SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOR

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

THE ROMAN DANUBIAN PROVINCES – ROMAN ROADS AND
CROSSROADS

Articles can be submitted in English, German, Italian or French. Submitted

articles will be peer-reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee of the
Conference. They must contain customary data. Each article should therefore include:
title; author’s forename and surname; affiliation; abstract; keywords; main text; graphic
images with a list of captions; bibliography; contact details.

1. The title should be short and clear, reflecting as much as possible the content of the
article. The title should include words which are easy to index and search for. If there
are no such words integrated into the title, it is preferable to have an added subtitle. The
title should appear in either the fifth or sixth row under the upper margin, in bold, with
a font size of 14 pts.

2. The author or authors should include their full names.

3. The author or authors should write the official name and address of the institution
they represent, together with, where applicable, the official name and address of the
location where they performed their research. With complex institutions, all names
should be included (e.g. University of Belgrade, Philosophical Faculty, Department of
Archaeology, Belgrade).

4. The abstract represents a short overview of the article. We prefer to use those already
published in the Abstract book of the Conference, but you are also free to improve the
abstract in accordance with your articles. It is advisable for this to contain words which
are easy to index or search for. The abstract should offer data about the research goal,
method, results and conclusion. Abstracts should be written in the same language as the
article (English, German, Italian or French). It is necessary to use correct grammar and
spelling and to have the document reviewed by a qualified native proof-reader.
5. The keywords should include words or phrases that effectively describe the content
of the article, and which are easy to index and search for. They should be selected
according to an internationally recognized source (index, vocabulary, and thesaurus),
such as the list of keywords Web of Science. The number of keywords should not exceed
ten.

6. The body text should be written digitally, using Times New Roman or Arial font (font
size 12 pts), MS Office Word 97 or later, with a line spacing of 1.5 and margins set to
2.54 cm. The body text must not contain illustrations. Illustrations must be submitted
as separate files.

7. Manuscripts must be submitted in English, German, Italian or French, with the

author obliged to state the name of the translator and the proof-reader who checked the
paper. Words, statements and titles written in a foreign language should be written
using their original spelling and, in accordance with the editor’s or reviewer’s
suggestions, transliterated (translated) into the submission language of the manuscript.

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8. Footnotes can be included in the main paper. They should contain less important
data, required explanations and cited literature. (A separate chapter of the Submission
Instructions details the required method for quoting that is to be applied when writing
a paper).

9. Illustrations (photographs, tables, drawings, graphs etc.) should all be in the same
format. Scanned illustrations should be in a resolution of 600 dpi, while photographs
should be in a resolution of at least 300 dpi, and of a TIFF, PSD or JPG format.
Illustrations are to be submitted as a separate part of the paper and should not be
integrated into the basic text. Titles and captions should be submitted in the languages
in which the paper is written, and as a Word document.

10. The bibliography should include bibliographic sources (articles, monographs etc.).
Within the paper it should be quoted with references in the footnotes and as a list of
literature/bibliography at the end of the manuscript. The bibliography represents a part
of every scientific paper, with precisely quoted bibliographical references. The list of
used sources should follow a unique pattern, in a sequence based on the quoting
standards determined by these instructions. The bibliography must be presented in the
language and alphabet in which each source has been published. In cases when the
publication is published bilingually, all data should also be written bilingually. In cases
where the summary is written in another language, then the title of the summary should
be written in the same language.
In the list of references: Popović 2009 – I. Popović, Gilt Fibula with Christogram
from the Imperial Palace in Sirmium (Резиме: Позлаћена фибула са христограмом из
царске палате у Сирмијуму) Starinar LVII (2007), 2009, 101–112.
Publications published in Cyrillic, Greek or any other non-Latin alphabet should
be transliterated into the Latin alphabet in accordance with the standards of The
American Library Association and The Library of Congress of the United States
(http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html), for example:
Quotation within a footnote:
(Popović 1994, 65).
In the list of references:
Popović 1994 – I. Popović, (прир.), Античко сребро у Србији, Београд 1994. (I.
Popović, (prir.), Antičko srebro u Srbiji, Beograd, 1994.)

11. Parts of references (authors’ names, title, source etc.) are to be quoted in
accordance with the accepted quoting form. The most commonly quoted references
are listed below:
MONOGRAPHS
1. How to quote an author’s books:
a. A single author
In a footnote:
(Popović 2006, 21)
In the list of references:
Popović 2006 – I. Popović, Roma aeterna inter Savum et Danubium, Belgrade 2006.

b. Two authors
In a footnote:
(Vasić, Milošević 2000, 125)
In the list of references:
Vasić, Milošević 2000 – M. Vasić, G. Milošević. 2000. Mansio Idimvm rimska poštanska i putna
stanica kod Medveđe, Beograd, 2000.

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c. Three or more authors
In a footnote:
(Petković et al. 2005, 129–131)
In the list of references:
Petković et al. 2005 – S. Petković, M. Ružić, S. Jovanović, M. Vuksan, & Z. K. Zoffmann. 2005.
Roman and Medieval Necropolis in Ravna near Knjaževac. Belgrade, 2005.

2. Quotation of papers in serial publication, collection of papers:

In a footnote:
(Popović 2014, 261)
In the list of references:
Popović 2014 – I. Popović, The Motif of Christogram on the Architectural Elements of the
Imperial Palace in Sirmium, in: The Edict of Serdica (AD 311). Concepts and Realizations of the
Idea of Religious Toleration, (ed.) V. Vachkova, D. Dimitrov, Sofia 2014, 261–276.

3. How to quote prepared editions (editor, translator or preparator instead of author):

In a footnote:
(Поповић 1994, 65)
In the list of references:
Поповић 1994 – И. Поповић, (прир.), Античко сребро у Србији, Београд 1994. (I. Popović,
(prir.), Antičko srebro u Srbiji, Beograd, 1994.)

4. How to quote books without indicated author:

In a footnote:
(Гамзиград. Касноантички царски дворац 1983, 43)
In the list of references:
Гамзиград. Касноантички царски дворац 1983 – Гамзиград. Касноантички царски дворац,
Београд 1983. (Gamzigrad. Kasnoantički dvorac, Beograd, 1983.)

5. Quoting several books of the same author:

a. written in different alphabets
In a footnote:
(Поповић 2002, 23–26; Popović 2006, 33)
In the list of references:
Popović 2002 – И. Поповић, Накит са Јухора, остава или сакрални тезаурус, Београд 2002. (I.
Popović, Nakit sa Juhora, ostava ili sakralni tezaurus, Beograd, 2002.)
Popović 2006 – I. Popović, Roma Aeterna inter Savum et Danubium. Belgrade, 2006.

b. written in the same year

In a footnote:
(Dawkins 1996a; 1996b)
In the list of references:
Dawkins 1996a – R. Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable, London, 1996.
Dawkins 1996b – R. Dawkins, River out of Eden, London, 1996.

6. Quoting chapters or parts of books:

In a footnote:
(Кондић 1994, 66)
In the list of references:
Кондић 1994 – Ј. Кондић, Рановизантијско сребро, у: Античко сребро у Србији, И. Поповић,
(ур.), Београд 1994, 65–67. (J. Kondić, Ranovizantijsko srebro, u: Antičko srebro u Srbiji, I.
Popović, (ur.), Beograd 1994, 65–67.)

7. Quoting chapters or parts of previously published books (as an original source):

In a footnote:
(Cicero 1986, 35)
In the list of references:
Cicero 1986 – Cicero Quintus Tullius, Handbook on canvassing for the consulship, in: Rome: Late
republic and principate, W. E. Kaegi, P. White (eds.), vol. 2, Chicago, 1986, 33–46. Originally
published in: E. Shuckburgh

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(trans.) The letters of Cicero, vol. 1, London, 1908.

8. Quoting books which have been published on-line:

In a footnote:
(Kurland, Lerner 1987)
In the list of references:
Kurland, Lerner 1987 – Ph. B. Kurland, R. Lerner, (eds.) The founders’ Constitution. Chicago
1987. //press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/, accessed (date of visit to the page)

ARTICLES FROM PRINTED PERIODICALS OR PERIODICALS PUBLISHED ON-LINE

1. Quoting an article from a printed periodical:
In a footnote:
(Vasić 2004, 91, fig. 17)
In the list of references:
Vasić 2004 – M. Vasić, Bronze railing from Mediana. Starinar LIII–LIV 2004, 79–109.

2. Quoting an article from a periodical published on-line:

In a footnote:
(Van Eijck 2009, 41)
In the list of references:
Van Eijck 2009 – D. Van Eijck, Learning from simpler times, Risk Management, vol. 56, no 1,
2009, 40–44. http://proquest.umi.com/, accessed (date of visit to the page)

DOCTORAL AND MASTER THESES

1. Quoting doctoral or master theses:
In a footnote:
(Ilić 2005, 25–32)
In the list of references:
Ilić 2005 – O. Ilić, Ranohrišćanski pokretni nalazi na području dijeceze Dakije od IV do početka
VII veka. Unpublished MA thesis, University of Belgrade, 2005.

LECTURES FROM SCIENTIFIC GATHERINGS

1. Quoting a published lecture or communication presented at a scientific gathering:
In a footnote:
(Vasić 2008, 69, fig. 3)
In the list of references:
Vasić 2008 – M. Vasić, Stibadium in Romuliana and Mediana. Felix Romvliana 50 years of
archaeological excavations, M. Vasić (ed.), (Papers from the International Conference, October,
27–29 2003, Zaječar, Serbia), Belgrade–Zaječar 2006, 69–75.

2. Quoting an unpublished lecture or communication presented at a scientific gathering:

In a footnote:
(Gavrilović 2004)
In the list of references:
Gavrilović 2004 – N. Gavrilović, Interpretatio Romana of Oriental Cults in Upper Moesia from I to
IV century A.D. Paper presented at the 10th Annual meeting of the European Association of
Archaeologists, September 7–12, 2004 in Lyon, France.

POPULAR MAGAZINES (PERIODICALS) AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

1. Quoting an article from a popular magazine:
In a footnote:
(Јањић 2007, 32–33)
In the list of references:
Јањић 2000 – Ј. Јањић, Прво хришћанско знамење, НИН, јул 2007. (J. Janjić, Prvo hrišćansko
znamenje, NIN, jul 2007.)

2. Quoting an article from a newspaper:

In a footnote:
(Марковић-Штрбац 1999)
In the list of references:

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 Марковић-Штрбац 1999 – С. Марковић-Штрбац, Пустахије са Јухора, Политика, 18.
септембар 1999, Одеqак Култура, уметност, наука. (S. Marković-Štrbac, Pustahije sa Juhora,
Politika, 18. septembar 1999, Odeljak Kultura, umetnost, nauka.)

ELECTRONIC DATABASES, WEB PAGES, COMMENTS etc.

1. Quoting an electronic database (Name of the database. Address):
In a footnote:
(Pliny the Elder, Perseus Digital Library)
In the list of references:
Pliny the Elder, Perseus Digital Library – Perseus Digital Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/,
accessed (date of access)

2. Quoting documents and data taken from institutional web pages (Name of institution. Name
of document.
Editor. Web site. (Date of access)):
In a footnote:
(Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees)
In the list of references:
Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees – Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees,
Evanston Public Library strategic plan, 2000–2010, Adecade of outreach, Evanston Public Library,
http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html, accessed (example: June 1, 2005).

12. All of the quoted bibliography/literature is to be listed in Latin alphabetic order,

by the author’s surname initial or the first letter of the publication’s title (in cases
where the author or editor is not listed).

13. When submitting a manuscript, the author should supply his/her contact details in
a separate file: the address of his/her affiliation and his/her e-mail address and
telephone number. In cases where there are several authors, the contact details of the
first author should only be supplied. The author is also obliged to state the specific name
and code of the project within which the paper was created, along with the name of the
institution(s) that financed the project. The year of birth of all authors should be written
at the end (it is requirement by the CIP (Cataloguing in Publication) by the National
Library of Serbia).

14. Each of the submitted scientific papers will be forwarded to members of the
Scientific Committee of the Conference. For further information concerning the peer
review process, reviewers and authors’ obligations and duties, authors will be informed
in the shortest period.

15. Papers prepared for printing should be submitted before the 1st July of 2023. Papers
should be submitted in digital form, via e-mail danubeprovinces6@gmail.com.
The printed version should be arranged as follows:
1. title; 2. author’s forename and surname; 3. author’s affiliation; 4. abstract; 5.
keywords; 6. basic text; 7. bibliography; 8. illustrative section; 9. captions (list of
illustrations); 10. Contact details (address, e-mail and phone number).

The digital version should contain the following individual files:

1. a file with six initial parts of the paper (1. title; 2. author’s forename, and
surname; 3. author’s affiliation; 4. abstract; 5. keywords; 6. basic text); 2. a file with
quoted bibliography; 3. a file with illustrations; 4. a file with captions (list of
illustrations); 5. a file with contact details.

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 Manuscripts will only be accepted if they have been written and edited according
to the rules listed above in this guideline. Should the author disagree with the
requirements of the Scientific Committee of the Conference, and the disagreement does
not concern the reviewer or proof-reader’s remarks, the paper will not be printed.
Changes to the content of papers after the completion of the review process are not
allowed unless the changes are to be made according to the reviewer’s suggestions.
For additional explanations, please feel free to contact:
Milica Tapavički Ilić
cell number: +381606637334; e-mail: m.ilic@ai.ac.rs
Ivan Bogdanović
cell number: + 381643938464; e-mail: leshicka@gmail.com