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Submission Preparation Checklist

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.
  • The submitted file shall not have any reference to the name of the author nor any other information that could identify the author. Information about how to assure the peer-blind review may be found here: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ronai/duplocega.
  • The author of the submission is a graduate student or PhD or MSc of any university.
  • Manuscripts and its supplementary documents (if any) should apply to all listed Author Guidelines.
  • Data related to the authorship of the manuscript (name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation) should be correctly filled during the author’s registration.

  • The contribution is original and is neither under evaluation nor has been published elsewhere. Otherwise, please, send a notification to editors in the field “Comments for editor”.

Author Guidelines

[last update: October 2023]

The average time for announcing the editorial decision is 60 days.

The manuscript’s submission automatically implies agreement with Rónai’s Editorial policies. Only manuscripts that follow our author guidelines are accepted.

1) Articles should have between 5,000 and 8,000 words, including post-textual elements. Reviews should have between 1,200 and 1,400 words, also including post-textual elements. Translations and interviews have no limits of words.

2) Contributions must be submitted exclusively through the journal’s website.

3) General formatting guidelines:

     a) The submission file should be in Microsoft Word (doc/docx) or RTF format.

     b) Pages’ layout should be the following: size A4; margins: left and right: 3.0 cm; top and bottom: 2.5 cm.

     c) Title: centered in the first line; font Book Antiqua, size 12, bold font style; only first letter in uppercase.

     d) Abstract (obligatory for articles and translations): word ABSTRACT in uppercase, followed by a colon; the text should be written in a single paragraph, with multiple spacing of 1.15 cm, justified alignment, font Book Antiqua, size 12. The abstract should have between 750 and 1,000 characters including spaces.

For reviews, instead of abstract and keywords, the reference of the reviewed work must be included (font Book Antiqua, size 12, justified alignment), as the following example:

VEZZOLI, Simone. Arcesilao di Pitane: l'origine del platonismo neoaccademico. Analisi e fonti. Philosophie hellénistique et romaine. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016.

     e) Keywords (obligatory for articles and translations): word Keyword in bold font style, with the first letter in uppercase, followed by a colon. Articles and translations must include between 3 (three) and 5 (five) keywords in lowercase, followed by a colon, font Book Antiqua, size 10.

     f) Body text must follow these guidelines: font Book Antiqua, size 12, justified alignment; with multiple spacing of 1.15 cm. Paragraphs should have a special indentation of 1.25 cm.

    g) For texts in Greek, please, use New Athena Unicode font. The font is available for download at https://classicalstudies.org/publications-and-research/nau-download.

4) Citation style

a) Books

References: PUTNAM, Michael C. J. Virgil’s Poem of the Earth: Studies in the Georgics. Princeton: University Press, 1979.

Text and footnotes: PUTNAM, 1979

b) Articles in journals

References: GARRAFFONI, Renata S.; FUNARI, Pedro P. A. The uses of Roman heritage in Brazil. Heritage & Society, Amherst, v. 1, n. 5, p. 53-76, 2012.

 Text and footnotes: GARRAFFONI; FUNARI, 2012

c) Book chapters

References: JOCELYN, Henry D. Gods, Cult and Cultic Language in Plautus. In: AUHAGEN, Ulrike (org.). Studien zu Plautus’ Epidicus. Tübingen: Narr, 2001, p. 261-96.

Text and footnotes: JOCELYN, 2001

5) Citation of classical works

a) For Greek authors, follow the Greek-English Lexicon(LSJ)'s list of abbreviations.

b) For Latin authors, use the Oxford Classical Dictionary's list of abbreviations.

6) Supplementary documents

The following files must be included through our website’s system along with the manuscript, in case it applies:

1) For translations, please, include its source texts for evaluation and, under editor’s choice, also for a bilingual publication.

2) If the source text is not yet under public domain, the author must include permission of the copyright owner to include the source text in her published manuscript.

Copyright Notice

Copyright

The authors of the published contributions agree with the following items:

 

1. The authors keep the copyright and convey to the journal the right of first publication, the work being licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International.

2. The authors are allowed and stimulated to publicize and distribute their work online after the publication in the journal, recognizing first publication in this journal.

3. The authors of the approved works authorize the journal to distribute their content, after publication, for reproduction in content indexes, virtual libraries and similars.

 

For more information about Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International, please, go to: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

 

Editorial exemption

The authors of the published contributions are entirely and exclusively responsible for their contents. Its content does not represent an official position of Rónai - Revista de Estudos Clássicos e Tradutórios neither of Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora or their partner institutions.

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