Main text
Microsoft Word Document, Times New Roman 12pt, Unicode fonts for Greek or other non-Latin Avoid the use of boldface, small caps, or superscript except for footnote references.

Quotations
Use “…” for quotation, e.g. “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”; in the case of a quotation within a quotation, use “…«…»…” “In Julius Caesar, Mark Antony says: «I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him», doing so at the beginning of his funeral speech”. If the punctuation is part of the quotation, it should be between the quotation marks, otherwise it should not be.
If a quotation in the main text is longer than 2-3 lines, it should be put into a new indention, doing so the following way: leave one line-space before and after the quotation, use font size 11, do not use cursive, leave 1cm wide margins both on the left and the right of the text, without quotation marks.

Biblical References
Do not use italics for Biblical references.
Use commas between verse numbers of the same chapter, semicolons between references that give chapter and verse numbers from different chapters, and a single dash between verse numbers of the same chapter.
Do not use italics for the names of Biblical books: 1Cor 7,11-3; Matt 3,2- 5.

Citing Ancient Sources
Please avoid the use of abbreviations and If a work is used more than four times, please explain it. E.g.: Clement of Alexandria, Eclogae propheticae (= Ecl.).
Author, Title Book/Section: Homer, Iliad 18,141-143; Plato, Timaeus 42a- 43a; Philo, Legum allegoriae I,12-25.
Bibliographical references should be written using the word function for footnotes. Please, do not use any other software to organize the footnotes!

Footnotes
Footnotes for superscripts should be left outside punctuation (after the comma, after the period). E.g.:
Accordingly,¹ Solomon says.²
Always give the full first name and surname of each author and editor when the work is quoted for the first time; subsequently, their names can be

Citations of monographs
Citations of monographs should include the following elements: the author, title, publisher’s name, place and date of publication. If the cited monograph is part of a series, the name of the series and the volume or number of the book should be indicated. Subsequent citations of the same book should cite the abbreviated first name and the author’s last name, a shortened version of the title and the relevant page numbers. E.g.:

Book
Vito Limone, Origene e la filosofia greca. Scienze, testi, lessico, Letteratura cristiana antica 30, Morceliana, Brescia 2018, 29-37. Subsequent citations: V. Limone, Origene e la filosofia greca, 52-58.

A Book with Two or Three Authors:
Manlio Simonetti – Emanuela Prinzivalli, La teologia degli antichi cristiani (secoli I-V), Letteratura cristiana antica 26, Morceliana, Brescia 2012, 225-229.

An Article in an Anthology, or Other edited volume:
Judith L. Kovacs, Clement as Scriptural Exegete: Overview and History of Research, in Veronika Černušková – Judith L. Kovacs – Jana Plátová (eds.), Clement’s Biblical Exegesis Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria (Olomouc, May 29– 31, 2014), Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 139, Brill, Leiden – Boston 2016, 1-37.

An Article in a Journal
Mark Edwards, “Clement of Alexandria and his Doctrine of the Logos”, in Vigiliae Christianae 54 (2000), 158-177.
Subsequent citations: M. Edwards, “Clement of Alexandria and his Doctrine of the Logos”, 158-159.
Do not use abbreviations for secondary sources: journals, periodicals, major reference works, and series.

Technical Abbreviations
Cf. – confer, compare
ed./eds. – editor/editors
frg. – fragment
Ibid. – ibidem, in the same place (Ibid, 28-30)
Idem – the same

Abstract
If the paper is not in English, please place a (preferably) English abstract at its end. If the paper is in English, please place a (preferably) German, French, Italian or Spanish abstract at its end. The abstract should not be longer than 1200 characters, spaces included. The abstract should bear the title of the paper in the language of the Please leave 2 line- spaces before and after the tile of the abstract.