*KEEP IN MIND THAT REGULATIONS DEPICTED BELOW REFER TO ITALIAN GRAMMATICAL STANDARDS*
To rationalize the flow of contributions, collaborators are informed that articles must be sent in their final form at the following e-mail addresses:
pmazziniano@gmail.com
paufrancesca27@gmail.com
Articles or drafts are not returned once reviewed by the editor.
It is advisable to contact management in advance before sending a text.
In any case, the editorial must follow the following editorial criteria:
Italics: italics should be used exclusively for book titles and foreign names within the essay.
Quotation marks: when used for citations, they are doubled (ex “History is an interesting discipline”). Any internal quotation marks are single quotes (eg “The word ‘politics’ is difficult to define”). Magazines should be cited in sergeant quotation marks (eg “Twenty-first Century”).
Hyphens and spaces: the hyphens that enclose an inscription must be preceded and followed by a space. However, the space is avoidable if the hyphen is used to link.
They are not used between the preposition ex or pro and the noun (ex. Ex fascist; pro succession). They are not even used between two nouns (e.g. party form).
They should be present when linking compound words with anti, extra, post, pre, above, and so on
(e.g. anti-parliamentary; post-communist).
Abbreviations:
If the same author is mentioned in a consecutive note, but a different work:
Id. (Or Ead.), Title, etc.
If the same author and the same work are cited, but a different page: Ivi, p. 12.
If it cites the same page (or the pages are not cited): Ibidem.
The following will be in italics: et al., Ibidem, passim, supra, infra.
Acronyms:
Must be capitalized (i.e. PCI; USSR), except those which, if explained, are lowercase.
(e.g. GDP: gross domestic product; pm: public minister).
Numbers:
Normally, they are written in letters if they are less than or equal to ten, as long as they do not belong to a series (i.e. 3 municipal councilors from the PCI, the 4 from the PSI and the 2 from the PRI abstained).
They always write in letters if they are at the beginning of a sentence (i.e. Two hundred and thirteen opposition parliamentarians left the Chamber).
This spelling is also admitted: 10 thousand men; 10 million men; 3 billion and 400 million.
In percentages, commas are used and the % sign dissolves into percent (i.e. The DC got 32.9 percent).
Direct speech and quotations:
The initial capital letters, colons and double quotes are used if a meaningful sentence is given (i.e. The President of the Republic said: “All citizens must respect the law”).
When the speech is broken, hyphens are not used, but quotation marks are always used (i.e. “All citizens”, said the President of the Republic, “must respect the law”).
The quotations within the text must therefore be opened and closed by double quotes (i.e. “Contemporary history is an exciting discipline”).
Long quotations must be inserted in a minor body, separated from the text and without quotation marks.
When a citation is reported, any omissions are indicated with […] and never with … which indicates a suspension. Any further explanation inside a quote go in square brackets.
Note:
In the essay’s text, note numbers must always precede punctuation marks
Publications all go at the end with sergeant quotes. The names of foreign cities go in the original language.
Book Quotes:
Name and Surname are capitalized, Title, city, publishing house, year, p. 10 (or pp. 10-12 if the pages are consecutive; or pp. 10 and 12 if they are not consecutive; or pp. 10 and following for page 10 and following).
Authors’ proper names, therefore, point to each other; Ph. (As in Philippe Buton) and Ch. (As in Charles de Gaulle) are considered as a single consonant.
Furthermore: R. De Felice and not R. De Felice; J.M. Keynes and not J. M. Keynes.
For works executed in several volumes (and possibly in several volumes):
- Surname, Title, city, publisher, year, vol. 1, t. III, p. 10.
To indicate how many volumes a work consists of:
- Surname, Title, 4 vols., City, publishing house, year, p. 10.
If the work has multiple authors:
- Surname, N. Surname, Title, city, publishing house, year, p. 10.
If the work has one or more curators:
- Surname, N. Surname (edited by), Title, city, publishing house, year.
The use of foreign terms to indicate curatorship is not allowed (i.e. eds)
If it is an essay in a collective volume:
- Surname, Title of the essay, in N. Surname (edited by), Title of the volume, city, publishing house, year, pp. 81-122.
The citation system is similar if the author and the editor coincide:
Surname, Title of the essay, in Id. (Edited by), Title of the volume, city, publishing house, year, pp. 81-122.
If it’s a woman, Ead. replaces Id.
If you refer to a book that’s already mentioned in another non-contiguous note, the author’s name and the abbreviated title are repeated, leaving out the bibliographic indications, which are replaced with “cit.”:
Surname, Abbreviated Title, cit., P. 10.
Magazine Quotes:
Surname, Article title, in «Heading», n. 3, 2003, pp. 91-113.
Delete all other unnecessary information.
Newspaper quotes:
Surname, Article title, in «Testata», 10 January 2003, p. 10.