Article Submission Guidelines
Seleucia is annually published by the Olba Excavations Series. Deadline for sending papers is February of each year. Seleucia features previously unpublished studies and book reviews on archaeology, ancient languages and cultures, ancient history and history of art written only in Turkish or English.
Publishing Principles
Articles should be submitted as word documents, with font type Times New Roman, font sizes 12 points for headings (first letters should be capitalized), 10 points for text, and 9 points for footnotes and references. The number of pages of each article should not be longer than ten pages, including the bibliography. If the study is on some aterial/materials from a museum or an excavation, the permission for publication should be submitted together with the article. The book reviews should not be longer than three pages. If there are sub-titles, the headings should be written bold with small letters. Abstracts written in both Turkish and English should appear below the heading of the article, should be size of 9 points and minimum count of words should be 200. Below the abstracts, a minimum of 5 keywords for both languages should be included (of size 9 points) below the headings “anahtar sözcükler” and “keywords”. The articles produced out of master’s theses or doctoral dissertations will not be accepted for publication.
• Footnotes should be given under each page. The ordering of author surname, year of publication and page number should be as follows: Demiriş 2006, 59.
• The reference list should appear at the end of the study and should explain the abbreviation given in the footnote.
For the book:
Demiriş 2006 Demiriş, B., Roma Yazınında Tarih Yazıcılığı, Ege Yay., Istanbul.
Article format:
Kaçar 2009 Kaçar, T., “Arius: Bir ‘Sapkın’ın Kısa Hikayesi”, Lucerna Klasik Filoloji Yazıları, İstanbul.
• Photographs, images, maps, drawings, figures, etc. used in the article should be referred to in the text only as ‘Plate’ in the form of abbreviations (Plate 1), (Plate 2), and should be listed under the heading ‘Plates’ at the end of the article. All plates must be in jpeg or tiff format at 300 dpi. If a plate is quoted, the responsibility lies with the author and the source must be indicated.
• The number of plates is limited to 10 per article.
• In the spelling of Latin and Greek words, proper nouns should be separated by a comma if there is a Turkish suffix, for example: Augustus’un. Common nouns should be written in italics; if there is a Turkish suffix, it should be written attached to the word without italics, for example: caveanın. caveanın.