Author Guidelines

Journal Presentation

Myrtia is published by the Department of Classical Philology of the University of Murcia, through the Publishing Service of this University. It publishes original and unpublished contributions annually in various fields of Classical Philology, presented in the form of articles, notes, or reviews. The journal focuses on publishing research that addresses topics related to Greco-Roman literature, language, and culture, as well as the analysis of their reception and survival in later cultural traditions. For more information, please consult the journal's Mission, Objectives, and Scope.

Publication Process

Submission of articles, notes, or reviews will be carried out exclusively through the journal's OJS platform. To facilitate registration and submission of works, you can consult the following PKP tutorial, creators of OJS:

• Editorial Process in OJS: Submitting a Work

Submission of Works

Two versions of the work must be submitted in Word format, one with authorship indication and one anonymous. When submitting, both should be uploaded in section 2. Upload Submission.

Review Process

The articles received will be peer-reviewed under the double-blind modality, ensuring confidentiality throughout the process. Results of the evaluation will be reported promptly, detailing whether the article is suitable for publication and the recommendations necessary for final approval.

Evaluation criteria include methodological rigor, timeliness and relevance of the topic, appropriate use of sources and references, clarity and precision in writing, structure and internal coherence, and adequacy of length.

Deadline: 2-4 months

Proofreading

Authors will receive a proof of their work for correcting errors and making minor adjustments. It is essential to strictly adhere to the deadlines assigned for returning the corrected proofs.

Deadline: 2-4 months

Publication

After proofreading corrections, the editorial team coordinates the final layout and design of the edition. Subsequently, publication is carried out in digital format, ensuring wide dissemination of the content among the university community, academics, and the interested public.

Deadline: 2-4 months

Authorship and Contributions Policy

To ensure transparency and proper recognition of all contributions, each author must specify their role(s) in the article according to the CRediT taxonomy. This information must be specified in a section before the bibliography. Roles include, among others:

• Conceptualization: ideas; formulation or evolution of the general research objectives and goals.
• Investigation: conducting a research and inquiry process, specifically carrying out experiments or collecting data/evidence.
• Methodology: development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Supervision: oversight and leadership in planning and execution of the research activity, including mentoring outside the main team.
• Writing - Original Draft: preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantial translation).
• Writing - Review & Editing: preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by the original research group, specifically critical revision, commentary, or revision, including pre- and post-publication stages.

Example:

Authorship Contribution Statement

Jorge J. Linares Sánchez: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing.

Funding and Acknowledgments Policy

Authors must identify the agencies or entities that have funded the published research, along with the project codes. This information should be included in the acknowledgments of the non-anonymized article and specified when submitting on the platform in section 3. Enter Metadata > Supporting Agencies.

Editorial Guidelines

Materials must be rigorously original and unpublished and cannot be under review for publication in another journal or be publicly available, wholly or partially, in any format.

The language of the journal is Spanish. Works written in English, French, Italian, and German will also be accepted.

Title

The title will be in bold, centered, 14 points. Next, the title in English will be inserted on a separate line in square brackets at 14 points in regular font.

Optionally, acknowledgments and references to funding sources, if any, may be included in a footnote next to the author's name with an asterisk. To insert the asterisk: a) if using Word 2007: References > Footnote dialog box > Custom mark: insert the asterisk; b) in earlier versions of Word: Insert > Footnote > Custom mark: asterisk.

Regarding funding sources, the funding agency(ies) and the project code(s) under which the research leading to the publication was developed must be indicated.

Author Identification

Two lines below the title, the name of the author(s) should appear, and below that, on separate lines, their affiliation, email address, and ORCID number (12 points, centered alignment).

Abstract and Keywords

The text of the articles will be accompanied by an abstract that clearly reflects the content and results of the work. The abstract will be written in the language of the article and in English. It should not exceed ten lines and will be accompanied by keywords (in both languages of the abstract).

Keywords: A maximum of five words separated by semicolons (;) in the language in which the article is written.

Keywords: Translation of the keywords into English.

Length and Formats

Articles and Notes:Authors should ensure that their manuscripts do not exceed 60,000 characters (including spaces, text, notes, and bibliography). The Editorial Committee may, if necessary and in agreement with the author, reduce the text of works that can clearly be shortened, and exceptionally, accept articles that exceed the permitted length.

Reviews: Reviews should be between 6000 and 8000 characters and should avoid footnotes.

The journal Myrtia has a specific format and typography that authors must adhere to. Preferably, Times New Roman size 12 should be used, with single line spacing, and for the Greek alphabet, any Unicode font. Margins: top/bottom 2.5 cm – right/left 3 cm. The use of unusual typographic characters should be limited as much as possible.

Footnotes

Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page (never at the end of the work), in size 10 and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. The footnote number will be in superscript and placed before any punctuation mark. Additionally, footnotes should complement the main text and be used only to clarify or expand ideas and concepts. They should never consist of mere bibliographic references. Simple bibliographic references or brief citations of a quoted text should be included directly in the main text, as specified in the "References" section.

Images, Figures, and Graphic Material

Only images, figures, and tables explicitly cited in the main text will be included. All figures must be sent separately in PNG or JPG format, grouped in a single compressed file (ZIP), with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Each figure must include a caption with an explanatory title numbered consecutively (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.), clearly indicating the source if the image is not original. It is the authors' responsibility to obtain and credit the necessary permissions for reproducing the images.

Tables should be inserted directly into the text, in the appropriate place, and numbered consecutively (Table 1, Table 2, etc.), always accompanied by a descriptive title.

Titles and Headings

In principle, the use of headings and subheadings will be limited to the first three levels and organized as follows:

1. Main heading (text in small caps)

1.1. Primary subheading (text in italics)

1.1.1. Secondary subheading (text in italics)

If the titles of the subheadings include words that should appear in italics, these will be written in regular font.

Textual Citations

Citations from Greek, Latin, or modern works with a length of less than three lines, whether in the body of the text or in the notes, will be integrated directly into the text without changes in format. If the citation is in Greek, the Greek alphabet should be used. Latin citations will be written in italics and without quotation marks, while citations in modern languages will be enclosed in angular quotation marks (« »).

Citations exceeding three lines in length should be presented in a separate paragraph, indented, separated by a blank line before and after. These citations will be written in smaller font (10 points), in regular font, and without quotation marks. If the author decides to voluntarily omit part of a quoted text, this omission should be indicated with ellipses preceded and followed by a space.

To make the work accessible to a broader audience, it is recommended that citations from Greek and Latin sources be accompanied by their respective translations into the language of the work. Translations will be placed immediately after the citation: if the translation is less than three lines in length, it should be enclosed in angular quotation marks (« »); additionally, if the translation is not the author's own, the translator's name should be included in parentheses.

References to Ancient Sources

For ancient sources, Arabic numerals will always be used, separated by a period, and by a comma when moving to another citation. For example: Verg. Aen. 10.21, 11.20. The author's name will be in regular font, and the initial of the work's abbreviation will always be in uppercase.

The titles of ancient works, both in their abbreviated and complete forms, will be in italics. This same numbering system will be used for references to inscriptions and papyri. For example: P.Cair.Zen. 2.59148.1–2. The abbreviations for authors and ancient sources will be as follows:

• For Greek, the abbreviations from the Diccionario Griego-Español (http://dge.cchs.csic.es/lst/lst1.htm) will be used.
• For Latin, the abbreviations from the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae will be used.

References to Scientific Literature

The Harvard citation system will be used, with a list of cited bibliography at the end of the work, as follows: Author's surname (year of publication: page number[s]). Example: Clarysse (2003: 35-35). In the case of narrative citations (i.e., when the author's name is integrated into the text's syntax), it will be presented as follows: “Vandorpe (2022: 123) notes that...” or “Morales and Linares (2023: 64) consider...”.

In other cases, the author's surname, year, and page number should be indicated, according to the following model: “See Morales and Linares (2023), Vandorpe (2022: 13), Clarysse (2003: 35-35).”

If there are multiple references from the same author published in the same year, they will be differentiated by letters of the alphabet: Clarysse 2003a, 2003b.

The word "and" will be used to separate the surnames of authors when there is more than one, reserving the use of the hyphen (–) for compound surnames. In the case of multiple authorships (i.e., more than two authors), the name of the first author followed by the abbreviation et al. or VV. AA. may be used.

Only the works cited in the paper will be included in the final bibliographic section, according to the following examples. Note the following:

DOI identifiers should be included for works that have them. The place of publication should appear in the language in which the paper is written (e.g., if in English, London and not Londres). References to web pages should include: author, title, URL, creation date, and access date, the latter in parentheses.

Periodical Publications:

Rodríguez Somolinos, H. (2024) «Los significados de ἔπος», Myrtia 39, pp. 7-29. https://doi.org/10.6018/myrtia.634971

Books, Theses, and Other Non-Periodical Publications:

Eden, P.T. (1975) A Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid VIII, Leiden: Brill.

Works in Collective Volumes:

Faraone, C. A. (1991) «The Agonistic Context of Early Greek Binding Spells», in Faraone, C. A. and Obbink, D. (eds.), Magika Hiera. Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-32.

Web Publications:

Portillo Suárez, J. (2018) «Las lenguas clásicas sacan a los profesores a la calle», El País 9/9/2018, URL: https://elpais.com/sociedad/2018/09/08/actualidad/1536420737_298974.html. (Accessed 24/12/2024)

Use of Italics

Italics are reserved for the following cases:

• Titles of works (ancient and modern) and journals
• Latin quotations shorter than three lines
• Words in languages different from the language of the paper
• Transcriptions of Greek terms (in this case, accents will be preserved, and the notation of long quantities will be included).
• To highlight words under study or concepts being analyzed.
• Editorial abbreviations will always be in regular font (cf. and not cf.)

Use of Quotation Marks

Angular quotation marks (« ») will be used in the following cases:

• To note the titles of journal articles and book chapters
• In textual quotations in modern languages shorter than three lines
• Translations of terms within the text
• Translations of Greek and Latin texts shorter than three lines
• English quotation marks (“”) will be used only for quotations within quotations.

Use of Abbreviations

They will always be in regular font.

Preferably, common abbreviations will be used:

• (before Christ)
• C. (after Christ)
• (circa)
• (confer)
• ro/vo (recto/verso)
• /codd. (codex/codices)
• /cols (column/columns)
• /eds. (editor/editors)
• (et cetera)
• – fragment
• /ll. (line/lines)
• /mss. (manuscript/manuscripts)
• – note
• núm. – number
• p/pp. (page/pages)
• ej. – for example
• / ss. (century/centuries. Also (following/following) (in this second use, plural ss.).
• – volume
• /vols. – volume/volumes