GUIDELINES TO CONTRIBUTORS

Contributions in English, French, German, and Italian are welcomed. In 
preparing typescripts, please follow the standard editorial rules of the respective 
language, but in quotation and reference follow the principles enlisted below.

1. Submission
For the initial submission, a digital version as e-mail attachment should 
be sent in two formats: Microsoft Word’s DOCX (or RTF) and PDF. The article 
should be accompanied with a separate file including English summary, keywords 
and basic information about author affiliation. 

2. Formatting
1. In general, keep the formatting of the text as simple as possible.
2. Use Times New Roman font for all characters. As Unicode font, it includes 
both Greek and Latin characters. The body of the article should be 12-point 
fonts, double-spaced. Footnotes should be 10-point fonts, double-spaced. 
The margins of the document should be adequate.
3. A single space should follow punctuation.
4. Do not use tab-key for intends and space-bar for line breaks. 
5. Greek, Hebrew and other ancient language quotations should not be ital
icized whereas Latin should (except for longer ones, set in separate para
graphs). Transcription should always be italicized. When quoting modern 
languages do not italicize.
6. Square brackets should be used for supplemented and inserted material. The 
square bracket should be also used inside parentheses “( [ ] )”.                                                                                                                7. Always use “–” for number range (chapters, pages, years etc.), e.g. 123–124 
(not 125-124).

3. Quotations
Please do not abuse non-Latin (Greek, Hebrew etc.) fonts; use transcriptions 
wherever possible. For shorter quotation from modern languages in the main body 
of the text use “smart-quotes” in English and appropriate equivalents in French, 
German and Italian.
Longer quotations should be organized in block quotes. Greek, Latin, 
Hebrew (or other ancient languages) should always be followed by a translation. 
Block quotes should not be italicized. 

4. Abbreviations
In principle, abbreviations should follow, respectively, LSJ (9th ed.), OLD 
and OCD for ancient authors. Standard reference books can be quoted by their 
initials only (e.g. RE, LSCG), initials of their authors (e.g. LSJ, ML) or the author’s 
(authors’) name(s) (e.g. Tod = A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of 
the Fifth Century...). Use B.C. or B.C.E. after the numeral, A.D. before and C.E. after 
it respectively. Cf. is not italicized.

5. References to ancient authorities and texts
Ancient proper names familiar in English should be kept in their usual form; 
otherwise, they can both be Latinized (Boeotia) or transliterated (Boiotia).
For abbreviations, see above. Use the following abbreviated reference forms:
Arist. Pol. 4.1305a 7–10.
[Arist.], Ath. pol. 9.1; Hom. Il. 1.1–7.
Plato, Republic (or Res publica, or Rep.), 342a 1–5.
Solon, fr. 4,1–4 West2 (or IEG2), or Solon, fr. 4 West2, ll. 1–4.
Thuc. 1.23.1.
FGrHist 115 F 153.
Gen 1:1-3.
4Q463 fr. 1.2.
References to collections of inscriptions and papyri should follow the stand
ard abbreviations. For inscriptions, the following reference form is recommended: 
IG V 1.198.37 (meaning vol. V fasc. 1 nr. 198 line 37); KAI2 181.1–2.
In references both to ancient and modern authors always avoid f. or ff., give 
precise page or line references instead.

 

6. References to modern works
References can be inserted in parentheses in the main body of the text or in 
the footnotes and should be by author, year and page-number, e.g. Adkins 1960: 
86–94. The publication of different authors, as well as the same author, should be 
separated by “;” e.g. Adkins 1960: 86–94; Griffin 1986: 36–40; id. 1999: 25.
Please do not use op. cit., loc. cit., and ibid., whereas id./ead. (italicised) is 
acceptable only when quoting subsequently different works by the same author.
A bibliography at the end of the article should use 10-point font and follow 
styles:
• Adkins, W.H. 1960: Merit and Responsibility. A Study in Greek Values, Oxford.
• Lemche, N.P. 2001: ‘The Old Testament – A Hellenistic Book?’, in L.L. 
Grabbe (ed.), Did Moses Speak Attic?: Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the 
Hellenistic Period. The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 317, 
Sheffield, 287–318.
• Griffin, J. 1986: ‘Homeric Words and Speakers’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 
106, 36–57.
• Reinhold, M., Swan, P.M. 1990: ‘Cassius Dio’s Assessment of Augustus’, in 
K.A. Raaflaub, M. Toher (eds), Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of 
Augustus and His Principate, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 155–173.
• Rich, J. 2015: ‘Appian, Polybius and the Romans’ war with Antiochus the 
Great: a study in Appian’s sources and methods’, in K. Welch (ed.), Appian’s 
Roman History, Swansea, 65–123.
• Wilkins, J., Harvey, F.D., Dobson, M.J. (eds) 1995: Food in Antiquity, Exeter.