Manuscript Preparation
Style Sheet (downloadable PDF)
This guide provides brief guidance on the preparation and online submission of manuscripts to Studia Theologica Transsylvaniensia (StThTr). Further details, policies, and requirements are available in the linked documents and policy pages.
JOURNAL PROFILE
Studia Theologica Transsylvaniensia (StThTr) is a peer-reviewed, open-access theological journal, currently publishing one issue per year. It publishes original research articles and critical book reviews in the fields of biblical studies, patristics, church history, canon law, systematic and practical theology, as well as related disciplines connected with theology and religious studies.
The journal accepts manuscripts in Hungarian and English.
⮕ A more detailed description of the journal’s aim and scope is available here.
MANUSCRIPT TYPES AND LENGTH
- Research article: up to 8,000 words.
- Book review: up to 3,000 words.
PRE-SUBMISSION CHECKLIST
- The manuscript is the authors’ original work; it has not been published previously and is not under consideration elsewhere.
- The manuscript falls within the journal’s scope and meets the requirements of the selected section.
- The manuscript complies with publication ethics standards; all relevant funding, conflicts of interest, and required permissions have been disclosed.
- The manuscript does not contain plagiarism; all sources used and all reproduced material have been properly cited.
- The manuscript complies with the journal’s formatting, language, and referencing requirements.
- Any non-routine use of generative AI has been disclosed in the manuscript; the authors remain fully responsible for the submitted content.
- All listed authors have made a substantial scholarly contribution to the work and have approved the submitted version.
SUBMISSION AND PEER REVIEW
Manuscripts must be submitted online via the journal’s website. The submitting author—usually the corresponding author—is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript and all metadata are complete and that all co-authors have approved the submitted version.
Research articles are evaluated through a double-anonymous peer-review process. Manuscripts are assessed on the basis of their originality, scholarly quality, clarity of argumentation, methodological soundness, and relevance to the journal’s profile.
⮕ The submission page is available here, registration here, login here, and a detailed description of the peer-review process here.
FORMAL REQUIREMENTS
File format: Manuscripts must be submitted as a single Microsoft Word (.docx) file.
Language: Manuscripts may be submitted in Hungarian or English. If a manuscript is not written in the author’s native language, it must be linguistically revised before submission.
Required metadata: The following metadata must be provided for each manuscript: the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s) (institution, city, country), as well as the English title, English abstract, and English keywords of the article. Providing an ORCID iD is strongly recommended. The e-mail address of the corresponding author must be clearly indicated.
Abstract and keywords: The English abstract should not exceed 200 words. Please provide 3–8 English keywords.
Font and line spacing:
- Main text: Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1.15 line spacing.
- Footnotes: Times New Roman, 10 pt, 1.15 line spacing.
- Non-Latin scripts (e.g. Hebrew, Greek): please use a Unicode-compatible font.
Emphasis: Please do not use bold, underlining, or expanded letter spacing for emphasis in the main text; where emphasis is required, use italics. Bold type should be reserved for headings and subheadings only.
Heading system: The internal structure of the manuscript should be clear and consistent.
Quotations: Short quotations should be enclosed in quotation marks. Longer quotations should be clearly distinguished from the running text. Please use a consistent quotation style throughout the manuscript.
STRUCTURE OF THE MANUSCRIPT
In the case of a research article, the manuscript will normally include the following elements:
- Front matter: title; author name(s); affiliation(s); corresponding author; ORCID iD (recommended); English title; English abstract; English keywords
- Main text: introduction; clearly structured main text; methodological approach, where relevant; conclusions
- End matter: funding statement (where relevant); acknowledgements (where relevant); conflict of interest statement; data availability statement (where relevant); statement on ethical approval or ethical oversight (where relevant); bibliography
In the case of a book review, the manuscript will normally include the following elements:
- Front matter: title; author name; affiliation; full bibliographic details of the work under review
- Main text: presentation and critical evaluation of the work under review
- End matter: relevant statements, where necessary; bibliography, if sources other than the reviewed work are cited
STATEMENTS RELATED TO THE END MATTER
- Funding (where relevant): all financial support received for the research and the preparation of the manuscript must be acknowledged.
- Acknowledgements (where relevant): contributions that do not justify authorship may be acknowledged here.
- Conflict of interest statement: all relevant personal, professional, institutional, or financial conflicts of interest must be disclosed. If none exist, please state this clearly.
- Data availability statement (where relevant): please indicate whether the data or source materials underlying the research are publicly available, available upon request, subject to restricted access, or not applicable.
- Ethical approval / ethical oversight (where relevant): for research involving human participants, interviews, questionnaires, personal data, or sensitive source materials, please indicate the relevant ethical approval, authorization, or legal basis.
GENERATIVE AI AND AI-BASED TOOLS
Generative AI tools may not be listed as authors.
Any non-routine use of generative AI or other AI-based tools must be disclosed in the manuscript or in the cover letter. The authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, referencing practice, and scholarly integrity of the submitted content.
Routine language editing limited exclusively to grammar, spelling, punctuation, or formatting does not need to be disclosed separately.
⮕ Further guidance is available in the journal’s ethics policy here.
PERMISSIONS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission, where required, to publish, translate, adapt, or reproduce copyrighted material owned by third parties, including textual excerpts, images, tables, figures, maps, and extended quotations.
Authors must ensure that the use of archival, manuscript, visual, and digital materials complies with the applicable copyright rules, collection policies, and referencing standards.
FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Footnotes
- All references and source citations must be given in footnotes; do not use endnotes or in-text citations.
- Biblical quotations and biblical references should be cited in the main text.
- The author–date system must be used in footnotes. When referring to a specific passage, page numbers should follow the year of publication after a colon.
- Multiple references within a single footnote should be separated by semicolons.
| Example | |
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Citation of a single work
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Greshake 1997. |
| Citation of a single work with page reference | Sáry 2023: 23–50. |
| Citation of multiple works | Kratz 1999; Erdő 2023: 139–150. |
| Citation of a two-author work | King & Stager 2001: 22–25, 46–50. |
| Citation of a three-author work | Evans, Lohr & Petersen 2012: 22–25, 46–50. |
| Citation integrated into running text | Kratz (1999: 591) and King & Stager (2001: 47) note that … |
Bibliography
- Please include a full bibliography at the end of the manuscript listing all works cited in the footnotes.
- Bibliographic entries should be arranged alphabetically by the authors’ surnames.
- Multiple works by the same author should be listed in chronological order.
- For works published in the same year, use the distinctions a, b, c, etc.
- Where available, DOIs must be included in the bibliography.
StThTr follows the basic principles of the Chicago Author–Date system, adapted for multilingual scholarship in theology and the humanities.
| Example | |
|---|---|
| Book, single author | Rózsa, Huba. 1986. Az Ószövetség keletkezése: Bevezetés az Ószövetség könyveinek irodalom- és hagyománytörténetébe. Budapest: Szent István Társulat. |
| Book, two or more authors/editors | King, Philip J., & Lawrence E. Stager. 2001. Life in Biblical Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox. Evans, Craig E., Joel N. Lohr, & David L. Petersen (eds). 2012. The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 152. Leiden: Brill. Scott, Bernard Brandon, et al. 1993. Reading New Testament Greek. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson. |
| Translated volume | Assmann, Jan. 2008. Uralom és üdvösség. Politikai teológia az ókori Egyiptomban, Izraelben és Európában. Zoltán Hidas (trans). Budapest: Atlantisz. |
| Edited volume | Puskás, Attila, & Máté Gárdonyi (eds). 2023. Szinodalitás az egyház életében és missziójában: Teológiai tanulmányok. Varia Theologica 14. Budapest: Szent István Társulat. |
| Volume in a multivolume work | Troeltsch, Ernst. 1913. Zur religiösen Lage, Religionsphilosophie und Ethik. In Gesammelte Schriften 1: 566–569. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr. |
| Volume published in a series | Kiss, Endre. 2024. A kolozsvári Szent Mihály-egyházközség hollandkölcsön-ügye. Studia Theologica Transsylvaniensia Supplementum 1. Budapest: Szent István Társulat; Cluj-Napoca: Verbum. https://doi.org/10.52258/stthtr.sup.01 |
| Chapter in an edited volume | Erdő, Péter. 2023. A szinodalitás mint a teokrácia egyik megjelenési formája az Egyház alkotmányában. In Attila Puskás & Máté Gárdonyi (eds), Szinodalitás az egyház életében és missziójában: Teológiai tanulmányok, 139–150. Varia Theologica 14. Budapest: Szent István Társulat. |
| Journal article | Sáry, Pál. 2023. Az abortusz megítélése az ókeresztény korban. Studia Theologica Transsylvaniensia 26: 23–50. https://doi.org/10.52258/stthtr.2023.02 |
| Dictionary or encyclopedia entry | Kratz, Reinhard G. 1999. Apokalyptik II: AT. In Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4: 591–592. |
| Review | Teeple, Howard M. 1966. Review of Introduction to the New Testament, by André Robert & André Feuillet. Journal of Biblical Literature 85: 368–370. |
| Classical work (original and translation) | Augustinus. De Civitate Dei. In J.-P. Migne (ed), Patrologia Latina 41. Paris, 1864. Augustine. 1931. The City of God. John Healey (trans). New York: Dutton. |
| Ecclesiastical document (original and translation) | Franciscus, papa. 2022. Litterae apostolicae Desiderio Desideravi (2022.06.29). Acta Apostolicae Sedis CXIV (7): 799–825. Ferenc, pápa. 2023. Vágyva vágytam kezdetű apostoli levél (2022.06.29). Endre Tőzsér (trans). Pápai megnyilatkozások. Budapest: Szent István Társulat. |
| Archival document | Batthyány, Ignác. 1783. Templomszentelési beszéd Farkaslakán. Fond: Személyi hagyaték, VI/19, 1. box. Alba Iulia: Archdiocesan Archives |
| Dissertation | Faragó, István. 2025. A nonverbális kommunikáció a szentmise úrfelmutatási szertartásában. PhD diss. Cluj-Napoca: Babeș-Bolyai University. |
| Website | Segal, Eliezer. 2024. Széder Salamonnal. Online: https://bibliakultura.blog.hu/2024/04/15/szeder_686 (accessed 2025.09.23). |
OPEN ACCESS, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSING
StThTr is a fully open-access (diamond open access) journal. Authors are not charged any fees for submission, editorial processing, or publication.
Copyright remains with the authors. By publishing in the journal, authors grant the publisher the right of first publication, as well as a non-exclusive right to publish and distribute the work.
Published contributions appear under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
⮕ Further information on open access is available here, on copyright here, on licensing here, and on archiving here.
