Informativa sui diritti
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
General information
Visioni del Tragico. Greek Tragedy on the Twenty-First Century Stage accepts submissions of between 35,000 and 60,000 characters, including spaces, footnotes, and bibliography. For submissions exceeding this limit, authors are requested to contact the Editors in advance. The publication of conference proceedings or thematic issues must likewise be agreed with the Editors in advance.
Articles are published in Italian, English, French, German, and Spanish.
Submissions must be uploaded through the journal’s OJS platform, available at the following address:
https://www.visionideltragico.it/index.php/rivista/about/submissions
Each submission must be accompanied by:
• abstract;
• keywords;
• the author's bio-bibliographical note.
As Visioni del Tragico adopts a double-blind peer review process, submissions must not contain any information that could identify the author. Any self-citations should be presented as standard bibliographical references, avoiding any indication that might reveal the author's identity.
Preparing the file
The submission must be prepared in Microsoft Word. Greek texts should be set in a Unicode-compatible font (e.g. Times New Roman). Do not use automatic hyphenation. The publication of images, graphs, and tables must be agreed with the Editors in advance.
Quotations and quotation marks
For quotations in contributions written in Italian, English, and French, use double quotation marks (“…”); for quotations in contributions written in Spanish, use guillemets («…»); for quotations in contributions written in German, use German quotation marks („…“).
Quotations exceeding five lines or five verses, including quotations from Greek and Latin texts, should be presented as block quotations, i.e. indented with respect to the main text and separated from it by a blank line before and after. In poetic texts, line numbers should be aligned with the right margin.
In poetic quotations incorporated into the body of the text, line breaks should be indicated by a forward slash preceded and followed by a space.
Single quotation marks (‘…’) may be used to emphasize individual expressions or to indicate a non-literal use of a word; however, they should be used sparingly.
Footnotes
The footnote number should always follow the punctuation mark.
Use footnotes only, numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript. Footnotes are intended primarily for bibliographical references and should therefore be used sparingly.
References to ancient texts and modern scholarship must always specify pages, chapters, paragraphs, and line numbers precisely.
Page ranges should always be written in full.
Example
Correct: 10-15 or 345-367
Incorrect: 10-5 or 345-67
Do not use abbreviations such as pp., vv., ff., sqq., or cf. In general, abbreviations should be avoided, except for those conventionally used in the different languages to indicate the editor(s) of collective volumes.
Bibliographical references in footnotes should be given in abbreviated form.
Example
Cole 2020, 13-15.
Full bibliographical references should appear exclusively in the final bibliography.
Greek and Latin texts
Texts in Greek script should appear neither in italics nor within quotation marks. Greek words in transliteration should be italicized (e.g. thymos). Latin texts should be italicized. Titles of Latin works should be italicized. Do not use abbreviations such as ad loc., e.g., s.v., or vid.
Both in the main text and in the footnotes, references to Greek and Latin texts may be given in abbreviated form.
Example
Ov. Tr. 1.10.15-18; 2.1.1.
In such cases, the abbreviations of the names of ancient authors and the titles of their works should follow the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Books, chapters, paragraphs, and line numbers should be separated by full stops, without spaces; two or more references to the same work should be separated by a semicolon.
Final bibliography
The final bibliography may be divided into the following sections:
- Primary bibliography (editions, commentaries, and translations)
- Secondary bibliography
- Webography
General guidelines
Bibliographical entries should be arranged alphabetically by author within each section. The purpose of the final bibliography, which is also published on the journal’s website, is to provide readers with clear, accurate, and complete references, including, wherever possible, information on open-access versions of the works cited.
The following should be italicized:
• the titles of works;
• the titles of monographs;
• the titles of edited volumes;
• the titles of reference works and dictionaries;
• the titles of journals, which should always be given in full, without abbreviations.
The following should be enclosed in double quotation marks (“…”):
• the titles of journal articles;
• the titles of contributions to edited volumes;
• the titles of entries in reference works, dictionaries, and works of reference.
Primary bibliography
For editions of Greek and Latin texts, authors are encouraged to adopt consistent bibliographical criteria and to provide complete and up-to-date information on any reprints or revised editions, including digital editions. It is also possible (though not mandatory) to include the series title of editions and commentaries, where this contributes to a more complete bibliographical description. The primary bibliography must always be arranged according to the name of the ancient author rather than that of the editor.
Examples
Euripidis Fabulae. Tomus II. Supplices, Electra, Hercules, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion. Edidit James Diggle. Second edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2025.
Aeschylus. Agamemnon. Edited with translation, introduction and commentary by Edith Hall. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts), 2024.
For modern works cited in translation, always indicate the name of the translator.
Secondary bibliography
Bibliographical entries should be prepared according to the models given below.
Monograph
Surname, First name. Year. Title of the Book. Place: Publisher.
Example
Cole, Emma. 2020. Postdramatic Tragedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Journal article
Surname, First name. Year. “Title of the Article”. Journal Title, volume (issue), xx-xx. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/xxxx
Example
Sacco, Daniela. 2023. “Dalla rappresentazione alla performance. Il femminile liberato nell’Orestea della Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio/Romeo Castellucci”. Visioni del Tragico. Greek Tragedy on the Twenty-First Century Stage, 3, 13-29. https://doi.org/10.53235/2036-5624/53
Contribution to an edited volume
Surname, First name. Year. “Title of the Contribution”. In: First name Surname (edited by / édité par / herausgegeben von / editado por), Title of the Book. Place: Publisher, xx-xx. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/xxxx (if available)
Example
Dreyer, Matthias. 2012. “Zäsur der Tragödie. Dimiter Gotscheffs Perser und die Historizität im Theater der Gegenwart”. In: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Adam Czirak, Torsten Jost, Frank Richarz, Nina Tecklenburg (herausgegeben von), Die Aufführung. Diskurs – Macht – Analyse. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 291-313.
For any questions or requests, please contact the Editors. These editorial guidelines, together with any template that may be provided, will be sent again upon acceptance of the submission. Submissions that do not comply with these editorial guidelines will not be considered for publication.
Informativa sulla privacy
I nomi e gli indirizzi email inseriti in questo sito della rivista saranno utilizzati esclusivamente per gli scopi dichiarati e non verranno resi disponibili per nessun altro uso.
Leggi la privacy policy del sito web.