Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION

 

The paper, ready for publication and accompanied by an abstract and metadata, must be sent following the guidelines available on this website.

To submit an article, please take the following steps:

 

  • register as “author” at http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/medea/index;
  • log in as “user” and click on “submit a proposal”;
  • enter the required metadata: info, bio, abstract, keywords;
  • upload article;
  • select English from the drop-down menu and enter your metadata in English;
  • save.

 

After the peer review process and editing, the author will have the opportunity to review his or her contribution (only to identify typos or literals).

The review time is set at five working days from the date the material is supplied by the copyeditors. In the event that these deadlines are not met, no further textual changes or amendments will be possible.

The deadlines indicated in the Call for Papers are to be considered inflexible. Acceptance of contributions received after the date of the deadline will be at the sole discretion of the editors.

 

INDEXING

 

  1. ABSTRACT

Each abstract, provided both in English and in the language in which the article is written, must not exceed 600 characters, with spaces.

We suggest using the impersonal form in the third person, avoiding any biographical reference to the author. 

 

  1. AUTHOR METADATA

Authors are obliged to supply an English version of the metadata of their proposal, in addition to the original language of the submission. To this end, in the online submission process, where relevant, a drop-down menu is available to change the language of the data inserted in the fields. (This is not to be confused with the similar drop-down menu for changing the language which is located on each page of the web interface, in the column on the right.)

Once the author has entered both compulsory and optional metadata, before saving and proceeding to the next submission step, he or she must change language and complete the entry, inputting the outstanding metadata in the original language of the proposal.

Mandatory metadata, marked with an asterisk (*), includes: name and surname, e-mail address, title of the submission, and abstract.

 

  • BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE. The author of the proposal must insert his or her biographical profile (in English and in Italian or the language in which the paper is written) in the metadata fields. The bio, not exceeding 600 characters, should include: name and surname, professional title and institution, email address, areas of interest and research, and no more than 5 publications, cited concisely: Title (year of publication).
  • KEYWORDS. For the purposes of indexing, the author is required to include 5 keywords (in English and in Italian or the language in which the paper is written) that are pertinent to the topics covered in the text. Keywords should be in the singular form, starting with uppercase letters and separated by semicolon (;).

 

 

ARTICLE

 

  1. LAYOUT

Please use the template provided and consult the relevant instructions. If your article contains an epigraph (opening citation), please use the epigraph template. 

 

  1. FORMAT AND LENGHT OF ESSAYS

The maximum length of contributions is about 40,000 characters. The maximum length of the article title is 200 characters. Characters are understood to include spaces between words.

Authors are advised to adhere to house style as follows:

 

  • using single spacing;
  • using font Palatino (size 13) for the body text;
  • applying the bibliographic style (Author year) and resorting to footnotes at the bottom of the page only when strictly necessary;
  • numbering the pages consecutively (inserting the page number in the far right corner of the page header);
  • indenting new paragraphs by 1 cm;
  • refraining from using full stops at the end of article titles and subtitles.

 

  1. QUOTATIONS

Short or long quotations are followed by brackets with bibliographical data (Author’s surname Year: pages). In quotations from the same text that follow immediately thereafter, (ivi: new page number) is used. In quotations from the same page of the text, use ibidem. E.g.:

 

In the introductory chapter, Moretti states: «To begin with, this is an essay on literary history: literature, the old territory (more or less)» (Moretti 2005: 1). Afterwards, Moretti writes: «Quantitative research provides a type of data which is ideally independent of interpretations» (Ivi: 9) – but, he states – «that is of course also its limit: it provides data, not interpretation» (Ibidem).

 

Short quotations (i.e. up to 3 lines) should be incorporated in the main body of the text, using guillemets (« »). However, if the reference is self-evident, one may indicate only the year within brackets and omit the author’s surname. E.g. 

 

Franco Moretti’s publication (2005) includes an essay, Afterword, by Alberto Piazza.

 

Longer quotations (i.e. 3 lines or more) should beset out from the main body of the text and format paragraph as follows: indented by 1 cm on the left and right; justified; single spacing; in a size 12 font. Do not use double quotation marks for indented quotations. Please insert a line space between the body text and the indented quotations. E.g.:

 

In the chapter titled Graphs, the author states:

 

Normal literature remains in place for twenty-five years or so… But where does this rhythm come from? Shklovsky’s hypothesis (however modified) cannot explain it, because the connection between the decline of an old form and the rise of a new one implies nothing about the regularity of the replacement [Ivi: 20].

 

Double Quotation Marks and Italics

Use italics or single quotation mark (‘’) for foreign words (in a language other than that of the text) or to give special ‘emphasis’ to an element.

Italics are to be used for publication titles, poetry collections or anthologies.

 

  1. FOOTNOTES1

All notes are indicated by superscript numbers in the body text. Endnotes should be in Palatino size 11, indented by 1 cm, and be justified. Do not leave blank lines or spaces between the notes. The notes, which are strictly explanatory, should be used only when essential and be very concise.

When providing bibliographic citations in footnotes, use the house style indicated for the Bibliography. In the main text, the superscript number should appear before any punctuation marks and with no spaces before or after the numeral. For example:

 

1 In the chapter Trees, Moretti reproduces the semantic tree imagined by Francesco Orlando for his obsolete objects (Orlando 1993) and creates in figure 34 the tree for the Indirect style in modern narrative (Moretti 2005: 106).

 

 

Apply the same reference system to footnotes (Surname year: page). E.g.:

 

Cfr. Coroneo 1993a e 1993b; Mallegni, Rubini 1994: 30-37; Giuntella et alii 1985: 5, 7-8; Herzfeld 1991, 2002 e 2007.

 

 

  1. IMAGES AND CAPTIONS

Supply images in TIFF, 300 or more dpi, together with a caption.

 

  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY

References must be formatted and comply with the following examples.

 

  1. a) Books

A book, with one author:

Coroneo R. (1993), Architettura romanica dalla metà del Mille al primo ‘300, Ilisso, Nuoro.

 

Editor/Editors:

Lotman M. J. (1975), Tipologia della cultura, a cura di R. Faccani, M. Marzaduri, Bompiani, Milano.

Hobsbawm E. J., Ranger N. (1983) eds., The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (L’invenzione della tradizione, Einaudi, Torino 1987).

Bull M., Back L. (2008) a cura di, Paesaggi sonori. Musica, voci, rumori: l’universo dell’ascolto, Il Saggiatore, Milano (The Auditory Culture Reader, Berg, Oxford-New York 2003).

 

  1. b) Articles

An article in a book:

Ampolo C. (1988), La nascita della città, in A. Momigliano, A. Schiavone (a cura di), Storia di Roma, 1: Roma in Italia, Einaudi, Torino, pp. 153-180.

 

Journal article:

Herzfeld M. (1997), Anthropology and the politics of significance, “Social Analysis”, 41, 3, pp. 107-138.

 

Articles in online magazines or newspapers:

After the bibliographical information (see examples above), add the web site address (last accessed [the date of the last access, in the format DD/MM/YYYY]). E.g.:

 

Prum M. (2003), Gillian Beer, Darwin’s Plots, “Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle”, 26-27, http://rh19.revues.org/index784.htlm

 

  1. WEB PAGES AND BLOGS

Manovich L. (2011), Rendering theory articles, http://manovich.net/2010/10/28/rendering-theory-articles/ (ultimo accesso 05/04/2011).

Sito Fondazione Fabrizio De André, http://fabriziodeandre.it  (ultimo accesso 19/01/2021).

 

 

  1. QUOTES FROM MOVIES

Any quotes from films or videos used in the body of the text should be referenced as follows:  

 

Rouch J. (1957), Jaguar, Les Films de la Pléiade, France (93 min).

 

  1. ABBREVIATIONS

cfr.: compare to, confer

dir.: directed by

(ed./eds.): editor/ editors, when their names follow

ed./eds.: editor/editors, when preceded by their names

id.: the same author

  1. tr.: Italian translation

n.e.: new edition

sgg.: and successive pages

tr.: translation

v./vv. : verse/verses