Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As a preliminary step, the author is requested to check the conformity of his text with ALL the following criteria. In particular, the text:
• has not been previously published, or submitted to another journal for consideration.
• must conform to the standards specified in the Author Guidelines section, with regard to typographical and formatting criteria and also for footnotes and Bibliography.
• for submission must be sent in an MS Word format (or .doc or .docx)
• must provide DOI or URL references whenever possible.
• the illustrations and figures must be of high quality and resolution.
• on the web page or in the email used to send the contribution, the author must specify his affiliation, email address and, if it is applicable, his ORCiD
Author Guidelines
Essays, articles, reviews must be sent to one of Italogramma's editors in MS Word format (.doc or docx). Only the manuscripts that meet all the formal requirements and demands specified in this guidelines will be considered for review.
Essays should have a length between 6,000 and 10,000 words (including abstract, notes and figure captions).
Reviews must not exceed 6000 words.
The author is requested to remove from Word file in attachment all possible information about him/her, including his/her name and affiliation, so the contribution can be submitted anonymously for reading and review.
As soon as the contribution is accepted, the author must send the file back in a new, final version, and report at the top of his/her article his/her full name (in full and not abbreviated form), his/her affiliation (containing the name of the institution he/she is affiliated with) and email address.
Formatting requirements:
• Times New Roman 12pt font, double spaced;
• number notes consecutively throughout the paper;
• if present, a list of illustrations, numbered consecutively, as they should be paginated, and accompanied by appropriate captions;
• illustrations and figures should not be included in the text, but provided in separate files, each of high quality and adequate format
Title
- In capital letters
Abstract
- The abstract must be brief, maximum 250 words and must not contain any citation
Keywords
- provide 5-7 keywords, separated by commas, each must begin with a capital letter
Sections
- the text can be divided into sections, numbered sequentially. The Bibliography must not be numbered. In the text, refer to sections as 'Section 1, 2, etc.' (not 'Chapters')
Figures and tables extra text
- Figures must be sent as separated high-resolution image file. When it is necessary, author has to obtain permission for publication.
- Photographs must be uploaded in high resolution: 300 dpi TIFF or JPEG.
- Drawings must be submitted as TIFF or JPEG files, scanned at 300 dpi or as Excel file.
- Figures, tables and drawings must be numbered sequentially. There must be a brief written informative caption, explaining the meanings. Make explicit reference to the illustrations in the text, referring to them as ’Figure no.1’ (etc.) or ’Table no.1’ (etc.). Expressions such as ’the figure above’ or ’the table below’ must be avoided.
Additional formatting requirements
- Dates must be given in the form 15 April 1982; the twelfth century; the twentieth century; between the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Use long dashes between numbers and dates (e.g. 1933-40).
- Citations must be written between double inverted commas: „in this way”.
- Citations within citation must be written between single inverted commas: ’in this way’.
- Quotations longer than three lines should be formatted 'outside the body', in a smaller font (Times New Roman, 10-point font size, single spacing, 1 cm left and right margins, without opening and closing quotation marks).
- Foreign words must be in italics
- Any internal interruption in the quoted texts must be highlighted by three dots between square brackets: [...].
- In the text, the exponent note is always followed by punctuation mark. E.g.: As Cesare Segre pointed out,1 several times the author [etc.].
- In citation from printed works, punctuation and spelling must be exactly as in the original. If it is necessary to modify or add punctuation to clarify the meaning, a footnote should be added to indicate this correction.
References
In the footnotes:
In footnotes and the bibliography, please indicate the first and last names of authors and editors, followed by a comma. The publisher precedes the place of publication (in the language of the country where the book was printed) and the year of publication (Feltrinelli, Milano 2006). Examples:
Dante Pop. La Divina Commedia nella letteratura e nella cultura popolare contemporanea, a cura di Jérôme Dutel, Stefano Lazzarin, Vecchiarelli, Manziana 2017.
Cesare Segre, Introduzione, in Lalla Romano, Opere, a cura di Cesare Segre, Mondadori, Milano 1991, 2 voll.; vol. I, pp. XI-LVIII (p. XXXIV).
George Sebbag, Sommeils & rêves surréalistes, Jean Michel Place, Paris 2004.
- Page numbers must always be given for articles or book chapters
- In the following note, if the same author and work appear but with a different page number, use "ibid." followed by the page number (ibid., p. XLIII).
- If the reference is to the same author, same work, and same page as the previous note, use "Ibid."
- In cases where it is necessary to reference a text consulted in electronic format, please include the website address and the date of access.
- For journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers, always provide the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) if it exists in the form of a permanent URL starting with https://doi.org/. DOIs can be easily retrieved using Crossref’s metadata search; the tool is easy to use and the access is free (you must register first)
- For articles for which the DOI cannot be found online, please provide the URL or the name of the database, along with the date on which it was consulted
- For periodicals, use regular quotation marks ("Nuovi Argomenti," "Narrativa," "la Repubblica," "Il Corriere della Sera"), indicating the year, issue number, series if necessary, date, and page numbers of the referenced article. Examples:
Gabriele Vacis, Il disegno e la casa, «Prove di drammaturgia. Rivista di inchieste teatrali», A. II, n.1, marzo 1996, p. 7.
Luca Somigli, The Mirror of Modernity: Marinetti’s Early Criticism between Decadence and Renaissance Latine, in «Romanic Review», 97 (3-4), 2006, pp. 331–352.
In the Bibliography:
- The title of the work must be indicated in its complete form
- If not only literary sources are used, they must be gathered and listed in separate groups and in alphabetical order, under the headings: Archive Sources; Filmography, Audiovisual, Topographical Maps, etc.
- For titles that are not in English, German, French, Spanish, or Portuguese, provide the title in the original language followed by the translation in Italian within round brackets and in italics. For journal or newspaper articles, book chapters, or individual contributions to collective works, provide the page range they occupy in the volume or journal.
- In case of articles consulted online, include URLs or the name of the database, with date of consultation. Preferably use URLs provided by the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) system, which provides a permanent URL address starting with: https://doi.org/
Examples of bibliographical references:
Marchand, Jean-Jacques, Edouard Rod et les écrivains italiens. Correspondance inédite avec S. Aleramo, L. Capuana, G. Cena, G. Deledda, A. Fogazzaro, G. Verga, Droz, Genève 1980;
Romano, Lalla, Opere, a cura di Cesare Segre, Mondadori, Milano 1991, 2 voll.
Segre, Cesare, Introduzione, in Lalla Romano, Opere, a cura di C. Segre, Cesare Milano, Mondadori, 1991, 2 voll.; vol. I, pp. XI-LVIII.
Somigli, Luca, The Mirror of Modernity: Marinetti’s Early Criticism between Decadence and Renaissance Latine, in «Romanic Review», A. 97, 2006, pp. 331–352. 6-15.
