Author Guidelines

 

Author Guidelines PDF

Submissions are made exclusively via the journal’s email address balcanica@bi.sanu.ac.rs

 

Articles

Manuscript Preparation

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:

• Any submission must be the original work of the author that has not been published previously, as a whole or in part, either in print or electronically, or is soon to be so published.
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is 1.5-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal.
• Authors should remove all identifying features from the article text to ensure that Authors' identity is not revealed. Balcanica has adopted a double-blind review policy, where both the reviewer and author remain anonymous. Authors should cite their own works in a manner that does not make their identity explicit. Remove personal information from MS Word files.

Language

Accepted languages are English and occasionally French. Authors who are not native speakers are strongly encouraged to have their manuscripts read and corrected by a professional lector before submission. Texts should be grammatically correct and in good literary style.

Article Length

Articles should not exceed 10000 words including notes. Longer papers will be considered for publishing only in exceptional circumstances.

Contents of title page

• Author names
• Authors’ affiliation
• City of authors’ affiliation and country
• ORCID number
• E-mail address of each author
• Article title (in full title caps, lower case only for conjunctions, prepositions and articles)
• Authors whose papers result from projects should specify the title and grant number of the project in a footnote connected to the paper title
• Abstract
• Key words

ORCID

The journal asks that all authors submitting a paper register an account with Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). ORCID numbers for all authors and co-authors should be added to the author data upon submission and will be published alongside the submitted paper, should it be accepted.

Abstract

All articles should contain a concise abstract (no more than 300 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.

Keywords

Immediately after the abstract provide 5-10 keywords separated by commas.

Formatting

Texts should be submitted in Microsoft Word or Rich Text format - RTF. Keep the formatting as simple as possible. Do not use tabs. Use space key only to separate words. The text should be typed in Times New Roman 12-point font, with 1.5 line spacing and no paragraph spacing. If there are special characters in the text, it is advisable that authors mark them and send the font. New paragraphs should be indented.

Use italic type for:

• titles of books, poems, plays and periodicals;
• technical terms or phrases in languages other than English (but not for quotations or complete sentences);
• for the following abbreviations: (anno), cap., c. (circa), ibid., idem, passim, viz.

Quotations:

• less than 50 words: in the text, indicated by double quotation marks;
• 50 words or more: in 1.5-spaced format, indent from both left and right margins by 1 cm and set off from the text by a double hard return above and below; without quotation marks.

 

Figures

Figures should be submitted as separate, consecutively numbered, source files in .tiff, .jpg or .psd formats. The resolution of files should be at least 300 dpi and 600 dpi for line drawings. Please make sure that the quality of the image is suitable for publication. Do not place images in Word file, but only indicate the placement of each illustration [Fig. 1 - about here]. Authors are responsible for obtaining the IPR owner’s permission to use copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet).

Figure Captions and Credits

Provide a list of captions for all illustrations and photographs. Describe the illustration with a concise caption. Cite the full source and acknowledge credit.

Tables

Tables should be numbered and identified by number and by title. Tables should be submitted as editable text and not as images. Maximal width of tables should be 12 cm.

Numbers and Chronological References

Numbers from zero to ninety-nine, century numbers (e.g. nineteenth century), round numbers such as one hundred or one thousand, fractions and numbers that begin a sentence should be spelled out. When expressing measurements, the metric system is preferred. For the articles in French: XIX^e siècle.

Dates should be written in the following format: 20 December 1916.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements should be placed in a separate section at the end of the article - before bibliography. Do not include them in the text of the article, as a footnote or otherwise.

 

Formatting footnotes

 

 

In-text citations instead of footnotes are accepted for articles in Archaeology / Anthropology / Linguistics / Social Sciences (Hansen 2000, 25). More on in-text references can be found below.

 

Abbreviate dates throughout:

Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.

10 Dec. 1948

 

IMPORTANT:

 

• Footnotes should be typed in Times New Roman, 10-point font, single spaced, justified alignment.
• English book and article titles should be in full title caps (lower case only for conjunctions, prepositions and articles).
• All references in cyrillic have to be in English or in Latin Serbian at least as a translation in addition to those existing in the original languages.
• When two or more footnote references are the same, use Ibid. for the second reference with the same page number. When the same footnote has a different page number, use: Ibid., 105.
• Use Idem when citing the same author in the second footnote.
• If there are four or more authors, list all of the authors in the bibliography; in the footnote or in-text reference, list only the first author, followed by et al.
• Only mention one publishing location (first).
• Divide references in the same footnote by semi-colons.
• Monographs within a series – no need to note series.
• Full stop when shifting focus of references.
• For “compare” use cf, for “see” - use see (not v.)
• Please note that Balcanica does not use ‘p.’ before a page.
• Use en dash (–) when writing pagination.

 

Please format references as follows:

 

Books:

• Author(s), Book Title (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page.

1. Carole Fink, Mark Bloch: A Life in History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 4.

• Thereafter: Fink, Mark Bloch, 16.

 

Books Consulted in an Electronic Format:

• To cite a book consulted online, include a URL.

1. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds, The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, doc. 19, https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
2. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New York: Harper and Brother Publishers, 1851), 627, https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.

●       Thereafter: Kurland and Lerner, The Founders’ Constitution, chap. 4, doc. 29. Melville, Moby-Dick, 722–723.

 

Edited books:

• Format: Author(s)/Editor(s), ed./eds, Book Title, Volume number, Volume title (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), reference.

1. Pascal Ory and Jean-François Sirninelli, eds, Les intellectuels en France de l’Affaire Dreyfus à nos jours, 2 vols, 2nd edn (Paris: Colin, 1986).

• Thereafter: Ory and Sirinelli, Less Intellectuels.
• Please note the formatting of ‘ed.’ – it is in commas and not brackets.

 

Chapters in edited books:

• Format: Author, “Article Title”, in Editor(s), ed./eds, Book Title (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), reference.

1. Paul Kennedy, “A.J.P. Taylor and “‘Profound Forces’ in History”, in Chris Wrigley, ed., Warfare, Diplomacy and Politics: Essays in Honour of A.J.P. Taylor (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986), 14–28.

• Thereafter: Kennedy, “A.J.P. Taylor”, 21.

 

Journal articles:

• Format: Author, “Article Title”, Journal Title Volume, Number (Date of Publication), reference.

1. Danica Popović, “The Landscape of the Monastic Endeavour: The Choices of St Sava of Serbia”, Balcanica LV (2024), 99–122. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC2455099P

 

• Thereafter: Popović, “The Landscape of the Monastic Endeavour”, 100.

 

• Balcanica does not require that you provide the full page range for articles in journals or collected monographs – only the page references relevant to the footnote are required. In the bibliography, please use the full page range.

 

Book review:

1. Panagiotis G. Krimpas, “Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, Mihai Dragnea, Thede Kahl, Blagovest Njagulov, Donald L. Dyer and Angelo Costanzo [eds] The Romance-speaking Balkans: Language and the Politics of Identity”. Balcanica LIII (2022), 364.

●       Thereafter: Krimpas, “The Romance-speaking Balkans”.

 

Unpublished material, including PhD theses:

1. Karen Bernstein, “The International Monetary Fund and Deficit Countries: The Case of Britain 1974–7” (PhD Thesis, Stanford University, 1983), 46–73.
2. Mark Pittaway, “Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian–Hungarian Borderlands, 1945–1956”, paper presented at the ‘Imagining Peace in Twentieth- Century Europe’ workshop held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Aug. 2007.

• Thereafter: Pittaway, “Making Peace”, 93.
• Please note that the quotation mark is placed BEFORE the comma.

 

Websites:

1. Cristina Sudriá, “La Economia Española bajo el Primer Franquismo: la Energia”, paper presented at the VIIth Congress of the Association of Economic History, 2001, available at: www.unizar.es/eueez/cahe/carlessudria.pdf (last accessed 8 Feb. 2007).
2. “About Yale: Yale Facts,” Yale University, https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts (last accessed 8 March 2022).

• Thereafter: “About Yale”.

 

Archival sources:

• Format: Description (where possible), Date, Archive/Repository, Document Reference, page reference.

1. Report, Saturday 16 Jan. 1943, Stadtarchiv Münster, Stadt DOK Nr 55.1, 2–3.
2. Minutes of meeting, 16 June 1942, BAA, GVD Herzogenrath 1, II, 18254, 115.

 

• Document sources are not shortened, but archives can be abbreviated after first use.

 

Newspapers:

1. Dani Blum, “Are Flax Seeds All That?,” New York Times, 13 December 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/well/eat/flax-seeds-benefits.html.
2. Rebecca Mead, “Terms of Aggrievement,” New Yorker, 18 December 2023, 21.
3. Elana Klein, “Meet Flip, the Viral Video App Giving Away Free Stuff,” Wired, 21 December 2023,

 https://www.wired.com/story/flip-viral-video-app-shopping-free-stuff/.

●       Thereafter: Blum, “Are Flax Seeds.” Mead, “Terms of Aggrievement,” 23–24. Klein, “Meet Flip.”

 

Interview:

1. Joy Buolamwini, “ ‘If You Have a Face, You Have a Place in the Conversation About AI,’ Expert Says,” interview by Tonya Mosley, Fresh Air, NPR, 28 November 2023, audio, 37:58,

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/28/1215529902/unmasking-ai-facial-recognition-technology-joy-buolamwini.

• Thereafter: Buolamwini, interview.

 

Video or podcast:

1. Vaitea Cowan, “How Green Hydrogen Could End the Fossil Fuel Era,” TED Talk, Vancouver, BC, April 2022, 9 min., 15 sec., https://www.ted.com/talks/vaitea_cowan_how_green_hydrogen_could_end_the_fossil_fuel_era.
2. Eric Oliver, “Why So Many Americans Believe in So Many ‘Crazy’ Things,” moderated by Andrew McCall, virtual lecture, 23 February 2022, posted 21 March 2022, by University of Chicago, YouTube, 1:01:45, https://youtu.be/hfq7AnCF5bg.
3. Lauren Ober, host, The Loudest Girl in the World, season 1, episode 2, “Goodbye, Routine; Hello, Meltdown!,” Pushkin Industries, 13 September 2022, 41 min., 37 sec., https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/loudest-girl-in-the-world.

• Thereafter: Cowan, “Green Hydrogen,” at 6:09–17. Oliver, “Why.” Ober, “Goodbye, Routine.”

Personal Communication:

1. Sam Gomez, Email to author, 1 August 2024.

 

 

Formatting in-text references

 

(Lastname year, page–page).

E.g. (Popović 2024, 99–100).

 

(Lastname & Lastname, eds year, page).

E.g. (Reitz, Scarry & Scudder, eds 2008, 58).

 

If there are more than four authors, ‘et al.’ may be used after the fourth author.

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

• After the title “Bibliography” written in bold, please divide the bibliographic units into sections: “Archives” “Newspapers” and “Published sources and literature”. See previous volumes for reference.
• References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary.
• Do not use numbering when putting bibliography units, only write the bibliography and format it as: 1.5 line spacing and special - hanging by 1.27 cm

 

Book

Binder, Amy J. and Jeffrey L. Kidder. The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown. New York: Pantheon Books, 2020.

Chapter or other part of an edited book

Hansen, Mogens Herman. “The Hellenic Polis”. In A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures: An Investigation Conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre, edited by Mogens H. Hansen, 141–188. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 2000.

• In some cases, you may want to cite the collection as a whole instead:

Hansen, Mogens H., ed. A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures: An Investigation Conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 2000.

Translated book

Xinwu, Liu. The Wedding Party. Translated by Jeremy Tiang. Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2021.

Book Consulted in an Electronic Format

• To cite a book consulted online, include a URL:

Kurland, Philip B. and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper and Brother Publishers, 1851. https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.

Journal article

• Journal articles are usually cited by volume and issue number. In a note, cite specific page numbers. In the bibliography, include the page range for the whole article. For articles consulted online, include a URL (preferably one based on a DOI).

Kwon, Hyeyoung. “Inclusion Work: Children of Immigrants Claiming Membership in Everyday Life.” American Journal of Sociology 127, 6 (2022), 1818–1859. https://doi.org/10.1086/720277.

Popović, Danica. “The Landscape of the Monastic Endeavour: The Choices of St Sava of Serbia”. Balcanica LV (2024), 99–122. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC2455099P

News or magazine article

• Articles from newspapers or news sites, magazines, blogs, and the like are cited similarly. Page numbers, if any, can be cited in a note but are omitted from a bibliography entry. For articles consulted online, include a URL.

Blum, Dani. “Are Flax Seeds All That?” New York Times, 13 December 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/well/eat/flax-seeds-benefits.html.

Klein, Elana. “Meet Flip, the Viral Video App Giving Away Free Stuff.” Wired, 21 December 2023. https://www.wired.com/story/flip-viral-video-app-shopping-free-stuff/.

Mead, Rebecca. “Terms of Aggrievement.” New Yorker, 18 December 2023.

Book review

Krimpas, Panagiotis G. “Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, Mihai Dragnea, Thede Kahl, Blagovest Njagulov, Donald L. Dyer and Angelo Costanzo [eds] The Romance-speaking Balkans: Language and the Politics of Identity”. Balcanica LIII (2022), 364–371. https://balcanica.rs/index.php/journal/article/view/1335

Interview

Interviews are usually cited under the name of the interviewee rather than the interviewer.

Buolamwini, Joy. “ ‘If You Have a Face, You Have a Place in the Conversation About AI,’ Expert Says.” Interview by Tonya Mosley. Fresh Air, NPR, 28 November 2023. Audio, 37:58. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/28/1215529902/unmasking-ai-facial-recognition-technology-joy-buolamwini.

Thesis or dissertation

Blajer de la Garza, Yuna. “A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies.” PhD Thesis, University of Chicago, 2019. ProQuest (13865986).

Web page

• If a source does not list a date of publication or revision, include an access date.
• In the notes, the title will usually come first (as in the examples above); in a bibliography entry, the source should be listed under the owner or sponsor of the site.

Yale University. “About Yale: Yale Facts.” Last accessed 8 March 2022. https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts.

Video or podcast

• Unless it is clear from context, “video” or the like may be specified in the bibliography.

Cowan, Vaitea. “How Green Hydrogen Could End the Fossil Fuel Era.” TED Talk, Vancouver, BC, April 2022. Video, 9 min., 15 sec. https://www.ted.com/talks/vaitea_cowan_how_green_hydrogen_could_end_the_fossil_fuel_era.

Ober, Lauren, host. The Loudest Girl in the World. Season 1, episode 2, “Goodbye, Routine; Hello, Meltdown!” Pushkin Industries, September 13, 2022. Podcast, 41 min., 37 sec. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/loudest-girl-in-the-world.

Oliver, Eric. “Why So Many Americans Believe in So Many ‘Crazy’ Things.” Moderated by Andrew McCall. Virtual lecture, February 23, 2022. Posted March 21, 2022, by University of Chicago. YouTube, 1:01:45. https://youtu.be/hfq7AnCF5bg.

Personal communication

Personal communications, including email and text messages and direct messages sent through social media, are usually cited in the text or in a note only; they should not be included in a bibliography.

 

Ancient sources

Authors should follow a standard list of abbreviations for authors and their works available in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD).

 

 

Hom. Od. 5.314–17

Tac. Ann. 1.15.

Plin. Ep. 10.96

 

References to volumes in major collections of inscriptions should follow abbreviations in Guide de l’Épigraphiste. Use Arabic numerals for volume numbers.

 

CIL 3.1234
AE 1998, 1045
IMS 2.113

Italicize Latin titles and foreign phrases that are not commonly used in English. Do not italicize Latin words found in standard English dictionaries.

Greek text should be written only in a Unicode font. Spiritus and accents should be integrated in the letter to which they belong

 

Author Guidelines for reviews, in memoriam etc.

Review articles:

• The title, in upper and lower case, center position as such: title; author; place of publication; publisher; date published; number of pages.
• g. Paschalis M. Kitromilides, ed., The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776–1848). Reappraisals and Comparisons. London: Routledge, 2022, 284 p.
• Reviewed by author’s name, in upper and lower case and flush left.
• Author’s email and academic institution, consisting of department, institution, city, and country should be written in a footnote after the authors name, with a * symbol.
• If desired, footnotes may be used in the usual way. In writing reviews, it is acceptable to give page citations in brackets within the text (instead of footnotes) where there is extensive discussion of a particular book. E.g. (p. 10).

In memoriam:

• Write “IN MEMORIAM” in the center of the page
• Write the full name of the deceased person and their year of birth and year of death in brackets below the name, also centered and in bold
• Provide a photograph of the deceased person as a separate file in .tiff, .jpg or .psd formats. The resolution of files should be at least 300 dpi and 600 dpi for line drawings. Please make sure that the quality of the image is suitable for publication. Do not place images in Word file, but only indicate the placement of the photo
• Write your name as the author of the paper at the end of the text on the right in italic

E.g.

IN MEMORIAM

Mihailo Vojvodić (1938–2025)

 

Vojislav G. Pavlović