1. Layout of the material to be published:
(1) Heading (in Bulgarian and English);
(2) Author(s) name and surname (with Cyrillic and Latin letters);
(3) Keywords (in Bulgarian and English);
(4) Abstract (in Bulgarian and English);
(5) Body (in Bulgarian or English);
(6) References;
(7) Illustrations.
2. The body may be in one of the following two languages: Bulgarian or English.
3. Each published piece must have an abstract. of up to 1,500 characters including spaces. The author must submit the abstract in the same language as the body. JVM publishes two abstracts – in Bulgarian and in English. Translation is provided by the Editorial staff.
4. The piece must have a list of keywords referring to the contents. They have to be submitted by the author in the language of the main text. The JVM publishes the key words in two languages – in Bulgarian and in English. The Editorial staff provides the translation.
5. The conditions stipulated in Items 2, 3 and 4 are not mandatory for the following parts of the JVM: Activities of Varna Regional Museum of History, IN HONOREM, and IN MEMORIAM, but are recommended.
6. The information below must be added to the published piece:
(1) Author name. If the original name is in a language that does not use the Latin script, the author must indicate how it is transliterated in Latin letters. If this is not done, the editorial board will write the name according to the Bulgarian national transliteration standard;
(2) Scientific title and position;
(3) Affiliation to a scientific institution;
(4) Email address for official communications.
7. The length of each piece must be discussed by its author with the the editor-in-chief.
8. Texts must be submitted as rtf files in the Times New Roman font, regular, 12 pt.; left aligned, without new paragraph indentation; page margins – 3.5; space line – 1.5. The heading and the author’s name and details must also be left-aligned, with the heading capitalised and bolded.
9. It is recommended to minimise the use of bold in the text.
10. Citations within the piece have to be italicised and should not be surrounded by quotation marks. They must be introduced with a colon.
11. If the piece includes texts and symbols requiring special fonts, the author must also submit:
(1) print-out of the material to be published and/or PDF file; and
(2) file with the font used.
12. An additional printout or PDF file of the material to be published must also be submitted if it contains tables, graphics or diagrams whose position may change when the files are opened on different computers.
13. Citations in the JVM must be formatted according to a variation of the so-called Harvard referencing system which consists of two components:
(1) The author surname and the year of publication must be written within parenthesis and not be separated by a comma. Then, a colon has to be inserted, followed by the referenced pages (without “pp.”, etc.), illustrations, notes, etc. The names and the year should be in bold:
(Hodder 2019: 6)
(Hodder 2019: 6, Fig. 1)
(Hodder, Meskell 2011: 245, Fig. 8)
(2) An alphabetical list of the referenced titles should be inserted at the end of the text. Alphabets are used in the following order: Cyrillic, Latin, Greek, etc.
14. References:
(1) Each title in this list has to consist of two elements. The first includes the author’s (s’) surname and the year of publication, followed by a colon. This element is used for citation within the text. The second element also includes the author’s (s’) names and other details of the piece;
(2) If the reference is to an exhibition catalogue, encyclopaedia, etc. where there is no author to be named, a selected word(s) from the title or an abbreviation should be placed before the year of publication;
(3) If an author has two or more pieces published in one year, a letter corresponding to the language of the material must be added to the year of publication without a space, like so: 1978a, 1978б, 1978a, 1978b, etc. The same approach has to be used when there are published pieced by two or more authors with the same surname in the same year;
(4) If a piece has two or more authors, their surnames should be given separated by commas before the colon. If there are more than three, the leading author’s name should be provided, followed by: и кол. (for Cyrillic texts); et al. (Latin); κ.ά. (Greek) and so on. After the colon, write the names of all authors separated by commas, with the initial of the given name first, followed by the surname:
Hodder, Meskell 2011: I. Hodder, L. Meskell.
Hodder et al. 1981: I. Hodder, G. L. Isaac, N. Hammond, and…
(5) Periodical names should be written in full;
(6) Examples:
Book/monograph:
Hodder 2018: I. Hodder. The Leopard’s Tale. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006.
Note: Any reference to a title that is not the first edition must include the edition number.
Book chapter:
Hodder 2011: I. Hodder. Çatalhöyük: A Prehistoric Settlement on the Konya Plain. – In: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia: (10,000 – 323 BCE). G. McMahon, S. Steadman (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 434 – 449.
Article in volume:
Hodder 2012: I. Hodder. Çatalhöyük: A Summary of Recent Work Concerning Architecture. – In: Festschrift for Ahmet A. Tırpan. B. Söğüt (Ed.). Istanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2012, 303 – 314.
Article in periodical:
Hodder 2016: I. Hodder. More on History Houses at Çatalhöyük: a Response to Carleton et al. – Journal of Archaeological Science, 2016, № 67, 1 – 6.
Exhibition catalogue, encyclopaedia, historical source, etc.:
• Exhibition catalogue:
Golden 1994: Golden, Schwert und Silberschatz. Reichtümer aus 6000 Jahren rumänischen Vergangenheit. B. Deppert-Lippitz et al. (Eds.). Frankfurt am Main, 1995.
• Encyclopaedia, dictionary, reference book:
DACL 1948: Dictionnaire d’archeologie chrétienne et de liturgie. T. III-2. R. Cabrol, H. Leclercq (publ.). Paris : Paris-VI, Librairie Letouzey et Ane, 1948.
• Corpus with written sources:
FGHB 1958: Fontes Graeci Historiae Bulgaricae. T. II. A. Burmov et al. (ed.). Sofa: BAS, 1958.
• Corpus with epigraphic monuments:
IGBR 1958: Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria repertae. Vol. 1 (= Series epigraphica, 5). G. Mihailov (ed.). Serdicae: ALB, 1958.
• Citations in electronic form (CD, DVD, etc.):
The aforementioned requirements for citations in paper form must be followed, with the storage medium provided in square brackets immediately after the book/article title as follows: [CD], [DVD], etc.
• Online citations:
CAEL: California Excavation Law (California Government Code 4216, Revised January 1, 2020) [online]. In: USA North 811. Available at https://www.usanorth811.org [09.12.2020]*.
* Date of last access to the information on the site.
Sherwood [n.d.]**: H. Sherwood. Revealed: Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids [online]. In: The Guardian. International Edition. Available at www.theguardian.com/international [09.12.2020].
** If the date of publication of the referenced material is unknown, the name of the author should be followed by [n.d.] – no date. The abbreviation [n.d.] can also be applied to all sources, when the date is unknown.
CCSSA 2018***: Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological Law and Ethics [online]. In: Society for American Archaeology. Available at www.saa.org [09.12.2020].
*** Where materials whose author is unknown are referenced, write the name of the media outlet/institution that owns the site on which the information is available.
15. (1) Notes comprising additional author’s comments must be indexed (1, 2, 3) at the relevant place in the text and written as a footnote.
If the note includes a reference, it should be written according to the Harvard reference system.
(2) The index (1, 2, 3) and footnote system must also be used when referencing archive sources, newspapers, etc. where the authors are not mentioned/known:
1 The Illustrated London News, № 778/05.01.1856, p. 1.
2 Varna State Archive, ф. 91K, оп. 1, a.е. 51, л. 63 – 66.
16. Editor’s notes are written as a footnote. In Bulgarian they end with (Бел.ред.), and in English they begin with Editor’s Note:
17. Illustrations to pieces published in the JVM:
(1) They can be colour and black-and-white graphics or drawings and colour or black-and-white photos;
(2) Their number is not strictly defined and the authors should discuss this with the editor-in-chief;
(3) Black-and-white and colour images will be placed at the end of each publication. An exception to this rule is acceptable in the Publications and Events Reviews, and in IN HONOREM/IN MEMORIAM sections;
(4) Illustrations should be sent in electronic form separately from the text. They must be in the tiff, jpeg or pdf format and of high quality: minimum resolution of 300 dpi. It is recommended that the drawings be in vector format;
(5) A number and description must be sent for each illustration. There must be an indication of where it was taken from, and to whom the copyright belongs. The author must send a list of captions for the illustrations in a separate rtf file.
All materials for publication must be sent to the JVM by email (inmv.editors@gmail.com) or by post on an electronic storage medium to: Varna Regional Museum of History. Editorial board of the JVM. 41 Maria Louisa Blvd., 9000 Varna, Bulgaria.
In order to be accepted, the materials have to meet the JVM’s ethical requirements, to be prepared according to the journal’s technical requirements, and to be fully packaged.