Author Guidelines
Every submission to our journal must include the following components:
- Title Page: Save this as “title_page.doc”. Include the manuscript’s title, full names and affiliations of all authors, and complete contact details for the corresponding author, including an email address.
- Blinded Manuscript: Save this as “manuscript.doc”. Ensure this version does not contain any author identifying information. The manuscript should consist of the Title, Abstract, Keywords, Main Text, References, Figures, Tables, Acknowledgments, Declaration of Interest, and a Section Detailing Authors’ Contributions.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
- The manuscript will be in Word.
- Page margins are 5 cm above, 5 cm below, 5 cm right, 5 cm left.
- Write with justified alignment.
- The indentation of the first line of each paragraph is 0.5 cm.
- Use single line spacing.
- The font is Times New Roman 12.
- For the notes, use Times New Roman 10 (justified and with 0.5 cm indentation for the first line).
- The title is in Times New Roman 14 and bold.
- The paragraph headings are in Times New Roman 12 and in italics.
- 4 blank lines separate the title from the text.
- 2 blank lines separate the end of a paragraph from the title of the following one.
- 1 blank line separates paragraph titles from the text.
- Page numbers at the bottom of the page and centered.
- Quotations are in guillemets: «these». If other quotations appear within them, utilize double quotation marks «such as “these”» and so on as in «this “‘last’ example” given here».
- If quotations are longer than two lines, they will be preceded and followed by one blank line, separating them from the body of the text. Always utilize guillemets « ».
- Single quotation marks are used to highlight categories or concepts taken out of context, words used in a translational sense or ‘as it were’. Single quotation marks are never used unless they are within quotations. However, where a cross-reference note implying the explicit quotation appears, use guillemets « ».
- When a part of a quotation is omitted, signal it with [...] (square brackets with three dots). Avoid round brackets, unless they are inside square brackets.
- Titles go in italics, as do subtitles and parts of a volume (e.g. chapters). Journals are quoted with guillemets « », series with double quotation marks.
- Dots outside and inside parentheses: if the period begins before the parenthesis the dot goes after the closing of the parenthesis. If the period coincides with the opening and closing of the parenthesis, the dot goes inside the parenthesis.
- The full stop, in the case of quotations, always goes after the closing guillemets « », possibly preceded by the footnote number.
- Capitalization: the use of lower case is generally preferred, even for “country”, “resurrection”, or for “saint”, “pope”, “bishop”, etc. [Unless these stand in place of the proper name. «Then the bishop proclaimed... »]. Capital letters are used for State, Church, and for Centuries.
- Roman numerals always go in UPPERCASE, e.g.: XIX century.
- First names will appear in full the first time, while subsequently only the surname will be used.
- For Greek: Times New Roman compatible font or any Unicode version.
FOOTNOTES
- The name of the author, editor etc. must be indicated as in the example: S. Kierkegaard, i.e. using the same font as in the text (not in bold, Small Capitals, or italics...).
- Editors of Italian works (ed.) or foreign works (Hrsg.) should use the abbreviation (ed.) or (eds.). Avoid (edd.) for the plural.
- When the first name is double or triple it is abbreviated with the two or three dotted initials without a space, e.g.: G.W.F. Hegel
- If two or more authors are cited, they are separated by a short hyphen with spaces: e.g. G. Filoramo - C. Prandi, Le scienze delle religioni, Morcelliana, Brescia 2001. Do not space initials of double names: e.g. G.M. Cantarella
- The title of the quoted text must be in italics. In the case of titles in English, English rules for capitalisation are followed (capitalised initials, lower-case articles, prepositions and conjunctions).
- Journal names must appear in guillemets as in the example: «Humanitas». If possible, indicate the issue instead of the year, the year in round brackets and without space or comma between issue number and brackets, and number of pages. If the year is indicated, it should be in Roman numerals with a comma, the issue number and year in round brackets and without space or comma. Examples: E. Pace, Per una sociologia dell'Islam, in «Humanitas» 6(2001), pp. 846-857; A. Grillmeier, Mark the Hermit and Origenism, in «Christianity in History» I, 1(1980), pp. 9-57.
- For biblical quotations, the abbreviations are those of the CEI, in italics: e.g. Rm The numbers of the passages go in Arabic. E.g. 4 Kings 1:4.
- Old Testament, New Testament, Bible and Koran do not go in italics.
- For classical works, the title goes in Latin and in italics.
- The name of the journal must be fully indicated – no acronyms.
- The name of the series should not be indicated, except in the case of text-edition series (e.g. Sources Chrétiennes, Corpus Christianorum).
- Indicate publisher, city and year, pages: e.g. Elena Bonora, I conflitti della Controriforma. Santità e obbedienza nell'esperienza religiosa dei primi barnabiti, Le Lettere, Florence 1998, p. 45.
- Ibi is used in italics when quoting the same text as the preceding footnote. Use Ibi in capital only at the beginning of a footnote. Subsequently, always use lower case ibi.
- Ibid. is used when citing the same text and page as the preceding text (or loc. cit.). Ibidem is not to be abbreviated under any circumstances.
- Op. cit. is used to refer to the work of an already cited author (when only one work of that author is cited in the contribution). Repeat the initial of the author’s name. If, on the other hand, several works by the same author are cited, write the initial of the first name and surname, a few words of the title in italics, cit., pp. (A. Prosperi, I tribunali, cit., p. 34).
- If hyphens are used in the text, the middle hyphen will be preceded and followed by a space: e.g. «Yet to these “missions” - as the author of the Historia pointed out - the best men and women were destined».
ADDENDA
1) To indicate a comparison always use cf.
2) To indicate a translation always use tr.
3) In the case of pp. 3 ff.: the abbreviation must be s. or ss. detached from the number (e.g. pp. 23 ff.). Avoid the use of s. or ss.
4) Within a round bracket ( ) use only square brackets [ ]. e.g. (cf. «Humanitas» 1[2004], the essay...).
5) When using the abbreviation op. cit. always detach op. from cit.
6) Indicate page numbers without abbreviations: pp. 25-27, not 25-7 / pp. 350-351, not 350-51.
FINAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
- List the books alphabetically by the author's surname, not by name. Therefore, for each title in the bibliography please indicate: Surname + First initial abbreviated name, Title, Publisher, City Year. E.g.: Bettineschi P., Etica del riparare, Morcelliana, Brescia 2021.
- For articles: Surname + First name abbreviated to first initial, Title, in «Journal Title» issue, number(year), pp. xx-yy. E.g.: Severino E., Ritornare a Parmenide, in «Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica» LVI, 1(1964), pp. 135-174.
- For essays from edited books: Surname + First name abbreviated to the first initial, Title, in Surname + First name abbreviated to the first initial of the editor (ed.), Title of the edited book, Publisher, City Year, pp. pp. xx-yy. E.g.: Vigna C., Aporetic of intersubjective relations and its resolution, in Vigna C., Aporetic of intersubjective relations and its resolution, in Id. (ed.), Etica trascendentale e intersoggettività, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2002, pp. 35-78.
- For translated works, the translator or editor of the Italian edition must be indicated. Eg: Aristotle, Metaphysics, tr. it. by G. Reale, Bompiani, Milan 2001.
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