General Conditions
Literaturna Misal publishes articles, studies, and reviews of scholarly books in the fields of literary theory, criticism, history, and comparative and cultural studies. The editorial board will take into consideration only unpublished texts in Bulgarian and English. Texts must not exceed 30 standard pages (54 000 characters). They must be sent to the following emails:
Submitted manuscripts are subject to blind peer review. A manuscript that is not in line with the thematic frameworks of the journal or is not formatted according to the "Technical Guidelines" (see below) will be rejected without going through the peer review procedure.
Layout of the Text
Manuscripts are submitted in a standard format (.docx, .doc, .odt). Font: Times New Roman.
The first page should contain:
Author’s name and surname, academic position, and scientific degree (e.g., Ivan Ivanov, Assoc. Prof., Ph.D.).
Institutional affiliation without abbreviation (e.g., Institute for Literature – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
Author’s current email address.
Profile of the author (if available) in international scientometric databases (Researcher ID/WoS, Scopus, ORCID, etc.).
Article title, Times New Roman 14pt, Bold, Left Align.
Abstract up to 800 characters, Times New Roman, 11pt, Line Spacing: Single. – Abstract [text].
Keywords maximum of 6, Times New Roman, 11pt, Line Spacing: Single. – Keywords: […].
Main text font: Times New Roman, 12pt, Normal, Justified, Line Spacing: Single.
Direct citations must contain the author’s (authors’) surname, the year of publication and page number in the language of the quoted source:
(Коларов 2009: 20); (Дельоз, Гатари 2004: 13–16); (Danova 2009: 35); (Кьосев 2019).
For footnotes, use the “Footnote” function of the Word processing program. Footnotes should be used to give clarifications to the text. In case there is a need to refer to a scientific publication, follow the principle of citation within the text (Danova 2009: 35); (Кьосев 2019).
Font: Times New Roman, 10pt, Normal, Justified, Line Spacing: Single.
Archival units are indicated in the Footnotes and at the end the article as “Archival Sources” after the bibliography.
Short quotations are in quotation marks. The type and use depend on the language of the article. Longer quotations should be in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks, proceded and followed by one blank line. Font: Times New Roman, 11pt.
Illustrations and photographs are submitted in separate files (.jpg, .jpeg or .tiff) with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. The author has to indicate inside the text the places where the illustrations or figures should be placed, together with precise information about what they depict, when and by whom they were made, and where they are stored (archive with a specific number, personal archive, etc.).
The literature cited should be listed at the end of the article and divided into “Bibliography” and “Archival Sources.” The literature cited is in alphabetical order according to the surnames of the authors.
The bibliography list in Cyrillic must also contain a transliteration with Latin letters added in square brackets.
The rules for transliteration of the Bulgarian Cyrillic are in accordance with the Law on Transliteration approved in 2009 (Darzhaven vestnik, No. 19). The rules for transliteration of Russian Cyrillic follow the GOST 7.79-2000 standard.
For automatic transliteration, you can also use the site https://2cyr.com/?7.
Examples
Books
Коларов 2009: Коларов, Радосвет. Повторение и сътворение: поетика на автотекстуалността. София: Просвета. [Kolarov 2009: Kolarov, Radosvet. Povtorenie i satvorenie: poetika na avtotekstualnostta. Sofia: Prosveta.]
Дельоз, Гатари 2004: Дельоз, Жил, Феликс Гатари. Анти-Едип: Капитализъм и шизофрения. Прев. А. Колева. София: Критика и хуманизъм. [Delyoz, Gatari 2004: Delyoz, Zhil, Feliks Gatari. Anti-Edip: Kapitalizam i shizofrenia. Prev. A. Koleva. Sofia: Kritika i humanizam.]
Eagleton 2012: Eagleton, Terry. The Event of Literature. New Haven, London: Yale University Press.
Habermas 1991: Habermas, Jürgen. Texte und Kontexte. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
Journal Articles
Аретов 2022: Аретов, Николай. Морал и идеология. Петко Славейков и „Ловчанскийт владика…“. – Литературна мисъл, LXV, кн. 3, с. 3–16. [Aretov 2022: Aretov, Nikolay. Moral i ideologia. Petko Slaveykov i „Lovchanskiyt vladika…“. – Literaturna misal, LXV, kn. 3, s. 3–16.]
Дичев 2012: Дичев, Ивайло. Фенове на родината. –Критика и хуманизъм, кн. 39, бр. 2, с. 239–248. [Dichev 2012: Dichev, Ivaylo. Fenove na rodinata. – Kritika i humanizam, kn. 39, br. 2, s. 239–248.]
Reader 2024: Reader, Simon. Idols of the Fragment: Barthes and Critique. – New Literary History, Vol. 55, № 1, pp. 1–19.
Danova 2009: Danova, Nadja. À travers l'histoire des utopies balkaniques. – Etudes balkaniques, 45, № 3, рр. 32–67.
Collective Volumes and Conference Proceedings
Хранова 1998: Хранова, Албена. Фолклорът и кризата на литературното очакване. Ботев. – В: Кьосев, А. (съст.). Българският канон? Криза на литературното наследство. София: ИК „Александър Панов”, Нов български университет, с. 83–100. [Hranova 1998: Hranova, Albena. Folklorat i krizata na literaturnoto ochakvane. Botev. – V: Kyosev, A. (sast.). Balgarskiyat kanon? Kriza na literaturnoto nasledstvo. Sofia: IK „Aleksandar Panov”, Nov balgarski universitet, s. 83–100.]
Assmann 2008: Assmann, Aleida. Canon and Archive. – In: Erll, A., A. Nünning (eds). Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, pp. 97–107.
Chapter of a Book
Пелева 1994: Пелева, Инна. Биография, тривиален мит и литературна история. – В: Пелева, И. Четени текстове. Студии върху съществуващи и липсващи страници в българската литература. Пловдив: Пловдивско университетско издателство, с. 92–128. [Peleva 1994: Peleva, Inna. Biografia, trivialen mit i literaturna istoria. – V: Peleva, I. Cheteni tekstove. Studii varhu sashtestvuvashti i lipsvashti stranitsi v balgarskata literatura. Plovdiv: Plovdivsko universitetsko izdatelstvo, s. 92–128.]
Stephanov 2019: Stephanov, Darin. The Trope of Love, Its Variations and Manifestations: The Reign of Abdülmecid (1839–61). – In: Stephanov, D. Ruler Visibility and Popular Belonging in the Ottoman Empire, 1808 – 1908. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 37–94.
Online Resources
Кьосев 2019: Кьосев, Александър. Принципът на надеждата срещу принципа на въображението. Бележки върху Блох и Борхес. – Пирон. Академично електронно списание за култура и изкуства, бр. 18. [онлайн] https://piron.culturecenter-su.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/05-kiossev-bloch-borges.pdf [прегледан 14.08.2023]. [Kyosev 2019: Kyosev, Aleksandar. Printsipat na nadezhdata sreshtu printsipa na vaobrazhenieto. Belezhki varhu Bloh i Borhes. – Piron. Akademichno elektronno spisanie za kultura i izkustva, br. 18. [online] https://piron.culturecenter-su.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/05-kiossev-bloch-borges.pdf [seen 14.08.2023].]
Forbes 2005: Forbes, Shannon. Equating Performance with Identity: The Failure of Clarissa Dalloway’s Victorian “Self” in Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway.” – The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 38(1), pp. 38–50. [online] http://www.jstor.org/stable/30039298 [seen 14.08.2023].
Notes
For citation of different texts by the same author published in the same year, add a letter with no interval after the publishing year: (Peleva 1994a).
In the “Bibliography,” in the case of three or more authors, it is allowed to indicate the authorship in an abbreviated version, using the abbreviation “et al.”:
Somerville, Purcell, Morrison 2011: Somerville, Ian, Andrew Purcell, Fred Morrison. Public relations education in a divided society: PR, terrorism and critical pedagogy in post-conflict Northern Ireland. – Public Relations Review, 37 (5), рр. 548–555.
Somerville et al. 2011: Somerville, Ian, et al. Public relations education in a divided society: PR, terrorism and critical pedagogy in post-conflict Northern Ireland. – Public Relations Review, 37 (5), рр. 548–555.
The source has to be indicated in the main text as (Somerville, Purcell, Morrison 2011) or as (Somerville et al. 2011) depending on the way it is quoted in the “Bibliography.”
In the case of missing information (place of publication, year), it is indicated in square brackets: [n. p.; n.d.].
"Archival sources" are listed after the “Bibliography” as follows:
Central Historical Archives (CHA), f. 177, Op. 2, a.e. 801, l. 204.
Archives du ministère des affaires étrangères (MAE), série Europe (1961–1965), sous-série 1.
General Requirements
Text formatting (no spacing, Numbering, Bullets, Underline, All caps, etc.). Tab must not be used unless absolutely necessary.
Distinction has to made between hyphen and dash (short and long dash). A hyphen (-) is used to join words or parts of words, including double names (Claude Levi-Strauss) without spacing. A dash (–) is used to mark a break in a sentence, to give an explanatory note, or to show intervals of time and ranges of pages (1944–2024); (рp. 78–80).
For a quote coming from a single page, use the abbreviation p. (p. 3), and for two or more pages use pp. (pp. 23–25).
Use round () and square [] brackets not slashes //.
The footnote is placed after the punctuation marks, not before them.
Use Roman numerals for centuries in Bulgarian (e.g. XVIII в.).
Authors has to correctly use the pronoun “ѝ” in Bulgarian .
Proofreading and Publishing
Authors receive a proofreading version of their articles before printing, which they must return to the editorial board within five days. No substantial changes to the text are allowed at this stage. Publication is announced to authors by email, which contains a PDF file of their article.
Declaration by the Authors
The rights to the published text are the property of the Institute for Literature.
By sending his manuscript to the journal Literaturna Misal, the author attests that:
1) The text is an original work, based on his own research, in which the used published or unpublished sources are correctly cited and described in the bibliography;
2) The article has not been submitted to another publication and does not violate existing copyrights or rights of third parties;
3) He gives to the journal Literaturna Misal the permission to publish and distribute the article in open access.
The editorial board reserves the right not to publish articles that do not meet the requirements adopted by the periodical regarding content, style and technical layout.
Structure Template
Borislav Ivanov, Ass. Prof, PhD
Institute for literature, Bulgarian Academy of science
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0109-2456T
Title (14 рt.)
Abstract (up to 800 characters)
Keywords: (up to 6)
Main text (12 pt.)
Bibliography
Коларов 2009: Коларов, Радосвет. Повторение и сътворение: поетика на автотекстуалността. София: Просвета. [Kolarov 2009: Kolarov, Radosvet. Povtorenie i satvorenie: poetika na avtotekstualnostta. Sofia: Prosveta.]
Assmann 2008: Assmann, Aleida. Canon and Archive. – In: Erll, A., A. Nünning (eds). Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, pp. 97–107.
Habermas 1991: Habermas, Jürgen. Texte und Kontexte. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
Archival Sources
Central Historical Archives (CHA), f. 177, Op. 2, a.e. 801, l. 204.