Submissions

 

Manuscripts can be submitted at any time. They must neither have already been published nor be currently under review by another journal. Manuscripts can be sent to any of the editors:

Further general guidelines

General

  1. There are no processing or submission fees.
  2. Manuscripts can be submitted in English, German, French, Italian, or Spanish. If you submit a manuscript that is not written in your native language, the editorial board expects the text to have been professionally proofread beforehand.
  3. All submitted manuscripts must begin with a 100-word abstract (in the language of the paper and in English) and must be fully anonymized.
  4. Please submit manuscripts via email as a “doc” or “docx” document and include a PDF of your manuscript.
  5. Submitted articles should be between 5,000 and 10,000 words, including footnotes. If you wish to publish shorter contributions like miscellanea or longer contributions, please contact the editorial board in advance.
  6. Articles that have already been published elsewhere, either in print or online, will only be considered for publication in justified exceptional cases.

Manuscript Formatting

  1. No special formatting is required, but the design of the manuscripts should be consistent and coherent.
  2. To display non-Latin characters, please use a Unicode-compatible font; if in doubt, embed the fonts used.
  3. Use subheadings to structure your contribution.

Figures

  1. Authors are expected to obtain permission for the reproduction of copyrighted material (e.g., photos) used in their articles. Please submit image files with at least 300 dpi as TIFF or PNG files.
  2. Include a list of figures and/or tables with a caption for each figure, along with source references and necessary attributions. If you cannot submit TIFF or PNG files, please contact the editorial board.

Footnotes

  1. Please use footnotes only, not endnotes. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively.
  2. References in the footnotes should follow the author-year format. Do not use small caps for the last name: e.g., Van Wees 2004, 94.
  3. If there are two or more titles by an author from the same year, distinguish them by adding “a” or “b” to the year (e.g. Van Wees 2004a, 94).
  4. Avoid abbreviations like ff., f., ibid.

Bibliography

  1. For the bibliography, follow these examples:
  2. Monograph: Van Wees, H. (2004), Greek Warfare. Myth and Realities. London.
  3. Edited Volume: Hebblewhite, M. / Whatley, C. (eds.) (2022), Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean. Leiden.
  4. Contribution in an edited volume: Barrandon, N. (2017), Le sang qui tache et qui inonde comme preuve d’une extrême violence aux deux derniers siècles de la République romaine?, in Bodiou, L. / Mehls, V. (eds.), L’Antiquité écarlate: le sang des Anciens. Rennes, 237–249.
  5. Journal Article: Gehrke, H.-J. (1987), Die Griechen und die Rache. Ein Versuch in historischer Psychologie, in: Saeculum 38, 121–149.
  6. Encyclopedia entry: Münzer, F. (1909), C. Fannius (17) Chaerea, in: RE 6, 1994.
  7. Websites: Cumberland Council (2024), Rare Roman Discovery Found in Carlisle, Cumberland Council. (last accessed March 31, 2025). https://www.cumberland.gov.uk/news/2024/rare-roman-discovery-found-carlisle.
  8. For works with more than three authors or editors, please use et al.
  9. Omit series titles.
  10. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the information in L’Année Philologique. Numbers of issues or volumes should only be indicated if a volume does not have consecutive pagination. In these cases, the indication should be followed by a period after the volume number (e.g. 38.1).
  11. List only the first place of publication.
  12. If you have two or more titles by an author from the same year, separated by lower case letters in the footnotes, you should also insert these in brackets (e.g. Van Wees, H. (2004a), Greek Warfare. Myth and Realites. London).

Citation of Ancient Sources

  1. Ancient authors and works should be abbreviated according to the OCD, you can additionally refer to the LSJ and the OLD (e.g., Thuc. 1.21.1; Xen. An. 1.2.5).
  2. Biblical writings should be cited according to the abbreviation directory of the Chicago Manual of Style.
  3. Papyrological sources should be cited according to the Checklist of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets; Greek inscriptions according to the suggestions of the AIEGL and Latin inscriptions according to the latest edition of the Guide de l’épigraphiste.
  4. All longer quotations from ancient sources should be provided both in the original and in translation. Where possible, the translation should appear in the text and the original text in the footnotes.
  5. Translations used should be indicated with the note “trans. Last Name Year” (e.g., trans. Thomas 2021). A separate list of sources is only necessary in exceptional cases.
  6. For the citation of sources in German-language contributions, please consult the German version of this document. For contributions in other languages, please follow the usual standards in your respective language.

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