Pegasus

Submission Guidelines

Please format your submissions according to this guide. If submissions are formatted improperly, authors will be asked to resubmit.

All submissions should be emailed to the lead editors, Katherine Petrasek and Francesca Kübler, at pegasus@exeter.ac.uk.

Authors should submit their work as a Word document (.doc or .dox). Authors should title their submissions in the following format: Surname_Title of Submission. The title of the submission should be shortened/abbreviated (eg. Petrasek_Illustrations of Apollonius.docx).

Authors should include a title page containing the full title of their article, their full name, their institutional affiliation, the date of submission and their contact email. 

Submission Length

Submission lengths include footnotes and exclude picture captions, appendices, and bibliographies.

Articles that are within +10% of the word limit will still be accepted for consideration.

  • Papers/essays should not exceed 6000 words.
  • Book reviews should not exceed 3000 words.
  • Creative submissions (art, poetry, prose, and translation) should not exceed 3000 words
  • Creative submissions that are submitted alongside a commentary should not exceed 3000 words in total.

Language Guidelines 

  • Only submissions written in English will be considered for publication. 
  • Authors must follow the basic rules of English grammar and academic prose.
  • The prose should be academic, but understandable for a non-specialist audience.
  • The use of capital letters should be subject to regular capitalization rules (e.g. at the beginning of sentences/with proper nouns).
  • Avoid using contractions.
  • If an author uses abbreviations, these must be written out in full the first time they are used (with the abbreviation in brackets) and the abbreviations can be used subsequently 
  • Avoid using the following abbreviations: e.g., i.e., ect. and ibid, loc. cit. and op.cit. 
  • Use either BC/AD or BCE/CE consistently. These letters should be capitalized, with AD preceding a date and BC/BCE/CE following a date. 

Formatting Guidelines 

  • The body and heading text of submissions should be in 12 point Times New Roman font. Footnotes should be in 10 point Times New Roman font.
  • Numbers up to and including one hundred should be written out in words (e.g., seventy six rather than 76). Above one hundred, only round numbers of order should be written out in words (e.g., one thousand rather than 1000), while non‑round numbers should appear in numerals (e.g., 1001 rather than one thousand and one). Exceptions to this, wherein numerals should always be used, include dates, page/chapter/line numbers, exact measurements or statistics, numbered lists or data-heavy contexts, and monetary amounts.
  • All transliterations and non-English language text written in the Latin alphabet should be italicised.
  • Greek should be written in a polytonic Greek font or transliterated.
  • Special characters found in other texts (such as in Egyptian texts) should be transliterated.
  • 1.5 point spacing for articles should be used for the main article text. 1 point spacing should be used for footnotes.
  • Margins sizes should be the MS Word standard (1 inch/2.54 cm).
  • New paragraphs should be separated with by a full blank line a blank space (two line breaks) and indented. Sub-paragraphs should be separated with a single line break and indented.
  • Up to three levels of headings can be used. MS Word indicates these as these are titled ‘Heading 1’, ‘Heading 2’ and ‘Heading 3’.
  • Images should be labelled as ‘Figure 1’, ‘Figure 2’ etc, and alt text with a brief description should be provided in a table of figures at the end of the paper, but before the bibliography.
  • Page numbers should be included on the bottom right corner of the page.
  • Authors must ensure that their submissions have passed the ‘Accessibility Checker’ which can be found on MS Word (go to the ‘Review’ tab and select ‘Check Accessibility’).

Quotations   

  • Avoid using italics for quotations. If emphasis is required, use bold formatting and indicate this intervention by adding ‘[emphasis by author]’ in square brackets immediately after the quotation.
  • In-text quotations should consist of passages which are twenty words or fewer – these quotations still need to be denoted by single quotation marks (”).
  • Quotes of more than 20 words should be indented by 1.25 cm (or a ‘tab’) and separated from the main text by a single line break. This passage should also be separated by single quotation marks (”).
  • Double quotations should be formatted: ‘in “this particular” way’. 
  • When quoting poetry, verse lineation should be maintained. If the quotation is two to three lines, the author may indicate line breaks using a forward slash (/). The quote should be separated from the main text by single quotation marks (”).

Referencing

  • Footnotes should be used for all citations and references. In-text citations should not be used.
  • Footnotes should start with Arabic numerals and end in a full stop.
  • Within footnotes, do not use the following abbreviations: ibid, loc. cit. and op.cit. 
  • When citing the works of modern scholars, the footnote should be formatted in the following way: surname of the author, year of publication and applicable page numbers (eg. Flemming, 2000: 213). The author should provide the full details for the publication in their Bibliography.
  • If a date is unavailable, ‘n.d’ may be used.
  • Authors should situate footnotes after all forms of punctuation in the body of the text.
  • If citing multiple non-sequential pages of the same work, page numbers should be separated from each other by commas (eg. Flemming 2000: 257, 293).
  • If citing two different works within one footnote, these must be separated from one another by semicolons (eg. Flemming 2000: 257; Totelin 2009: 283).
  • When a text has more than three authors, the names of the final two authors in the footnote may be abbreviated with ‘et al.’. However, the names of all three authors must be provided in the bibliography.
  • When citing ancient texts, authors should structure their citation in the following way: Author, Title: book.paragraph.line (eg. Virgil, Aeneid: 9.840-843) 
  • If the footnote refers to a translation of an ancient text, it must include the year of publication (for the translation) and the surname of the translator (eg. Virgil, Aeneid: 9.840, trans. Fagles, 2008) 
  • The names of ancient authors and the titles of ancient texts may be abbreviated in line with accepted conventions. For Greek and Latin texts, follow the Oxford Classical Dictionary, which can be found here. For Egyptian or Ancient Near East texts, follow the Egyptologist’s Electronic Forum, which can be found here.

Bibliography 

Pegasus bases its bibliographical formatting on the Harvard Style Guide, which can be found here. Only bibliographies should use the Harvard system: all other references should be in footnotes as per the above guidelines.

Authors should make certain that their bibliographies adhere to this style guide as much as possible. If a reference is not covered by the style guide, authors should try to match the reference as closely to the style guide as possible and let the editors know about this issue of formatting, when they make their submission. 

  • All primary and secondary sources used should be cited in full. This should be done on a separate page at the end of the submission document and should have the title ‘Bibliography’.
  • If a date is unavailable, ‘n.d’ may be used.
  • Authors should not place ancient and modern sources under separate headings in their bibliographies. 

Example bibliographical references: 

Ancient sources:

Oder, E. and Hoppe, C. (eds) (1924) Corpus Hippiatricorum Graecorum: Hippiatrica Berolinensia. vol 1. Leipzig: Teubner. 

Littrè, E. (eds and trans) (1893-61) Oeuvres completes d’Hippocrates. 10 vols. Paris: Bailliere.

Journal articles:

Fischer, K.D. (1988) ‘Ancient Veterinary Medicine: A survey of Greek and Latin sources and some recent scholarship’, Medizinhistorisches Journal, 23 (3/4), 191-209. 

Nutton, V. (1973) ‘The Chronology of Galen’s Early Career’, The Classical Quarterly, 23 (1), 158-171 

Books: 

Brain, P. (1986) Galen on Bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.