Institutional Abbreviations
- AAR = American Academy in Rome
- ACLS = American Council of Learned Societies
- AIA = Archaeological Institute of America
- APA = American Philological Association
- ASCSA = American School for Classical Studies at Athens
- assoc. prof. = associate professor
- asst. prof. = assistant professor
- CAMWS = Classical Association of the Middle West and South
- CAMWS-SS = Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section
- CHS = Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC
- IAS = Institute for Advanced Study
- ICCSR = Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome
- instr. = instructor
- LSU = Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
- NEH = National Endowment for the Humanities
- NYU = New York University
- prof. = professor
- SUNY = State University of New York
- UCLA = University of California at Los Angeles
- vis. = visiting
Periodical Abbreviations
Periodical abbreviations generally follow those in Année philologique, which are readily available online:
https://about.brepolis.net/aph-abreviations/ [with journal full titles]
Below please find a list of the variant or additional periodical abbreviations in the Database of Classical Scholars:
- CP = Classical Philology.
- HSCP = Harvard Studies in Classical Philology.
- SM = Southern Magazine = New Eclectic Magazine.
- TAPA = Transactions of the American Philological Association.
As a number of entries contain citations to older or ended journals we append a list (by no means complete) of APh abbreviations of these older journals along with abbreviations used in our Sources sections.:
AAWW = Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien
BBW = Conrad Bursian, Biographisches Jahrbuch für Altertumskunde
Brill = Brill's New Pauly: History of Classical Scholarship: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Peter Kuhlmann and Helmuth Schneider, translated and edited by Duncan Smart and Chad M. Schroeder (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2014).
BU=Bibliothèque universelle et Revue de Genève
DBI = Dizionario biografico degli Italiani Roma Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana 1860-
JAW=Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte den Altertumswissenschaft
MSL=Memoires de la Société de linguistique
Nicéron = Jean-Pierre Nicéron Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des hommes illustres de la république des lettres avec le catalogue raisonné de leurs ouvrages (Paris, 1727-40)
NJP=Neue Jahrbücher für Pädagogik
Pökel= Wilhelm Pökel, Philologisches Schriftstellar-Lexikon (Leipzig: Krüger, 1882; Reproduktion. 1966, 1974).
Sandys=J.E. Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, 3 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903-8)
Wilamowitz=Ulrich von Wilamowita-Moellendorff, History of Classical Scholarship translated by Alan Harris, edited with introduction and notes by Hugh Lloyd-Jones (London: Duckworth, 1982).
ZSRGR -= Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte.