Submissions

Author Guidelines

STYLESHEET

Altre Modernità - Otras Modernidades - Autres Modernités - Other Modernities

1. General information

Contributors should send:

• The file name should be the same as your last name. At the end of the file, after the page break, insert a brief description (no more than six lines - 500 characters spaces included) of current and past teaching/research positions, main research interests and principal publications (preferably in the last 3 years)
• The file should include an abstract in English (no more than 1500 characters spaces included) and the author should as well indicate its main disciplinary field, geographical and chronological areas of reference, together with a series of related keywords (use ; to separate all keywords - max 6 keywords per paper), a bio-bibliography (no more than 700 characters, in the same language of the paper) the personal email address which will be published at the end of the article (only if requested the personal email address will not be published. In this case the magazine email address will appear at the end of the paper).

2. Formatting and Length of contributions
Contributions should for no reason exceed 24.000 characters spaces included. The paper's title cannot exceed 225 characters spaces included.

Please:

• use single line spacing;
• insert page numbers (top right corner of the page)
• indent paragraphs (1 cm);
• insert notes at the end of file;¹
• do not end a title or heading with a full stop.

¹ Footnote numbers should be indented as in this example. There should be no gap between footnotes. Within the main text, the footnote reference number should follow the word in question or a punctuation mark, with no blank space. Footnotes should be limited to explicatory material, should be used only when strictly necessary and should be as brief as possible.

3. Quotations in the text

Short quotations (2-3 lines) are placed in the text between double quotation marks  "; ";. 

Example 1:

The first six categories show how different people trigger their motivation"; (ibid.: 17), i.e. what people will be open to perceiving,

Please note: quotation marks and apostrophes should be rounded, as in the example, not straight. 
For longer quotations leave an empty line before and after the quotation; indent left margin by 0.5 cm. and right margin by 0.5 cm.; do not use quotation marks. 

Example 2:

said of English speakers,

we are more apt to make a grasping gesture when we speak of grasping an elusive idea than when we speak of grasping a door knob. (Whorf 1956: 157)

In identifying spatialized metaphors as an organizing principle in 


4. Double quotation marks, single quotation marks, italics 

Please use double quotation marks for quoted words or phrases, and single quotation marks for quotes within quoted passages. E.g.: ";the so-called ‘campus novel'";. 
Use italics or single quotation marks for highlighting items and for items in languages different from the one of the article.

5. Citations

When referring to a text, indicate the surname of the author followed, in brackets, by the year of publication of the essay, colon, space and page number of the quotation. Give page or verse numbers in full. Omissions: use three dots between square brackets: [...].

Example 1:

Buxton (1967: 59) said once that Surrey was [...]

Example 2:

Tennyson (The Lady of Shalott, vv. 10-14)

Example 3:

(The Tempest, I, 2, 323-326)

Example 4:

said once that Surrey was [...]


6. Tables and graphs

Text within tables should be ranged left. Do not use colour, but make your data legible in black and white.

Please number Tables and graphs consecutively and provide captions. These should appear below the table or graph:

Example:

Table 1. This is the caption for Table 1.

7. Pictures

In TIFF or JPG file format with references/caption. The images must be added to the text only if they are absolutely necessary to clarify selected elements described in the paper.

8. Dashes

Please make sure you press the right keys when you wish to use dashes, e.g.

Example:

On the other hand, the individual voice - which unveils the cognitive process leading a judge to take a certain individual 

9. References 

Bibliographical references are to be listed alphabetically at the end of the article. Please check that all entries correspond to the authors cited. Do not divide the bibliography into sections.
Entries should be arranged as shown below.

Example:

a) Books 
Please note: (ed.) singular, (eds) plural

Van Dijk T., 1993, Elite Discourse and Racism, Sage Publications, Newbury Park (CA). 
Chouliaraki L. and N. Fairclough, 1999, Discourse in Late Modernity, Edinburgh U.P., Edinburgh. 
Palmer F.R., [1979] 1990, Modality and the English Modals, Longman, London.


b) Articles in books

Derrida J., 1985, ";Des tours de Babel";, in J.F. Graham (ed.), Difference in Translation, Cornell U.P., Ithaca and London, pp. 165-248 (bilingual edition); Italian trans. A. Zinna, in S. Nergaard (ed.), 1995, Teorie contemporanee della traduzione, Bompiani, Milano, pp. 367-418.

c) Articles in journals

Ulrych M. and R.M. Bollettieri Bosinelli, 1999, ";The State of the Art in Translation";, Textus 12, pp. 219-241.

10. Electronic resources:

• - Use the following examples in order to build the website section of your references:
• o Web page with a clear author: F. Pellizzi,I generi marginali nel Novecento letterario, in";Bollettino ‘900";, 22 maggio 1997,<http://www3.unibo.it/boll900/convegni/gmpellizzi.html> (15 agosto2004).
• o Web page without a clear author: <http://www3.unibo.it/boll900/convegni/gmpellizzi.html> (15 agosto2004).

11. Films

In-text citations of films or videos should follow the following format

ROUCH Jean 1955 Les Les Maîtres Fous, 16 mm, 36'.