Submissions

Author Guidelines

The journal Chiron is published in one volume annually. The submission date for complete manuscripts with their illustrative material is 1 April of the year in which the volume appears.

If a manuscript has been submitted to the editors of another journal, the author is obliged to declare this. The authors are solely responsible materially and legally for the content and form of their articles. Each author receives 20 complimentary copies.

Authors are asked to respect the following rules:

Form of the manuscript
Manuscripts are to be submitted as Word documents (docx) and as PDFs by email to redaktion.chiron@dainst.de. For Greek script a Unicode character set is to be used. Authors are asked to refrain as far as possible from internal page references in an article.

Citation
Particular attention should be paid to clarity and consistency in citation style in an article. For journals, the abbreviations of the Année philologique should generally be used, while Greek and Latin authors as well as corpora of inscriptions, coins and papyri should be cited using the usual abbreviations. Authors are asked to cite editions and standard works of Greek epigraphy in accordance with the published list of abbreviations (AIEGL). For monographs the place of publication is not stated. In long manuscripts it is recommended that short titles are used for frequently cited works and then listed separately in the first note, or at the end of the article in the case of substantial lists.

Further details about manuscript form and citation style can be found in the editorial notes.

Authors should address any queries to the editorial office of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy: redaktion.chiron@dainst.de

Illustrations
Photographs to be published as plates can be submitted in digitized form (JPEG or TIFF); reproductions of halftone images can be accepted only in exceptional cases. The minimum resolution is 300 dpi for greyscale and colour pictures, 1200 dpi for bitmap formats (*.bmp, often used for non-vectorized black-and-white line drawings). These resolutions refer to the size when printed. Precise details for the layout of the plates should be provided by the author (net print space for plates including captions: max. 13 x 19.5 cm). Explanations required by the editors, captions for illustrations, the source of any photos/drawings as well as the names of photographers/illustrators must also be supplied, along with any copyright information.

Correction
Authors will receive the page proofs for correction in the form of a PDF and are asked to return it to the editorial office within two weeks preferably as a scan of a print-out corrected by hand. If this deadline is not met, the editors reserve the right to publish the manuscript after the correction of obvious typographical errors, or to postpone its publication. Authors are asked to restrict themselves to correcting typographical errors. Justified requests for factual amendments (i.e. owing to newly published literature) may be taken into account by the editors in exceptional cases. Such requests should be limited to what is absolutely necessary; if the additions are substantial they should be appended at the end of the article. Subsequent, merely stylistic amendments cannot be accepted. Cross-references should be finalized by the author during revision. Typesetting correction is done by the editors.

(last updated: May 2023)