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Romanica et Comparatistica

Abbreviated references in the body text

  • Abbreviated references to the cited passage are included in the body of the text. They follow the author-year convention:
Buehler (1934: 22ff.) takes an egocentric perspective here.
Descartes first took the body as his starting point (see Schneider 1993: 123).
  • Multiple authors are separated by a slash:
Similar arguments can be found in Meier/Miller (1992: 94–102).

Bibliography

  • In the case of a contribution written entirely in English, the German quotation mark convention should be replaced by the English one.

Citation guidelines

Monographs

  • Surname, First name (Year), Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher.
Assmann, Aleida (2006), Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit. Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik. München: Beck.
Titze, Hartmut (1987), Das Hochschulstudium in Preußen und in Deutschland 1820–1944. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Edited volumes

  • Surname, First name / First name Surname (eds.) (Year), Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher.
Bresson, Daniel / Martine Dalmas (eds.) (1994), Partizip und Partizipialgruppen im Deutschen. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Waldow, Stephanie (ed.) (2011), Ethik im Gespräch. Autorinnen und Autoren über das Verhältnis von Literatur und Ethik heute. Bielefeld: transcript.

Contributions in edited volumes

  • Surname, First name (Year), “Title”. In: First name Surname / First name Surname (eds.), Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher, page number.
Lorenz, Dagmar (2006), “Imaged Identities: Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors in Literature”. In: Anne Fuchs / Mary Cosgrove / Georg Grote (eds.), German Memory Contests. The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film and Discourse since 1990. Rochester: Camden House, 170–192.

Journal articles

  • Surname, First name (year), “Title. Subtitle”. In: Journal title volume/issue, page numbers.
Assmann, Aleida (2008), “Transformations between History and Memory”. In: Social Research 75/1, 49–72.

Online sources

For each internet source, the date of access is given in brackets at the end of the bibliographic entry:
  • Surname, First name (Year), Title. Subtitle, available at: URL (DD.MM.YYYY).
Stierle, Karlheinz (2013), Romanistik als Passion, available at: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/bilder-und-zeiten/philologie-romanistik-als-passion-12594341.html (17.08.2026).