Author Guidelines

1. Mouseio Benaki accepts unpublished, original, academic articles about, or inspired by, objects or archives in the museum’s collections. Its Editorial Board consults external referees, who are specialists in the relevant subject areas and who assess the content of the articles in terms of originality and academic rigour.

2. Language of texts: articles may be submitted for publication in Greek, English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. Along with the article, authors should send a detailed abstract (not exceeding 600 words), in English for Greek texts and in Greek for those in other languages. This will be published at the end of the article.

3. Length of texts: articles submitted should not exceed 6,000 words.

4. Submission of articles: articles for publication should be sent to the editor: Maria Diamandi, Benaki Museum, 1 Koumbari St., 10674 Athens, Greece, tel. +30-210-3671006, diamandi@benaki.gr.

5. Guidelines for writing and submitting articles: articles (text, notes, abstract and captions for accompanying illustrations) should be sent in both electronic (Word, MS-Dos or Mac) and printed form (on one side of A4, in 12-point font for text and 11-point for footnotes and 1.5x interline spacing). Authors should cite their academic or professional credentials and give an email address. This information will be published in both the print and the online version of the journal.

6. Illustrations: the journal prints both black-and-white and colour illustrations. The authors are solely responsible for obtaining the necessary permission to reproduce the material in printed and digital form, where the intellectual property rights belong to a third party. Photographs must be accompanied by typed captions, giving all the relevant information on the illustration: subject matter, provenance of the photograph and owners of the intellectual property rights in the form indicated by the latter. Poor quality photographs will be rejected. Illustrations will be returned to their owners after publication of the journal.

7. Revision of proofs: authors will be sent proofs in electronic form for checking; they are kindly requested to return them with any corrections within 15 days of receiving them. If they exceed this deadline, unless they can show just cause, authors automatically abdicate the right to make corrections. Any subsequent changes to the text will then be at the author’s expense.

8. All authors are entitled to a complimentary copy of the journal and a digital copy of the article in pdf form.

References

References should be in the form of endnotes. General guidelines:

– authors are cited using the initial(s) of their forename(s) and their surname (where names are transliterated from the Greek they should be in the nominative case), e.g. A. Delivorrias, T.S. Eliot. If there is more than one author, their names are separated by en-dashes;

‒ titles of books and periodicals are italicized;

– titles of contributions to collective works and articles in periodicals are in normal script and between commas (not inverted commas);

– the place and date of publication are given in brackets after the title of the volume. There is no comma after the bracket. The place of publication is not translated into the language in which the article is written, but remains as it is, e.g. London, München, Roma, etc. There is no mention of the publisher in bibliographical references;

‒ page numbers follow the bracket (containing the place and date of publication) without a comma and not preceded by “p.” or “pp.”. When a sequence of page numbers is in the hundreds, only the last two figures should be cited for the final page, e.g. 123-34. For numbers under 100 the full page numbers should be cited, e.g. 43-47;

‒ only the number is used to refer to a volume – do not use the abbreviation “vol.”;

– bibliographical references in the same endnote are separated by semi-colons. To refer to a work cited in an earlier endnote, use the author’s surname and give the number of the endnote in brackets, followed by the relevant page reference, e.g. Delivorrias (n. 8) 34. Only references within the same endnote or the one immediately preceding it should be cited as “op. cit.” followed by the relevant page number(s). In cases where a note includes more than one work by the same author, then a subsequent reference should give the author’s surname, an abridged title of the work referred to and the original endnote number in brackets, e.g. Florakis, Τηνιακή μαρμαροτεχνία (n. 4) 100-05;

‒ abbreviations for the names of Ancient Greek authors follow LSJ and for Latin authors the C. Lewis ‒ C. Short, Latin Dictionary;

‒ Latin words are written in italics;

‒ endnote references in the text are placed after the punctuation.

Examples:

1. Books: give the author (initial(s) of forename(s) and surname), the title of the book in italics, and the place and date of publication in brackets, e.g. H. Luschey, Rechts und Links. Untersuchungen über Bewegungsrichtung, Seitenordnung und Höhenordnung als Elemente der antiken Bildsprache (Berlin 2002).

2. Articles from periodicals: titles of periodicals are abbreviated following the systems given in the American Journal of Archaeology (95 [1991] 4-16) and Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Give the author, the title of the article between commas, the title of the periodical in italics, the number of the volume (not in italics) and the date (but not the place) of publication in brackets, e.g. E.R. Hoffman, Christian-Islamic Encounters on Thirteenth-Century Ayyubid Metalwork: Local Culture, Authenticity and Memory, Gesta 43 (2004) 129-42.

3. Collective volumes: the name of the author and title of the text should be given first and then the name of the editor(s) (where possible) and of the book. After that comes the place and date of publication in brackets, e.g. E. Matthiopoulos, Η ιστορία της τέχνης στα όρια του έθνους, in: E. Matthiopoulos – N. Chatzenikolaou (eds), Η ιστορία της τέχνης στην Ελλάδα (Heraklion 2003) 459-60.

4. Conference proceedings: give the name of the author, the title of the paper, then the name of the publisher/editor (where possible), the full title of the publication (which usually includes the subject, venue and date[s] of the conference) in italics and finally, in brackets, the place and date of publication of the proceedings, e.g. I. Boudouri, En Grèce et le Voyage en Grèce, Deux revues touristiques de l’entre-deux-guerres, in: S. Basch ‒ A. Farnoux (eds), Le Voyage en Grèce 1934-1939: Du périodique de tourisme à la revue artistique. Actes du colloque international organisé à l’École Française d’Athènes et à la Fondation Vassilis et Eliza Goulandris à Andros, 23-26 septembre 2004 (Athènes 2006) 13-20.

5. Exhibition catalogues:

‒ introductory articles: give the name of the author, the title of the text, the editor(s) (where possible) and the title of the publication in that order and then in brackets: “exhibition catalogue”, the exhibition venue(s), and place and date of publication, e.g. N. Patterson Ševčenko, San Nicola nell’arte Bizantina, in: M. Bacci (ed.), San Nicola, Splendori d’arte d’Oriente e d’Occidente (exhibition catalogue, Bari, Castello Svevo, Milano 2006) 69 n. 8;

– catalogue entries: list the name of the editor(s) of the catalogue, the title of the publication, and then in brackets: “exhibition catalogue”, the venue of the exhibition, and the place and date of publication. This is followed by the page number and the entry number (not separated by a comma) and finally the name of the author in brackets, e.g. D. Pandermalis (ed.), Alexander the Great. Treasures from an epic era of Hellenism (exhibition catalogue, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, New York 2004) 130 no. 18 (E. Trakosopoulou).

6. Entries in dictionaries/lexicons or encyclopaedias: give the title of the work in italics, the number of the volume in ordinary script and the date (but not the place) of publication in brackets. After the bracket come the page number(s), the entry number and the heading/first word of the entry preceded by “s.v.”, e.g. LIMC VIII (1997) 329 no. 113 s.v. Zeus (M. Tiverios).

7. Online publications: give the web address (URL) of the publication and the date when last accessed.