Submissions

•  Guidelines for authors
 
•  Declaration of authenticity
 
•  Statement_AI_Ethics
 
•  Peer Review Form
 
•  Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
 
•  Anti-plagiarism Procedure

GENERAL INFORMATION

Contributions should be preferably written in English. German, French or Italian papers are also accepted. Essays should not exceed 12.000 words (60.000 characters) including footnotes.

Essays should include an abstract (max. 100 words), up to 10 keywords, and the bibliography.

The full name, academic title / position, main field of teaching/research, the institution, e-mail address and ORCID-ID should be included in the first footnote, following the author’s name. (E.g.: XY is Professor of Ecclesiology at …. Email: … ORCID.)

AI

Artificial intelligence should not be used to generate content, to write the article, to fabricate data or references. It can be used for stylistic purposes, for translations, or in the preliminary stage, as a complementary tool for literature search, in addition to classical bibliographies and databases. Authors are demanded to fill in a statement of compliance with the norms of scholarly ethics, including the correct use of AI (available on the website).

MAIN TEXT

Authors are required to submit their article carefully edited according to the following guidelines, checked for language, spelling and grammar. Articles with spelling and grammar mistakes cannot be accepted. English texts should use UK English spelling.

Contributions should use Normal Style, Times New Roman 11,5, single, justified, first line indent at 1 cm.

The title is Heading 1 (All caps, centred, before: 0, after: 18). For subtitles use Heading 2 (Regular, bold, first line 1 cm, Before and after: 12, Alignment Left) and following (please check published articles on the website for more details. 

For Hebrew and Greek, Unicode fonts should be used. For transliterated Hebrew words use a standard transcription.

FOOTNOTES

Footnotes should be inserted automatically, after the punctuation mark. They are numbered continuously. Endnotes or other ways of inserting notes should not be used.

Use Footnote Text Style (Times New Roman 10, single, justified, hanging indent at 0,5 cm).

QUOTATIONS:

Avoid unnecessarily long quotations, unless very important.

Quotations shorter than four lines should be included in the text, between quotation marks, followed by a footnote. Quotation marks should follow the rules of the language of the essay:

English: “quote” ; ‘embedded quote’.

German: „Zitat“ ; ‚Anführungszeichen zweiter Ebene‘

French: « citation » ; ‘citation de second niveau’ or italics

Italian: “citazione”;  ‘citazione all’interno di una citazione’

Quotations longer than four lines should be formatted as a distinct paragraph, without quotation marks, indented 0,5 cm left and right, Times New Roman 10,5.

REFERENCES

References to books and articles have to be mentioned in footnotes. The first reference to a work in a footnote should include all bibliographical details.

The contribution should include a bibliography.

References in footnotes should generally be separates by a comma, except for a colon between the place and the publishing house.

The last name of the author(s) should be written in SmallCaps, with the first name written in full.

The title of well-known journals may be abridged, following standard abbreviations (see below).

The title of the book, volume or periodical should be italicised. The title of articles and studies in collective volumes or periodicals should be included in quotation marks.

The series should be included in brackets after the title.

Do not use p., pp., S. before page numbers.

For electronic publications mention the full bibliographic details: author, title, periodical, year), followed by the full URL and the date when it was accessed: <full URL> [date accessed].

After the first reference footnotes should include only the last name of the author in SmallCaps, a short title and the page number, without any reference to the first note where the full title was given.

Avoid id., ibid., op. cit., a.a.O. and similar. Also avoid f. or ff. for successive pages. Do not use see, Vgl. etc. unless absolutely necessary.

 EXAMPLES

Books

Joachim Gnilka, Das Matthäusevangelium I (HTKNT I/1), Freiburg–Basel–Wien: Herder, 1986, 9–12.

Christoph Markschies, Gnosis. An Introduction (tr. John Bowden), London–New York: T&T Clark, 2003.

 Articles in periodicals, collective volumes and festive volumes (Festschriften):

John S. Kloppenborg, “Social Networks and the Dissemination of Elective Cults”, Early Christianity 10.2 (2019) 121–156 (129–132).

Pavlo Smytsnyuk, “The War in Ukraine as a Challenge for Religious Communities: Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Prospects for Peacemaking”, Studia UBB. Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2023) 26–70 (30–35).

Andreas Merkt, “Das Problem der apostolischen Sukzession im Lichte der Patristik”, in Theodor Schneider, Gunther Wenz (eds.), Das kirchliche Amt in apostolischer Nachfolge I (Dialog der Kirchen 12), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, 264–287.

Lisa Maurizio, “The Voice at the Centre of the World. The Pythia’s Ambiguity and Authority”, in André Lardinois, Laura McClure (eds.), Making Silence Speak. Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society, Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001, 38–54.

Lorenz Oberlinner, „‚Paulus‘ versus Paulus? Zum Problem des ‚Paulinismus‘ der Pastoralbriefe“, in Jost Eckert, Martin Schmidl, Hanneliese Steichele, Pneuma und Gemeinde: Christsein in der Tradition des Paulus und Johannes. Festschrift für Josef Hainz zum 65. Geburtstag, Düsseldorf: Patmos, 2001, 170–199.

Patristic works:

Augustinus, In Iohannis evangelium tractatus 23.1.9-11, Radbodus Willems (CCSL 36), Turnhout: Brepols, 1954. (or abridged: Aug., Io. ev. tr.).

Ecclesiastic documents:

Documents should be cited in the original language and / or an official translation in the language of the article. The source should be mentioned in the first reference.

Pope John XXIII, Ad Petri Cathedram 3, AAS 51 (1959), 497–531 (497)

Pope John XXIII, Humanae salutis (25 December 1961), Acta et documenta Concilio Oecumenico Vaticano II apparando Series II (Praeparatoria) I, Vatican, 1964, 139–143.

LG 8 (Austin Flannery, Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Postconciliar Documents, Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, ⁵2014).

For papal documents, the official site of the Holy See can also be used.

ABBREVIATIONS

For abbreviations of Jewish texts see TRE.

For abbreviations of series and periodicals: TRE (see the abbreviations of some known periodicals at the end of this style sheet in Guidelines for authors).

For abbreviations of classical authors: TWNT or full name and work title.

For early Christian authors: see TWNT or the Latin name of the authors, and the Latin work title.

BIBLICAL REFERENCES

After abbreviations of biblical books and apocryphal writings no punctuation should be used.

Use a hyphen between successive verses within a chapter (Gen 1,1-10), an en-dash between successive chapters or verses from successive chapters (e.g. Gen 2–3 or Gen 1,1–2,4a). No space should follow punctuation.

A semicolon followed by space is used between different chapters (Luke 1,6; 3,4) and within a list of references to different biblical books (Matt 28,1; Mark 16,1; Luke 24,1).

A period without a space is used between discontinuous verses or parts of verses (Prov 2,3a.c; 4,1.3).

References to one or more verses of a previously cited text should be as follows: v. 1; vv. 2-4

Examples:

Gen 1,10

Exod 1,1-10

Matt 2,2.6

Gal 2,5–3,2 

Qoh 2,3; 6,7

Parallels: Matt 6,5 par.