Information For Authors
Primerjalna književnost (Comparative Literature, PKn) publishes original and review articles, as well as thematic sections in the fields of comparative literature, literary theory, methodology of literary studies, literary aesthetics, and other disciplines concerned with literature and its contexts. It also occasionally features reviews, interviews, and other contributions. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Articles are published in Slovenian or (American) English. Unsolicited articles in English are considered for review only if they address Slovenian literature in a comparative context. All articles are peer-reviewed.
Articles in Slovenian and proposals for thematic sections should be sent to: marijan.dovic@zrc-sazu.si. When submitting an individual article, a completed and signed Declaration must be attached.
Articles in English should be sent to: blaz.zabel@ff.uni-lj.si. When submitting an individual article, a completed and signed Declaration must be attached.
Articles should be written in Word for Windows, Times New Roman 12, single-spaced, and not longer than 50,000 characters (including spaces, abstract, keywords, and bibliography).
The full title of the paper is followed by the author’s name, institution, address, country, ORCID iD, and e-mail address.
Articles must have an abstract (1,000–1,500 characters, in italics) and keywords (five to eight), both set directly before the main text.
The main text has full justified alignment (straight left and right margins) and may be divided into sections with unnumbered subheadings. There are no blank lines between paragraphs. Each paragraph begins with a first-line indent of 0.5 cm (except at the beginning of a section, after a block quotation, or after a figure).
Footnotes are numbered (Arabic numerals follow a word or a punctuation directly, without spacing). They should be used to a limited extent. Footnotes do not contain bibliographical references because all bibliographical references are given in the text directly after a citation or a mention of a given bibliographical unit.
Each bibliographical reference is composed of parentheses containing the author’s surname and the number of the page cited: (Juvan 42). If the author is already mentioned in the accompanying text, the parenthetical reference contains only the page number (42). If the article refers to more than one text by a given author, each reference includes a shortened version of the cited text: (Juvan, Literary 42).
Quotations within the text are in double quotation marks (“ and ”); quotations within quotations are in single quotation marks (‘ and ’). Omissions are marked with ellipses (. . .) with no brackets, and adaptations are in square brackets ([and]). Block quotations (four lines or longer) have a left and right indent of 0.5 cm, are set in Times New Roman 10 (not 12), and are preceded and followed by a blank line.
Illustrations (images, maps, tables, etc.) should be provided in separate files at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. They are published in black and white. The preferred positioning of illustrations is marked in the main text (Figure 1: [Caption 1]).
The bibliography at the end of the article follows the MLA style guide:
– Journal articles:
Kos, Janko. “Novi pogledi na tipologijo pripovedovalca.” Primerjalna književnost, vol. 21, no. 1, 1998, pp. 1–20.
– Books:
Juvan, Marko. Literary Studies in Reconstruction: An Introduction to Literature. Peter Lang, 2011.
* The City of Publication should be given before the Publisher only if the book was published before 1900, if the publisher has offices in more than one country, or if the publisher is generally unknown.
– Edited volumes:
Leerssen, Joep, and Ann Rigney, editors. Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
– Chapters in edited volumes:
Novak, Boris A. “Odmevi trubadurskega kulta ljubezni pri Prešernu.” France Prešeren—kultura—Evropa, edited by Jože Faganel and Darko Dolinar, Založba ZRC, 2002, pp. 15–47.
– Articles in e-journals:
Terian, Andrei. “National Literature, World Literatures, and Universality in Romanian Cultural Criticism 1867–1947.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 15, no. 5, 2013, https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2344. Accessed 21 May 2015.
– Other digital sources:
McGann, Jerome. “The Rationale of HyperText.” http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html. Accessed 24 Sept. 2015.
For issues not covered here, please refer to the MLA Handbook, 9th ed.
Declaration of Authorship, Correspondence, and Research Data Management
For all articles, published in Primerjalna književnost, the following Declaration has to be provided by the author(s) (scanned and posted by e-mail):
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Copyright and Open Access
Primerjalna književnost is fully open access, meaning all articles are immediately available online to all users after publication. Free use and distribution in the media are permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly cited (CC-BY license). The journal does not charge authors for editorial costs, publication, or online storage.
