are not permitted. All references must figure in footnotes, at the end of each page and in short version: Author Year: Page(s) eg.: Toher 2003: 431.
The complete bibliographical references are included in the final list of references: Toher, M. (2003), “Nicolaus and Herod”, HSPh 101: 427-447.

4.4. Abbreviations
– journals: L’Année Philologique;
– Greek authors: A Greek-English Lexicon;
– Latin authors: Oxford Latin Dictionary;
=> DO NOT USE ROMAN NUMERICALS: Hom. Od. 1.1 (not α.1); Cic. Phil. 2.20 (not II. 8. 20); Plin. Nat. 9.176 (not IX. 83. 176);
=> DO NOT USE USE “SPACE” BETWEEN NUMBERS: Hom. Od. 1.1 (not Hom. Od. 1. 1)

5. Footnotes
Must be brief and, in direct relation with the text, in order to introduce a clarification, point out a critical aspect or a brief question. The essential information must be in the body of the text.

6. Book reviews
6.1. size: max. 8.000 characters;
6.2. Book identification: follow the models above:
ACERBI, Silvia, Conflitti politico-ecclesiastici in Oriente nella Tarda Antichità: Il II Concilio di Efeso (449), Madrid, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense, Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, Serie de sucesivas monografías, Anejo V, 2001, 335 pp. ISBN: 84-95215-20-9.

BAÑULS OLLER, J. Vte.; Crespo Alcalá, P.; Morenilla Talens, C., Electra de Sófocles y las primeras recreaciones hispanas, Bari, Levante Editori, 2006, 152 pp. ISBN: 88-7949-432-5.

FRANCISCO BAUZÁ, Hugo, Propercio: Elegías completas. Traducción, prólogo y notas, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2007, 251 pp. ISBN: 978- 84-206-6144-5.

7. Images/Graphics/Tables
Graphic elements must be sent separately, properly identified and numbered.
Their location in the body of the text must be properly identified:
- Images must be sent separately, properly identified and numbered, in .jpeg format, requiring a minimum quality of 300dpi. All the images must be free from copyright and sent with official documentation testifying either that they are license free or purchased for academic publications purposes.
- Tables and graphics must be sent in editable.doc format. Elements in .jpeg format or other formats will not be considered.

8. Final Bibliographical references
Mandatory and limited to the essential titles and/or those quoted in the text. Only in the final bibliography the references will appear in their complete and extended version.
TRANSLITERATION GUIDELINES
Accents and distinction between long and short should be ignored.
Greek Latin
α a
β b
γ g
δ d
ε e
ζ z
η e
θ th
ι i
κ k
λ l
μ m
ν n
ξ x
ο o
π p
ρ r
σ, ς s
τ t
υ u (in diphthong) y (in other cases)
φ ph
χ ch
ψ ps
ω o
initial aspiration h
subscript iota [character] + i
γ + guttural (γ, κ, ξ e χ) n + [transcript character