Citation style

General Rules

Submission must include a short abstract in English of no more than 10 lines (+/- 150 parole), an English version of the title (and subtitle), and keywords in English.

Quotations

  1. Put short quotations in the text between «…»;
  2. Long quotations (of more than 3 lines) should be set off from the text (in a separate paragraph) and indented from the margin with NO quotation marks. Use a smaller font size.
  3. Quotations in language other than that used in the article should be put in footnotes while the translation is given in the text.
  4. Omissions in the quoted text should be marked […]

Use “...” or italics to emphasize a word or to indicate a special use. Use italics for words taken from other languages. If these foreign words are put after their translation use […]. So for example: the worldview [Weltanschauung] of Simmel. Try to avoid single ‘…’, do NOT underline words and do NOT use bold.

Quotations, punctuation and footnote references

Quotation marks: guillemets, that is « ». Use double inverted commas in nested quotations.
Terminal punctuation ought to be outside quotation marks (Quoted question marks and exclamation marks are of course considered part of the quotation).
Superscripts ought to be outside quotation marks and inside terminal puncutation.

«quoted text»[superscript, if applicable].
«Is this a question?»superscript.

Bibliographical references

Footnote description of the sources or literature should include: name (abbreviated), surname, title, publisher’s name, place and year of publication, relevant pages (see below for more detailed instructions and examples). Footnote reference numbers should be placed inside punctuation.

Sources and literature referred to more than once are only the first time cited in full. Shortened references should be easily recognizable and should be used consistently.

The author-year reference system is accepted as well. In this case, please refer to the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. A list of all bibliographical references must be provided at the end of the article.

Examples:

1. Independent book:

Name (abbreviated). Surname, Title (italics), Publisher’s name, Place and year of publication, page:

D. Williams, Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science, Routledge, London-New York 1996, p. 34.

Subsequent references: Name (abbreviated). Surname, op. cit. Hence,

D. Williams, op. cit., p. 56.

In case multiple works of the same author are referred to: Name (abbreviated). Surname, Easily recognizable part of the title, cit. Hence,

D. Williams, Japan and the Enemies, cit., p. 56.

In case of a reference to a work in translation: Name (abbreviated). Surname, Original Title, Publisher’s name, Place and year of publication, page (transl. by Name (abbreviated). Surname, Title in translation, Publisher’s name, Place and year:

M. Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1984 (transl. by J. Stambaugh, Being and Time, State University of New York Press, Albany (New York) 1996).

In case of short reference: Name (abbreviated). Surname, op. cit., p. (transl., p.):

M. Heidegger, op. cit., p. 13 (transl., p. 40).

In the case of edited books; one editor: Name (abbreviated). Surname (ed.), more than one editor (eds.):

L. Shiebinger (ed.), Feminism & The Body, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000.

In the case of collective works: the names of the authors are separated by -

H. Williams-D. Sullivan-G. Matthews, Francis Fukuyama and the End of History, University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1997.

In the case of collective works and more than 3 authors: et al.,

H. Williams et al., Francis Fukuyama and the End of History, University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1997.

In the case of more than one place of publication, the places are separated by -

D. Williams, Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science, Routledge, London-New York 1996, p. 34.

2. Publication in a book/volume

Name (abbreviated). Surname, Title of contribution, in Name (abbreviated). Surname (ed.), Title of book, Publisher’s name, Place and date of publication, pages (beginning and end pages of contribution), page (which is referred to in the text). So,

M. Lloyd, Towards a Cultural Politics of Vulnerability: Precarious Lives and Ungrievable Deaths, in T. Carver-S. Chambers (eds.), Judith Butler’s Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters, Routledge, London-New York, 2008, pp. 92-106, p. 100.

If referred to more than once: Name (abbreviated). Surname, art. cit., p.

M. Loyd, art. cit., p. 105.

Reference to another contribution in the same volume: Name (abbreviated). Surname, Title of Contribution, in Name (abbreviated). Surname (ed.), Title of book, cit., pages (beginning and end pages of contribution), page (which is referred to in the text). Hence,

D. Coole, Butler’s Phenomenological Existentialism, in T. Carver-S. Chambers (eds.), Judith Butler’s Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters, cit., pp. 11-27, p. 23.

3. Article in a periodical

Name (abbreviated). Surname, Title of the article, in «Journal» series (date) n., pages (beginning and end pages of article), page (which is referred to in the text). So,

W. Kymlicka, Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality, in «Ethics» 99 (1989) n. 4, pp. 883-905, p. 898.

If referred to more than once: Name (abbreviated). Surname, art. cit., p.

W. Kymlicka, art. cit., p. 900.

Reference to another article in the same Journal number: no short form, give the whole reference to avoid confusion.

4. Abbreviations

p. = page; pp. = pages; ivi, p. = reference to a work quoted in the previous footnote, but with a different page number; ibidem = reference to a work quoted in the previous footnote with the same page number; infra = to refer to a successive page of your own text; supra = to refer to a previous page of your own text; ff. = following pages; cfr. = compare; vol. = volume.