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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The manuscript represents original work. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
All authors confirm this manuscript is devoid of plagiarism of any form (i.e., direct plagiarism, self-plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, or accidental plagiarism) with respect to ideas, data, words, graphic materials or other forms of communication and understand that this manuscript will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin anti-plagiarism software.
All authors have seen and approved the manuscript being submitted. Common agreement has been reached before submission. The corresponding author is responsible for the submission, on behalf of all co-authors. No additional authors might be added post submission, unless editors receive detailed explanation.
The submission files are prepared for upload: the manuscript (in Microsoft Word file format) and the declarations file.
The text is written in a comprehensible language and adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. For the articles written in languages other than English, the authors must provide the title of the article in English, also the abstract and keywords.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Author Guidelines

Anti-plagiarism Procedure

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Guidelines for authors / Indicatii pentru autori

Evaluation Form

Declaration of authenticity

Guidelines for authors:

All papers will be submitted in electronic format, in an international language. The texts will also have a short abstract and 10 keywords in English.

In the first footnote please give us some information about the author(s): name, institution and e-mail address (note: the e-mail will be published for contact).

The text:

Use the .doc format in Microsoft Word, or convert the text to .rtf format.

Underlining and capital letters are to be avoided. If really necessary for emphasizing some words or sentences, please use Italic fonts only.

Quotations:

Quotations from sources:

Latin texts are to be written in Italics, without brackets
For Greek and Hebrew texts please use the SBL Greek and SBL Hebrew fonts, free downloadable from the website of the Society of Biblical Literature:

http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/BiblicalFonts_FAQ.aspx

together with use instructions.

Bible quotations will follow the norms of Biblica,

http://www.bsw.org/statics/Biblica_EICr5.pdf, 4-6

All other quotations are to be written in brackets as follows:

for German „…”, and ‚…’ for quotations inside quotations
for French « … », and ‹…› for quotations inside quotations
for Italian « … », and ‘…’ for quotations inside quotations
for English “….”, and ‘…’ for quotations inside quotations

Footnotes:

The sources:

Please indicate in the first footnote or at the end of paper the editions used. The references will be as follows:

Ammianus Marcellinus, History, vol. III, ed. J. C. Rolfe, Cambridge, Mass. 1939
Cassiodori – Epiphanii Historia ecclesiastica tripartita, ed. W. Jacob/R. Hanslik, Wien 1952
Eusebius, vita Constantini, in: Eusebius Werke, ed. I. A. Heikel, 1. Bd, Leipzig 1902
Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia ecclesiastica, vol. I-II, ed. K. Lake, London/New York 1926

In the footnotes, references will be as follows:

Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica 3, 7, 1 (ed. Lake, vol I, p. 214).
Eusebius, vita Constantini 4, 14 (ed. Heikel, p. 123)

Secondary literature:

For the first mention of a title, the following bibliographical data are to be indicated: author, title, place and date of publication, page number.

Monographs:
- Chr. Suttner, Das wechselvolle Verhältnis zwischen den Kirchen des Ostens und des Westens im Lauf der Kirchengeschichte, Würzburg 1996, 25.
- Multiple authors/editors:
  - Bordoni/ N. Ciola, Gesù nostra speranza. Saggio di escatologia in prospettiva trinitaria, Bologna 2000.
  - Grillmeier/ H. Bacht (Hrsg.), Das Konzil von Chalkedon, Bd. I-III, Würzburg 1951-1954.
- Articles in periodicals:
  - Ammicht-Quinn, Non c’è niente da ridere: la Chiesa può cambiare se stessa, Concilium 1, 2006, 22-27.
- Articles in collected volumes:
  - Legrand, La réalisation de l’Église en un lieu, în: Initiation à la pratique de la théologie. Vol. III. Dogmatique II, Paris 1986, 143-345.
- Articles in dictionaries/encyclopedias:
  - Kirsten, Chorbischof, in: Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, II, 1954, 1106-1114.
- Electronic resources are to be given without special characters:
  - John Paul II, Celebrazione eucaristica in occasione del Congresso mondiale del laicato cattolico, Omelia (26.11.2000), http: // www.vatican.va / holy_father / john_paul_ii / homilies / documents / hf_jp ii_hom_20001126_jubillaity_it.html

For subsequent quotations of the same work, please use abbreviations:

the author’s surname, the first or relevant parts of the title, and page number:

Suttner, Das wechselvolle Verhältnis 57

Ammicht-Quinn, Non c’è niente 27

Legrand, La réalisation de l’Église 143

Kirsten, Chorbischof 1107-1110

give this abbreviation even in two subsequent notes (avoid formulas like idem/eadem, ibidem, cit.)

All abbreviations of periodicals, series or volume titles are to be given at the end of the paper.

Should the text require the use of a special font, please send it to the editorial board.

Indications of figures or other annexes are to be inserted in the text.

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They are published in English and should not exceed 5 pages (in Studia UBB Theologia Catholica format).

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