Guidelines for Authors

All entries for the Encyclopædia Iranica are commissioned by invitation only. The language of the Encyclopædia is English. Each submitted entry will be reviewed by one of the consulting editors to be accepted for publication.

To ensure timely evaluation and efficient copy-editing, all manuscripts submitted for review must follow the in-house style of the Encyclopædia Iranica.  Manuscripts that do not comply with these requirements may be returned to their authors.  The author will be responsible for supplying high-quality digital scans (600 dpi, 640 pixels wide, JPG or TIFF files) of all illustrations, as well as the permissions to reproduce them in print and online.

The Encyclopædia does not use double dating.  Use common era (CE) dates only, unless quoting from an original source, in which case use the date as quoted (AH, Š, etc.) with the common era equivalent in parentheses.

Each entry begins with a concise definition conveying the significance and range of the topic.  Footnotes are never used, and references in the text are always given as short titles in parantheses.  Each entry has its own bibliography.  All illustrations must be accompanied by captions.

The Encyclopædia uses American spelling and punctuation.  All technical terms from languages using non-Roman alphabets must be fully transliterated with diacritics when mentioned for the first time. Please note that the Encyclopædia uses its own transliteration system of the Persian alphabet for words in New Persian and Arabic.

For details, and before preparing your article, please consult our Notes for Contributors as well as the published articles on this site. Please contact the editorial staff if you have any further questions.