Author Guidelines
The editorial board of “SYMBOLAE PHILOLOGORUM POSNANIENSIUM” kindly asks authors to become acquainted with the requirements that any materials submitted for publication must meet:
1. We welcome articles (up to 40 pp.) written in Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish.
2. To ensure scholarly reliability, and to counteract ghost-writing or guest authorship, the editorial board asks authors to reveal their own contribution and that of other authors to the publication as footnote to their article (i.e. information about the author of the conception, assumptions, methods, etc., presented in the study, including its affiliation), and advise of the contribution of science and research institutions, associations, and others, to the article. Any uncovered cases of scholarly misconduct will be exposed, including notification of appropriate authorities.
3. Authors, whose articles have been accepted for printing, are obliged to send to the address of the publishing house their personally signed declaration confirming their authorship of the publication, and the fact that it has not been published before in any periodical (declaration form here).
4. Please send your articles in electronic form (always in two formats: .doc and .pdf) to the following address:symbolae@amu.edu.pl. Footnotes should be located at the bottom of body of the text.
5. The articles delivered for publication must include: anabstractin English (several sentences), and up to 10 keywords; summary in one of the congress languages or Latin.
6. Preference will be given to the articles written in one of the congress languages.
7. Where the text contains Greek quotations, a description (name) of the Greek font must be given. Attaching proper font in a separate file will be welcomed.
8. Please place shorter quotations within quotation marks, and longer ones (also Greek, Latin, and their examples) should be placed in a separate paragraph, in a smaller font, without quotation marks. Very short quotations, Latin quotations, and foreign words must be highlighted in italics.
9. Any references in footnotes should be written in accordance with the following examples: independently: Burnett 1971: 95–97 in a sentence, e.g.: as Burnett (1971: 95–97) argues in his study
10. The author’s name must always be repeated; please do not use abbreviationsop. cit.,id., oribid. References cf. and vide are acceptable.
11. References must be places underneath the body of the article, while maintaining the division into: source texts, examples and remarks; studies.
12. Bibliographic citations of the studies must be formulated in accordance with the following
examples:
Primary sources:
Anacreonte. I frammenti erotici. Testo, commento e traduzione. Ed., tr., comm. by G. M. Leo.
- Rome.
Ovid. Amores. Text, Prolegomena and Commentary, vol. 2: A Commentary on Book One. Ed.,
comm. by J. C. McKeown. 1989. Leeds.
Poetae Melici Graeci. Ed. by D. L. Page. 1962. Oxford.
Secondary sources:
Book
One author
Pollan 2006: Pollan, M. 2006. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
New York: Penguin.
citation in footnotes: Pollan 2006: 99–100.
Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author
García Márquez 1988: García Márquez, G. 1988. Love in the Time of Cholera. Transl. by E.
Grossman. London: Cape.
citation in footnotes: García Márquez 1988: 242–55.
Chapter or other part of a book
Kelly 2010: Kelly, J. D. 2010. “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral
Economy of War.” In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency. Ed. by J. D. Kelly,
- Jauregui, S. T. Mitchell, and J. Walton, 67–83. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
citation in footnotes: Kelly 2010: 77.
Preface, foreword, introduction, or similar part of a book
Rieger 1982: Rieger, J. 1982. Introduction to Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by
- Wollstonecraft Shelley, xi–xxxvii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
citation in footnotes: Rieger 1982: xx–xxi.
Journal article (names of journals should be provided in full rather than abbreviated)
Article in a print journal
Weinstein 2009: Weinstein, J. I. 2009. “The Market in Plato’s Republic.” Classical Philology
104: 439–58.
citation in footnotes: Weinstein 2009: 440.
Article in an online journal
Kossinets 2009: Kossinets, G., and D. J. Watts. 2009. “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving
Social Network.” American Journal of Sociology 115: 405–50. Accessed February 28,
- doi:10.1086/599247.
citation in footnotes: Kossinets and Watts 2009: 411.
- References to classical authors should be made in keeping with the accepted method:
Hom. Od. VIII 368; Ar. Ra. 1333; Pind. O. 1, 69; Hes. fr. 165, 14–15 Merkelbach-West; Arist. Rhet. 1395 b 5; Quint. II 16, 7.
