Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Letras Clássicas is an annual peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by the University of São Paulo’s Department of Classics. Authors are invited to submit articles in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese on topics related to the Ancient Greek and Roman world, including language, literature, philosophy, history, anthropology, art, religion, history of classical studies as well as reception of classical antiquity.

2. Contributions should be sent as an electronic file via journal’s online submission system (OJS, registration required). It can be accessed here.

3. Please take notice of these requests:

1. Make sure this is your final version, changed versions cannot be accepted later.
    
2. Send a single document, with abstract, keywords, references and footnotes included, not as separate docs; the suggested total number of words and word-equivalents is between 7,000 and 12,000.
    
3. Please send a .docx or .doc or .rtf file, NOT a .pdf (although this may be sent in addition, as supplementary file).
    
4. Please use a unicode font for Greek.
    
5. Retain a copy of the manuscript in the exact format submitted, since editorial comments sent to authors sometimes refer to specific pages and lines in the original.
    
6. All manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, with ample margins. Underline or italicize words that are to be set in italics; please be consistent. Use only double quotation marks throughout.
    
7. Give inclusive page numbers; do not use ff nor sq. nor ss.
    
8. Articles should be accompanied by a full reference of works cited (only), including D.O.I. number when possible (see examples in section 8, below). For in-text references, use the name–year system, e.g. “Moorton (1990, 155) suggests…” or “For a specific discussion, see West 1966, 12”. If some discussion is required, however, the reference should be in a footnote.
    
9. For Greek and Latin passages, please use a standard edition (Oxford, Teubner, Budé). Please state whose translations you are using (your own or otherwise) in an appropriately placed footnote.
    
10. Keywords are limited to six (words, not phrases).

4. Letras Clássicas follows a policy of blind and anonymous reviewing. Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts so that their own identities are not revealed to editorial readers. The first two pages should be unnumbered:

1. a cover page with the title of the manuscript, the author’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address; and
    
2. an abstract of 100 or fewer words (repeat the title of the article on the abstract page to identify it).

Number pages thereafter sequentially (first page of text is page 1). Authors who use a header with page numbers should use a short title (e.g., “Fasti and the Stars” - 3). Although it may seem obvious, please proofread your paper, especially the Latin and Greek passages, and make sure all references are complete before submitting it for review.

5. The copyright policy of Letras Clássicas can be obtained on our website, here.

6. Points of Style (for final submissions)

Authors may be requested to send final versions which adhere to Letras Clássicas style (based on The Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition) and to the general submission guidelines in section 3, above. Failure to do so may result in a delay in publication.

1. Abbreviations. Refrain from scholarly abbreviations in references (op. cit., ad loc., ff., sq., etc.). Use short titles instead of op. cit. Do not italicize common Latin abbreviations (e.g., et al.).
    
2. Classical works. For abbreviations of classical works, authors, and journals, Letras Clássicas prefers the Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD) and the The Liddell–Scott Jones Lexicon (LSJ), as well as digits to represent books, chapters, paragraphs, poems, lines, pages (e.g. Hom. Od. 4.115; Ov. Am. 3.15.20; Arist. Top. 100b.28). Other systems are acceptable as long as they are consistent.
    
3. Illustrations. The author is responsible for obtaining permissions for illustrations if necessary. Please allow plenty of time to obtain permissions. For all illustrations, please supply approximate placement by coding in arrow brackets at the appropriate point in your manuscript (e.g. < INSERT FIGURE 2 >). Please also supply legends if any (e.g. Figure 2. Medea knocks at the palace door).
    
4. Greek and Latin. Scholarship published in Letras Clássicas often requires quotations in Greek. Please use a unicode font for Greek other than that used for your text. Try to keep the Greek together; avoid inserting Greek words or phrases in your sentences, except when necessary to gloss. Individual Greek words may be transliterated; in such cases, either underline or italicize the word to indicate italics; be consistent. Please check all Greek and Latin quotations, especially for accents and line numbering. Be consistent in use of u or v in Latin. Also, be consistent in modern spelling of Greek proper names throughout your article – do not use both Herakles and Hercules. If you are not able to type macrons, it may be indicated by underlining the vowel (e.g. techne).
    
5. Acknowledgments. Should be in the final note, keyed to the end of text.

7. Examples for end references (note that author’s first name is included; et al. is used only for four or more authors)

1. Journal
   
   Moorton, Richard F. 1990. “Love as death: the pivoting metaphor in Vergil’s story of Dido.” The Classical World 83:153–66.
   
   Helleman, Wendy E. 1995a. “Homer’s Penelope: A tale of feminine arete.” Echos du monde classique 39:227–50.
   
   Jackson, Paul. 2011. “Parménide chez Lucrèce.” Letras Clássicas (15):51–61. doi: 10.11606/issn.2358-3150.v0i15p51-61.
    
2. Book
   
   Nelis, Damien. 2001. Vergil’s Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. Leeds: Francis Cairns.
   
   Lewalski, Barbara K., ed. 1986. Renaissance Genre: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation. Cambridge, MA – London: Harvard University Press.
   
   Diels, Hermann, and Walther Kranz. 1985. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Zurich: Weidmann.
    
3. Classical work (note that classical author is set in italics as rest of title)
   
   Cropp, Martin J. 1988. Euripides: Electra. With translation and commentary. Wiltshire.
   
   Sartorelli, Elaine C. 2013. Erasmo: Diálogo Ciceroniano. Tradução e notas. São Paulo: Unesp.
   
   West, Martin L. 1966. Hesiod: Theogony. Edited with prolegomena and commentary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
   
   
4. Chapter in a book (note that inclusive page numbers are given)
   
   Cassio, Albio C. 2002. “Early editions of the Greek epics and Homeric textual criticism.” In Omero tremila anni dopo, edited by F. Montanari, 105–136. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
   
   Kany-Turpin, José. 2005. “Méduse et l’épidémie. La métamorphose d’un mythe dans la Pharsale (IX, 619–889).” In Liber amicorum. Mélanges sur la littérature antique et moderne à la mémoire de Jean-Pierre Néraudau, edited by F. Lestringant et al., 133–45. Paris: Honoré Champion.
   
   Rosow, Lois. 2005. “Power and display: Music in Court Theatre.” In: The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music, edited by Tim Carter and John Butt, 197–240. Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CHOL9780521792738.009