Editorial Requirements

Editorial Standards ( see here and here for the template)

Layout

Text font Times New Roman size 12, and 1 line spacing; footnotes Times New Roman size 10, and 1 line spacing. Indentations 0.5 at the beginning of paragraphs; top margin 3.5 cm, margins 3 cm for the other sides.

First page

This is meant to be a ‘presentation’ of the contribution; it must include Title, Author’s name (with an asterisk alongside that refers to a footnote with the Author’s qualification), Abstract and keywords in English, Summary in the language of the contribution.

For the Layout, please refer to the attached Template in which you are kindly requested to insert your own text. For other characteristics (numbering and format of paragraphs, character and spacing of the abstract), please refer to the model essay provided by the editorial staff.

Text

An essay must be divided into paragraphs and subparagraphs, with footnotes. Other contributions can have this same structure if the Author so decides.

Quotation marks and citations: literal quotations must be contained in low quotation marks «...»; the emphasis in double high quotes “...”; the quotes within the quotes in single high quotes ‘…’. If some parts of the quoted text are omitted, square brackets with 3 dots are used […].

Quotes longer than 5 lines: indent 0.5 on both sides, size 11, without quotation marks (detached from the body of the text).

Foreign language words: in italics, with the exception of terms of established use, institutions, organizations, parties, and associations.

Acronyms: in full in the first citation: The Italian Socialist Party (ISP) obtained a satisfactory electoral result.

Footnotes: The reference mark in the text must precede the punctuation marks but follow the parentheses.

Bibliographic citations

Books:

C. Filippini, Autonomies and local self-government in Russia, Giappichelli, 2020.

Contributions in Volumes:

D. Kelly, Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory of Dictatorship, in J. Meierhenrich, O. Simons (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt, Oxford University Press, 2016, 217-244.

Journal Essays:

B. Noble, N. Petrov, From Constitution to Law: Implementing the 2020 Russian Constitutional Changes, in Russian Politics, No. 6, 2021.

Do not use p. and pp. for page numbers

Citations of already cited works:

  • If the work has already been quoted the title will be followed by: comma, cit., reference page number/s without p.
  • If the work was quoted in the immediately preceding note with reference to different page number/s: Idem, followed by the number of reference pages without p.
  • If the work was quoted in the immediately preceding note with reference to the same page number/s: Ibidem.