Manuscript Formatting Guidelines for Texts Submitted to the Editorial Office
All contributions — books, studies, articles, and reviews — must be submitted to the editorial office in electronic format.
Texts must be accompanied by an abstract and 10 keywords, both in Romanian and in English.
The first footnote of the contribution must include brief information about the author(s): name, institution, postal address, and email address. The email address will be published so that the author may be contacted by readers. Where relevant, the note may also include the author’s field of specialization and the titles of several representative publications.
For the methodological guidelines regarding the preparation of academic texts, reference should be made to Ștefan Lupu, Ghid practic pentru elaborarea unei lucrări științifice în teologie, Sapientia, Iași, 2009².
Text Preparation
Texts should be prepared in “.doc” format using Microsoft Word. If other formats are used, such as “.docx” or Macintosh-based systems, the text should be converted to “.doc” or “.rtf”.
The use of underlining and capital letters in the text should be kept to a minimum. If emphasis is absolutely necessary for understanding the context, italics should be used. Capital letters should be used according to the rules of the Dicționarul ortografic, ortoepic și morfologic al limbii române — DOOM.
Quotations
Quotations in Classical Languages
Texts in Latin should be written in italics, without quotation marks.
For Greek and Hebrew, the fonts SBL Greek and SBL Hebrew should be used. These may be downloaded from the website of the Society of Biblical Literature:
http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/BiblicalFonts_FAQ.aspx
together with the corresponding instructions for use.
References to the books of Sacred Scripture should be inserted in the text and formatted according to the model used in:
Noul Testament, Editura Sapientia, Iași, 2008², 7–8
and, for articles in foreign languages, according to the journal Biblica:
http://www.bsw.org/statics/Biblica_EICr5.pdf, 4–6
Other Quotations
All other quotations should be placed in quotation marks according to the language used:
- for Romanian and German: „…”, and «…» for quotations within quotations;
- for French: « … », and ‹…› for quotations within quotations;
- for Italian: « … », and ‘…’ for quotations within quotations;
- for English: “…”, and ‘…’ for quotations within quotations.
The punctuation rules of the language in which the text is written must be observed. For example, in French, a space should be inserted before certain punctuation marks.
Footnotes
Citing Ancient Authors and Patristic Sources
For these categories of citations, the critical editions used must be indicated either in the first note or at the end of the text. Examples:
Ammianus Marcellinus, History, III, ed. J. C. Rolfe, Cambridge, Mass. 1939.
Cassiodori – Epiphanii Historia ecclesiastica tripartita, ed. W. Jacob/R. Hanslik, Wien 1952.
Eusebiu, Vita Constantini, in: Eusebius Werke, ed. I. A. Heikel, 1. Bd, Leipzig 1902.
Eusebiu din Caesareea, Historia ecclesiastica, I–II, ed. K. Lake, London/New York 1926.
In footnotes, citations should be formatted as follows:
Eusebiu, Historia ecclesiastica 3, 7, 1 (ed. Lake, I, 214).
Eusebiu, Vita Constantini 4, 14 (ed. Heikel, 123).
Citing Secondary Literature
At the first citation, all bibliographic details must be provided: author, title, place of publication, year of publication, and page number. These elements are separated by commas, except between the place and year of publication.
Cited pages should be indicated without using “p.”
Translators should not be cited, except in the case of literary works, such as translations of biblical or patristic texts. The publisher should not be cited.
Citing a Monograph
E. Chr. Suttner, Das wechselvolle Verhältnis zwischen den Kirchen des Ostens und des Westens im Lauf der Kirchengeschichte, Würzburg 1996, 25.
In the case of several authors or editors:
M. Bordoni – N. Ciola, Gesù nostra speranza. Saggio di escatologia in prospettiva trinitaria, Bologna 2000.
A. Grillmeier – H. Bacht, ed., Das Konzil von Chalkedon, I–III, Würzburg 1951–1954.
The editors of collective volumes should be cited before the title.
Articles in Periodicals
R. Ammicht-Quinn, „Non c’è niente da ridere: la Chiesa può cambiare se stessa”, Concilium 1 (2006) 22–27.
Articles in Collective Volumes
H. Legrand, „La réalisation de l’Église en un lieu”, in Initiation à la pratique de la théologie. III. Dogmatique II, Paris 1986, 143–345.
Articles in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
E. Kirsten, „Chorbischof”, in Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, II (1954), 1106–1114.
Electronic Materials
Electronic materials should be cited without special formatting, indicating the website:
Giovanni Paolo 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
Subsequent Citations
For subsequent citations of the same work, an abbreviated form should be used.
The author’s surname should be followed by the first words of the work, or by the words most relevant to the content, together with the cited 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.
Works should be cited in the same way even if they appear in two consecutive notes. Forms such as Idem/Eadem, Ibidem, and op. cit. should be avoided.
All abbreviations used for the titles of periodicals or series cited must be explained at the end of the book, article, or submitted text.
If the text requires the use of a special font other than those mentioned above, the author is asked to make it available to the editorial office.
Any references to figures or other appendices should be inserted directly into the text.