The journal publishes materials in the fields of archaeology, history and historiography, political science and anthropology, cultural studies, philology, etc. Only unpublished texts with a scientific contribution are accepted, and the editorial board reserves the right to reject submissions that do not correspond to the journal’s scope or academic standards, as well as those that violate its Publication Ethics Statement. The copyright of published articles belongs to the journal (Statement).

1. General information

The journal accepts articles in the Bulgarian language with a volume of up to 27 000 characters for the section “Topic of the issue” and of up to 10 000 characters for the other sections. For longer pieces, the editorial board must be contacted in advance.

Submissions (in doc/docx and pdf format) should be sent to the editorial office by e-mail to balkani@balkanstudies.bg no later than 30 June of the calendar year in question.

All articles must be accompanied by the following information in English: the title, an abstract of up to 1000 characters, up to 5 keywords and the author's bio in the following format:

Ivo Topalilov
Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
ivo.topalilov@balkanstudies.bg

ORCID: 0000-0002-0565-2054

Keywords and summary in English are not required for texts in the “Reviews and Responses”, “Balkan Studies Chronicles” and “Perspectives” sections.

Texts published elsewhere are not eligible for publication.

Articles are approved by the editorial board after a double-blind peer review procedure.

Suggestions for changes and additions from the reviewers and the editorial board are provided to the authors to improve and refine the text.

2. Formal requirements

Margins: top, bottom, left and right margins 2.5 cm, new line indent 1.25 cm.

Fonts: Times New Roman font is used for Latin, Cyrillic, and (Ancient) Greek, and CyrillicaOchrid10U (downloadable here) or BukyVede (downloadable here) for Old Bulgarian.

Title: 14 pt, bold, centered.

Author name: 12 pt, italic, centered.

Institutional affiliation: 12 pt, italic, centered.

Main text: 12 points, indent 1 cm, justified alignment, line spacing 1.5.

Footnotes: 10 pt, justified alignment, single spacing; entered as footnotes using Word’s automatic numbering function with the surname(s) of the author(s) in Latin script only, year and exact page(s) in sequence, e.g. Ivanov 2010: 24–26; Smith 1991: 17. Primary sources are also cited in Latin script only, with an exact description of the document’s location, e.g. TsDA, f. 111K, op. 1, a.u. 25, l. 1; NA-BAN, f. 15K, op. 1, a.u. 2, l. 2; Dunavski Lebed 1/01.09.1860.

The scholarly apparatus at the end of the article must include a description of the primary sources used and a bibliography: 11 pt, justified alignment, single spacing, formatted as indicated below.

The full titles of the cited publications are appended after the main text in the “Bibliography” section, following the patterns described below (Hanging indentation – 1 cm). Publications in Cyrillic and Greek are included in the list of titles cited as a whole in the appropriate places according to the Latin surname of the author(s). Transliteration of titles in Latin is done by the editorial board.

It is obligatory to use the Bulgarian version of the quotation marks („“) and the accented 'ѝ'. A short dash/ hyphen (-) is used only for grading, appendices, double names and titles, e.g. „най-значим“, „министър-председател“, „българо-румънски“, „Тъпкова-Заимова“, and a medium-length dash/en-dash (–) in all other cases, e.g. 1948–1949, XIX–XIX, 28–29 April 1955, [pp.] 56–58. The footnote index always precedes the punctuation mark (semicolon, comma, colon, or semicolon).

Primary sources such as manuscripts and archival documents, scholarly editions of sources, periodicals, are presented in a separate list immediately preceding the bibliography under the title Извори / Sources, according to the following pattern:

- for manuscripts

BAN 73: Научен архив на БАН, ръкопис № 73, Пролог, вт. пол. XIV в.

- for archival sources

BIA-NBKM, f. 27: Български исторически архив – Национална библиотека „Св. Св. Кирил и Методий“ (БИА-НБКМ), ф. 27.

TsDA, f. 1318K: Централен държавен архив (ЦДА), ф. 1318К.

-for scientific publications

Gregoras 1830: Nicephorus Gregoras. Historiae Byzantinae, Vol. 2, ed. L. Schopen. Bonnae: Weberi.

Vǎnšnata politika 1978–1998: Външната политика на България. Документи и материали. Т. 1–3. София: Наука и изкуство.

- for periodicals

Avgi, 1876: Αυγή, Αθήνα, 1876.

Svoboda, 1870–1872: Свобода, Букурещ, 1870–1872.

Templates for formatting the bibliography

Bibliography Section is introduced. After the abbreviated spelling of the bibliographic unit in Latin (e.g. Doynov 2005), all other data are spelled in the language of the original!

Monographs

Author’s name (surname, initial(s) of personal name). Title. Subtitle (if any). Place of publication. If the volume is part of a series, it is given in brackets together with the serial number in Arabic numerals.

Danova 2020: Danova, Ts. John of Damascus' Marian Homilies in Mediaeval South Slavic Literatures. (Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe 36). Berlin: Peter Lang.

Doynov 2005: Дойнов, С. Българите в Украйна и Молдова през Възраждането 1751–1878. София: АИ „Проф. Марин Дринов“.

Lyberatos 2006. Οικονομία, πολιτική και εθνική ιδεολογία. H διαμόρφωση των εθνικών κομμάτων στη Φιλιππούπολη του 19ου αιώνα. Ηράκλειο: Πανεπιστημιακές εκδόσεις Κρήτης.

Smith 1991: Smith, A. National Identity. London: Penguin.

Stoyanov, Kodov 1971: Стоянов, М., Кодов, Х. Опис на славянските ръкописи в Софийската народна библиотека. Т. 4. София: Наука и изкуство.

Collections and reference publications

Name of the publisher/compiler, if any (surname, initial(s) of the personal name), (role – if specified). Title. Subtitle (if any). Place of publication: Publishing house. If the volume is part of a series, it is given in parentheses along with the serial number in Arabic numerals.

Daritelstvoto 2011: Енциклопедия Дарителството. Дарителски фондове и фондации в България 1878–1951. Т. 3. София: Български дарителски форум.

Kostov 2021: Костов, А. (съст.)  Монтана: един модерен град на 130 години. София: Тендрил.

Ulbert, Le Bouëdec 2006: Ulbert, J., Le Bouëdec, G. (eds.) La fonction consulaire à l'époque moderne. L'Affirmation d'une institution économique et politique (1500–1800). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes.

Articles in periodicals

Author's name (surname, first initial/s). Title of the article. – Title of the periodical, volume (booklet – if any), pages from–to.

Hristov 1965: Христов, Х. Градиво за биографията на Георги К. Динков. – Годишник на Софийския университет, Философско-исторически факултет 85 (3), 131–165.

Maas 1903: Maas, P. Der byzantinische Zwölfsilber. – Byzantinische Zeitschrift 12, 278–323.

Papastathis 1968: Παπαστάθης, Χ. Τα πρώτα ελληνικά τυπογραφεία της Θεσσαλονίκης. – Μακεδονικά 8, 239–256.

Articles in collections, edited volumes or collective monographs

Author’s name (surname, first initial/s). Title of the article. – В:/ In: Surname, initial of the first name of the publisher/s (ed./ed./comp./ed.). Title of the book. Place of issue: Publisher, pages from–to.

Konstantinova 2010: Konstantinova, Y. Myths and pragmatism in the political ideology of Dr. Ivan Seliminsky. – In: Kitromilides, P., Tabaki, A. (eds.) Greek-Bulgarian Relations in the Age of National Identity Formation. Athens, INR/NHFR, 163–180.

Kostov 2021: Костов, А. Град Фердинанд в българските алманаси до Първата световна война. – В: Костов, А. (съст.)  Монтана: един модерен град на 130 години. София: Тендрил, 25–44.

Zagklas 2019: Zagklas, N. Byzantine Poetry: An Introduction. – In: Hörandner, W., Rhoby, A., Zagklas, N. (eds.) A Companion to Byzantine Poetry. (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 4). Leiden–Boston: Brill, 1–19.

Internet publications

Author’s name (surname, first initial/s). Post title, Post date (if available), <URL> (Date visited - day, month, year).

Todorakova s.a.: Тодоракова, М. Софийско благотворително-образователно дружество „Иван Николаевич Денкоглу“. – В: Енциклопедия „Дарителство“ <https://daritelite.bg/sofiysko-balgarsko-blagotvoritelno-obrazovatelno-druzhestvo-ivan-nikolaevich-denkoglu/> (10.03.2023).

Doychinova: Дойчинова, Г. Поклонничество по стъпките на свети Павел. <https://www.vaticannews.va/bg/church/news/2018-12/bulgarski-katolizi-po-stapki-sveti-pavel.html> (07.03.2019).

Lemac 2015: Lemac, T. Autorsko, povijesno, mitsko (pjenički discurz Vesne Parun – teorija i interpretažina. Zagreb: Biakova. <https://www.academia.edu/38007275> (10.04.2022).

Solun: Солун посреща със святост на 20 века. <https://www.standartnews.com/lifestyle-lyubopitno/solun_posreshta_sas_svyatost_na_20_veka-369261.html> (07.03.2019).

The following abbreviations shall be used in the absence of data on:

• author - s.n. (sine nomine)
• place of publication - s.l. (sine loco)
• year of publication - s.a. (sine anno)
• publisher - s.e. (sine editione)

In the sections the “Reviews and Responses” and “Balkan Studies Chronicles” the titles of articles and reports are given in the original and, if necessary, a translation into Bulgarian is added.

Attached illustrations must be in JPG or TIF format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.