Author Guidelines

Your article should be longer than 7,000 but not much longer than 9,000 words, excluding footnotes. Including footnotes, the whole text should not count more than 12,000 words. An abstract will be asked during the submission process: please provide a short summary of between 150 and 250 words. 

The use of English is preferable, although we also admit French, Italian, Spanish and German contributions. The style to be followed is the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition, Notes-Bibliography System. Images are to be provided by authors, including permissions and high-resolution reproduction (but these are only due after acceptance). 

If the article has more than one author, please add a supplementary file that specifies each of the author’s substantial contributions to the article in question (drafting, writing, revising, etc.). Only authors who have made substantial contributions will be accepted. For a definition of academic authorship, we refer to the commonly accepted definition of the ICMJE.

Every source should be mentioned in the bibliography, including common editions of Classical texts.

Names are preferred in the original language unless another variant is more common, like Vergil, Augustine, etc.

Italics are used to put emphasis on words or terms or for all text in other languages other than the main language, unless it concerns a quotation or a name.

Theoretical and methodological concepts are not put in italics unless it concerns a language other than the main language.

For interruptions and afterthoughts mid-sentence, the em dash (–) is used without spaces, both before and after the word, e.g. “Men like Lucian—men who were born outside of and might perhaps never see Athens—can only have an ironic relationship to the organic intellectualism that Socrates espoused.”

Double quotation marks are always closed after punctuation, even if the punctuation mark does not correspond to the one in the quoted source.

Quotations are always in the original language, both in the body text and in block quotes.

Quotations running over more than three lines (which corresponds to ± 40 words, ± 200 characters) become a block quote.

Translations of quotes are compulsory, and always put in footnotes.

Translations of short quotes (only a handful of words) can be included in the body text between brackets, e.g. “Quevedo’s first editor, José Antonio González de Salas, assigned it the following title: “Amor constant mas allà de la muerte” (“Love constant beyond death”).” or “The tercets repeat this movement from spirit to matter or, to be more precise, from soul (alma) to veins and marrow (venas, medulas).”

In translations of poetry in footnotes, verses are separated by forward slashes (/), not with line breaks (i.e. NOT with return or enter ⏎).

Specifically for English, the following guidelines apply:

The author is free to use British or American spelling, and the according style rules, as long as they are used consistently.

Never use “cf.” but always “see.” Cross references are written as “see n. #”