General Instructions:

The articles are due by June 1, 2010. Please send them to  phunt@slavic.umass.edu. The articles should come with a Russian summary (250 signs, double-spaced).

Illustrations (in color or black and white) can be sent on a disk to: Priscilla Hunt, Ph.D., 24 Teaberry Ln., Amherst, MA, USA 01002. Please place each category-- illustrations, tables, etc. -- in separate files. The format should be JPEG or TIFF supported by Windows 3.1 and MAC.

The length of the paper should not exceed 40,000 characters not including bibliography. If you need to add more length, please email phunt@slavic.umass.edu.  Send it in a word document (a version no older than 7.0) with a suffix .doc or .docx. Font size should be 12. When using Cyrillic or Greek or other scripts, please incorporate the proper diacritical remarks in the electronic version of the paper.  The system of documentation is with footnotes but please add a bibliography at the end of your article, that includes your primary source material. As noted below, supply a list of abbreviations with their meaning written out next to them. Slavica Publications follows the The Chicago Manual of Style http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

The following standards for documentation are based on the Chicago Manual of Style as applied by Slavica Publications. 

For more information see the Chicago Manual of Style 

and choose "Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide"

Documentation Procedure:

 1. First citation of a book:

a) See N. S. Demkova, Sochineniia Avvakuma i publitsisticheskaia literatura rannego staroobriadchestva (St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta, 1998), 7–10.

b) N. S. Gur’ianova, Staroobriadtsy i tvorcheskoe nasledie Kievskoi mitropolii (Novosibirsk: Izd-vo Sibirskoe otdelenie RAN, 2007), 62–66.

1.1 Subsequent references:

a) Demkova, Sochineniia Avvakuma, 2-10.

b) Gurianova, Staroobriadtsy, 112-333.

c) Ibid., 112.

You may use ibid. if you are repeating the same reference immediately after it is cited.

2. A chapter in a serial:

a) See M. Kudriavtsev, “Sbornik XVII v. s podpisiami protopopa Avvakuma i drugikh pustozerskikh uznikov,” in Zapiski Otdela rukopisei, Gosudarstvennaia biblioteka Lenina (Moscow: Kniga, 1972), 148–213.

2.1 Subsequent references to it:

a) See Kudriavtsev, Sbornik, 180–83, 202.

3. A chapter in a book:

Gervase Mathew, The Hidden Meaning, in Mathew, Byzantine Aesthetics (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), 38–48.

4. A revised edition of a book:

Henry George Lidell and Robert Scott et al., Greek-English Lexicon, rev. ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968).

5. A book in more than one volume:

a) See Slovar’ russkogo iazyka XI–XVII vv., vyp. 18 (Moscow: Nauka, 1992).

b) The Apostolic Fathers, ed. B. D. Ehrman, 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 1: 234

5.1 Subsequent references to this source:

a) The Apostolic Fathers, 1: 234.

6. A book with two authors or more:

a) L. Bouyer and J. Base et al,  The Spirituality of the New Testament and the Fathers (New York: The Seabury Press), 1963.

7. The whole of an edited book:

a) See Ulla Birgegard, ed., Lexicon Slavonicum (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell Tryckeri, 1990) 4: 230.

7.1 A part of an edited book:

a) See N. K. Gudzii, ed., Zhitie protopopa Avvakuma i drugie ego sochineniia, (Moscow: Gos.izd-vo khudozhestvennoi literatury, 1960), 185–90.

7.2 A primary source or article in an edited book:

a) See T. V. Panich, "Slovo ‘na nepokorniki Tserkvi’ – pamiatnik rannei antistaroobriadcheskoi polemiki," in Obshchestvennoe soznanie naseleniia Rossii po otechestvennym narrativnym istochnikam XVI–XX vv.: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, ed. N. N. Pokrovskii (Novosibirsk:Izd-vo Sibirskoe otdelenie RAN, 2006), 173.

7.2.1 Subsequent references to this same source:

Panich, Slovo, 250.

Gudzii, ed., Zhitie, 201.

8. A citation  of a primary source from a secondary source:

A letter by V. A. Zhukovskii to P. A. Viazemskii (July 1848), quoted by Michael Cherniavsky in Tsar and People (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961), 173.

9. An entry in a reference book:

See also A. M. Panchenko, Epifanii Slavinetskii, in Slovar’ knizhnikov i knizhnosti drevnei Rusi, vol. 3, pt. 1 (St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 1993), 309–14.

10. Article in a journal:

a) See Priscilla Hunt, "The Foolishness in the ‘Life’ of the Archpriest Avvakum and the Problem of Innovation," Russian History/Histoire Russe 35: 3–4 (2008): 275–308.

b) See E. L. Fortin,”Clement of Alexandria and the Esoteric Tradition,” Studia Patristica 9 (1966): 56.

11. Archival References:

a) RGADA f. 210. = лист 210

b) RGADA f. 210iv. = лист 210об.

12. A reference to manuscript pages in a published edition:

Panich, Slovo, 175, f. 498iv = л. 498 об.

13. List of Abbreviations:

All authors should provide a list of abbreviations used in their article. A combined list of abbreviations will be included as an appendix to the whole volume.

  a) GPB=Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia biblioteka

  b) RIB = Russkaia istoricheskaia biblioteka

13.1 Abbreviations in a footnote:

a) See Pamiatniki istorii staroobriadchestva XVII v., ed. S. F. Platonov, Russkaia istoricheskaia biblioteka,  [hereafter RIB], vol. 39 (Leningrad: Akademiia nauk, 1927), stlb. 880–86.

13.1.1 Subsequent references to this source:

a) RIB, 880.

14. Biblical Citations:

14.1  Long form should appear in the  text of article with spaces between chapter and verse

a) 2 Corinthians 12: 9.

14. 2  Short form should appear to document citations in the text (a) , and in   the footnotes  (b) with a space between each  element.

               a) (2 Cor. 12: 9)

               b) 6. See 2 Cor. 12: 9.

15. System of Transliteration

      to be used in single words or short phrases in the text of the articles

ий   =  ii

ая  =  aia

ый = yi

ь =  ‘  (basically a straight apostrophe set one point size smaller than the surrounding text)

ж  =  zh

ш  =  sh

щ  = shch

э  =  e

ю  = iu

16. All citations of three lines or less can be included in the text in English surrounded by quotation marks.  The original (Old Russian, Slavonic, Greek, etc.) should be placed in cyrillic or other appropriate alphabet  in  a footnote in quotation marks.  

16.1 Block Quotations

  All quotations of four lines or more should be placed in a block format. They should be  indented on both sides, right and left, by five spaces and single spaced.  All block quotations should be in English with the  original immediately following in cyrillic (or other appropriate alphabet)  and in parentheses. 

a)  All those consummate speakers of vanity claim to be theologians and expert interpretors of divine mysteries when in fact they are simple  rabblerousers, blind and ignorant. (Тии же изряднейший суесловятся быти богословцы и сокровенных Божественных писании таинств искуснейших сказателе появствуются  в деле же самом суть буесловцы, и слепии и невежди). 61

17.  Bibliographies

Each author should append a bibliography at the end of their article. Authors should be listed alphabetically.  Please observe the three samples below. Your bibliographies will be compiled into a Selected Bibliography at the end of the volume. 

a)     Turilov. A. A. "Kogda umer Mikhail Klopskii i kto predskazal tserkovnuiu kar'eru         Novgorodskomu arkhiepiskopu Ione?" Slavianovedenie (2005): 43-49.

b)     Waugh, Daniel Clark. The Great  Turks Defiance. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1978. 

c)     Willner, A. R. and Dorothy Willner. "The Rise and Role of Charismatic Leaders." In The Sociology of Revolution, edited by Roland Ye-lin Cheng, 194-204. Chicago: Henry Regnery  Co.,  1973. 

d)     Zabelin, I. E. Domashnii byt russkikh tsarei. 4th ed. 1918. Reprint, Moscow: Iazyki russkoi kul-tury, 2000.

e)     Zagorin, Perez. Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 

18. First citation of a Thesis or Dissertation

22. M. Amundin, “Click Repetition Rate Patterns in Communicative Sounds from the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena” (PhD diss., Stockholm University, 1991), 22–29, 35.