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Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity and Classics

Policies for Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity and Classics

  1. SMAC features the outstanding research of Macalester undergraduates in the study of ancient Mediterranean people and cultures. Papers are welcome addressing the languages, literature, material culture, societies and/or history of the ancient world, including Greece, Rome, and the Near East.
  2. Current Macalester students and those who have graduated within the last year are eligible to submit papers to the journal.
  3. There are no set limits for the length of submissions. Contributions are to be substantial, but on the order of scholarly articles rather than theses. Editors may request that contributions be shortened if determined by the reviewers to be excessively long; papers of insufficient depth will not be accepted.
  4. Items submitted for review must be complete and finished. Drafts with incomplete citations, inaccurate references, or frequent grammar and spelling errors will be returned to the author.
  5. Submissions are refereed by advanced Classics majors at Macalester College. To the extent possible, they are reviewed anonymously. Contributors should not identify themselves in the manuscript; for example, give the title only and not your name on the first page of the article. Acknowledgments of assistance may be added after the paper is accepted for publication.

Formatting Guidelines for Contributors

  1. Submissions should be double-spaced with at least one inch margins. Preferred fonts are Times New Roman and Athenian for Greek in 12 point.
  2. References to ancient texts should be placed in parentheses in the text just before the closest relevant punctuation mark (comma, period, etc.), as is standard in the field. Titles should be spelled out, and contributors should be consistent in using either translated English or Latin and Greek titles.
  3. All other citations should be given in footnotes using a modified 'Chicago style.' The basic format of references for notes and bibliographic entries should correspond to those in The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. (Chicago, 1993). When referring to an author of multiple items in your bibliography, however, please use the year of publication rather than an abbreviated version of the title to distinguish the particular work. Repeat the author’s name instead of using"ibid."Full references are assembled in a list titled "Bibliography" at the end of the document, which should also be double-spaced. See below for examples.
  4. Use Arabic rather than Roman numerals wherever possible. Avoid the abbreviations f. and ff.
  5. Italicize titles of books and periodicals, names of classical works, and Latin quotations of no more than three or four words. Longer quotations go in quotation marks without italics. Quotations of foreign languages, such as Greek and Latin, should be followed by an English translation. The author of this translation should be acknowledged.
  6. All long quotations should be indented and offset from the main text by one extra line.
  7. Use B.C.E. and C.E. except in direct quotations of other scholars.

Example of Properly Formatted Text

The problem of slaves who commit delicts, how to compensate the victim and protect the owner was addressed in the Law of the Twelve Tables, the earliest known and at least partially surviving law code of Rome. Significantly, slaves in this early period were not wholly considered property. Prisoners-of-war, the main source of slaves, were often regional neighbors and thus social equals save for the result of local military clashes. This early acknowledgement of the humanity of slaves is evidenced by the extreme similarity between very ancient laws regarding slaves and sons1, the use of the word homo,"man," for slaves in the early formulae2, and the similar penalties for personal injury of an enslaved and free man specified in the Twelve Tables.3Thus originally an unusual and useful form of limited liability, the noxal action, could be used to cover the deeds of both slaves and sons.4

1J. A. Crook, Law and Life in Rome (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967), 56.

2Crook.

3Namely, if a free man had a bone broken, the penalty was 300 pieces, a slave, 150 pieces. Thus a slave was an inferior human, but human nonetheless. Alan Watson, Roman Slave Law (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 54.

4Watson 1987, 67.

Bibliography

Crook, J. A. Law and Life of Rome. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.

Watson, Alan. Roman Slave Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

__________."Roman Slave Law and Romanist Ideology." Phoenix37 (1983): 53-82.