GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS I. The Bogoslovska smotra is a scientific periodical issued by the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb and is released four times a year and is primarily directed to original academic papers in the field of theology and the theology of related sciences that deal with religious questions in general and in particular Christian issues. In addition to academic and professional papers that are categorised, the Bogoslovska smotra publishes reports about scientific conventions that deal with theological and religious problems, statements, reflections, reviews, presentations and bibliographies. The Editorial Board accepts only unpublished manuscripts that are edited in keeping with the technical and methodological instructions concerning the format of papers. The Bogoslovska smotra does not publish parts of licentiates, masters or doctoral theses. Articles are submitted to the Editorial Board via electronic mail at: smotra@theo.kbf.hr. The Editorial Board retains the right to adapt articles to the standard Croatian literary language. Manuscripts are not returned. II. Categorisation of academic papers (the final decision is brought by the Editorial Board subsequent to two positive reviews): 1) Original scientific paper: a paper that the reviewer and Editorial Board consider to contain original unpublished theoretical or practical results of original research. 2) Preliminary communication: containing one or more new scientific data but lacking sufficient features that can be checked as is the case with original scientific papers. 3) Review: an original, succinct and critical review of the situation and tendency in the development of a particular field of research with a critical review and evaluation. 4) Professional paper: informs and introduces a professional question or presents some original solution in this field. III. Technical and methodological instructions Scope of the scientific paper: at least 16 (28,800 characters with spaces), and no more than 32 pages (57,600 characters with spaces). This includes notes. In addition to the paper the author is required to submit a summary in Croatian (no more than 15 lines) and in English (no more than 45 lines; if the author is unable to provide a summary in English, then this may be submitted in Croatian). In addition to the summary it is necessary to provide at least five key words, that is, notions that will help to classify the paper. Reviews, comments, reflections and reports should not be more than eight pages. The author should provide the Editorial Board with the following information: Name & surname; academic level; scientific identification number; title and address of the institution of employment; e-mail address. 1 Format of the scientific paper: Font: Times New Roman Font size: 12 (text); 10 (summaries and notes) Line spacing: 1.5 - text, 1.0 – notes Title: Capital letters, bold Subtitle: Capital letters, normal Titles and subtitles within the text should stand alone in a separate line or should be written as follows: Introduction & Conclusion: bold, without numeration Main titles: 1. bold Subtitle: 1.1. Italics, not bold Subtitles within the subtitle: 1.1.1. normal Instructions about notes: General notes: - Author’s name written in full (not initials), small letters - Author’s surname written in Capital letters - Title and subtitle written in italics and separated by a full stop - In collections of papers titles are written in italics and any additional information about the collection is separated from the title with a comma and written in normal font - Titles are written in normal letters and the title of the periodical in which the article was published is written in italics - The publisher is not noted - As the publisher is not noted, neither are series (e.g. Documents 117, Metanoja 5 …) - The place of publishing: several places are separated with a dash and spaces ( – ) and only the first three are noted; the same rule of separation applies to noting several authors - The place of publishing is followed by a comma - The year is followed by a full stop, followed by a comma - Only the number of pages are noted, without index-cards „str.“; the same applies to the number of columns - Numeration is noted with a: „br.“ - The editor or preparer (sometimes this is the publisher) are noted by „ur.“, regardless of which language the paper was published; a) for collections of papers with several authors the editor is noted in front of the title (as is the author; Name is small letters and surname in capitals) and „(ur.)“ is noted after the surname; b) for papers by one author that was published by another person, the name of the author is noted at the beginning and the name and surname of the editor comes after the title and is written in small letters and „(ur.)“ is noted after the surname; in both cases a comma is placed after the notation „(ur.)“ 2 - Instead of AA. VV. (et al) the notation RAZNI AUTORI is written - Translators are not noted - When noting works that were printed in several editions, only the number of the edition is noted without the following notations „sv.“, „Bd“, „vol.“, „t.“ …; when the same is noted as a complete paper the number of the first and last edition are noted after the title (I-III); where editions are identified with two numbers the first is written in Roman numerals and the second in Arab numerals (VI/2) - The place of publishing is written in the original form as noted in the paper that it cites (Roma and not Rim; Paris and not Pariz, Wien and not Beč …) - When Church fathers are noted as the authors of papers, their personal name is written in small letters and the second part of their name is written in Capital letters (e.g. Ćiril ALEKSANDRIJSKI); the notation „sv“ is not written in front of the name - Introduction, Prologue and Epilogue are noted in the same principle as articles in collections of papers 3