Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Kanonistische Abteilung

General Requirements:

Manuscripts accepted for publication should be ready for print in terms of content, spelling, grammar, and typesetting. The file format should be Microsoft Word.

All contributors have to accept the copyright transfer agreement, according to which the rights to the text are reserved to the publisher for the first year after publication.

Research articles and miscellanies are to be preceded by

- the author’s contact details that may be published online

- any messages for the editors

- the running head

- the translation of the title into English

- an English abstract

- five English keywords

Text layout:

ZRG’ font isTimes New Roman. En dashes and quotation marks are to be entered consistently correctly ("1-2f."), as are paragraphs and spaces. Old languages are italicized in the manuscript without quotation marks, only longer source citations can be in regular font as a separate paragraph in smaller print. Special characters and special requests should be noted separately. For Ancient Greek, "GR Times New Roman" is recommended. - Footnotes are always placed before the punctuation mark.

Footnotes:

begin with a capital letter and end with a period. First and last names of authors are underlined in the footnotes (please do not use spaced letters!). Please put slashes between multiple authors. Book titles, essay titles, and journal titles are not emphasized, not even by quotation marks. Upon the first citation, the long citation must be given along with the place and year of publication. Series titles are not included in the footnotes. The publication year is always given between commas before the page number; for journals, however, is it advisable to state the year in round brackets. S., § or fol. are sometimes used for clarification. Abbreviations and acronyms are to be written out at the first mention. - Second citations are very short concrete references back to the preceding long citation (withour cf. or ibid.). Parentheses within parentheses are to be avoided.

Citation style:

This journal is cited (example): ZRG 125 KA 94 (2008) 1, respectively ZRG GA 125 (2008) 1, ZRG RA 125 (2008) 1. The abbreviations D. 1,1,1 pr., A.D., 1f./ff., (ed.)/(ed.), p., note, vol., lit., e.g., cf., etc., etc., fol./foll. are common, please write out others.

Book Reviews:

Please make sure that the review header gives all bibliographic information, at any rate series title, publisher, place of publication, year of publication, edition, volume.

Corrections:

Apart from editorial preparation, there is no proofreading or at most one proofreading pass to check the typesetting.

Sample page

Editorial deadlines

Deadlines for manuscripts are:

June 15 (for essays and miscellanies),

November 15 (for literature and obituaries),

for the volume of the following year.

Prof. Dr. Mathias Schmoeckel
Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft
Institut für Deutsche und Rheinische Rechtsgeschichte
Adenauerallee 24-42
53113 Bonn
Germany
m.schmoeckel@uni-bonn.de

Prof. Dr. iur. Andreas Thier M.A.
Lehrstuhl für Rechtsgeschichte, Kirchenrecht, Rechtstheorie und Privatrecht
Universität Zürich
Rämistrasse 74/11
8001 Zürich
Switzerland
andreas.thier@rwi.uzh.ch

Prof. Dr. Heinrich de Wall
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Hans-Liermann-Institut für Kirchenrecht
Abteilung: Lehrstuhl für Kirchenrecht, Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht
Hindenburgstrasse 34
91054 Erlangen
Germany
heinrich.de.wall@fau.de

Editorial Board

Orazio Condorelli (Università degli studi di Catania, Italy)
Tatsushi Genka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Richard H. Helmholz (University of Chicago Law School, IL, USA)
Franck Roumy (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France)
Joaquin Sedano (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
Herman Johan Selderhuis (Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn, Netherlands)
John Witte jr. (Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Editorial Office:

Dr. Reingard Rauch
Oberer Plattenweg 33
A-8043 Graz/Austria

Tel: (0043) 664 194 6959 (mobile)

rauch@degruyterbrill.com

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