Submissions

Author Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS:

GENERAL INFORMATIONS
Contributions should be written in English, German, French or Italian. The article should not be longer than 12.000 words, including footnotes.
Articles should be accompanied by an abstract (max. 100 words), and key words (max 10). The abstract should present the main point and arguments of the article.
The full name, institution, address and e-mail address should be written at the end of the article.
Please attach beside the article a short information about yourself (max. 5 lines), including the institution where you work, your main points of interest, main publications.

MAIN TEXT
Authors are kindly asked to send in the final form of their article, carefully edited according to
the following indications, proofed for language, spelling and grammar.
Articles with spelling and grammar errors cannot be accepted.
Please use Normal Style, with Times New Roman, 11.5, single line spacing, justified, first line indent at 1 cm.
For headings use Heading 2 Style.
For Hebrew and Greek quotations please use Bi ble Works fonts (BWhebb, BWgrkl, that can be downloaded from http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html). Fo r transcription of Hebrew texts please use a standard transcription.

FOOTNOTES
Footnotes are numbered continuously, starting with 1.
Footnote numbers in the text should be insert ed automatically (Insert footnote), placed in superscript after the punctuation mark. Do not use endnotes or other modalities of inserting notes.
For Footnotes use Footnote Text Style with Times New Roman, 10, single, justified, hanging indent at 0.5 cm.

QUOTATIONS WITHIN THE BODY OF THE ARTICLE:
Please avoid unnecessarily long quotations, unless very important for your point.
Quotations shorter than four lines should be included in the text, between quotation marks, followed by the footnote indicating the source.
Please use quotation marks according to the rules of the language in which you write: “English, French and Italian primary”, ‘English, French and Italian secondary’, „German primary“, ‚German secondary’.

Quotations longer than three lines should be written as a different paragraph, without quotation marks, indented 0.5 cm left and right, Times New Roman 10.5.

REFERENCES
References to books and articles have to be placed in the footnotes. Do not add a bibliography.
The last name of the author(s) should be writte n in SmallCaps, the initial of the first name followed by a period, in the posit ion where it appears in the document (in front or after the name). The title of the book, periodi cal or volume in italic. The title of an article, the title of a
study in a volume or periodical, etc. between quotation marks.
For volumes the editors should be specified before the title, th e names of the editors followed by (ed.), (eds.) in English and It alian articles, (Hg.), (Hgg.) in Ge rman articles, (éd.), (éds.) in French articles. Do not use a colon after in. Do not use p., pp., etc. before page numbers. The series should be specified only for important theological series of publications.
Do not specify the publisher.

For references to websites use the full URL followed by the date: <full URL> [date accessed].

Books:
J. GNILKA, Das Matthäusevangelium, I, HThK I/1, Freiburg–Basel–Wien, 1986, 9–12.
C. K. BARRETT, The Gospel according to St. John, London, 2 1978, 435.

Articles from periodicals, collective volumes and festive volumes (Festschriften):
J.-N. ALETTI, “Jn 13 – Les problèmes de composition et leur importance”, in Bib, 87, 2006, 263–272 (264).
M. PESCE , “Il lavaggio dei piedi”, in G. GHIBERTI (ed.), Opera Giovannea, Torino, 2003, 234.
H. GESE , „Natus ex virgine“, in H. W. WOLFF (Hg.), Probleme biblischer Theologie. Festschrift G. von Rad, München, 1971, 75.
S. BROCK, “Genesis 22 in Syriac Tradition”, in P. CASETTI , O. KEEL , A. SCHENKER (éds.), Mélanges Dominique Barthélemy. Études bibliques offertes à l'occasion de son 60e anniversaire, Fribourg, Göttingen, 1981, 1–30.

Patristic works:
A MBROSIUS, Expositio evangelii sec. Lucam II, 87, PL 14, 1584D-1585A.

Documents of the Holy See (Vatican):

Please use the documents published in the languag e of the article, whenever available.
Never cite any document according to own translation.
Once the full information on a book or article has been given, th e last name of the author should be used. If you refer to several works of the same author, mention the short title after the first name (for example, Wolff, Hosea, 138), without any reference to the first note where the full title was given. Please avoid general references to works previously cited, such as op. cit., art. cit., a.a.O. Also avoid f. or ff. for “following” pages; indicate the proper page numbers. Do not use see, Vgl., etc. unless absolutely necessary.