Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • La submission non è stata precedentemente pubblicata, né proposta a un'altra rivista (oppure si fornisce una spiegazione all'editor nei commenti).
  • Il file di submission è in un formato Microsoft Word, RTF.
  • Dove possibile, sono stati forniti le URL dei riferimenti
  • Il testo ha spaziatura singola; usa un font 12 punti; impiega il corsivo invece della sottolineatura (eccetto con gli indirizzi URL); e tutte le illustrazioni, figure, e tabelle sono posizionate all'interno del testo nei punti appropriati, piuttosto che alla fine.
  • Il testo aderisce alle richieste stilistiche e bibliografiche riassunte nelle linee guida dell'autore, che si trova nella pagina di informazioni sulla rivista.
  • Se si sta facendo la submission a una sezione peer-reviewed della rivista, seguire le istruzioni su Come assicurare una revisione cieca.

Author Guidelines

Articles submitted to SQ must be carefully formatted. Unformatted articles will not be considered. It is essential that prospective authors use the template provided and write their work directly on it rather than copying and pasting their manuscript. The English template can be downloaded by clickling here

The template for book reviews can be download by clicking here

 

Status Quaestionis

Style sheet

 

1)             General layout:

-   .docx format (valid for all operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux); 

-   EB Garamond 12 regular font face;

-   font size: 16 pt for the title, 14 pt for author’s name, 12 pt for the abstract, 14 pt main text, 12 pt footnotes;

-   justified margins;

-   first line indention: 0.7 cm (the opening lines of the text and of sections are not indented);

-   line spacing: 1.15 in the text, 1 in the notes.

 

2)         The title is preceded by the author’s first name, last name and affiliation. The title is followed by an abstract in English (80-150 words). See attached template for the line spacing between author’s name, title, abstract, and text.

 

3)         Titles of paragraphs and sections are in regular, 14 pt, and introduced by Arabic numerals (normal, full size). Bold type is not allowed.

 

4)         Italics is used for foreign language words if they are not part of a quotation. Use single inverted commas (‘hello’) for emphasis.

 

5)         Quotations up to five lines are cited in quotation marks “hello”. Single inverted commas are used only if they appear in the passage quoted, e.g.: “Batman said: ‘I’m gonna stop you Joker!’”. Quotations over five lines come as block quotes (normal, 12 pt, justified) formatted as a separate paragraph, detached from the main text by blank lines; first line indention and angle brackets are not used.

 

6)         Quotations from primary sources are cited in the original. If the quotations are not in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, they must be translated into the language in which the essay is written.

 

7)         Footnotes: in the text, numbers are in superscript and in sequential Arabic numerals; they follow quotation and punctuation marks (e. g.: “As soon as she saw him, she started screaming”.2)

 

8)         Bibliographical references: SQ uses a semplified version of the Chicago Manual of Style: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

 

9)         In in-text citations and in footnotes, Ibid. is used when the bibliographical reference is identical to the one in the immediately preceding reference or footnote, both when the page number is different and when it is the same.

 

10)    

Bibliography: see, again, the template available on the SQ website (the author-date citation system based on the Chicago Manual of Style: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html).
 

11) Articles submitted to SQ as well as book reviews must be carefuly formatted. Unformatted articles will not be considered. The English template can be downloaded by clickling here

 

Errors in published articles

 

If authors find an error in their published article, they are required to notify immediately the Editor in Chief, the guest editor(s) and the editorial board, who will publish an erratum or corrigendum (correction).

Critical Overviews

Questa sezione è dedicata alle rassegne bibliografiche.

Copyright Notice

For Authors

1) Data access and storage

If deemed appropriate by the Editors in Chief, the data on which the research is based must be made available by the authors.

 

2) Plagiarism

The content of articles submitted to the journal must be original.

 

3) Reference sources

The authors must provide a correct and extended list of the sources and the contributions that they have used.

 

4) Authorship

All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status.

 

Furthermore, authors who wish to publish in this journal must comply with the following conditions:

  1. Authors retain copyright in the work but grant this journal the right to publish it first. Authors also grant licence under a Creative Commons License - Attribution as it enables the free distribution of content by protecting the rights of the authors and journals.
  2. Authors can transfer their copyrights to other publishers by signing a non-exclusive license agreement that allows for uploading on other platforms or including in other texts (e.g.  an institutional repository or a monograph) by making reference and attribution to the original license granted to this this journal.

  3. Authors can distribute their work online (e.g. via institutional repositories or personal websites) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and increase visibility through citations (See The Effect of Open Access).