Guidelines for Authors
1. Submission of articles and recensions / book reviews
The articles and recensions submited for publication must be originals and in accordance with the editorial standards adoped by the review. They will be object of anonymous peer review. The whole process is carried out in accordance with the Code of Ethics. Guide to good practice for jornals editors of the University of Coimbra (Editorial policies)
All submitted papers must be send to biblos.fluc @ fl.uc.pt with the following data: author’s name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
Papers that are not in digital format will be sent to:
Biblos. Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Gabinete de Comunicação e Imagem
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
Largo da Porta Férrea
3004-530 Coimbra (Portugal)
2. Publication of articles
2 1. Text format and length
Articles in German, Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese are accepted. The text in total can not exceed 50 000 characters with spaces, including abstract, notes, bibliography, etc..
The article must include at the beginning:
i) the title in bold, aligned to the left or justified, font Times New Roman, size 16 points;
ii) the author’s name, email address, and institutional affiliation (if the author belongs to several institutions two of them can be mentioned) at successive paragraphs;
iii) abstract containing up to 150 words in the language in which the article is written and in English, or, if the article is in English, in any of the other languages accepted in the review;
iv) a five words list of keywords in both languages of the abstract.
v) the article must include a bibliography at the end, limited to the titles mentioned within the text;
vi) footnotes must be brief, just for explanations or occasional comments, the essential matters must be included in the text. Footnote callouts must appear before punctuation.
2 . 2 Text Formatting
The text must be formatted in Microsoft Office Word in A4 format, page setting requirements: top, botton, left and right margins 2.54cm, justified text alignment, with an increase of 1.27 cm in the first line of each paragraph, double line spacing, font Times New Roman with size 12 points and page and notes sequential numbered.
Subtitles without any numbers, must be formatted according to the following scale:
Level 1: Left alignment letter in bold, size 14 points.
Level 2: Left alignment letter in bold, size 13 points.
Level 3: Left alignment letter in bold, size 12.5 points.
Level 4: Left alignment letter n ibold, size 12 points.
Excluding on the titles there will be no other underlined or bold use. Quotes must be presented between curly quotation marks (“ ”), unless if exceeding three lines, in which case the text should be highlighted by one space, using an 11 points font, followed by the reference to the work quoted in abbreviated form.
All links should be removed.
Graphics, tables, maps, and any illustrations, must be executed in Illustrator and saved in their native form (extensão.ai ). The graphics can also be executed in Excel, long as they are saved as image in TIFF format. For photographs it is required CMYK mode in TIFF format and 300 dpi resolution and size of 16x23cm.
Each item must be sent in a separate file indicating in the text , where it must be inserted.
The author has the responsibility to obtain permission to publish images subject to copyright.
2. 3 Organization of the final bibliography
Monographs:
Anunciação, Maria José Ferraz da (2003). Jornalismo desportivo. Novas perspectivas de análise. Lisboa: Costa Reis.
Machado, Vitorino Custódio Antunes (2009). Os Conimbricenses e a retórica. 2.ª ed.Coimbra: Respublica, 123-145.
Sousa, Manuela Augusta Pereira, Feliciano, José da Rocha eds. (2003). A filologia na era da informática. Porto: Associação de Livreiros.
Articles:
Figueiredo, António (1988). “Alterações climáticas em Portugal”, in Antónia Vieira Simões (ed.), Impactos da oscilação climática no Atlântico Norte. Évora: Muralha, 3-34.
Moreira, Alberta Maria Reis (1994). “D. Miguel do Couto e a arquitectura militar do Renascimento em Portugal”, Revista de História da Arte, 13, 111-123.
The items must be alphabetically sorted by author’s surname without caps or small caps, observing the name by which the author is known. Roman numerals must be avoided.
Pages and sites online should as far as possible, contain the author’s bibliographical information, title and date. It is essential to indicate the URL and the date of last access.
2 4. Abbreviated quotes
The indication of a passage or of a work must be made in an abbreviated form preferably in the text following the model author and date (name of the author date: page). For example (Anunciação 2003: 25).
Abbreviated words will be used: id, et al., eds, eds., coord., trad., org., intr., pref., posf., ib., cit., ad loc, cf., v., in (only in the case of collective works), apud, wd., wp., wn.
3. Publication of recensions / book reviews
The work under recension/ review must be identified according to the model used in the bibliography.
Recensions / Book reviews must not exceed 8000 characters with spaces.
