Polifemo publishes original articles in History of religion and Sciences of antiquity and qualified reviews in the same areas.
All contribution must be submitted to the scientific revision of the chief editor and of the advisory board, which may also use external experts. When, in the opinion of the director, every conditions attached to the publication have been fulfilled, even with editorial corrections, the author will be officially informed of the acceptance; publication usually follows within 24 months.
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• the texts submitted for publication must be unpublished, conform to Polifemo’s ars citandi and may not been under evaluation for publication in another review of collective book;
• author’s name may not appear in the heading of the article, author’s works may not be cited as his own, author’s data must be reported only in another Word file, which must be encrypted with the password “ilciclope”; the paper and this encrypted file must be attached to an empty, anonymous mail, which contains only the object “proposta di pubblicazione” or “proposal for publication”;
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• after the publication, the author may reprint or rework it in a printed form, according to the use, on the condition to cite clearly its first publication in Polifemo, but in no case is allowed to publish it in internet or in any electronic form;
• texts which are not accepted for publication are not sent back; in the absence of any answer a text is automatically rejected 12 months after its submission;
• failure to comply with these rules or the required committments (and specially any simultaneous submission of the same text for publication in more reviews) produces an automatical refusal of any successive text sent for publication.
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The text must in any case be written, to be understood with the knowledge only of Latin alphabet – expressions in other alphabets must be presented as incidental clauses, after the translation or trasliteration in Latin characters or set in the footnotes. In the absence of proven scientific reasons, transliteration will be preferred for texts in non european alphabets, whose knowledge is restricted to the specialists of a specific cultural area. Images must be sent in digital format, black/white, with a good resolution (600 dpi).
Affiliation of authors is stated in the form (University of …) for scholars, whose tenure results from an official source (database of MURST in Italy, official website of foreign universities); otherwise in a first note will be mentioned only the first PhD title or of the Habilitation (German type).

Ars citandi
Please follow these examples (and the norms explained in Polifemo 8, 2008, 207-210), using for the reviews the abbreviations of Année Philologique and Eutifrone and distinguishing between first citation
F. Mora, Prosopografia Isiaca. I. Corpus Prosopographicum Religionis Isiacae (EPRO 113), Leiden 1990.
F. Braudel, Civiltà e imperi del mediterraneo nell’età di Filippo II, Paris 1949/1982 tr.it.Torino 1953/1986.
F. Mora, Religioni fondate, Archaeus 7, 2003, 37-78 partic. 39.
F. Mora, Nomi teofori e politeismo greco: prospettive di ricerca in G. Sfameni Gasparro (a cura di), Agathé Elpis. Studi storico-religiosi in onore di U. Bianchi, Roma 1994, 177-186
and successive recalls
Mora, Prosopografia Isiaca, I 157; Braudel, Civiltà, I 94-96
Mora Archaeus 2003, 47
Mora in Sfameni Gasparro, Agathé Elpis, 179