Notes for Contributors - Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

All Editorial correspondence should be addressed to:

Dr Ruth Macrides, Editor, BMGS

Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston,

Birmingham B15 2TT.

Fax: 0121-414 6866

e-mail: R.J.Macrides@bham.ac.uk

General

1.  The maximum length of an article should be 8,000 words, including footnotes; for critical 

    studies, 3,500 words.

    Articles for consideration should be initially submitted in hard-copy form, in two copies. Authors 

    should supply their postal and e-mail addresses.

    Manuscripts must be clearly typewritten/printed and spaced x 1.5 on A4 or 11" x 8½". 

    Faded photocopies or print-outs will not be accepted. 

    They should be page-numbered from beginning to end in one sequence. 

    Typescripts should have ample margins throughout, and the type should be on one side of the 

    page only.

    Once a submission has been accepted, the author is asked to send the final version on disk 

    using a PC- and Windows-compatible format, together with hard copy.

    Please do NOT use "read-only"  CDs for the text of your article or for captions.

    Authors should ensure that all diacritics in all languages should be correctly placed on the hard    

    copy.

    The inclusion of English translations of passages in Greek and other foreign languages is a 

    matter for discussion between authors and the editors. Authors are advised to consult the 

    editors about this matter when preparing their submissions.

    BMGS is not normally able to publish colour illustrations.

2.  for articles only, the author's name and affiliation should be given below the title, and an 

    ABSTRACT of not more than 100 words, outlining the contents and argument of the article, 

    should precede the text of the article.

3.  SPELLING. British spelling conventions should be followed. In words where there is a choice 

     between ending in -ize and in -ise, -ize should be used. 

     APOSTROPHES. In the possessive case of Greek names ending in -s, “s'" should be used, 

     not   “s's": thus Socrates'.

4.  FOOTNOTES should be confined to necessary references. See para. 10.

5.  ALTERATIONS IN PROOFS are expensive and should be kept to an absolute minimum. The   

     journal reserves the right to charge authors the cost of making alterations and additions (but 

     not, of course, printer's corrections).

6.  ITALICS should be indicated in the typescript either by underlining or by italic typeface.

7.  QUOTATIONS. Verse quotations should be marked as such in the left-hand margin.

8.  ABBREVIATIONS should not be used in the body of the text, except for standard cases such as 

     Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, St.

9.  SINGLE INVERTED COMMAS should be used for quotations, for words or phrases used in a 

     special or technical sense, and for titles of articles etc., but quotations over 50 words should 

     indented and single-spaced without inverted commas.

     DOUBLE INVERTED COMMAS should be used only to indicate a quotation or title within another 

     quotation or title.

References

10. Titles of books should be given in full on first reference, with author's name and place and date 

      of publication. The author's surname and the title of the work (abbreviated if necessary) should 

      be used subsequently (op.cit. should be used only if the work has been cited shortly before), 

      and in the case of a work cited frequently a stated abbreviation may be used. Where 

      necessary, the place of deposit of a book, pamphlet, typescript etc. should be stated in brackets.

10.1. Citations from BOOKS should be made thus:

        R.J.H. Jenkins, Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries: A.D. 610-1071 (London 1966) 160-85.

        C. Diehl, Manuel d'art byzantin, 2nd edn, II (Paris 1926) 552-3.

        Syméon le Nouveau Théologien, Catéchèses, 3 vols., ed. B. Krivochéine

        [Sources Chrétiennes, 96, 104, 113] (Paris 1963-5).

        Modern Criticism and Theory, ed. D. Lodge (London and New York 1988) 36-42.

        For works published in English, initial capitals should be used for all major words. For other   

        languages, follow local rules.

10.2. Citations from PERIODICALS AND EDITED VOLUMES should be made thus, using 

        abbreviations necessary (see below):

        B. Coleman, 'George Horton: the literary diplomat', BMGS 30 (3002) 81-93.

        P. Golden, 'The peoples of the Russian forest belt', in D. Sinor (ed.), The Cambridge History 

        of Early Inner Asia (Cambridge 1990) 256-8.

        For works published in English, initial capitals should be used only for proper names and for

        the first word following a colon.

        A list of ABBREVIATIONS of journals and collections is included at the front of each volume 

        of BMGS. When in doubt, contributors should give the full title of every periodical cited.

10.3.Citations from BYZANTINE AUTHORS should be made by author's name, transliterated from the 

       Greek, title of the work as given by the editor, name of editor, volume number, place and date 

       of publication, and page number. Thus

        George Pachymeres, Relations historiques, ed. A. Failler, I (Paris

        1984), 61. (Thereafter Pachymeres, I, 61). Nikephoros Gregoras, Byzantina

        Historia, ed. L. Schopen, II (Bonn 1830), 1012. (Thereafter Gregoras,

        II, 1012).

11.  REFERENCES TO PUBLICATIONS IN GREEK

      Authors' names should be transliterated, while titles of books and journals should be given in 

      Greek characters. Places of publication and other information should be in English. Do not 

      translate Greek titles into English:

      A. Sikelianos, Ëõñéêüò âßïò I (Athens 1992) 56.

      R. Beaton, 'Ï Óéêåëéáíüò üðùò ôïí ãíþñéóå ï ÓåöÝñçò', Áíôß 235 (November 2001) 749.