Information For Authors

Authors being interested in publishing with WBAGon are welcome to contact the editorial office directly.

Manuscripts can be submitted as word-file (doc or docx) as well as pdf by e-mail to the editorial office (franziska.beutler@univie.ac.at). The authors have to take care of the consistency of the citation format within the publication. We recommend using the guidelines shown below but other citation’s rules are also accepted. In consultation with the editorial board, an individual design according to your requirements is possible.

Recommended guidelines for citing literature

Name of author

Authors’ first names appear as initials in literature citation. The title of the monograph or the article is to be separated from the author’s name by a comma (examples 1, 2).

When a work is cited for a second time, the author’s last name suffices (example 3, see also below).

If the paper is part of a Festschrift, conference or something similar, the author and title of it should be linked with the edited collection by “in:” (example 2).

Two or more authors should be separated by a comma.

Monographs

The title is to be quoted in full and italics. The subtitle is not obligatory; if main title and subtitle are used, they should be separated by a full stop.

The volume number should be cited without “vol.” in Roman numerals, further subdivisions in Arabic. The Roman and Arabic numerals should not be separated by a comma (example 4).

Place and year of publication are separated from the title by a comma. Another comma is needed before the page number.

If a monograph is published within a series, the abbreviation or title of the series is to be separated from the book title by brackets; the volume number is cited in Arabic numerals (e.g. examples 2, 4).

The used edition is indicated by a superscript numeral typed immediately before the year of publication.

Journals, lexica and reference works

The journal’s title or abbreviation is followed by the volume number and the year of publication in brackets. Between the brackets citing the year of publication and the page number there is no comma. The abbreviations of the journals should refer to the list in L’année philologique (example 5).

Reference works and lexica in several volumes should be cited like journals. If there’s only one volume, it is cited like a monograph. The abbreviations should refer to the list within Der Neue Pauly (example 6).

Ancient Authors, inscriptions, papyri

Greek and Latin authors and their writings should be abbreviated according to the abbreviation list in Der Neue Pauly.

Abbreviations of epigraphic editions follow the guidelines of F. Bérard e.a., Guide de l’Épigraphiste. Bibliographie choisie des épigraphies antiques et médiévales, Paris 42010 (see also http://www.antiquite.ens.fr/IMG/file/pdf_guide_epi/abreviations_guide.pdf)

Papyrological editions, series, symposia etc. follow the guidelines of the Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets: http://papyri.info/docs/checklist.

Abbreviated references

When a work is cited more than once, an abbreviated reference is used after the first time. These abbreviated references contain the author’s last name, a shortened title, a reference to the footnote in which the work is mentioned for the first time (in brackets), and page numbers. Between the internal reference in brackets and the page number no comma is needed (example 3).

A list of references can be used. The abbreviations should be expanded in the bibliographic information at the end of the text. However, if a title is used less than three times, it should not be abbreviated. Please use instead the system described above (with a full expanded citation for the first time) (e.g. example 3).

The abbreviations ff. and passim should be omitted!

Examples:

  1. G. Turner, The Typology of the Early Greek Codex, Philadelphia 1977, 55.
  2. Gascou, Les codices documentaires égyptiens, in: A. Blanchard (Hrsg.), Les débuts du codex (Bibliologia 9), Turnhout 1989, 71–101.
  3. Turner, Typology (n. 3) 34.
  4. von Moos, Consolatio. Studien zur mittelalterlichen Trostliteratur über den Tod und zum Problem der christlichen Trauer I–IV (Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften 3), München 1971–1972.
  5. Alföldy, Taurisci und Norici, Historia 15 (1966) 224–241.
  6. Lenschau, Hannibal, RE 7, 2 (1912) 2323–2351.