GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR COLLABORATORS
1- The articles must be original.
2- Contributions should not exceed 15 pages.
3- Editorial Status: The Bulletin of Classical Studies (BEC) is an annual Publication promoted by the Portuguese Association of Classical Studies (APEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Classical Studies of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra and the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies (CECH) of the University of Coimbra. The BEC was first published in 1984 and its main mission is to promote research and dissemination in Classical Studies from a teaching perspective and by learning pedagogical contexts, at secondary schools and universities. The BEC promotes/encourages the dialogue between researchers, specialists, teachers, students and amateurs of Classical Antiquity, with special focus on what is investigated in Classical Studies (language, culture, literature, pedagogy and didactics, reception), but also on what happens in the contemporary world that reflects the relevance of Classical Studies in understanding everyday events.
THEMATIC GUIDELINES
The Bulletin of Classical Studies presents an embracing editorial profile, favoring a pragmatic approach and the contact with the community at large, but in particular with the teaching and students’ community of Classical Studies: the specific pedagogical and didactic profile of classical languages and literatures; the survival and contact of that matrix with contemporary literatures, and its presence in the most diverse artistic manifestations and cultural subjects; the debate and analysis of curricular aspects related to Classical Antiquity (Latin, Greek, History, Philosophy, Portuguese Literature, History of the Arts) in what pertains to secondary and higher education; reports or presentations of on-going teaching experiences.
The following thematic lines, which have become a tradition in BEC’s papers, are presented to provide a general guidance to participants:
- Greek
- Latin
- Medieval Latin
- Renaissance Latin
- Theater
- Classical Tradition/ Reception studies
- Notices
PUBLICATION Guidelines
The submitted articles must contain the following elements:
Title of the article in Portuguese and in English
Affiliation / Professional / Academic Identification
Abstract (maximum 10 lines) in Portuguese and in English
Key words (maximum 5) in Portuguese and in English
1. TEXT format
a) - please submit your manuscript online via the OJS platform (http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/bec) in both Word and PDF formats;
b) dimensions and formatting: main text = maximum of 15 p.
A4; Times New Roman 12; footnotes = Times New Roman 10;
New Roman; simple space.
c) Only use Greek characters for long quotations; only Unicode type is accepted;
d) Isolated words or short Greek expressions must be transliterated in Roman alphabet
(e.g. adynaton, arete, doxa, kouros).
2. Quotations
2.1. General Guidelines:
a) use italics:
– in Latin quotations and translations included in the main body of the text;
– titles from ancient documents/works, modern monographs and journals:
b) use quotation marks (“ ”) in modern text quotations;
c) do not use italics in Latin abbreviations (op. cit., loc. cit., cf., ibid., in,...).
2.1. Book References – Bell, A. (2004), Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City. Oxford.
• In footnotes, the preferred abbreviated form should be: Bell, 2004: 123-125.
Subsequent editions will be referred as: (2005, 2nd ed.); – to the Editor The corresponding abbreviation will be (ed.) or (eds.) and to the coordinator the abbreviation(coord.) or (coords.).
2.2. Book's chapters
– Murray, O. (1994), “Sympotic History”, in O. Murray (ed.), Sympotika. A Symposium on the Symposion. Oxford, 3-13.
In footnotes, In footnotes, the preferred abbreviated form should be: Murray 1994: 10.
– Toher, M. (2003), “Nicolaus and Herod”, HSPh101: 427-447.
In footnotes, the abbreviated form should be preferred: Toher 2003: 431.
2.4. Abbreviations – journals: L’Année Philologique; – Greek authors: A Greek-English Lexicon; – Latin authors: Oxford Latin Dictionary; => USE ONLY ROMAN NUMBERS: Hom. Od. 1.1 (not α.1); Cic. Phil. 2.20 (not II. 8. 20); Plin. Nat. 9.176 (not IX. 83. 176); => DO NOT USE USE “SPACE” BETWEEN NUMBERS: Hom. Od. 1.1 (not Hom. Od. 1. 1)
3. Footnotes
Must be short and in direct relation with the text, in order to introduce a clarification, point out a critical aspect or a brief question. The essential information must be in the main body of the text.
4. Final Bibliographical references
Mandatory and limited to the essential titles and/or those quoted in the text. The originals (in word and pdf) can be sent to the following mail address: apeclassicos@gmail.com
Deadline for the reception of originals: CFP permanently open.The originals are subject to peer review, whose results are sent to the authors within a deadline not longer than 60 days after the submission of the originals.
