Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. An article submitted for publication in The Biblical Annals should conform to the requirements set forth here. If a manuscript departs from these instructions in major ways, it may be returned to the author for corrections before it is considered for publication. 
2. The article should not be submitted simultaneously to another journal, periodical, or edited volume. It also should not be available online, in the same or a different language. Articles that have appeared or are to appear elsewhere generally will not be considered for publication, unless there are exceptional circumstances that allow it.
3. The author should register on the journal’s website and provide as complete the required data as possible, which will facilitate contact and further cooperation. Due to the current publication standards, please provide an individual ORCID number in the registration form. You can get an ORCID by completing a simple online form: https://orcid.org/register. If you forgot your ORCID number, you can find it at https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search.
   Note, when providing the ORCID number in the form, it must be preceded by https://orcid.org/Example: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8732-6868.
4. The entire process of submitting an article to the journal, the process of review and editing takes place online through the author’s account set up on the journal’s website. The author’s name, address and affiliation should be removed from the article, as well as electronic metadata allowing identification of the author. Additionally, all other information identifying the author should be removed (e.g., references to the author's own publications or to a symposium at which the submitted text was part of a presented lecture).
5. Suggested character limits for the submitted texts with footnotes:
   Article – 75 000 characters including spaces;
   Review article – 65 000 characters including spaces;
   Review – 16 000 characters including spaces;
   Report – 60 000 characters including spaces.
6. The article structure should include the following elements:
   a. the title in the language in which the article was written and in English;
   b. an abstract in the language in which the article was written and in English;
   c. a minimum of 5 keywords in the language in which the article was written and in English;
   d. presentation of the research problem, corresponding to the title of the article;
   e. synthetic presentation and evaluation of previous attempts to solve the problem, undertaken in the scientific literature (status quaestionis);
   f. a proposal for solving the problem according to the research method chosen by the author;
   g. exegetical argument with argumentation considering the latest and most important scientific literature for the issue;
   h. conclusions;
   i. final bibliography.
7. The abstract should contain the following information: the problem undertaken in the article, the method used and the result of the analysis/conclusion. The abstract should be within the limit of 750-1000 characters (without spaces).
8. The text of the article should be prepared in Times New Roman 12 font, 1,5 spaced. Preferred text editor - Microsoft Word. If the article contains material difficult to edit (tables, photos, other graphics) and a font other than Roman type (Hebrew, Greek, Syrian, Coptic, etc.), please also send the text in PDF format.
9. Footnotes with Arabic numerals should be used (Times New Roman 10 font, 1,0 spaced).
10. The final bibliography containing all the articles and publications cited in the text is required (see above point 6h).
11. Multiple notes in one sentence should be avoided; when citing different authors, if bibliographical references concerning each one of them are necessary, they should be placed in the same footnote at the end of the sentence.
12. Quotations of five or more lines in any language should appear as a separate indented paragraph, in smaller type than that used in the body of the article, and with the omission of all quotation marks.
13. When citing biblical and related texts in the original languages, authors are asked to use Unicode fonts.
14. When quoting Hebrew or Aramaic biblical texts, the consonantal text should be given along with Masoretic vocalization. The exception may be single words, which can be quoted without vocalization if it is not relevant to the issue being addressed.
15. When quoting Hebrew or Aramaic non-Biblical texts, it is sufficient to provide the consonantal text. Vocalization may be given when it is relevant to the issue being addressed.
16. The articles submitted for publication should follow the norms given in: S. Bazyliński, A Guide to Biblical Research (Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2009). In a form adapted to the requirements of the journal, they are available here (taking into account points 17 and 18 below).
17. Exact bibliographic references should be used, specifying the pages. References such as n., nn. or f., ff. should be avoided.
18. The full titles and abbreviations of biblical books and the titles and abbreviations of Qumran scriptures should be written in antiqua (without italics). Titles and abbreviations of other source texts (Mishnah, Targums, Talmud, Tosefta, Midrash, other rabbinic writings, apocrypha, works of Josephus Flavius, works of Philo of Alexandria) should be written in italics.
19. In cases where transliteration should be used, one of the two academic styles can be referred to in: S. Bazyliński, A Guide to Biblical Research (Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2009). The chosen style should be used consistently throughout the article.
20. The abbreviations of journals, periodicals, reference works, and serials are listed in The SBL Handbook of Style (2014).
21. The texts submitted to the journal are checked for their originality with the iThenticate anti-plagiarism program.
22. If the article will be qualified for the publication, it takes about 180 days from the submission of the text. These deadlines may be extended due to the number of texts submitted to the journal.