Submissions

Author Guidelines

Texts

The text should be written in Word format (.docx), with Times New Roman font 12 for the text and 10 for the footnotes, and line spacing 1.5.

The maximum length of each text is fixed to 15.000 words (about 30 pages) including spaces, footnotes and bibliography.

A maximum of 15 images can be inserted.

The authors should provide a short summary of their paper (150 words) in English and in the language of the article. Each article should include 3-5 keywords.

For the submission the following files should be presented separately: a. abstracts, text, notes and bibliography; b. illustrations; c. captions of illustrations (with iconographic references).

Each contribution must have clearly visible the membership and the e-mail of the author.

The use of paragraphs in the internal structure of the text is recommended.

Indicate the use of special fonts (especially for the Greek language – Unicode font).

Words and phrases in a foreign language or Latin, ancient Greek or other ancient languages will be in italics, even if transcribed in the Latin alphabet, unless they are specialized terms that are widely used (e.g. kylix, kyma, etc.) or have entered living use (e.g. élites).

Quotations of primary sources should be given in the original language and should be accompanied by a translation into the language used in the text.

Put the quotation marks «/» if the original text is brief. Text of 5 lines or more should be put between two white lines.

The exponents of the notes must precede the punctuation mark. In compiling, enter notes in the footer.

The dimensional indications like mm, cm, dm, m, m², … are never followed by the point and should precede the numbers.

Not use ever special formatting and do not use ‘Bullets and Numbering’. Do not indent the paragraphs in the text or insert any tables or figures.

Bibliography

Use System Author + Year Edition: Petridis 2020, 85-88 and provide a comprehensive bibliography for every work cited at the end of the text.

In case of more than one work of the same author published in the same year the letter a, b, c, etc., will follow to the year of issue (Sfameni 2017a).

Indicate the surnames for two authors, then add et al. (Baldini, Barresi 2023; Sfameni et al. 2023).

The indication of the pages must not be preceded by ‘p.’ ‘pp.’.

In the final bibliography please use the criteria exemplified below:

1. Monographs

Bonini 2006: P. Bonini, La casa nella Grecia romana. Forme e funzioni dello spazio privato fra I e VI secolo, (Antenor Quaderni, 6), Milano 2006.

Marzano, Metraux 2018: A. Marzano, G. Metraux (eds.), The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin. Late Republic to Late Antiquity, Cambridge 2018.

Pensabene, Sfameni 2014: P. Pensabene, C. Sfameni (eds.) 2014, La Villa restaurata e i nuovi studi sull’edilizia residenziale tardoantica, Atti del Convegno Internazionale del Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sull’Edilizia abitativa tardoantica nel Mediterraneo (CISEM), (Piazza Armerina, 7-10 novembre 2012), (Insulae Diomedae, 25), Bari 2014.

• For reprints: Solari 1976: A. Solari, Topografia storica dell’Umbria², Roma 1976.

• For reissues: Piganiol 1967: A. Piganiol 1967⁵, La conquête romaine, Paris 1967.

2. Articles in journals

Citation as in Section 1 with the initials of the periodical (Archäologische Bibliographie or L’Année Philologique): Liste der abzukürzenden Zeitschriften, ^*Reihen, ^LLexika und häufig zitierten ^°Werke [PDF].

When these are not present, use the full name or an abbreviated form, as long as understandable, to be indicated in the bibliography.

The indication of the pages must not be preceded by ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’.

Vera 1988: D. Vera, Aristocrazia romana ed economie provinciali nell’Italia tardoantica: il caso siciliano, QC 10, 1988, 115-172.

Volpe, Turchiano 2012: G. Volpe, M. Turchiano, La villa tardoantica e l’abitato altomedievale di Faragola (Ascoli Satriano), MDAI(R) 118, 2012, 455-491.

3. Papers in Miscellaneous Studies or Conference Proceedings

Cantini 2012: F. Cantini, La Tuscia settentrionale tra IV e VII secolo: nuovi dati archeologici sulla transizione, in C. Ebanista, M. Rotili (eds.), La trasformazione del mondo romano e le grandi migrazioni. Nuovi popoli dall’Europa settentrionale e centro-orientale alle coste del Mediterraneo, Cimitile (NA) 2012, 163-175.

Baldini et alii c.d.s: I. Baldini, P. Barresi, G. Leucci, C. Sfameni, D. Tanasi, Nuove ricerche archeologiche nell’area della villa del Casale di Piazza Armerina, in I. Baldini, C. Sfameni, C. Valero Tevár (a cura di), Abitare nel Mediterraneo tardoantico, Atti del IV Convegno Internazionale del Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sull’Edilizia abitativa tardoantica nel Mediterraneo (CISEM) (Cuenca 7-9 novembre 2022), Bari c.d.s.

In case of repeated references use the abbreviation: Ibid.

Series, lexicons, dictionaries, encyclopaedias

They must be indicated by the abbreviations of https://www.ajaonline.org/submissions/standard-reference. If not present: Abkürzungsverzeichnis of the Theologische Realenzyklopädie (De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1976).

Ancient authors

Latin Names and titles are preferred and should conform to the list of abbreviations given in The Oxford Classical Dictionary.

Greek Names and titles should be abbreviated and marked as in The Online Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon.

Figures

All illustrations (photos, drawings, plans, diagrams, etc.) should be considered as figures (fig.) and as such they will be numbered in the order of reference in the text.

You need to provide good quality images, with the following features:

• For the photographs:
  File: Photoshop saved in tiff or jpg, resolution: 300 dots / inch or more (absolutely no less), b-n.

• For maps, drawings, reconstructions:
  File: Photoshop saved in tiff or jpg, resolution: 1200 dots / inch.

Authors are required to obtain any necessary authorizations for the publication of the pictures.

Captions

The captions of the figures, numbered consecutively, will be written in a separate file.

Example: 1. Piazza Armerina. General plan of the villa (from Pensabene 2020, 35, fig.1).

Draft

The correction of the first draft is assigned to the authors that will return it corrected within 10 days. The second draft will be corrected by the editorial board.