Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submissions may be written in Italian, English, French, or Spanish. Manuscripts must be complete and prepared in accordance with the following guidelines. Additional information on publication timelines, peer review procedures, and licensing is available on the journal’s website.

Aims and Scope

Archivio Storico Lombardo publishes high-quality scholarly research on the history of Milan and Lombardy, from antiquity to the present day, as well as studies exploring their connections with broader historical contexts. Contributions may adopt a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches.

Submissions should engage with current historiography and offer an original contribution to the field. The use of primary sources is strongly encouraged, provided they are critically analyzed and properly contextualized. Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere.
Authors unsure whether their work falls within the journal’s scope are encouraged to submit a preliminary proposal including a title, a brief description, and an outline of sources and historiographical context.

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should be submitted via this website or by email: redazione.archiviostorico@societastoricalombarda.it.

Length:

• Research articles: 7,500–12,000 words (in Italian or the equivalent in other accepted languages);
• Shorter contributions: up to 7,500 words (as above);
• Book reviews: up to 9,000 characters (no footnotes).

Required elements (except reviews):

• Title in Italian and English
• Author details (name, email, ORCID, institutional affiliation, ROR if applicable)
• Abstract in Italian and English (max. 1,000 characters each)
• Up to five keywords in Italian and English

Images and Figures must be relevant, limited in number, and supplied at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. They are printed in black and white unless included in a color section; in the digital edition, color may be retained.
Authors are responsible for securing reproduction rights unless materials are in the public domain or otherwise freely licensed.

Peer Review Process

All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable may be rejected at this stage.
Research articles are evaluated through a double-blind peer review process involving at least two external reviewers. Other contributions are assessed internally by the editorial team.
Acceptance is contingent upon successful peer review and satisfactory revision of the manuscript where required.

Publication Ethics

Authors must adhere to the journal’s ethical standards, including:

• responsibility for the integrity and originality of their work
• disclosure of any conflicts of interest and funding sources
• transparency regarding research data
• disclosure of any use of AI tools in writing, data analysis, or image production
• proper citation of all sources.

Upon acceptance, authors will be required to sign a publishing agreement.

Style and Formatting

For detailed formatting rules, please refer to the guidelines provided by Scalpendi (here, in Italian).
The Italian version of these guidelines also provides examples for these key elements.:

• Full bibliographic references at first mention, abbreviated thereafter
• Sentence case for English titles
• Limited use of web references, with access dates where appropriate
• Unnumbered preliminary note for acknowledgments and disclosures
• Abbreviations spelled out at first occurrence.