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1. As a general rule, we follow Chicago Manual of Style, with author-date citations.
2. Author-date citations should be given in text immediately following a name when given. E.g., “Edwards (1955, 16) proposes that Cicero, despite his reputation and linguistic pedigree, is unbearably tiresome”; never after a quotation, although page numbers in parentheses can be given in the case of successive quotations from different pages. If no author name is given, the author-date reference should be placed in a footnote.
3. Citations of ancient texts should also be given in brackets within the main text, where the author or text is mentioned or cited in the main text.
4. For quotations, and all other cases where quotation marks are used, use double inverted commas/quotations marks. Use single quotation marks within doubles.
Periods and commas go inside quotation marks; colons, semicolons, exclamation marks, and question marks outside, unless the question mark or exclamation mark is part of the quotation.
5. Give full page ranges in citations (not ff.) and avoid op. cit..
6. Either ‘v’ or ‘u’ is acceptable in Latin but authors should be consistent.
7. For dates, either BC/AD or BCE/CE is acceptable but authors should be consistent.
8. Following Chicago Style, in names of officially recognized territories or political structures such as ‘Roman Empire’ or ‘Roman Republic’, ‘empire’ and ‘republic’ should be capitalized.
9. Abbreviations of ancient authors, ancient works, and modern scholarly journals should follow the Oxford Classical Dictionary.
10. Acknowledgements and thanks should be given in a final note at the end of the article.
11. British or American spelling is permitted, as long as the author is consistent within the article.
12. In ancient names ending in ‘s’, no additional ‘s’ is included after the apostrophe, but this is included in modern names. E.g., “Achilles’ anger” but “Douglas’s work”. If the ancient name ends in “x,” apostrophe-s is still used: “Ajax’s.”
13. All quotations not in the main language of the article (English or French) should be translated.
14. Editions of ancient texts should be cited where there is any uncertainty about the reference or the text.
15. Translations of texts must be cited. If the translation is the author’s, this should be noted. If all or most translations are by the author, this should be noted at the first occurrence of translation in the article, with only exceptions to this rule indicated subsequently. All non-English material that is quoted in your article must be accompanied by an English translation.
16. In longer block quotations, line numbers may be provided where helpful orientation, placed to the left of the lines.
17. In general, emphasis should not be added in block quotations by means of underlining or bold text. In the text, limit the use of italics for emphasis to where it’s absolutely necessary.
Use “for example,” in the text, with commas; e.g., with commas, inside parentheses and in notes; i.e., with comma; ca instead of c., ca., or ca.
18. In notes: Edwards 1955, 16: “Cicero, despite his reputation and linguistic pedigree, is unbearably tiresome” (use colon, not comma) or, as in the text, Edwards (1955, 16) proposes that Cicero, despite his reputation and linguistic pedigree, is unbearably tiresome.”
19. Numbers pertaining to centuries should be written out: e.g., first century CE.
Hyphenated when adjectival: a fifth-century BCE source.
20. Edwards 1955, 16, n. 5 as opposed to Edwards 1955, 16n5.
21. Works cited (only) should be given in the following format, with first name of author and both place of publication and publisher written in full. Initials may be written after the first name:
West, Martin. 1966. Hesiod: Theogony. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———. 1978. Hesiod: Works and Days. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Canevaro, Laura G. 2013. “The Clash of the Sexes in Hesiod’s Works and Days.” G&R 60 (2): 185–202.
Where there are two authors, the first name follows the last name only for the first author:
Fantuzzi, Marco and Richard Hunter. 2004. Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
For edited volumes, the following format should be used:
Webb, Ruth. 2002. “Female Entertainers in Late Antiquity.’ In Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, edited by Pat Easterling and Edith Hall, 282–323. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
22. En dashes should be used in number ranges. Number ranges should follow Chicago style.