1.      “Editorial Instructions for Contributors” are available as a downloadable PDF document in our on-line version: www.bsw.org/Biblica.

 

2.      Manuscripts (articles, short notes and book reviews) submitted to the Editorial Staff of Biblica are expected to conform to these instructions, before they are considered for publication. Manuscripts that depart from these instructions will be returned to authors for reworking.

 

3.      Biblica accepts contributions in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. In no case should articles that appear elsewhere or are available on line, in the same or a different language, be submitted to this journal.

 

4.      It is assumed that manuscripts received are in their final form with no changes expected later. Authors are kindly asked to send a carefully edited version of their manuscripts and also send us full information on their academic degree(s), position and address, together with the e-mail address that functions normally at the ordinary level of spam defense.

 

5.      Manuscripts should be written in the Times New Roman font and non-Latin characters should be written with the help of the fonts indicated below.

 

6.      Authors should send us by e-mail, as an attached file, the electronic version of the article or book review. The Microsoft Word program should, where possible, be used in the composition of this version. For this purpose please use the following e-mail address: biblica@bsw.org. If manuscripts are particularly complex — e.g. when different non-Latin characters are used — please also send us a PDF version. In special cases we may request a printed manuscript.

 

7.      Contributions submitted for publication should not be longer than 61,000 characters (not including spaces) including footnotes, and should be accompanied by a summary of about 100 words (or less, in the case of short communications) giving their main point and principal arguments. Footnotes should be “created” as such, i.e. at the bottom of the page on which a number referring to them appears, and normally they together should not occupy more than 1/3^rd to 2/5^th of the whole text. Titles of articles should not be longer than 12 words (including biblical quotations). Word for word quotations from modern authors, in the text or in the footnotes, should be kept to a minimum.

 

8.      Sections in the text should not include more than three levels of subdivision. The title of a section should not be immediately followed by the title of a subdivision. The decimal system of numbering sections should be avoided.

 

9.      Cross references within the manuscript (references to the footnotes, section and the like) should be avoided.

 

10. Footnote reference numbers should come after a single space, and be followed by a punctuation mark — e.g.: Word ¹, “Word” ²; (Word) ³.

 

11. Punctuation marks come after quotation marks — e.g.: “Word”, and “Word”.

 

12. For non-Latin characters, contributors should use our recommended fonts only (Bible Works fonts, Super Hebrew and Super Greek fonts or Scholars Press fonts). The latter, created by Scholars Press for use in its on-line journal is kindly made available by the proprietors to authors and other journals. Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Coptic fonts are currently available for use with both Mac and PC systems. Authors may be able to download the SP fonts from our on-line edition.

 

13. Normally the unpointed consonantal text of Hebrew or Aramaic is to be used. If the text being discussed calls for the vocalized form of the words, they may be pointed. We ask our contributors not to use any of the existing transliteration systems, except for conjectural isolated forms which are not present in the Bible. In this case authors should send us a PC version of the font they are using, together with the manuscript. It is also important (for printing purposes) not to type Hebrew or Syriac characters from right to left.

 

14. The use of Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic quotes must be limited to essential words. The possibilities opened up by electronic biblical programs, to which most biblical scholars have access, mean that it is no longer necessary to overburden articles with long quotations in non-Latin characters. The use of biblical texts translated into modern languages is required only when a translation different from the usual one is proposed.

 

15. Before publication authors will receive a PDF version of the print proofs of their contributions for correction. At this stage no major changes are permitted. The proofs should be sent back to the Editorial Staff as soon as possible.

 

16. A definitive PDF version of their contributions will be sent to authors when their paper is published in Biblica. Authors who wish to receive off-prints of their papers should send a written request via e-mail to the address of the Gregorian & Biblical Press: periodicals@biblicum.it.