JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES GUIDE TO CONTRIBUTORS
These notes supersede those published in JHS 118
(1998). Once accepted for publication, all contributions must adhere strictly
to these conventions.
Submission of Articles
1. Typescripts (both text and notes) must be double-spaced, on
one side of the paper only, and with an ample margin. Notes follow the text,
begin on a new page, and are numbered consecutively.
At first submission,
typescripts must not contain any indication of the author’s identity;
authors should, wherever possible, refer to their own work in the third person.
More extensive and personalized reference to an author’s previous work may be
made in the final version.
Greek must be typed, or
Xeroxed from a clear text, using at least a 12-point font. Kadmos
Greek or Athenian Greek is preferred.
Typescripts of rejected
submissions are not returned.
2. Final versions of all
accepted Articles must be submitted both in hard copy and on computer disk; a
word-count, with text and footnotes treated separately, must be included in a
covering letter. Our preference is for Microsoft Word in Mac format; further
details will be sent to authors whose submissions have been accepted. The text
of the typescript should match that of the disk exactly.
Artwork (photographs, graphs, tables etc.) submitted with the final
version must be in camera-ready form (i.e. requiring no processing other
than change of size).
It is the
responsibility of the author, not of JHS, to seek permission for the
reproduction of pictures of works of art, etc.
Quotations
Quotations of Greek are not italicized. Brief
Latin quotations in the body of the text are italicized; longer quotations may
be set in as separate paragraphs and are not italicized. In Greek use iota
adscript, not subscript; lunate sigma is not used
(except where necessary in papyrological
discussions). In Latin use u and V, not v and U,
except where quoting ‘non-ancient’ Latin (e.g. commentators writing in
Latin).
Authors are strongly encouraged to provide English
translations for all Greek and Latin, particularly where this will increase the
accessibility of the argument. Where an English translation, with occasional
Greek or Latin words supplied in parenthesis, will do as well as the Greek or Latin
original, then the translation alone will suffice. No strict rules in this
matter are possible, and much will depend on the nature of the article and the
argument, but authors must be conscious that JHS has a readership with
a very wide variety of attainment level in the ancient languages.
Quotations from modem languages other than English
are enclosed in single inverted commas and not italicized.
Material inserted in quotations is enclosed in
square brackets.
Transliteration of Greek words
In transliterating names, authors may
follow their preference provided that the system employed is, as far as
possible, consistent: thus Boeotia and Dicaearchus or
Boiotia and Dikaiarkhos.
Complete consistency is probably neither practical nor desirable; in
particular, very familiar names should remain in their familiar form: thus,
Plato, not Platon, Aeschylus, not Aiskhylos,
Oedipus, not Oidipous etc.
In transliterating words, the ‘Greek’
pattern should be followed as closely as possible; thus, stratêgos,
sôphrosunê, etc. Y , u are
represented by U and u.
References to Ancient Works
Clarity and immediate recognition should be the
overriding aims. Author abbreviations should, in general, follow LSJ (9th edn) and OLD, but variations in the interests of
intelligibility as per OCD are encouraged. Use Aesch., Eur., Soph. rather
than A., E., S., Virg. rather
than V. etc.
References should be in the following form:
Ar. Birds 847-9
Arist. Metaph. 4.1016a 1-11
Hom. Od. 5.1-8
Lysias 21.5
Paus. 7.1.5
Pl. Rep. 5.474a 5-6
[Theocr.] 27.43
Call. fr. 251 Pf. (= Hecale 35 Hollis)
Stesich. PMGF 187 [i.e. not 187 Davies]
FGrHist 115 F153
IG III 21.5, IG IX.9 65, IG I 3 107
P.Oxy. 3535 fr. 1(a) col. ii 25
SEG 26.576.15
Do not use f. and ff. but give the exact references.
References to Modern Works
References take the following forms; please pay
particular attention to details of capitalization and italicization:
A.S.F. Gow, Theocritus 2 (2nd edn, Cambridge 1952) 299 n. 1
G.E.R. Lloyd, Magic, Reason and Experience ( Cambridge 1979)
W. Bühler, Die Europa des Moschos (Hermes Einzelschrift 13, Wiesbaden 1960)
A.A. Long, ‘Morals and values in Homer’, JHS 90 (1970) 121-39
RE 8.54-8; Suppl. 6.1241
LIMC 8.1 s.v. Zeus; LIMC 2.1 125
M.W. Haslam, ‘Callimachus’ Hymns’, in M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker (eds), Callimachus (Hellenistica Groningana 1, Groningen 1993) 111-25. (One editor is abbreviated ‘ed.’.)
LSJ s . v . καí II A .6.
Authors may choose one of the following two
systems:
(i) All modern works cited are listed in the first
note or separately at the end. In the text and notes these are cited by an
author-date system, e.g. Handley (1965), West (1992g) 101-5 etc. Standard works
of reference (e.g. RE, LIMC) need only be cited by initials.
(ii) Modern works are described in full at their first citation. Subsequent
citations should refer back to the first as follows: Easterling
(n.21) 51-6 (not Easterling op.cit. 51-6).
Standard works of reference (e.g. RE, LIMC) need only be cited by
initials.
Do not use ibid., loc.cit., and
similar abbreviations.
Abbreviations of periodicals should in the main follow L’année
philologique, but may be expanded to avoid
obscurity.
Miscellaneous Points of Style
Articles should be sent: Dr Angus Bowie, Editor of
JHS, The Queen's College, Oxford OX1 4AW, UK or sent by email as a pdf file to: <angus.bowie@queens.ox.ac.uk>
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