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Instructions to authors

• Scope and editorial policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending manuscripts

Scripta Mediaevalia publishes articles, reviews and notes related to the historical-philosophical fields, but also to other disciplines that discuss the cultural topics from The Middle Ages.

General instructions

- All the papers will be submitted to two blind peers. A decision will be communicated to the authors within 3 months after the paper’s reception.

- Languages: The papers could be written in Spanish, French, Italian, English, Portuguese, or German.

- The editor can not undertake a linguistic revision of the texts, thus, the manuscripts which are not written in the author’s mother tongue should be sent already revised.

- The whole text with notes must not exceed 15 pages, in type 12 (Times/Times New Roman, or similar font), with a 1,5 line spacing and with sufficient margins. The notes can be paged, with 1 line spacing, in type 10.

- Each paper should begin with its full title (In normal body, boldface and centred), with the author’s name, for example:

  El símbolo cristiano del pez. Origen y proyecciones

Hugo Costarelli Brandi

- At the end of the paper should be the author´s name with his/her degree, academic affiliation and email.

Ex.: Hugo Costarelli Brandi es Doctor en Filosofía y profesor adjunto de Estética en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. hugocb@ffyl.uncu.edu.ar

- After the Title must be include an abstract of the paper and a summary of the article (index captions and parts). All the above items except the summary must be written in Spanish and English.

- All Quotations are to be set off in quotation marks: « » (do not use high commas “ ” for quotations).

- Long quotations in the body of the text can be presented in a separated paragraph, detached, and in type 10.

- Bibliographic References must be included in the notes (see the guidelines below). The text cannot have a final bibliography.

- Notes must be numbered automatically and are to be presented as footnotes.

- The footnotes numbers should appear after any punctuation mark closing the clause, Ex.: «Deus est quo nihil melius excogitari possit».1

- Italics are to be used for short Latin expressions or titles of books and also for highlight a word.

- Apart from italics no other graphic presentations will be permitted (such as bold, underlined, full words in capital letters, or abnormal line spacing, etc.)

- Common abbreviations are allowed, preferably in their Latin form: f./ff. (folium, folia), v (verso), r (recto), c. (circa), Lib. (liber), q. (questio) , d. (distinctio), a. (articulum), sol. (solutio), vd. (vide), cfr., op. cit., id./ead., ibid., e.g., ed., eds., p./pp. The use of other kind of abbreviations is not allowed.

- If special fonts are used (Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, or transliterations with special characters), you must send the font file.

- The text must be ready for print. A set of galleys in PDF file of the selected studies will be sent to the authors for revision. For technical reasons, substantial or long revisions will not be permitted.
 
Citations in notes

All citations must comply with the following indications and guidelines:

- The bibliographic information should allow a complete identification of the quoted text or study.

- The first citation must be complete. The following citations should be abbreviated in a clear manner.

- Do not write words or names in ALL CAPS, use Small Caps only for classical and medieval authors and modern authors last names.

Examples:

CITATIONS OF ARTICLES:

Author’s first name(s) with period + Author’s last name in small caps, «Title of the article in quotation marks», Title of a Journal in italics, volume number (year of publication) page numbers.

Ex.: Jean-Yves Hammeline, «Éléments d´anthropologie, de sociologie historique et de musicologie du culte chrétien», Recherches de Science Religieuse 78 (1990) 397-424.

Note: In the first citation the title of the Journal cannot be abbreviated.

CITATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL BOOKS:

Author’s first name(s) with period + Author’s last name in small caps, Title of the book in italics, Publisher, place of publication year of publication, page numbers (collection: optional).

Ex.: Pierre Henriet, La parole et la prière au Moyen Age. Le Verbe efficace dans l´hagiographie monastique des XIe et XIIe siècles, DeBoeck Université, Bruxelles 2000, pp. 8-11.

CITATIONS OF STUDIES IN COLLECTIVE WORKS:

Author’s first name(s) with period + Author’s last name in small caps, «Title of the study, in quotation marks», in Editor’s name (ed.), Complete Title of the Volume in italics, Publisher, place of publication year of publication, page numbers (collection: optional).

Ex. Janet L. Nelson, «The Lord´s Anointed and the People´s Choice: Carolingian Royal Ritual», in David Cannadine and Samuel Price (eds.), Rituals of Royalty. Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies, Cambrigde University Press, Cambridge 1987, p. 140.

CITATIONS OF ANCIENT BOOKS AND CRITICAL EDITIONS:

 Author’s name in small caps, Title in italics, Editor’s name, Publisher, place of publication year of publication, part or question, page numbers or lines (collection: optional). (in special cases of easy recognition, an abbreviated form is allowed, cfr. ex. 1 e 2)

Ex. 1: Plato, Rep. 531b; Thomas Aquinas, Su. Theol. I-II, q. 95, a. 3.

Ex. 2: Beda, De temporum ratione, P.L., vol. 90, 230.

Ex. 3: John Damascen, De fide ortodoxa. Versions of Burgundio and Cerbanus, Ed. by E.M. Buytaert, The Franciscan Institut–E. Nauwelaerts–F. Schönungh, St. Bonaventure (New York) –Louvain–Paderborn 1953, cap. 35, p. 131.

Ex. 4: Averroès, L’intelligence et la pensée. Grand commentaire du De anima, Livre III (429a10-435b25), trad., introd., notes par A. de Libera, Flammarion, Paris 1998, p. 181, n. 21 (GF, 974).

CITATIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS:

City, Library, Collection, shelf mark, folium. Ex.: Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional, Alc. 262, f. 149ra.

Note: In the first citation, the name of the library cannot be abbreviated.

BOOK´S REVIEW GUIDELINES

- Scripta Mediaevalia publishes, in each fascicle, a selection of notes, reviews, and bibliographic comments of the books received in the editorial department.

- Books for review should be sent to Scripta Mediaevalia, Centro de Estudios Filosóficos Medievales de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UNCuyo). Centro Universitario, Ciudad de Mendoza, Provincia de Mendoza (Argentina). C.P: M5500 CBH.

- There can be shipped book reviews that have been published up to three years before the current year, on topics related to medieval thought.

- It must not exceed 15 pages, in type 12 (Times/Times New Roman, or similar font), with a 1,5 line spacing and with proper margins.

- The review must provide the author’s name, the full title, place of publication, publisher, year, ISBN and number of pages.

- The review has not footnotes or bibliography.

- The call for papers is open all over the year.