Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. GUIDELINES FOR FORMATTING AND SUBMITTING ARTICLES

I. General

1. The „Protokolle zur Bibel“ are published twice a year (spring and autumn). Submission deadlines for articles are November 30th fort he spring issue (publication in June) and May 31st for the autumn issue (publication in December). Articles are to be submitted as .odt, .doc- or .docx-files via the homepage www.protokollezurbibel.at.
2. Articles submitted undergo a peer review process (double-blind). After the review, they are sent back to the author for revision if required. The final decision about the inclusion of the article in the PZB is taken after the revision. 
3. Articles shall not exceed a maximum length of 60,000 characters (incl. footnotes, incl. spaces).
4. The author’s first name, surname and institutional affiliation (e.g. University of Vienna) must be entered in the appropriate field.
5. The article’s title must be entered in the language of the article. An abstract must be supplied in German and in English (including an English title for German articles). A maximum of five English keywords must be entered.
6. Please use inclusive language.
7. If part of your text is in German, please refer to the German version of these guidelines for information about spelling.
8. Please leave the text unformatted. Emphasis is to be set in italics. Use the unicode character set, also for Greek and Hebrew texts. Hebrew text is to be rendered unvocalized unless vocalization is absolutely necessary.
9. For the headings, a max. three-level hierarchy is allowed with the following structure: 1. / 1.1 / 1.1.1.
10. Please use typographic quotation marks (“ ”). Neutral quotation marks are to be used only for quotations within a quotation.
11. Please differentiate between dash (–) and hyphen (-). Use a dash for page numbers and Biblical references.
12. If part of your text is in German, please refer to the German version of these guidelines for information about abbreviations.                                                             II. Bibliography
13. The names of several authors or editors are separated by slashes without spacing. If there are more than three names, the first is followed by the abbreviation “et al.” First names are to be written out in full, middle names abbreviated. If a person is mentioned several times in a row, use the abbreviation “id.”  or “ead.” beginning from the second occurrence.
14. Titles are neither italicised nor put in quotation marks.
15. If there is more than one place of publication, only the first is written out in full, the following are abbreviated “et al.”
16. Abbreviations of series, journals, encyclopedias etc. should follow either S. Schwertner, IATG3 or the SBL style. Titles not included there should be written out.
17. Volume numbers are given in Arabic numerals; further subdivisions are separated by commas.
18. Please quote the exact page numbers. Do not use “f.” or “ff.”.
19. The different kinds of publications are cited as follows:
    Monographs
    First name M.[iddle Name] Name/First name Name, Title. Subtitle, volume number. Title of the volume (Series title Number), Place of Publication ^EditionYear of Publication.
    Articles in Anthologies
    First name Name, Title. Subtitle, in: First name Name/First name M.[iddle Name] Name (ed.), Title. Subtitle, volume number. Title of the volume (Series title Number), Place of Publication ^EditionYear of Publication, pages.
    Articles in Festschriften
    First name Name, Title. Subtitle, in: First name Name/First name M.[iddle Name] Name (ed.), Title. Subtitle. FS First Name Name (Series title Number), Place of Publication ^EditionYear of Publication, pages.
    Articles in journals, encyclopedias etc.
    First name M.[iddle Name] Name, Title. Subtitle, Name of journal or encyclopedia Volume (Year) pages.
    Examples:
    Walter Brueggemann, Solomon. Israel’s Ironic Icon of Human Achievement, Columbia 2005.
    Petschenig, Michael (ed.), Sancti Ambrosii opera, vol. 5. Expositio psalmi CXVIII (CSEL 62), Vienna 1913.
    Uri Margolin, From Predicates to People like Us. Kinds of Readerly Engagement with Literary Characters, in: Jens Eder/Fotis Jannidis/Ralf Schneider (eds.), Characters in Fictional Worlds. Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film and Other Media (Revisionen 3), Berlin et al. 2010, 400–415.
    Karl L. Schmidt, βασιλεύς κτλ., D.–F., ThWNT 1 (1933) 573–595.
    Georg Sauer, עברה ʽæbrā Zorn, THAT 2 (2004) 205–207.
    Martin Lang, Zorn Gottes, HNBL 826–827.
    Hugh S. Pyper, Judging the Wisdom of Solomon. The Two-Way Effect of Intertextuality, JSOT 59 (1993) 25–36.
20. Internet sources
    First name Name, Title. Subtitle, in: http://www… (MM/DD/YYYY).
    Päpstliche Bibelkommission, Das jüdische Volk und seine Heilige Schrift in der christlichen Bibel, in: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/pcb_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20020212_popolo-ebraico_ge.html (07.02.2017).
    For Articles from WiBiLex and WiReLex:
    Thomas Hieke, Zwillinge, WiBiLex, http://www.bibelwissenschaft.de/de/stichwort/35622/ (07.02.2017).
21. When the same work is cited for a second time, use a short form (surname, short title, pages) and refer to the footnote where the work was first mentioned. Do not use abbreviations like “ibid.”
    Examples:
    Margolin, Predicates (fn. XX) 411–412; Pyper, Solomon (fn. XX) 27.
22. If bibliographical references are inserted in sentences, separate them from the following by commas or brackets.
23. In the first reference to an article, the number of the cited page is separated from the rest oft he bibliographical reference by a colon and a space. In the first reference to a monograph, use a comma and a space.
    Beispiele:
    Hugh S. Pyper, Judging the Wisdom of Solomon. The Two-Way Effect of Intertextuality, JSOT 59 (1993) 25–36: 27.
    Walter Brueggemann, Solomon. Israel’s Ironic Icon of Human Achievement, Columbia 2005, 132.
24. For abbreviations for biblical books please refer to the SBL Handbook of Style.
    For abbreviations for deuterocanonical works (including the Apostolic Fathers) please refer to the SBL Handbook of Style or S. Schwertner, IATG3 (XXXII–XXXV; Qumran: XXXVIf.; Philo and Josephus: XXXVIII; Rabbinic Works: XXXIXL–XL; Nag Hammadi: XLI–XLIII according to NHD).
    (engl. Version: 25.11.2022)