GUIDELINES TO CONTRIBUTORS

Submitting articles

ANABASIS. Studia Classica et Orientalia welcomes contributions which fit the overall aims of the journal. New contributions should be submitted by email to: saena7@gmail.com

Authors who prefer to submit hard copies may send them in triplicate to the Editorial Office:

Prof. Marek Jan Olbrycht

Department of Ancient History and Oriental Studies

University of Rzeszów

Al. Rejtana 16C

35-310 Rzeszów

Poland

saena7@gmail.com

Articles/reviews must be submitted in English (main language), German, Italian, French, and Spanish. Essays in Russian may also be considered. Material must be original and should not have been previously published.

Although we use a system of blind refereeing, authors do not wish their identity to become known to the referees should take care that this is not revealed in their articles. Articles are routinely sent to two referees for peer review.

Text (preferably Word) should be submitted as an email-attachment, printout or on CD (by regular air mail). Each text should not be more than 25 pages double spaced (about 9000 words, including notes and bibliography). It is possible to extend the limits for essential contributions.

Double space throughout and number all pages consecutively. Use Time font, size 12. If the text uses symbols that are not included in the Microsoft Word set of special symbols, the appropriate fonts should be supplied as well.

Single and double references to ancient sources should be put in brackets within the text; multiple source references and all modern references should be put in notes.

While citing works, use Arabic not Roman numerals (Diod. 17.33.1 etc.).

For each contribution an abstract should be provided in English (preferably no more than 200 words). A list of keywords, up to five, should also be enclosed.

Footnotes will appear at the foot of the page in the published volume, but can be submit-ted as footnotes or endnotes in your manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively.

Transliterations should follow academic standards.

The notes should contain the Harvard referencing style, i.e. author’s surname, year of publication, page (or illustration number).

For example:

33. Roxana 1998, 77-79.

47. Ehlers 1955, 151, fig. 12.

Please, do not use ff., ibidem, op.cit. etc.

A full bibliography containing all the works cited and abbreviations (including pages, volumes and dates) should be given at the end of the contribution as a single list in alpha-betical order. Bibliography should begin on a new page.

The following forms should be used for the types of work described:

Journal articles:

Mannhaimer, P.J. 1980: ‘Ancient Iran and Greece’ Klio 67, 13-24.

Books:

Maxim, R. 1990: Suetonius, London.

Articles in books:

Knox, R.F. 1995: ‘Trajan’ in Adrian Vaugh (ed.), Roman studies, Oxford, 234-245.

Maps, photographs and drawings should be provided as separate files in the format TIF or JPEG. Illustrations must be scanned with a resolution of at least 600 dpi. The authors must check that images are suitable for reproduction before submitting the image files. Authorisation or permission to reproduce material should accompany all submitted fig-ures.

Authors will receive galley proofs, and must return them promptly.

Review copies (books)

Books for review should be sent to the address above. We aim to offer a comprehensive reviews section highlighting new scholarly publications in Classical and Oriental studies, but we are not able to publish reviews of all of the relevant books we receive.

REVIEW PROCESS (for contributions)

ANABASIS bases its excellence as an international journal and as one of the venues of publication on its peer review process. The review process is double-blind (in which neither the author nor the reviewer know the other) to protect reviewer and author anonymity and assure authors of a fair hearing.

The Editor makes the final decision on publication of all manuscripts and reviews submitted to the journal.

Once a submission is received, it undergoes an initial review by the editorial staff.

On occasion, the Editor sends the manuscript to members of the Editorial Board for suggestions. The editors try to recommend other publishing venues should the article manuscript be deemed unacceptable by the Editor during the initial review.

Once the Editor decides on the article’s appropriateness to the journal, two referees as peer reviewers are selected to assess the manuscript. Each referee will be asked to review the essay for content and form.

The manuscript is sent to the reviewers with explicit instructions to assess the essay and provide one of three decisions: accept, reject, or revise and resubmit. Reviewers are asked to take into account the originality of the contribution, argument and interpretation, substance and importance of content, and form and presentation.

We aim to complete the full process within 4 months after receipt of the manuscript, and expect that you have not submitted the manuscript elsewhere, and will not do so, until you have received ANABASIS's decision.

Guidelines for Referees of Manuscripts

Submitted to ANABASIS

REMARK: The identity of each referee is kept strictly confidential.

Only an anonymised copy of your review will be sent to the author.

It would be helpful if you could follow the guidelines below.

1. Does the manuscript make a significant contribution to scholarship on the subject?

If not, what would you recommend to strengthen the article?

2. Is the author knowledgeable about the subject? Is the bibliography up to date and complete?

Please note any significant omissions.

3. Is the piece clearly organised and in a way appropriate to the matters it addresses?

4. Do the illustrations provide adequate support to the text (if attached!).

Are there too many or too few?

5. Please state whether you think the article should be accepted as it is,

be rejected, be accepted with major modifications or be accepted with minimal changes.

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