Submissions

Author Guidelines

General Guidelines

Visioni del Tragico. Greek Tragedy on the Twenty-First-Century Stage welcomes submissions ranging from 35,000 to 60,000 characters, including spaces, footnotes, and bibliography. Authors wishing to submit contributions exceeding this limit are requested to contact the Editors in advance. The publication of conference proceedings or special issues must likewise be agreed upon in advance with the Editors.

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 include:
• abstract;
• keywords;
• a brief biographical note on the author.

As Visioni del Tragico operates a double-blind peer review process, submissions must not contain any information that could identify the author. Self-references should be formatted as standard bibliographical references, avoiding any indication that might reveal the author’s identity.

Preparing the Manuscript

The manuscript must be prepared in Microsoft Word. Greek texts must be typed using a Unicode-compatible font (e.g. Times New Roman). Do not use automatic hyphenation. The inclusion of images, graphs, and tables must be agreed upon in advance with the Editors.

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 of prose or five lines of verse, including Greek and Latin texts, must be presented as block quotations, indented from the main text and separated 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 running text, line breaks should be indicated by a forward slash preceded and followed by a space.

Single quotation marks (‘…’) may be used to highlight individual expressions or to indicate a non-literal use of a word; however, their use should be kept to a minimum.

Footnotes

The footnote number must always be placed after the punctuation mark.

Use footnotes exclusively, 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, sections, or line numbers precisely.

Page ranges must always be given in full.

Example

Correct: 10-15 or 345-367

Incorrect: 10-5 or 345-67

Do not use abbreviations such as pp., ll., ff., sqq., cf. In general, abbreviations should be avoided, except for those conventionally used in the various languages to indicate the editors of collective volumes.

Bibliographical references in the footnotes must be given in abbreviated form.

Example

Kuhn-Treichel 2025, 13-15.

Complete bibliographical references must appear exclusively in the final bibliography.

For Greek and Latin Texts

Texts in Greek script should appear neither in italics nor within quotation marks. Transliterated Greek words should be italicised (e.g. thymos). Latin texts should be italicised. Titles of Latin works should also be italicised. Do not use abbreviations such as ad loc., e.g., s.v., 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, abbreviations of ancient authors’ names and work titles must follow the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Books, chapters, sections, and lines 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:

1. Primary Bibliography (editions, commentaries, and translations)
2. Secondary Bibliography
3. Web Resources

General Rules

Bibliographical entries must 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 comprehensive references, including, whenever possible, information on open-access versions of the works cited.

The following must be italicised:
• titles of ancient works;
• titles of monographs;
• titles of edited volumes;
• titles of reference works and dictionaries;
• titles of journals, which must always be given in full, without abbreviations.

The following must be enclosed in double quotation marks (“…”):
• titles of journal articles;
• titles of chapters in edited volumes;
• titles of entries in reference works, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias.

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. The series title of texts and commentaries may also be included (although this is not mandatory) where it contributes to a fuller bibliographical description. Entries in the primary bibliography must always be arranged under the name of the ancient author, not under 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.

Homeri Ilias. Rhapsodias I–XII continens. Recensuit Martin L. West. München/Leipzig: Saur (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), 1998 (ebook Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110952971/html).

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 must follow the models below.

? Monograph

Surname, First name. Year. Title of the Volume. Place: Publisher.

Example

De Min, Silvia. 2016. Decapitare la Gorgone. Ostensione dell’immagine e della parola nel teatro di Anagoor. Corazzano: Titivillus.

? 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

Chapter in an Edited Volume

Surname, First name. Year. “Title of the Chapter.” In: First name Surname (ed. / edited by / édité par / herausgegeben von / editado por), Title of the Volume. Place: Publisher, xx-xx. https://doi.org/xx.xxxx/xxxx (if available)

Example

Medda, Enrico. 2023. “Dramatic Space and Theatrical Meaning: The Case of Sophocles’ Antigone.” In: Douglas Olson, Oliver Taplin, Piero Totaro (edited by), Page & Stage. Intersections of Text and Performance in Ancient Greek Drama. Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 5-28.

For any questions or requests, please contact the Editors. These editorial guidelines, together with a manuscript template where applicable, will be sent again upon acceptance of the contribution. Submissions that do not comply with these editorial guidelines will not be considered for publication.