Submissions

Author Guidelines

1.
Ars Adriatica publishes scholarly and professional articles in the fields of history and theory of art, architecture, urbanism, visual communications, and the protection of cultural heritage. The journal is published annually, and articles may be submitted in Croatian, English, Italian, French, or German. Articles approved in the process of editorial prereviewing undergo two “double-blind” reviews, categorizing them as follows:
– Scholarly articles may be categorized as original scientific papers, preliminary communications, review papers, and short communications.
– Professional articles may be categorized as professional papers, essays, reviews, reactions/polemics, and notes.
In cases where reviews differ in category, a third review may be demanded, and the ultimate decision rests with the Editorial Board.

2.
Articles should be submitted via e-mail to arsadriatica@gmail.com. Submissions are accepted throughout the year; however, authors are kindly requested to submit articles intended for the current issue no later than July 1. Papers are accepted until the issue is filled, after which they will be forwarded to the review process for the next issue. The deadline for non-peer-reviewed texts is October 1. Please note that articles and reviews are not remunerated; authors and reviewers will receive one complimentary copy.

3. FORMATTING NORMS Please submit the digital text in MS Word, Times New Roman, size 12. Notes should be endnotes, not footnotes, font size 10. Articles should not exceed 25 pages (6000-8000 words, endnotes excluded) and should include 10-15 illustrations. The text must include a title and a short abstract (approximately 200 words), six to seven carefully selected keywords, and a list of illustration in the language of the article. The editorial board provides the translation of the title, abstract, keywords, and figure captions into Croatian, or (for papers written in other foreign languages) into English. Articles in foreign languages should be proofread in advance by a professional.

Please pay attention to the following details:
- Centuries are to be indicated in Arabic numerals.
- The word ”century” is not to be abbreviated.
- Citations are to be placed in ”double quotation marks”, and citations within citations in ‘single inverted commas’.
- Loanwords and titles of books, periodicals, academic projects, exhibitions, and artworks are to be written in italics.
- Parentheses within parentheses are to be written in /oblique brackets/.
- Hyphens (-) are written without spaces left and right.
- Dashes (–) are written with spaces left and right (e.g. when indicating years: 1124 – 1166), except when indicating pages (especially in notes, e.g. 93–97).

All authors should provide the following personal information: name and surname, full affiliation with the address of the academic institution, and the official e-mail address, which will be published on the first page of the article and will serve to link the article to the author’s profile in academic repositories.
Authors are required to enclose a cover letter with a statement on the authenticity of the text and the illustration sources, and on taking full responsibility in case of legal disputes concerning copyright.

4. CITATION NORMS

IN THE REFERENCE LIST:
At the end of the text, a list of references is appended, arranged alphabetically by the authors’ surnames and cronologically for works by the same author. If a book is co-authored, the authors’ names should be separated by a comma.
a) Books (monographs):
SURNAME, name of the author, Title: Subtitle, place of publication (publisher’s name is optional), year of publication.
e.g.
WOLTERS, Wolfgang, Architettura e ornamento: La decorazione nel Rinascimento veneziano, Verona, 2007.
b) Articles in periodicals:
SURNAME, name of the author, Title: Subtitle, Title of the Periodical, issue in Arabic numerals (volume), pages without the abbreviation p. or pp.
e.g.
JAKŠIĆ, Nikola, The skull reliquaries of St Anselm and St Marcella, patron saints of Nin, Hortus Artium Medievalium, 19 (2014), 425–432.
c) Articles in conference proceedings, chapters in books, or catalogue entries:
SURNAME, name of the author, Title: Subtitle, in: Publication Title: Subtitle (editor/s abbreviated as ed.), place of publication, year of publication, pages.
e.g.
KOKOLE, Stanko, A Venetian Work by Giorgio da Sebenico: New Attribution, in: HISTORIA ARTIS MAGISTRA: Amicorum discipulorumque munuscula Johanni Höfler septuagenario dicata (ed. Renata Novak Klemenčič, Samo Štefanac), Ljubljana, 2012, 153–164.

IN ENDNOTES:
In the endnotes, the abbreviated titles should be used if they exceed four or five words. In such cases, the abbreviation should be indicated by an ellipsis.
SURNAME OF THE AUTHOR, Abbreviated title... (for books, in italics), page(s), tables as T., figures as fig./figs. (depending on number).
e.g.
WOLTERS, Architettura e ornamento..., 78 , T. XXV, figs. 12-13.
JAKŠIĆ, The skull reliquaries..., 429.
KOKOLE, A Venetian Work by Giorgio da Sebenico…, 161.

Archival sources:
First reference:
State Archive Zadar (Državni arhiv Zadar, hereafter DAZd), Zadar’s notaries (Zadarski bilježnici, hereafter ZB), Raymundus de Modiis, B un, F I, fol. 390v.
Further references:
DAZd, ZB, Raymundus de Modiis, B un, F I, fol. 390v. Note: The excerpt from the document in the note should be presented first, in italics, followed by a reference to the published transcription or the signature of the unpublished document in parentheses, and then any references to published literature mentioning the document’s content. Documents that are included as appendices at the end of the article should be numbered. A more extensive excerpt or the complete transcription of the document, along with its signature and references, should be listed in the same order as in the notes; however, at the beginning of the appendix, a concise and informative summary (regest) should be provided.

Online sources:
https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-laurana_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ (last accessed on January 22, 2026)

5. ILLUSTRATIONS AND CAPTIONS
Illustrations are to be submitted as separate documents (JPEG or TIFF format, at least 300 dpi). They should be numbered, and their positions marked in the text (Fig. 1). Each illustration must have a caption that clearly indicates its content, with precise information on the author (photographer), the source, and the institution that holds the copyright. If an illustration is taken from another publication, the source should be cited according to the citation rules in endnotes, with full details provided in the reference list:
Name of the artist (if applicable), short description of the image or Title of the Artwork, location (collection, inventory number), date (photo: or source:)
e.g.
Paulus de Sulmona, lunette of the portal of the collegiate church of St Mary in Stari Grad on Pag, 1392, detail (photo: Z. Alajbeg).
Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Angel, church of St Mary in Zadar, main altar (source: TOMIĆ, Giovanni Maria Morlaiter…, 124)
Trefoil of St. Thomas in Vrsi near Nin, ground plan, 12th  century (source: Archaeological Museum in Zadar, Collection of Maps and Drawings).

Cordially,

Editorial Bord of Ars Adriatica