This handbook describes the main editorial guidelines adopted in the journal. For special cases and further indications (such as the list of permitted abbreviations), please refer to the complete editorial guidelines of the Edizioni Ca’ Foscari:
https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/pubblicare-con-noi/ecf_norme_en.pdf
I. Composition of the text
The journal publishes articles (40,000 characters with spaces), notes (10,000 characters with spaces) and book reviews (5,000 characters with spaces, including bibliographic data and number of pages of the work reviewed, without footnotes).
Formatting the Word file: limit formatting to what is strictly necessary, adopting 12 characters and avoiding small caps, special styles and line spacing other than 1. A particular case is constituted by long text citations. The use of bold is allowed for titles.
Dates, numbers, measures
The numbers must be indicated in abbreviated form omitting the parts that do not change (except for the so-called ‘teens’, 11-19). For example: 1960-5, 270-1, 256-70, 311-18 (n.b.), 1,000, 120 × 240 cm; 5 March-7 May; il Eighteenth Century; the Thirties.
Citations within the text
If less than 10 words in length, they remain in the body of the text in double quotation marks (“ ”). Lines are separated by the sign |. If longer than 10 words, the citations must be:
- without quotation marks
- detached from the body of the text by means of a simple white line before and one after
- indented 1 cm to the left of the main text body
- ended with a full stop.
Quotation within quotation: single high quotation marks (‘...’) within double quotation marks (“ ”).
Source citations should be in the original language. The translation of the quoted text, if necessary, follows immediately, in brackets and in round characters.
Omissions in the body of the quotes are marked with ‘[...]’.
Foreign words and translations
If not included in the Treccani dictionary (http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/), they must be written in italics. Transliterations are also italicized. Relevant translations go between round brackets immediately after the term. Example: Totenmal (funerary monument).
Emphasis
High quotation marks (‘’) can also be used to highlight a ‘concept’, highlight the precise meaning of a ‘term’, signal the ‘idiomatic’, ‘metaphorical’ or ‘improper’ use of a word.
Titles
The titles of literary, pictorial, sculptural, photographic, cinematographic, theatrical, musical, etc. works are italicized with capital letters.
Trait d’union
- Use ‘-’ in lists and in cases such as: John Pope-Hennessy, 1960-67, May 2-June 5
- Use ‘–’ to introduce parenthesis and bring sentences into direct speech (e.g. in dialogues)
- Do not use ‘-’, but use the comma to distinguish the surnames of authors in the Abbreviations in the footnotes, and the semicolon to separate each group Surname-Name in the final Bibliography.
II. Bibliographic references
Abbreviations in the footnotes.
Write the author’s surname, the year of publication and the page number preceded by a comma only. This abbreviation refers to every occurrence, avoiding the use of idem, ibidem, and similar expressions.
Examples:
Rossi 2010, 234 fn. 23 [footnote 23]
Rossi, Bianchi 2010 [coauthors]
Rossi, Bianchi, Verdi 2010 [coauthors]
Rossi et al. 2010 [more than three authors]
M. Rossi 2010, G. Rossi 2010 [authors with the same surname]
Rossi 2010a, 2010b [more works by the same author appearing in the same year]
Rossi 2010, 2011 [more works by the same author, but published in different years]
Rossi, s.d., 34 [undated work on the title page and in the imprint]
Rossi, forthcoming [to be published soon]; Bianchi (oral communication)
BSI 1985 [= ‘British Standards Institution’, similar abbreviations are to be found in the final bibliography]
Rossi 2008, 2, 2: 630 fn. 15 [= ‘volume’ 2, ‘tome’ 2: ‘page’ 630, ‘footnote’ 15]
If an edition or a translation of ancient, medieval or early modern texts is cited, at the first occurrence a unique topological reference is provided (e.g. book, chapter, paragraph; song, verse, verse, etc.) and declare the edition or translation used; in subsequent citations the univocal topological reference is sufficient. To indicate in an abbreviated form the edition or translation of similar texts, reference is made to the name of the publisher/translator, rather than that of the author.
For the citation of works of Greco-Roman antiquity, refer to the abbreviations contained in the dictionaries compiled by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott (A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford, 1996, http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu /lsj/05-general_abbreviations.html) and by Luigi Castiglioni and Scevola Mariotti (Il vocabolario della lingua latina. Turin, 1966 and subsequent editions), italicizing the abbreviation relating to the title of the work.
Examples:
Tuc., Hist., 7, 3, 18 [= book 7, chapter 3, paragraph 18]; Piccirilli 1985, 107
Verg., Aen., 1, v. 127 [= book 1, line 127]; Calzecchi Onesti, 20
Mk 1,17 [= the Gospel according to Mark, chapter 1, line 17]
For the items of dictionaries and encyclopedias, the surname of the author of the form and the date of publication are indicated. Example: Rossi 2004, 7. To which in the final bibliography will correspond:
Rossi, M. (2004). s.v. “Bianchi, Antonio”. Enciclopedia degli autori italiani. http://www.enciclopediaautoriintaliani.org/articles/antonio-bianchi.
For manuscripts, the conservation institution and the fund are indicated in abbreviated form. Page numbers are not preceded by abbreviations; the column ones are instead introduced by ‘col./coll.’ and the paper ones by ‘c./cc.’, which is the abbreviation to be adopted if the paper sheet is bound; ‘fol./foll.’ is the abbreviation to be preferred if the sheet is loose. In the latter two cases whether the number of paper or sheet refers to the front and/or the reverse is also indicated. The use of the abbreviation ‘ms’, where superfluous, is omitted. Example: ASV, ASC, numerazione rossa, pratica 614, b. 4235, fasc. 3, cc. 2r-v, 3v [numerazione moderna]; ASV, ASC, b. 4235, s.p. [ma 44].
Final bibliography
Abbreviations relating to bibliographic entries are listed after the text of the article. The items are listed in alphabetical order and, for the same author, from the oldest to the most recent. Each bibliographic entry reports, in the language of the cited publication:
- Extended surname of the author or editor. The author’s name must be pointed. Surname and Name must repeated at each occurrence.
- Year of publication in round brackets.
- Title and subtitle (separated by periods).
- Total number of volumes; number of the single volume and its title, if one in particular is mentioned.
- Publication data (place of publication: publisher), except for periodicals.
- Page numbers (for articles in journals and essays in miscellany).
- Series (optional).
- The additions to the data available within the publication are indicated in square brackets.
Examples
Bianchi, F. (2016). My Work. A Close Look. Edited by L. Rossi. Venice: Edizioni Aperte. Archives of Italian Literature 8.
Rossi, M.; Verdi, G. (2000). Our work. Venice: Edizioni Aperte.
Rossi, M. (2000). Our Work. Berlin; München; Oxford: Oxford University Press [multi-location publisher].
The Thousand and One Nights (1990). Novara: De Agostini [unknown author].
Translations
The work can be indexed by referring to the name of the Translator (especially in the case of classics) or, alternatively, to that of the Author, provided that the choice is consistent with the criteria adopted for the bibliographic abbreviations in the note.
Spencer, J. (transl.) (1974). Aeneid. London: Thames.
Rossi, M. (2010). My Work. Trad. By A. Bianchi. Venice: Edizioni Aperte. Trad. By: Mon oeuvre. Paris: Éditions Saint Michel, 2000.
Opera in multiple volumes and essay in opera in multiple volumes
Smith, P. (2016). Essays on Art. 3 vols. London: Thames.
Bianchi, A. (ed.) (2000-). Anthology of Mario Rossi's writings. Venice: Edizioni Aperte.
Lombardi, Massimo (2017). History of Publishing. Vol. 4, Digital Publishing. Venice: Edizioni Aperte.
Edited book
Bianchi, A. (a cura di) (2010). L’opera di Giotto. Venezia: Edizioni Aperte.
Blanche, A. (éd.) (2010). Commentaires. Paris: Gallimard.
Contribution in edited work
The title and subtitle of the contribution are shown in low brackets. After a point, the surname and name of the editor are indicated followed by '(edited by)' or similar expressions, and a comma; follows the title of the collection in italics.
Bianchi, F. (2016). «The Gothic. Myths.». Ricci, L. (ed.), The Gothic in the 19th Century. Venice: Edizioni Aperte, 87-121.
Online editions
For electronic publications, the DOI (to be preferred, if available) or the URL are used. The DOI codes, which can be deduced from the https://search.crossref.org site, are cited as: https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx.
Bianchi, F. (2016). My Work. Edited by L. Rossi. Venezia: Edizioni Aperte. http://www.edizioniaperte.it.
Smith, P. (2019). Bernini in France [PhD dissertation]. London: Thames. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx.
Black, J. (unpublished). “My Work”. Johnson, M. (ed.), Edited Works and Essays = Conference Proceedings (Milan, 22 September 2006).
Reviews
Smith, P. (2019). Review of My Work, by Black, J. Journal of Contemporary Art, 23(4), 24-7.
III. Captions
Follow these guidelines:
Figure 1 Author, Title. Year. Technique / support / material, dimensions [the unit of measurement is postponed and separated by a space]. Place, conservation institute, possible origin. Image / copyright source [without full stop]
IV. Figures
Send tiff files, in colour or in black and white, numbered in coherence with the captions, with a resolution of at least 300 ppi.
V. Checklist
Verify that the article:
- indicates the author's affiliation and email
- is accompanied by bibliography, abstracts (in English), five or more keywords (in English), captions with indication of credits, and images in digital format
- the file is made anonymous for the double-blind peer review.
For information and clarifications, please contact the Edizioni Ca’ Foscari editorial staff at ecf@unive.it.
