Guidelines
for Contributors to Ploutarchos n.s.
1. Languages.
Manuscripts may be written in any of the official languages of
the IPS: English, French, German, modern Greek, Italian, Portuguese,
and Spanish.
2. Abstracts:
Articles should include an abstract in English not longer than
seven lines.
3. Format:
Manuscripts must be typed or printed double-spaced on letter-size
paper (DIN A 4), with a maximum of 30 lines per page and a left-hand
margin of not less than 4 cm. The length of manuscripts must not
exceed 25 pages without previous agreement with the editors. We
should very much appreciate this version on paper to be accompanied
by an electronic version (PC Microsoft Word Windows) on either floppy
disk or, better still, as an attached file to an e-mail message.
4. Bibliography:
The text of the paper should be followed by a list of references,
including at least those works cited more than twice in the notes.
5. Citations
in notes: Names of ancient authors should not be capitalized,
names of modern authors should be written in versalitas only when
in notes or in the bibliography: K. ZIEGLER (note), but K. Ziegler
(main text).
A)
Frequent citations (more than twice): Refer to bibliography,
citing by author’s name, year of edition, and pages: e.g.
K. Ziegler, 1951, col. 800.
B)
Single citations: Either follow the procedure indicated in 5
A) or incorporate the entire reference in the notes, according
to the following conventions, which are the same as for the
bibliography (with the single exception that in the bibliography
the surname should precede the initial, e.g. ZIEGLER, K., “Plutarchos
von Chaironeia”, RE XXI (1951), cols. 636-962.
a) Books: Author (in the case of joint authorship, separated
by a comma, with the final name preceded by &), comma,
title of work in italics, comma, volume in Roman numerals
(where applicable), comma, place of publication, comma, year
(with superscript number of editions if not the first, and
year of the first edition in parenthesis), comma, and cited
pages:
- D. A. RUSSELL, Plutarch, London, 1973, pp. 3-5.
b) Articles: Author, comma, title in quotation marks, comma,
name of the journal (for the abbreviations of journals follow
the conventions of L’Année Philologique),
comma, volume number in Arabic numerals, year in parenthesis,
and pages (without abbreviation if they correspond to the
entire article):
- C. P. JONES, “Towards a Chronology of Plutarch’s
Works”, JRS, 56 (1966) 61-74.
- C. P. JONES, “Towards a Chronology of Plutarch’s
Works”, JRS, 56 (1966), p. 65.
c) Works in collaborative volumes: Cite as with articles,
followed by the citation of the collaborative work (if cited
several times, according to the same conventions as under
5A above): e.g.: F. E. BRENK, “Tempo come struttura
nel dialogo Sul Daimonion di Socrate di Plutarco”, in
G. D’IPPOLITO & I. GALLO (eds.), Strutture formali
dei Moralia di Plutarco. Atti del III Convegno plutarcheo,
Palermo, 3-5 maggio 1989, Napoli, 1991, pp. 69-82.
6. Citations
from ancient authors: Author, comma, work, book (Arabic numerals),
full stop, chapter (Arabic numerals), comma, paragraph (Arabic
numerals), or: Author, comma, book (Roman numbers), chapter or
verse (Arabic numerals), full stop, paragraph (Arabic numerals).
a)
Abbreviations of Greek works and authors: for preference, cite
according to conventions of Liddell & Scott or of the DGE
edited by F.R. Adrados & others.
b)
Abbreviations of Latin works and authors: follow the Thesaurus
Linguae Latinae.
c)
Examples:
-
Authors cited with title of work: X., Mem. 4.5,2-3;
Plu., Arist. 5.1; Hom., Od. 10.203.
- Authors cited without title of work: B., I 35; Paus., V 23.5;
D. S., XXXI 8.2.
7. Notes
references: References (in Arabic numbers) to the foot notes must
precede always the signs of punctuation, e.g.: “...correspondait
à l’harmonie psychique1. Dans le Timée2 et
la République3, ...”
8. Greek
Fonts: For Greek texts, use Graeca or Greek.
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