About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal is characterized by its multifold interests, as illustrated by the title, and by its aperture to the study of numerous aspects related to the ancient world, in both Graeco-Roman and Oriental spheres. The contributions published here concern philology, literature, linguistics, archaeology, political, social, economic and religious history, history of law, cultural history, history of Science, and other branches of historical research.

Section Policies

Articles

The journal usually includes a section of 'Articles' and a section of 'Notes'. The section 'Articles' collects contributions of broad perspective. The section is open to every contributor. The submitted contributions will be peer reviewed. Every accepted contribution will be indexed and can be accessed through the search tools of the web site.

Notes

The section called 'Notes' collects brief contributions on specific subjects, with particular attention to ancient texts. The section is open to every contributor. The submitted contributions will be peer reviewed. Every accepted contribution will be indexed and can be accessed through the search tools of the web site.

Peer Review Process

Every paper sent to the journal for publication will be submitted to two double-blind reviewers appointed by the Scientific Board, with the support of the International Advisory Board and selected on the basis of their competence on the specific subject. They will be allowed to raise objections or to give suggestions that will be anonymously transmitted to the author, or alternatively to advise the Scientific Board against the publication. On these grounds, the Scientific Board will decide to accept or to refuse the paper.

Publication Frequency

The journal publishes one volume every year.

Unfortunately, in the transition to the new publishing house, a serious delay has accumulated, such that volume 48 (2002) was published in 2007.
The editors are engaged in recovering this delay as soon as possible and, under this activity, in 2008 volumes 49 (2003) and 50 (2004) were published, while in 2009, volumes 51 (2005) and 52 (2006). This frequency will be maintained until a perfect correspondence will be attained between reference and publishing year.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS

I. PROCEDURE FOR MANUAL SUBSCRIPTION

a. General instructions
The journal accepts manuscripts both in Italian and in most of the major European languages. Manuscripts (with an abstract in English and authorization to publish the author’s e-mail address), both as a hard copy and on disk, should be sent to Prof. Cesare Letta – Dipartimento di Civiltà e forme del sapere dell’Università di Pisa – Seminario di Storia Antica – via dei Mille n. 19 – I 56126 Pisa (cesare.letta@unipi.it).
The file may also be sent via e-mail.
Each manuscript sent to the journal for publication will be submitted to two reviewers appointed by the Scientific Board, with the support of the International Advisory Board and selected on the basis of their competence on the specific subject. They will be allowed to raise objections or to give suggestions that will be anonymously transmitted to the author, or alternatively to advise the Scientific Board against publication.
On these grounds, the Scientific Board will decide to accept or refuse the manuscript.
Once the manuscript has been accepted (and the changes suggested by the reviewers have been made), its text will be regarded as definitive and the author will be charged for further additions or extensive changes.
Original manuscripts will not be returned.

b. How to propose a paper

The author should send to the chief editor of the journal (cesare.letta@unipi.it) a file with these characteristics:
1) a length of no more than 20 pages;
2) conforming to the editing rules of the journal;
3) written in Times New Roman font, 12 pt., with single spacing;
4) using Greek Unicode fonts;
5) omitting author’s name, personal references or thanks (either in the text or in the footnotes) that could allow anonymous reviewers to identify him/her;
6) accompanied by a short abstract in english, including an english translation of the title and a maximum of five keywords.
When this file will arrive, the double-blind peer-review process will start.
If the paper will be accepted, the author will send to the chief editor of the journal the ultimate file in modifiable format (doc or docx), in order that the editorial staff can eliminate possible missprints and adapt the paper to the editing rules of the journal.
In this file the author will also insert, in addition to the changes suggested by the anonymous reviewers, his/her name and, if required, acknowledgements and personal references he/she will deem necessary.
By sending their final text the authors allow the publication of their e-mail address and accept the rules carried in § IV on the access to published articles.

II. PROOF-READING

Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will receive one proof for correction as a pdf file at the e-mail address they have indicated; the corrections should be sent within 10 days to Prof. Cesare Letta (Dipartimento di Civiltà e forme del sapere dell’Università di Pisa – Seminario di Storia Antica – via dei Mille n. 19 – I 56126 Pisa – Italy). Second proofs and press-proofs will be corrected during the redaction of the review by the editorial staff.
In the proof-reading the author can correct errors and misprints; substantial additions or changes, which unavoidably would involve a heavier outlay, are not allowed. In the case of extensive modifications, the publisher will request the author to pay the extra cost (minimum amountis 50 euros up to a maximum of 200 euros).

III. OFF-PRINTS

Each author will receive a pdf file including his/her article and the abstracts of the entire issue of the journal. Paper off-prints can be ordered by the authors at their own cost.

IV. Access to published articles

The authors of articles published in the journal Studi Classici e Orientali are bound to respect the following rules:
1) The authors are allowed to post immediately the pdf file of their articles only on research archives for internal use (university research archives, italian CINECA and similar), with an embargo of 18 months.
2) The authors are allowed to post the pdf file without embargo on every kind of archives, even on archives in open access (like academia.edu and similar), only when at least 18 months have elapsed after the publication of the article.

V. EDITING RULES

In footnotes, quotations of secondary literature should be provided in abridged form, with reference to a final list of “Quoted works” (or “Bibliography”).

A. Footnotes

– Author’s family name (in small capital); in the case of several authors, family names separated by a comma;
– comma;
– key-word from the title (in italic);
– comma;
– page numbers with beginnings and end (without p. or pp.).
For instance: CARLINI, Porfirio, 385-394.

B. Final list of “Cited works” (not “Bibliography”)

For each abridgement the complete bibliographical indications should be supplied, preceded by the equal sign (=).

1. Articles in reviews
– Initial letter(s) of personal name(s) and family name of the author (in small capitals); in the case of several authors, separation by a comma;
– comma;
– title (in italic);
– comma (without “in”);
– heading of the review in Roman, in swallow-tailed commas («»):
   • if the heading of the review includes a single word, this should be written in full, in Roman and in swallow-tailed commas (for instance: «Hermes»);
   • if the heading includes more than one word, comprehensible abbreviations separated by spaces should be adopted (for instance: «Zeitschr. Pap. Epigr.»);
– number of the volume (in Arabic numerals);
– year between round brackets;
– comma;
– page numbers with beginning and end (without p. or pp.).
For instance: CARLINI, Porfirio = A. CARLINI, Porfirio e l’esegesi ‘tipologica’, «St. Class. Or.» 46 (1996), 385-394.
In the case of a reprint, this should be indicated between round brackets with an equal sign (=). For instance:  WILAMOWITS–MOELLEDORFF, Medeia = U. VON WILAMOWITZ–MOELLEDORFF, Exkurse zu Euripides Medeia, «Hermes» 15 (1880), 481-523 (= Kleine Schriften, I, Berlin-Amsterdam 1971, 17-59).

2. Books

– Initial letter(s) of personal name(s) and family name of the author (in small capitals); in the case of several authors, separation by acomma;
– comma;
– title (in italic);
– comma;
– town and year of edition.

If the book is part of a collection, this should be indicated in Roman, in inverted commas (“”) and followed (without comma) by the number of the volume, before the town of edition.
In the case of a second or subsequent edition, the number should be placed as an exponent after the year of edition (without space).
In the case of a partial quotation, the page numbers should be indicated with beginning and end (without p. or pp.).
For instance:  BRISSON, Timée = L. BRISSON, Le même et l’autre dans la
structure ontologique du Timée de Platon, “International Plato Studies”
2, Sankt Augustin 19942, 27-106.

3. Encyclopaedies

– Initial letter(s) of personal name(s) and family name of the author (in small capitals); in the case of several authors, separation by a comma;
– comma;
– title (in italic);
– comma;
– word “in”;
– traditional abbreviation (in capital italics);
– volume number;
– year of edition between round brackets;
– comma;
– page or column numbers with beginning and end (without p. or pp., col. or coll.).
For instance:  ESCHER, Achilleus = J. ESCHER, Achilleus, in RE I.1 (1893), 221-245.

4. Articles in Miscellanea (inclusive of Proceedings of Congresses and Catalogues of Exhibitions)

Articles: as for the articles in reviews.
Miscellanea: as for the books, with the editor’s name instead of the author’s name, followed by the words “ed.” (not “edd.”, “eds.”) between round brackets.
Between the title of the article and the editor’s name, comma and the word “in”.
For instance: Wiseman, History = T.P. Wiseman, History, Poetry, and
‘Annales’, in D.S. Levene, D.P. Nelis (ed.), Clio and the Poets. Augustan
Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography, “Mnemosyne
Suppl.” 225, Leiden 2002, 331-362.

C. Other rules

Cfr. (not cf.) for “confer”, or “compare” (it. “confronta”).
Ancient authors’ names in Roman.

Modern authors’ names in Roman, if mentioned without quotation of work nor of pages.

Extensive quotations in the text in Roman.
‘....’ for particular expression.
«....» for quotations.
Italic for words in another language.

Ethical guidelines

Sponsors

• Dipartimento di Civiltà e forme del sapere dell'Università di Pisa
• Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica dell'Università di Pisa

Journal History

Founded in 1951 by Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, "Studi Classici e Orientali" (Classical and Oriental Studies) was born as the journal of the Institute of Ancient History of Pisa University but, soon after, became the reference publication seat for the Institutes of Archaeology and Classical Philology and, finally, for the Institute of European Linguistics. Since the 1980s the journal has been publishing most of the scientific activities carried out in the Departments of Classical Philology, Linguistics, Archaeological Sciences, and Historical Sciences of the Ancient World (Filologia Classica, Linguistica, Scienze Archeologiche, Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico).

From the beginning, however, the journal has been characterized by its multifold interests, as illustrated by the title, and by its aperture to the study of numerous aspects related to the ancient world, in both Graeco-Roman and Oriental spheres. The contributions published here concern philology, literature, linguistics, archaeology, political, social, economic and religious history, history of law, cultural history, history of Science, and other branches of historical research, since the review closely abides by the grand tradition of the Sciences of Antiquity as an organic and inseparable whole.

The journal has held fast to this line under the direction of Silvio Ferri (1954-1970), Graziano Arrighetti (1970-1980), and Antonio Carlini (1980-2005), and intends to continue to pursue it into the future, in a continuous effort to combine tradition, new perspectives and methods of research and to maintain and renew its vitality.

Entrusted for thirty years to the publisher Giardini (then IEPI), from 2005 the journal, a property of the Pisa University, ...is edited by the publishing house of the same University (PLUS from 2005 to 2011, Pisa University Press from 2012)"