Author Guidelines

The Bulgarian Numismatic Journal accepts submissions across several main sections:

  • Articles. This section publishes original research articles. 
  • Coin Notes. This section publishes brief notes devoted to individual coin finds and special cases. 
  • Coin Reports. This section publishes overviewing primary reports of newly discovered coin finds. 
  • Reviews. This section includes reviews of newly published books and monographs in numismatics, or reports on recent scientific fora.
  • Numismatic Landscapes. This section publishes short reports on implemented numismatic projects, and initiatives in the field of numismatics that are outside the regular fora.
  • Supplementary Series. The Bulgarian Numismatic Journal, Supplementary Series (BulgNJ Suppl.) is dedicated to conference proceedings volumes and scholarly monographs in the field of numismatics. The series provides a platform for publishing significant and extensive scientific works that go beyond the scope of typical journal articles.

The language of publication in BulgNJ is Bulgarian or English. For English, please use the British spelling.

All submitted manuscripts should conform the following standards: 

I. Manuscript Structure

  1. Title
  2. Author(s) Information
  3. Abstract
  4. Keywords
  5. Main Text
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Bibliography
  8. Appendices/Catalogue

II. Technical Requirements

  1. Formatting
  2. Dates and Numbers
  3. Citation style and Referencing
  4. Footnotes
  5. Figures and Tables

III. File Submission

I. Manuscript Structure

All submitted manuscripts should include the following sections in order:

  1. Title: The title should be concise, informative, and clearly reflect the central focus of the contribution. It should be provided in the original language (in case it is Bulgarian) and in English.
  2. Author(s) Information: Author’s names, Institutional affiliation, e-mail, ORCID; If the text is co-authored, please provide the data for all authors. Please indicate the corresponding author.
  3. Abstract: All publications should have an English abstract. The abstract should be up to 200 words. The abstract should be brief but sufficiently informative about the context of the material, free of repetitions and secondary information. No abbreviations are allowed except for commonly accepted ones.
  4. Keywords: 3-5 key words in English. It is recommended that keywords complement the title semantically and, if possible, do not appear in it.
  5. Main Text: It is advisable that the main text be organized into standard scholarly sections – typically including an Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions – to ensure a coherent and transparent presentation of the research. Each section should be written in a formal academic style and provide sufficient detail to allow readers to understand, evaluate, and replicate the work. Authors are expected to present their arguments logically, support their claims with appropriate evidence, and maintain consistency throughout the manuscript. The narrative should be precise, well‑structured, and aligned with the journal’s scholarly standards.
  6. Acknowledgments (if applicable): Include in this section individuals, institutions, or funding bodies that supported the work without qualifying for authorship.
  7. Bibliography: It should be organized according to the journal requirements for the bibliographic layout. For more information see here.
  8. Appendices/Catalogue (if applicable). In case of any additional appendices or catalogues organize them it this section.

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    II. Technical Requirements

    1. Formatting

    Please use the default line spacing setting for MS Word of 1.15 (or single line spacing if else) and font size of 12 pt. Please use Unicode fonts throughout (especially for Greek, Arabic, Turkish, or any special characters).

    If your text requires it, you may use headings and subheadings. If needed to emphasize something use bold and italics. Use italic for all non-English words, phrases, and abbreviations. Please avoid using underlined unless it does not indicates links on websites. 

    2. Dates and Numbers

    For dates please use Arabic numerals for centuries or millennia, raised (superscript) endings for abbreviated ordinal numbers, and capital letters without punctuation in the abbreviations BC (BCE) or AD (CE), e. g. 7th century BC.

    For texts in Bulgarian language are valid the generally accepted standards and the rendering of the centuries/millennia with Roman numerals, e. g. III в. пр. Хр.

    For decimal numbers including fractions use a full stop (period) as a separator, not a comma (0.3 cm, not 0,3 cm).

    3. Citation style and Referencing

    All references and explanations should be placed as in-text citations according to the standard author-date (Name Year, page). The full bibliographic reference should be placed in a general list at the end of the text.
    In the case of two authors, the citation reference includes both names, separated by a comma.
    In the case of more than two authors, only the name of the first author is mentioned followed by the abbreviation “et al.”, while in the bibliographic list all authors should be pointed out, e.g.

    (Dobrusky 1895, 103; Герасимов 1934, 467; Ponting, Butcher 2005; Reimers et al. 1977).

    In-text references to classical authors and titles of their works should conform to the list of abbreviations in the Oxford Classical Dictionary (https://oxfordre.com/classics/page/ocdabbreviations/abbreviations), e.g. (Hom. Il. 2.844).

    In-text references to published numismatic catalogues (e.g. BMC, SNG, etc.) should follow the common abbreviation standards without listing them in the bibliographic list.

    For the design of the bibliogpraphic layout follow the link here.

    4. Footnotes

    Footnotes should be used only for brief clarifications that supplement the main text or for referencing online coin identifiers in web‑based catalogues, and their total length must not exceed 500 characters.

    5. Figures and Tables

    The text may be accompanied by greyscale or colour illustrations (*.tiff, *.jpg; *.ai) in an appropriate image resolution (for raster formats not less than 300 dpi). The in-text reference to the illustration should be in parenthesis, to the corresponding number referred to with (Fig. ##), etc.

    Authors should consistently use the term ‘Figure’ (abbr. ‘Fig.’) to designate all types of illustrative material, including images of coins, maps, and other graphic elements.

    The size of the illustrations should not excise the page field of 16.3 х 23.4 cm.

    Authors should use the term ‘Tables’ to present structured numerical or categorical data in a clear and concise way. They must be consistently labelled as ‘Table’ followed by their respective number.

    It is warmly accepted to indicate the disposition of the illustration in the paper. Please indicate it on a separate line with the corresponding illustration number (Fig. ##).

    Authors should submit in a separate file a list of all Figures and/or Table – including all captions, credits, inventory numbers, etc.

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    III. File Submission

    All materials should be submitted in digital form, the package consisting of three general parts – text, illustrations, list of illustrations. The textual part and the list of illustrations must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF file format. The illustrations must be in *.tiff / *.jpg / *.ai, file format, in separate files with sequential numbers corresponding to the illustration number in the text. The long tables should be submitted also in a separate. All files should be named intuitive, e. g. FamilyName_text.docx; FamilyName_Captions.docx; FamilyName_Fig.01.tiff, FamilyName_Fig.02.tiff, etc.

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