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Author Guidelines

FORMAT AND EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

  1. The contributions sent to Minerva must be original and unpublished. Maximu size allowed is 50.000 characters (with spaces), including notes and bibliographical references.
  2. Reviews must be critical and will deal about books related with the Greek and Latin world and tradition. Maximum size recommended ist 15.000 characteres (with spaces). Editorial board can accept and commission larger reviews, and it can suggest changes to the authors. It has the only responsibility of accepting the reviews for their publication.
  3. FORMAT

3.1. Author must adapt his/her contribution to the model/pattern provided in this web page (Formato de artículos, Formato de reseñas). There every information about headings and front page of the article (title, name, institution, summary, key words, summary) is provided.

3.2. The font used for the main text must be Times New Roman of 11 points.

3.3. Only footnotes will be accepted. Times New Roman of 9 points will be the font for them. The reference number for the footnote will be placed before the punctuation sign.

3.4. Quotes of less of three lines will be included in the main text between double quotation marks (“…”). For quotes inside quotes use angle quotation marks according to the following pattern: “…«…»...”.

Meanings and references will be put in single quotation marks (‘…’)

If the quotes are larger than three lines, they will not have quotation marks and will put in a separate paragraph with a blank line before and after it. The paragraph will have an indentation to the left of 0,75 cm and the font will be Times New Roman of 10 points.

3.5. Image will be inserted in the main text in the corresponding section. They will have at least a resolution of 300 pp. Caption or legend for tables or graphics will be inserted below the corresponding image, with Times New Roman of 9 points, with centered lines, in minuscules, except for the initial caps, and without final dot, according to the following pattern:

Figura 1. Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum

Tabla 1. Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum

Gráfico 1. Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum

3.6. At the beginning of every paragraph an indentation of 0.75 cms will be used. Indentation is not used after a paragraph with a quote, copied between blank lines and in 11 points.

3.7. Hyphenation is not to be made by authors.

3.8. Titles of chapters, sections and subsections will be numbered with arabic numerals according to the following pattern: 1., 1. 1, 1. 1. 1. More thant three leves are not admitted.

3.9. Bold letters, underlining, capitals for whole words or sentences will not be used, only cursive is allowed. Foreign words will be written in cursive.

3.10. For double parenthesis square brackets will be used: (…[…]…).

3.11. Short hyphens will be used for series of numerals (7-8) or initial capital of names (A.-E.), long dashes for digresssion. For instance — as we have already mentioned—

3.12. Latin abbreviations will be written in cursive.: cf., ibid., id., ...

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY

4.1. Bibliographical references will be always put in the footnotes and never in the main text. They will be always put in abbreviated form, for articles as for books or book chapters, according to the following pattern:

Smith (1990) 111-130.

4.2. Latin authors will be quoted according to the abreviations of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, according to the following pattern:

PLIN. nat. 37, 205

CATVLL. 1, 4

4.3. The bibliography quoted in the contribution will be listed alphabetically at the end of the contribution in the Times New Roman of 9 points, preceded by the heading Bibliography (small caps, bold, centered) according to the following guidelines.

4.5. Every reference will be have an French indentation of 0.75 cms.

4.6. First and family names of the authors will be always given in full in every entrance of the bibliographical list.

4.7. If several contributions of a given author are listed, they will be ordered chronologically. If two or more contributions are of the same year, a minuscule letter will be added after the numeral.

Example:

Montero Cartelle,  Enrique (1988), “Sobre el autor árabe del Liber de coitu y el modo de trabajar de Constantino el Africano”, Medizinhistorisches Journal, 23, 3.4, 213-223.

Montero Cartelle, Enrique (1994a), “Lengua médica y léxico sexual: la constitución de la lengua técnica”, en Manuel Enrique Vázquez Buján (ed.), Tradición e innovación de la Medicina latina de la Antigüedad y de la Alta Edad Media, Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

Montero Cartelle, Enrique (1994b), “Prosa técnica no gramatical”, en Carmen Codoñer (ed.), Historia de la literatura latina, Madrid, Akal, 795-817.

4.8. BOOKS

Example:

Dickie, Matthew W. (2001), Magic and Magicians in the Graeco-Roman World, Londres, Routledge.

Burckhardt, Jackob (1942), La cultura del Renacimiento en Italia, Buenos Aires, Losada (= Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien, Basilea 1860).

Rijksbaron, Albert (ed.) (1997), New Approaches to Greek Particles, Ámsterdam, Gieben.

Conde Parrado, Pedro y Javier García Rodríguez (eds.) (2005), Orfeo XXI. Poesía española contemporánea y tradición clásica, Gijón, Cátedra Miguel Delibes-Libros del Pexe.

Mota, Carme de la y Gemma Puigvert (eds.) (2009), La investigación en Humanidades, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva.

4.9. ARTICLES

Example:

López Gregoris, Rosario (2006), “Plauto y la originalidad”, Minerva 19, 111-130.

4.10. CHAPTERS

Example:

Ortega Villaro, Begoña (2005), “Versiones, revisiones y (per)versiones del epigrama en las últimas generaciones poéticas”, en Pedro Conde Parrado y Javier García Rodríguez (eds.), Orfeo XXI. Poesía española contemporánea y tradición clásica, Gijón, Cátedra Miguel Delibes-Libros del Pexe, 9-28.

4.11. REVIEWS

Example:

Recio Muñoz, Victoria (2018), reseña del libro Nelia Rosa Vellisca Gutiérrez, Cristóbal de Vega. Sobre el arte de curar. Traducción anotada del libro II De arte medendi (El cuidado de la salud en la España del siglo XVI), en Minerva. Revista de Filología Clásica 31, 289-290 (disponible en https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/ minerva/article/view/2286/1844, fecha de consulta 11/03/2019)

Martínez Sobrino, Alejandro (2011), “Nam fuit et fortassis erit felicius evum. Aliento impulsor de un cambio de mentalidad en la Historia de Europa”, reseña-ensayo en Minerva. Revista de Filología Clásica 24, 287-292 (disponible en https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/minerva/article/view/2600/2049, fecha de consulta 11/03/2019)

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AVAILABLE TEXT ON THE INTERNET AND / OR WITH DOI (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER) OR HANDLE:

In general, if any publication (book, edition, book chapter, article ...) is available on a web page (URL), and has no persistent identifiers such as DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or Handle (persistent identifier used by the repositories), the URL will be included at the end of the reference, Indicating the date of consultation.

Example:

Martín Ferreira, Ana Isabel y Alejandro García González (2010), “La tradición manuscrita del Breviarium de Johannes de Sancto Paulo”, Exemplaria Classica 14, 227-248. Disponible en: http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/exemplaria/article/view/722 (fecha de consulta 08.02.2019).

If the publication has DOI or Handle, it will be included at the end of the reference, without including the URL or date of query.

Examples:

Montero Cartelle, Enrique (2017), “El De stomacho y el plagio en Constantino el Africano”, Minerva. Revista de Filología Clásica 30, 97-121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24197/mrfc.30.2017.97-121.

Acosta Armas, Estefanía (2017), “Medicina forense y racionalismo médico: edición, traducción y comentario de la curatio 6.87 de Amato Lusitano”, Trabajo Fin de Máster dirigido por Miguel Ángel González Manjarrés, Máster Textos de la Antigüedad Clásica y su Pervivencia, Universidad de Valladolid. Handle: http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25133.

It is necessary to indicate the DOI in all texts that have it. To check which of the cited works have DOI you can use the Simple Text Query tool (http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/), following these steps:

1) Register on the Simple Text Query portal (http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/): you must enter an email address and click on "Submit". Shortly afterwards an email will be received at the address provided with a link, in which you have to click to register.

2) Once you have registered, visit the Simple Text Query main page (http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/), enter your email address and paste all the bibliographic listing of your work into the box. The texts must have a recognized format, must be ordered alphabetically and separated from each other by a blank line. Then click on "Submit", and, in one or two minutes, the system will indicate, highlighting them in red, which texts have DOI.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The contribution has not been previously published and has not been sent to another journal for reviewing. If it is not the case, Minerva should be informed.
  • The file must be sent in Microsoft Word.
  • URL address, when available, must be provided for the references.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographical requirements as contained in the Directrices del autor/a that appear in the web of the journal.
  • If you are sending an article that will be evaluated anonymously, make sure that you have not included any information that may identify you.

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The journal allows the authors to retain publishing rights. Authors may reprint their articles in other media without having to request authorization, provided they indicate that the article was originally published in Minerva. Revista de Filología Clásica.

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