Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission of manuscripts: Authors shall submit their manuscripts, in Word format, to the following email address: rivista.statoechiese@unimi.it, in two versions, one identifiable and one anonymous. The latter is intended for peer review and must be devoid of any heading or reference—within the text, footnotes, and metadata—that could reveal the identity of the Author.

To speed up the peer-review process and facilitate the work of the Editorial Board, authors are encouraged to use the Word template available for download.

Template in Word format

By submitting the manuscript, the Author declares that the contribution has not been submitted to other journals in the same version or in a substantially similar version, and undertakes not to submit it elsewhere until the evaluation process has been completed.

All submissions must be prepared in full compliance with the guidelines set out herein. Proposals prepared otherwise will not be considered or sent out for peer review.

Language: manuscripts may be written in Italian, English, French, or Spanish.

Abstract: manuscripts must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words, in both Italian and English (including a translation of the title), to be placed on the opening page of the manuscript.

Keywords: authors must provide up to five keywords, in both Italian and English, to enhance the discoverability and indexing of the manuscript.

Personal and Institutional Identifiers: at the time of submission, Authors are required to provide the following information:

• full name
• current academic or professional position
• institutional email address
• institutional affiliation, where applicable
• ORCID identifier (see below)
• ROR identifier of the affiliated institution (see below)

ORCID Identifier (Open Researcher and Contributor ID): Authors are required to provide their ORCID identifier in order to ensure the unambiguous attribution of the contribution to the Author. At the publication stage, Authors will receive an email containing a link which must be activated, within three days, in order to authorize the association of the contribution with, and its visibility on, the Author’s ORCID profile.

ROR Identifier (Research Organization Registry): at the time of submission, Authors are also required to indicate the ROR identifier of their affiliated institution. This identifier will be included in the published contribution and displayed among the article’s metadata once published. The ROR identifier is particularly relevant for academic institutions and research bodies and, in certain cases, may be omitted following an assessment on a case-by-case basis.

Editorial Criteria

In drafting their manuscripts (in order to limit the workload of the Editorial Board), Authors are required to comply with the following editorial criteria.

The use of the official Word template, available for download, is strongly recommended in order to facilitate and expedite the editorial process.

Page Layout: top margin: 4 cm; bottom margin: 3 cm; left margin: 3.5 cm; right margin: 4 cm. Font: Palatino, for both text and footnotes. Font size: 12 for the main text; 10.5 for the table of contents; 10 for footnotes; 11 for the Author’s academic position and for in-text quotations. Paragraph formatting: alignment justified; indentation left 0 cm, right 0 cm; first-line indentation 1.25 cm for the main text and 0.5 cm for footnotes. Spacing: before 0 pt; after 0 pt. Line spacing: single, for both text and footnotes.

Title: the title of the contribution (lowercase, bold, centered, font size 12) must not exceed 120 characters, for layout purposes.

Author’s Position: immediately below his or her name, the Author’s full and exact academic position shall be indicated in round brackets (roman type, centered, font size 11), together with the affiliated University and the Department (or Faculty, where applicable). As a rule, no additional qualifications (e.g. professional titles) should be included. For non-academic Authors, the relevant institutional position shall be indicated.

This shall be followed by the Italian title (lowercase, italic, centered, font size 11), the ABSTRACT (roman type, font size 11), and a SUMMARY (heading in uppercase bold letters), reproducing the titles of the sections, numbered with Arabic numerals (lowercase bold, justified, font size 10.5) and separated by en dashes
(e.g.: SUMMARY: 1. Introduction – 2. The Casati Act – 3. Act No. 100 of 1890 – 4. Conclusions).

The use of multiple levels of paragraph numbering (e.g. 1.1, 1.2.a, etc.) should be avoided.

Print Publication: if the contribution is also intended for print publication, the publisher (if already known) and the details of the forthcoming publication (e.g. conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias, journals, etc.) shall be indicated.
For this purpose, the title shall be followed by an asterisk, with a corresponding footnote on the opening page, immediately preceding the footnotes.

Quotations and Quotation Marks: quotations in the body of the text from other Authors or from documentary sources shall be set in roman type (not italics, unless expressly indicated as emphasis added) and enclosed in double quotation marks (e.g.: “il tanuccismo e il giuseppinismo”). Where a quoted passage itself contains a quotation, the outer quotation shall be enclosed in angle quotation marks (« »), while the inner quotation shall be enclosed in double quotation marks.
Single quotation marks (‘ ’) may be used sparingly to emphasize specific concepts or expressions.

Quotations exceeding three lines in length (excluding footnotes) shall be presented as block quotations, enclosed in quotation marks, font size 11, preceded and followed by a blank line (spacing 0.4), and indented 1 cm from both the left and right margins. Such quotations must reproduce the original text faithfully, even where it does not comply with these editorial criteria.

Dates and Judicial Decisions: Dates and references to judicial decisions (in both text and footnotes) shall be given in full (e.g.: “10 October 2010”, not “10.10.2010”; “judgment no. 148 of 2011”, not “judgment 148/2011”). Non-standard abbreviations shall be avoided (e.g.: “see” rather than “cf.”; “for example” rather than “e.g.”; “paragraph” rather than “para.”, etc.). For the numbering of paragraphs, ordinal numerals shall be used (e.g.: “fourth section” rather than “section 4”), unless the provision itself adopts numerical paragraphing.

Footnotes: footnotes shall be placed at the bottom of the page and numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals. In the text, punctuation follows, and does not precede, the footnote number. Authors are reminded that, pursuant to copyright law, any summary, quotation, or reproduction of a work must always be accompanied by an indication of the title of the work, the name of the author, the publisher, and, where applicable, the translator, where such information appears in the reproduced work.

Bibliographical References: bibliographical references in footnotes shall indicate the Author’s first-name initial followed by the surname (in uppercase bold letters), the title of the work (in italics), and, in order, the publisher, place of publication, and year (in roman type). Where there is more than one Author, their names shall be separated by commas rather than by hyphens. Journal titles, encyclopedias, websites, and databases shall be italicized. In subsequent references to the same work, only the Author’s name and a shortened version of the title (sufficient to avoid ambiguity) shall be provided, followed by “quot.” The use of abbreviated Latin references such as ibid., idem, infra, supra, etc. is to be avoided. For works published in multiple volumes or tomes, the relevant volume and tome shall be indicated in lowercase letters and Roman numerals (e.g. vol. XI, t. I). Page numbers shall be preceded by the abbreviation “p.” (single page) or “pp.” (multiple pages). Where the reference extends beyond the cited page, the abbreviation “s.” shall be used for the immediately following page only, and “ss.” for several subsequent pages. For works published in more than one edition, the edition consulted shall be indicated in Arabic numerals with a superscript “a” (e.g. 4^th ed.). The names of editors of a collective work (first-name initial preceding the surname, with capitalization limited to the initials) shall be set in small capitals and roman type, preceded by the full expression edited by. The names of translators shall likewise be set in small capitals and roman type. The indication of the issue number or part of a journal shall be given in roman type and Roman numerals.

Examples: M. BIANCHI, C. ROSSI, Il giurisdizionalismo, Edizioni Sabaude, Turin, 1871;
M. BIANCHI, La legge delle Guarentigie, in Arch. dir. eccl., 1930, p. 120 ss.;
M. BLANCHE, La legge francese di separazione, Edizioni Sabaude, Turin, 1936, Italian translation by M. Bianchi; A.C. VERDE, Chiesa, in Digesto enciclopedico, Edizioni Pontificie, Rome, 1845, vol. III, pp. 24–58; V. NERI, Manuale di diritto ecclesiastico, Pelle, Piombino, 1880, 4^th ed, t. II, p. 99; M. BIANCHI, La legge, cit., p. 22;
AA. VV., Polizia ecclesiastica, edited by M. Bianchi, C. Rossi, Edizioni Sabaude, Turin, 1871; C. BIANCO, Il separatismo, in www.lostato.it, February 2000; C. ROSSI, Il giurisdizionalismo, in Archivio, 1880 (XLI), II, p. 99 ss.

In cases of citations of institutions, the names of the institutions should be formatted in bold small capitals, with capitalization applied only to the initials of all words.

Particular attention shall be taken to ensure proper alignment in footnotes of references to Internet sources, which shall be set in lowercase italics, in the shortest possible form, without quotation marks, preferably enclosed in round brackets, and with the date of access indicated only where necessary.

For citations of contributions published in this Journal, the same rules apply. Authors are required, however, to indicate in full the name of the Journal, followed by the name of the website and the issue number (from 2012 onwards) or, for earlier years (2007–2011), the month of publication.

Examples: M. BIANCHI, Il giurisdizionalismo, in Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, Online Journal (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/statoechiese/about), no. 20 (2012);
or M. BIANCHI, Il giuseppinismo, in Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, Online Journal (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/statoechiese/about), June 2007.

Hyperlinks, underlining, and the use of colors other than black are not permitted in either the text or the footnotes, nor is any form of graphical emphasis other than bold and italics (which should be used sparingly), or non-standard abbreviations.
Acknowledgements and dedications are not permitted.
Manual page breaks and discretionary hyphenation at line endings must not be inserted. The use of non-essential tables should be avoided for layout reasons.

Upon verification of compliance with the above criteria and, where necessary, the introduction of minor editorial amendments, the Editorial Board shall convert accepted contributions into PDF format in order to ensure their non-modifiability by third parties. By submitting a manuscript, the Author consents to such editorial amendments as the Editorial Board may deem necessary to ensure compliance with the Journal’s editorial standards, as well as with requirements of syntax and orthography.

In the event of the duly authorized publication of contributions previously published in foreign journals, whether in print or online, not all of the editorial criteria of this Journal may be applied, in particular with regard to citation formats.

The Editorial Board reserves the right not to accept submissions that lack scientific character, or that are predominantly divulgative, political, or propagandistic in nature, or that do not comply with the editorial criteria or with applicable criminal and press law.

Online access to a contribution may cease following the distribution of the print edition only upon written request by the Author. In such cases, the Journal’s indexes shall indicate, in addition to the Author’s name and the title of the contribution, the details of the subsequent print publication.

Reproduction Rights: Pursuant to Article 42(6) of Law No. 633 of 1941, the Author of a journal article is entitled to reproduce it elsewhere, provided that full reference is made to its first publication, indicating in full the name of this Journal (followed by the website name), and not merely the name of the website (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/statoechiese/about). It is further recommended that, in subsequent citations of contributions first published in this Journal, reference be made not only to the print version but also to the original online edition, including the number of the issue and the year.

Editorials: in the section “A chiare lettere” (editorials, debates, transitions), contributions by the Editor-in-Chief are signed using initials only (n.m.); contributions by other Authors shall be signed with their full name.