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Guidelines for Authors

EDITORIAL CRITERIA

A Word template with a sample article layout can be downloaded HERE.

In the template, please fill in the author’s name, abstract, keywords, and the body of the article, leaving the footer unchanged (the issue number and title will be added by the editorial staff).

Please ensure that the following editorial criteria are strictly observed:

File format: Word document (.docx)

Text

• Font: Garamond
• Size: 12 pt
• Alignment: justified
• Footnotes: Garamond, 10 pt, justified alignment
• Hyphenation: automatic
• Margins: top 2.5 cm; bottom 3 cm; left 2 cm; right 6 cm
• Paragraph indents: left 0; right 0; first line indent 1.25 cm (starting from the second paragraph only)
• Spacing: single line; 0 pt before and after
• Do NOT insert page numbers
• Title: ARTICLE TITLE (roman, uppercase, bold, left-aligned)
• Subtitle (if any): Article subtitle (new line, roman, lowercase, bold, left-aligned)
• Author: Name Surname (new line, roman, lowercase, left-aligned)
• Abstracts in Italian and English, followed by keywords. (if you are using the template, leave the “DOI” field blank)
• Epigraph (if any): leave a triple line break after the author’s name; justify the text; set a left paragraph indent of 7 cm; use italics, Garamond, 11 pt. Indicate the author of the quotation on a new line, in parentheses, in roman type, right-aligned
• Paragraph title: no numbering, roman type, lowercase, bold, left-aligned.
• Paragraph Spacing: the first paragraph must be separated from the author’s name (or from the epigraph, if present) by a triple line break. All subsequent paragraphs must be separated by a double line break
• Bulleted Lists: items in bullet-point lists should be preceded by a short dash and indented 1.25 cm to the left (this setting is usually applied automatically by most word-processing programs).

Quotation Marks and Quoted Passages

• For words used in a broad or figurative sense, use double quotation marks: “…”.

Examples:

The “justice” of discourse should not be understood in a juridical sense.

As someone once said, “virtue” is not always meant in a moral sense.

This film is a “dog”.

• Words mentioned as such (i.e., when referring to the word itself) should be enclosed in single quotation marks: ‘…’.

Example:

The word ‘dog’ has three letters; the word ‘truth’ has many meanings.

• Quotations and direct speech not exceeding two hundred characters (including spaces) – approximately two lines of text – should be set in roman type and enclosed in guillemets, following this pattern: text «quotation quotation» text.

Example:

«Know thyself» is both an intellectual and a moral imperative. Someone might object: «But the two things do not coincide». Such a person would be confusing Socratic ethics with Christian ethics.

• Quotations longer than two hundred characters (including spaces) should begin on a new line, with a left paragraph indent of 1.25 cm (but WITHOUT first line indent), in roman type and without quotation marks, separated from the main text by a double line break before and after. They should be set in Garamond, 11 pt. The first paragraph following the long quotation should have no first line indent.
• For quotations within quotations, use double quotation marks: “…”.

Example:

The relationship between the totality of lived experience and the multiple images provided of it «is certainly not that of a complete description, in which the objects of those stories could be known just “as they really were”».

Note Numbering

• Note numbers in the body of the text must be placed BEFORE punctuation marks (period, comma, semicolon, colon, etc.).

Example:

Giordano Bruno’s philosophical conception can be defined as a philosophy of nature1.

• If a quotation enclosed in quotation marks appears in the text, the note number following the quotation must be placed AFTER the closing quotation marks and BEFORE the punctuation mark (period, comma, or semicolon).

Example:

«There is no absolute truth»1: with this statement the author…

• For long quotations (more than two hundred characters, separated from the body of the text as indicated above), the note number must also appear BEFORE the final punctuation mark, as in other cases.

Bibliographical References

Bibliographical references must be included exclusively in footnotes and not in a list at the end of the article. Follow the instructions below:

• Reference to a MONOGRAPH in the original language:
  Surname, title in italics, publishing house, place and year of publication, page numbers preceded by p. or pp.

Esample:
Husserl, Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie, Martinus Nijhoff’s Boekhandel en Uitgeversmaatschappij, Den Haag 1959, p. 125.

• Reference to a MONOGRAPH in translation:
  Surname, title in italics, It./Eng./Fr./Ger./Sp. trans. by N. Surname, publishing house, place and year of publication, page numbers preceded by p. or pp.

Example:
Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy, Eng. trans. by D. Carr, Northwestern University Press, Evanston 1970, p. 23.

• If it is deemed necessary to indicate precisely both the original edition of the work and its translation, proceed as follows:
  Surname, original title in italics, ed. by N. Surname, publishing house, place and year of publication, page numbers; It./Eng./Fr./Ger./Sp. trans. by N. Surname, ed. by N. Surname (where appropriate, it is possible to indicate only the editor of the translation using the formula “trans. ed. by N. Surname”; the same applies if translator and editor coincide), title of the translation, publishing house, place and year of publication, page numbers.

Examples:
Perec, Espèces d’espaces, Éditions Galilée, Paris 1974; It. trans. ed. by R. Delbono, Specie di spazi, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 1989.
Heidegger, Zur Bestimmung der Philosophie, ed. by B. Heimbüchel, Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 13; It. trans. by G. Auletta, ed. by G. Cantillo, Per la determinazione della filosofia, Guida Editori, Naples 1993, p. 25.

• Reference to an EDITED VOLUME or MISCELLANY:

Two main cases should be distinguished, depending on whether the reference concerns the entire edited volume or a single contribution within it.

Case 1:
Volpi (ed.), Guida a Heidegger. Ermeneutica, fenomenologia, esistenzialismo, ontologia, teologia, estetica, etica, tecnica, nichilismo, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2005.

Case 2:
Paci, Il filosofo e la città: Platone, Whitehead, Husserl, Marx, ed. by S. Veca, il Saggiatore, Milano 1979, p. 157.

• Reference to a CONTRIBUTION in a collected volume or miscellany: Surname, title in italics, in N. Surname (ed.), title of the collection in italics, publishing house, place and year of publication, full page range preceded by ‘pp.’, and specific page(s) cited indicated as ‘esp. p./pp.’.

Example:
Taminiaux, Considerazioni su Heidegger e le Ricerche Logiche di Husserl, in S. Poggi, P. Tomasello (eds.), Martin Heidegger. Ontologia, fenomenologia, verità, LED, Milano 1995, pp. 229-255, esp. p. 240.

• Reference to an ARTICLE in a PRINT JOURNAL:
  Surname, title in italics, «title of the periodical», volume number, issue number, year of publication, full page range preceded by ‘pp.’, and specific page(s) cited indicated as ‘esp. p./pp.’.

Examples:
Winch, Marginalism and the Boundaries of Economic Science, «History of Political Economy», 4, 2, 1972, pp. 325-343.
Nisbett, S. Stich, Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning, «Philosophy of Science», 47, 1980, pp. 188-202, esp. p. 190.

• Reference to an ARTICLE in an ONLINE JOURNAL:

Always refer to the PDF version of the individual article (not of the entire issue):
Surname, title in italics, «title of the periodical» [Online], volume number, issue number, year of publication, full page range preceded by ‘pp.’, specific page(s) cited ‘esp. p./pp.’, [doi or URL].

Example:
Hernández, Consequences of Rorty’s Pragmatism in Science, «European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy» [Online], 9, 2, 2017, pp. 1-13, esp. p. 8, [https://doi.org/10.4000/ejpap.1074].

• Reference to a REVIEW:
  Surname of the reviewer, review of N. Surname of the author (possibly followed by “ed. by” in parentheses), title of the work, publishing house, place and year of publication, «title of the periodical» / title of the edited volume, etc.

Example:
Bach, review of M. Alacevich, Albert O. Hirschman. An Intellectual Biography, Columbia University Press, New York 2021, «History of Political Economy», 54, 5, 2022, pp. 997-999.

In the case of a review published in an online journal, follow the indications above for online sources.

• Reference to an ONLINE RESOURCE (blog post, document, video, etc.):

Electronic resource available at [URL in square brackets], accessed on [DD/MM/YYYY].

Example:

Electronic resource available at [https://archiviocarlosini.it/vita-di-spinoza/], accessed on [24/06/2025].

Repeated Citations

• When a work already cited in full in a previous note is mentioned again, indicate only the author and the title, followed by a comma, cit., and the page number.

Example:
Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences, cit., p. 71.

• When the same work and page as in the immediately preceding note are cited, use ‘Ibidem’ (in italics).

Example:

1 J. Taminiaux, Considerazioni su Heidegger e le Ricerche Logiche di Husserl, cit., p. 240.

2 Ibidem.

• When the same work but a different page is cited in the immediately preceding note, use ‘Ivi’, followed by the page number.

Example:

1 J. Taminiaux, Considerazioni su Heidegger e le Ricerche Logiche di Husserl, cit., p. 240.

2 Ivi, p. 250.

• When the author of the work cited in the immediately preceding note is the same, replace the author’s name with ‘Id’. The same rule applies in cases of consecutive repetition of the author’s name within the same note.

Example 1:

1 E. Husserl, La crisi delle scienze europee, cit., p. 125.

2 Id., La filosofia come scienza rigorosa, It. trans. ed. by C. Sinigaglia, Laterza, Rome-Bari 2010, p. 32.

Example 2:

1 C. Sini, Etica della scrittura, in Id., L’alfabeto e l’Occidente, in Id., Opere, vol. III/1, La scrittura e I saperi, ed. by F. Cambria, Jaca Book, Milan 2016, pp. 15-193, esp. p. 51.

Language

Words in a language other than that used in the article must be set in italics. This rule also applies to quotations.

Further Guidelines

• Omissions within quotations should be indicated as follows: […].
• Italics should be used for the titles of works, monographs, articles, etc.; for words in a language different from that of the article; and to emphasize specific words or expressions within the text.
• In the case of U.S. editions, specify, where necessary, the federal state of the publisher’s location in parentheses. Example: W.V. Quine, The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1976.
• In footnotes, use ‘cf.’ (not ‘cp.’) without a comma and followed directly by the reference.