Author Guidelines

Submission Criteria

Submissions prefers texts in English or German, other acceptable languages are Czech or Slovak. The choice of study language should be consulted with the executive editors prior to submission. Submissions must be sent to mb@phil.muni.cz in formats listed above. Article range should be between 15 000 and 40 000 characters (including spaces and footnotes) following demanded standard. Editors prefer plain text structure and all appendices must be consulted with the editors in advance; formatting of the pictorial appendices is given below. The submitted manuscript also contains formalities appropriate to the structure of the paper as outlined below.

The first issue is being published 31 June of the given year, the second issue is being published 31 December of the given year. The deadline for a manuscript submission is no later than 5 months before the date of publishing of the specific issue.

The journal reserves all rights to make linguistic corrections to submitted texts. All other changes are subject to the author’s approval.

Anonymous submissions are not accepted. All submissions must include the sender’s complete name, address, and contact information (telephone number, fax number, e-mail, etc.).

Peer Review is conducted exclusively through double-blind peer review.

Musicologica Brunensia does not require authors to pay any publication fees (APC, ASC). The publication charges are covered by the institutional support by Masaryk University.

Formal requirements for papers submitted to the journal Musicologica Brunensia

Structure of the paper

1. Article title in an original language
2. Article title in English
3. Name of the author or authors (omitting academic degree)
4. Author‘s affiliation: e-mail, institution incl. country, position if needed (in English)
5. Author’s identifier (ORCID iD, alternatively ResearchID)
6. Abstract in English (max. total 900 chars.)
7. Key words in English
8. Body of the text (divided into a reasonable number of subsections)
9. List of bibliography in the language of submited article (all citations and bibliographies must be transcribed into Latin)

References and citation

The basis of the form is the standard ČSN ISO 690.

Selected examples:

Monography
STROHM, Reinhard. Dramma per musica: Italian opera seria of the eighteenth century. 1. Ed. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1997.

Contribution in conference proceedings
DAHLHAUS, Carl. Über die Idee des Nationalismus in der Musik des 19. Jahrhunderts. In Idea národnosti a novodobá hudba. Colloquia musicologica. Brno: International Music Festival Brno, 1973, p. 426-435.

Chapter in collective monography
ŠTĚDROŇ, Miloš. Elektronika a konkrétní hudba: Marginálie o některých momentech vývoje elektronické a konkrétní hudby v Brně konce 60. a začátku 70. let. In Umění a nová média. Martin Flašar – Jana Horáková – Petr Macek (eds.). 1st Edition. Brno: Masaryk university, 2011, p. 56-59.

Journal article
WEISS, Piero. Metastasio, Aristotle, and the Opera Seria. The Journal of Musicology, 1982, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 385–394.

Newspaper article
Pražské poštovské noviny [Prague Post Papers], no. 80, 5. 10. 1728.
JANÁČEK, Leoš. Moje Lašsko. Lidové noviny, vol. XXXVI, no. 269, 27. 5. 1928, p. 39.

Archival sources
References should include: deposition location (archive name), the name of the fund or the name of its part, the signature, cardboard, inventory number, document type, dating, or addressee and author. For refences to music sources is recommended to use RISM sigla.

Example:
Zemský archiva Opava, pobočka Olomouc [Opava Regional Archives, Olomouc branch] (hereafter ZAO-Ol), Collection of the Olomouc Metropolitan Chapter, cardboard 110h, no. N 88.

Electronic sources

Website
BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Liquid Arts. Theory, Culture & Society [online]. 2007, 24, 117. [cit. 2010-10-15]. URL: <http://tcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/24/1/117>.

• The first reference requires full bibliographic data, in the second and next quote using "op. cit.". Example: PEČMAN, op. cit., p. 142.
• In the subsequent quote from the same document: "Ibid., p. xx-yy." Example:

1) WEISS, Piero. Metastasio, Aristotle, and the Opera Seria. The Journal of Musicology, 1982, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 385–394.
2) Ibid., p. 386.

• Quotes are presented in italics and in quotation marks.

Example:
"[...] theory [of information] - which is valuable for technological communications – has proved incapable of giving the characteristics of aesthetic value even for a simple melody of J. S. Bach. Identifications of music with message, with communication, and with language are schematizations whose tendency is towards absurdities and desiccations."

Further information:

• Names of works and publications should be listed in italics.
• Two or more sources by the same author published in the same year can be distinguished by lowercase letters.
• Notes are fundamentally placed on the same page in the form of a footnote.
• If there are two or three authors, names should be separated with a hyphen. If more than three authors, others are being omitted and the last name is appended with "et al." (et alii).
• "In" is used solely for collective monographs and anthologies, never for journals.
• Journal entries are included in this order: year, volume, issue, page.
• ISBN is not required.
• Data: 19th century; 1855–1860 (not 1855–60)

Figures:

Abbreviations used: Ex. 1, Fig. 1, Tab. 1.
Please, attach images (figure, tabs, etc.) to their position in the text. Pictures in the print quality (300 DPI) should be enclosed in separate files (JPG, TIFF, etc).

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