Submission requirements for the papers (in English, French or Bulgarian): format of the document – please send in Microsoft Word (a full text, with the author’s name and an anonymous version, as well as a PDF of the full text); Line Spacing – 1.5; main text font –Times New Roman, size 12; Italic is to be used for titles, phrases in a foreign language, terminology, for emphasising words or for short quotations. Avoid the use of underlining. Citations longer than 3 lines should be separated from the other text by a blank line. Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the page with indexes from 1 to infinity (using Times New Roman, size 10), and the bibliography should be quoted at the end of the article. All illustrations, figures and tables should be inserted close to the relevant passages within the text, and not at the end of the article.

Bibliographic references (in the footnotes and in the Bibliography at the end of the article) are presented according to the following standard:

For a book: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title. If needed – data for translator, editor, preface. City, publisher, year, cited page(s).

Cioran, Emile. Le Livre des leurres. Paris, Gallimard [Arcades], 1992.

For an article within a collection: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title. In: Title of the book. Editor. City, publisher, year, cited page(s) of the article.

Ranvier, Alain. Exil. In : Dictionnaire du littéraire. Ed. P. Aron et alii. Paris, P.U.F., 2002, pр. 205-207.

For a journal article: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title. – Name of the magazine, year, issue, cited page(s) of the article.

Besse, Maria Graciete. As Novas sartasportuguesas e a contestação do poder patriarcal. – In: Latitudes, 2006, no 26, pр. 1-3.

For publications on the Internet: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title. – Full internet address (date of last opening).

Mikhaïlov, Kalin. Roman et journal. – Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 2018, рp. 9-19. https://ejournal.uni-sofia.bg/index.php/Colloquia/article/view/75/65 (23.11.2020)

In-text translations. Whenever a citation in a language other than the language of the article is given that does not have an official translation in the respective language, the author should cite the translation done for this case, and the original text should be given in a footnote with the explanation “My own translation”.

Articles should end with a Bibliography written in compliance with the above described standard and arranged in alphabetical order of family names, separately in Latin characters, in Cyrillic characters, and in other type of characters (if such have been used).

In the footnotes and in the Bibliography at the end of the article the data in Cyrillic characters or in characters other than the Latin ones should be transcribed using Latin characters and enclosed in square brackets [ ].

Preferably, the length of the text should not exceed 22,000 characters (including spaces, footnotes, the two summaries, the Bibliography and illustrations). Summaries and key-words should be presented in two of the journal’s languages (each up to 600 characters).

Book reviews should be between 5,000 and 10,000 characters. The data for the book, as well as the name of the author of the book review (for whom their academic affiliation should be indicated) ought to be given in their original spelling and doubled with an English translation. It is recommended that an image of the book cover in JPG format is sent as well.