Stylesheet for Studia Celtica Fennica

1. Submission format

Articles/reviews should be submitted via email to katja.ritari@helsinki.fi as Word-document attachments. To ensure correct deciphering of special, e.g. linguistic, symbols, a paper copy should be sent to the editors (Katja Ritari, Department of Comparative Religion, P.O. Box 59, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland) OR a pdf-version of the article be included with the Word-document.

2. Information regarding the author

The journal now follows a policy of double anonymity in refereeing so that neither the referee nor the author knows each other's identity. Please, therefore, do not put you name on the first page of the article but simply put the article title. Pleases send in a separate sheet with your name, the name of your institution and email address. It is also important, therefore, that when an author cites his/her own work in an endnote, that he/she does not identify him/herself as the author. Authors should cite their own work as they would that of another scholar.

3. Language

All major European languages and Celtic languages as well as Finnish and Swedish may be used. If the language chosen is not English, an abstract of about 200 words in English should be included.

4. Length of articles

The length of articles is free up to 15 pages. Before submitting an article exceeding 15 pages, editors should be consulted.

5. Footnotes and references

Footnotes should be used only when they include a comment. Plain references should be placed in the text in the following format:

(Author Year, pages) Example: (Ó Cróinín 2000, 50–56)

References in the footnotes should be in the following format:

Author Year, pages Example: Ó Cróinín 2000, 50–56

If the name of the author is mentioned in the preceding sentence following form should be used both in the text and in the footnotes:

Ó Cathasaigh adds that the poem clearly has a Christian dimension in addition to the mythico-political one, but does not explicate the relationship between the two further (1989, 36–37).

In case of multiple publications from the same author in the same year following format should be used:

O’Loughlin 1997a, 95-100

O’Loughlin 1997b, 37

6. Bibliography

Articles should be accompanied by a bibliography of reference literature. Primary source material should be listed separately. The references must be included in the following format:

Surname, Initials. Year. Monograph Title. Place: Publisher.

Surname, Initials. Year. ‘Article Title’. Journal Volume, pages.

Examples:

Jaski, B. 2000. Early Irish kingship and succession. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

Jaski, B. 1998. ‘Early medieval Irish kingship and the Old Testament’. Early Medieval Europe 7, 329-344.

Multiple authors

Tierney, B. & S. Painter 1992. Western Europe in the Middle Ages 300-1475. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Article in an essay collection

Ó hAodha, D. 1989. ‘The lament of the old woman of Beare’. In D. Ó Corráin, L. Breathnach & K. McCone (eds.) Sages, saints and storytellers: Celtic studies in honour of professor James Carney. Maynooth: An Sagart, 308-331.

Reprinted monograph or article:

Kenney, James F. 1929. The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: Ecclesiastical. Repr. 1993, Dublin: Four Courts press.

Multiple publications from the same author in the same year:

O’Loughlin, T. 1997a. ‘Res, tempus, locus, persona: Adomnán’s Exegetical Method’, Innes Review 48, 95-111.

O’Loughlin, T. 1997b. ‘Adomnán’s De Locis Sanctis: A Textual Emendation and an Additional Source Identification’, Ériu XLVIII, 37-40.

Primary source material:

Adomnán. Vita Columbae. Eds. & transl. A.O. & M.O. Anderson 1991, Adomnán’s Life of Columba. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2^nd edition.

Buile Suibhne. Ed. & transl. J.G. O’Keeffe 1913, Buile Suibhne. The Adventures of Suibhne Geilt. London: Irish Texts Society XII. Repr. 1996, Dublin.

Patrick, Epistola ad milites Corotici. Ed. & transl. D.R. Howlett 1994. The Book of Letters Saint Patrick the Bishop. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 24-39.

Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae. Transl. S. Connolly 1989, ‘Vita Prima Sanctae Brigitae. Background and Historical Value’. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 119, 14-49. Latin text in Acta Sanctorum I Februarii 1. Antwerpen 1658. Repr. 1966 Brussels.

7. Citations

Authors are requested to make limited use of citations. Citations must be of moderate length. Short citations of one or two sentences can be included in the text and must be placed between single quotation marks. Double quotation marks are solely applied when the cited text contains quotations. Longer citations should be indented.

8. Foreign terms

Foreign terms should be placed in italics.

9. Numbers and dates

Numbers should be spelt out in full up to 100. If in one sentence there is a mixture of numbers below and above 100, then they should appear as figures and not spelt out. Use Arabic numerals for all page numbers, tables, diagrams, etc. Dates should appear as follows: 1 January 1201; 1201-2; 1214-16; the 840s. Centuries should be spelt out: e.g., 'in the tenth century'; 'the mid-tenth century'. NB 'a tenth-century manuscript'; 'an early-tenth-century manuscript'; 'a mid-tenth-century manuscript'.

10. Abbreviations

The following abbreviations may be used without further explanation for reference to frequently cited series and journals:

· AASS Acta Sanctorum . . . a Sociis Bollandianis

· AClon Annals of Clonmacnoise (ed. Denis Murphy, Dublin 1896)

· AConn Annals of Connacht (ed. A. Martin Freeman, Dublin 1944)

· AFM Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters (ed. John O'Donovan, 7 vols, Dublin 1848-51)

· AI Annals of Inisfallen (ed. Seán Mac Airt, Dublin 1951)

· AI (facs) Annals of Inisfallen, reproduced in facsimile (ed. R. I. Best and Eoin Mac Neill, Dublin 1933)

· ALC Annals of Loch Cé (ed. W. M. Hennessy, 2 vols, RS 54, London 1871)

· ALI Ancient Laws of Ireland (ed. W N. Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander Richey and Robert Atkinson, 6 vols, Dublin and London 1865-1901)

· ALW Ancient laws and institutes of Wales (ed. Aneurin Owen, London 1841) [ref. to book and chapter]

· ASC Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

· ATig `Annals of Tigernach' (ed. Whitley Stokes in Revue Celtique 16 (1895) 374-419; 17 (1896) 6-33, 119-263, 337-420; 18 (1897) 9-59, 150-97, 267-303, repr. Felinfach 1993, 2 vols)

· AU1 Annals of Ulster (ed. W. M. Hennessy and B. Mac Carthy, 4 vols, Dublin 1887-1901)

· AU2 Annals of Ulster i (ed. Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Dublin 1983)

· BB Book of Ballymote (facsimile, ed. Robert Atkinson, Dublin 1887)

· BHL Bibliotheca hagiographica latina (ed. Socii Bollandiani, 3rd ed. Brussels 1959)

· BCLL Michael Lapidge & Richard Sharpe, Bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature (Dublin 1985)

· BL Book of Leinster (ed. R. I. Best, Osborn Bergin, M. A O'Brien and Anne O'Sullivan, 6 vols, Dublin 1954-83)

· CCH Collectio canonum hibernensis (ed. Herrmann Wasserschleben, Die irische Kanonensammlung, 2nd ed., Leipzig 1885)

· CGH Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae i (ed. M. A. O'Brien, Dublin 1962)

· CIH Corpus iuris hibernici (ed. D. A. Binchy, 6 vols, Dublin 1978)

· CMCS Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies (formerly Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies)

· CottA The annals in Cotton MS Titus A. XXV (ed. A. Martin Freeman, Paris 1929)

· CS Chronicon Scottorum (ed. W. M. Hennessy, RS 46, London 1866)

· DIAS Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

· DIL Royal Irish Academy, Dictionary of the Irish language based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials (Dublin 1913-75, repr. [in compact ed. with continuous pagination] Dublin 1983)

· ÉC Études Celtiques

· FrA1 Annals of Ireland: three fragments (ed. John O'Donovan, Dublin 1860)

· FrA2 Fragmentary Annals of Ireland (ed. J. N. Radner, Dublin 1978)

· GOI Rudolf Thurneysen, A grammar of Old Irish (Dublin 1946)

· HE Venerable Bede, Historia ecclesiastica

· ITS Irish Texts Society (London 1899 - )

· Kenney, Sources James F. Kenney, Sources for the early history of Ireland: ecclesiastical (Columbia 1929)

· Lec Book of Lecan: Leabhar Mór Leacáin (facsimile, ed. Kathleen Mulchrone, Dublin 1937)

· LGÉ R.A.S. Macalister, Lebor Gabála Érenn, The Book of the Taking of Ireland, 5 vols. ITS vols. 34, 35, 39, 41, 44 (Dublin 1938-1956)

· LL Book of Leinster (facsimile, ed. Robert Atkinson, Dublin 1880)

· LU Lebor na hUidre: Book of the Dun Cow (ed. R. I. Best and Osborn Bergin, Dublin 1929)

· MartD Martyrology of Donegal (trans. John O'Donovan; ed. James Henthorn Todd and William Reeves, Dublin 1864)

· MartG Martyrology of Gorman (ed. Whitley Stokes, HBS 9, London 1895)

· MartO Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (ed. Whitley Stokes, HBS 29, London 1905; repr. Dublin 1984)

· MartT Martyrology of Tallaght (ed. R. I. Best and H. J. Lawlor, HBS 68, London 1931)

· MD The Metrical Dindshenchas, 5 vols. (ed./trans. Edward Gwynn, Todd Lecture Series 8-12, Dublin 1903-1935, repr. 1991)

· MiscIrA Miscellaneous Irish annals (ed. S. Ó hÍnnse, Dublin 1947)

· MMIA Medieval and Modern Irish Series (DIAS)

· OG Edmund Hogan, Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (Dublin 1910; repr. Dublin 1994)

· PG Patrologia Graeca (ed. J. P. Migne, 161 vols, Paris 1857-86)

· PHCC Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium

· PL Patrologia Latina (ed. J. P. Migne, 221 vols, Paris 1844-64)

· PKM Ifor Williams, Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi (Cardiff 1951)

· PLS Patrologiae Latinae supplementum (ed. A. Hamman and L. Guillaumin, 5 vols, Paris 1958-74)

· PRIA Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy

· RC Revue Celtique

· RIA Royal Irish Academy

· SC Studia Celtica

· SG Standish Hayes O'Grady, Silva Gadelica, 2 vols. (London 1892)

· SLH Scriptores Latini Hiberniae (Dublin 1955 - )

· TBC I Cecile O'Rahilly, Táin Bó Cúailnge, Recension I (Dublin 1967)

· TBC II Cecile O'Rahilly, Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Book of Leinster (Dublin 1968)

· TP John Strachan and Whitley Stokes (ed), Thesaurus palaeohibernicus (2 vols and supp., Cambridge and Halle a.S. 1901-10, repr. in 2 vols, Dublin 1975)

· VC Adomnán Vita Columbae (ed./trans. A.O. Anderson and M.O. Anderson, Adomnan’s Life of Columba, Edinburgh 1961, 2nd ed. Oxford 1991; and R. Sharpe trans., Adomnán of Iona: Life of St Columba, Harmondsworth 1995)

· ZCP Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie

Please include any further abbreviations defined by you at the beginning of your bibliography, and use the abbreviation as defined from the first reference.

11. Editorial policy

The editorial board reserves the right to make minor modifications in the text without informing the author. The author will always be contacted in cases where many or large sections of the text will have to be modified.

12. Format for reviews

The review must include the following information concerning the reviewed item:

Surname, Initials. Title. Place: Publisher, Year, Number of pages, ISBN, price.