Authors Guidelines
MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING AND SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Preparation of Manuscripts
Files saved in .rtf (Microsoft Word) format should be sent to the following address: italica@uwr.edu.pl
Authors are asked to check whether the text meets the following criteria.
Texts that do not comply with the editorial requirements may be rejected.
Language of the article: Italian
Article length: between 25 000 and 40 000 characters, counted with spaces (with footnotes, abstract, bibliography and keywords)
Format: Times New Roman, 12 font; standard page layout: 2.5 margins, 1.5 line spacing, 0.75 paragraph indentation.
Footnotes and longer quotations: Times New Roman, 10 font.
Information on sources of funding for publications (e.g. grant number and name of awarding body) is required as well as information on contributions from research institutions (unambiguous affiliation).
In order to avoid ghostwriting and guest authorship, authors of multi-copyright texts are asked to indicate the contribution of individual authors to the creation of the publication (including names, surnames and affiliations and the authorship of the concepts, assumptions and methods used to prepare the publication); the responsibility for placing information about the entities that contributed to the creation of the work lies with the author submitting the manuscript, and in the case of a collective application – the author listed first.
Manuscript Structure
Article
- Author’s name
- Author’s affiliation
- Author’s business e-mail address
- Author’s ORCID ID
- Title of the article
- Title of the article in English
- Abstract in English (250-300 words and containing information on objective, method, results and conclusions)
- Keywords in English (5)
- Text
- List of bibliographic abbreviations used (if applicable)
- Bibliography
- Abstract in Italian (250-300 words and containing information on the purpose, method, results and conclusions)
- Key words in Italian (5)
- List of all the materials included in text (photographs, pictures, tables) with their titles and sources (if applicable)
- Note on the Author in Italian (approx. 10 lines)
- Correspondence address and telephone number of the Author (for the Editor’s information).
Review
- Author’s name
- Author’s affiliation
- Author’s business e-mail address
- Author’s ORCID ID
- Title of the review
- Bibliographical address of the reviewed item
- Text
- Bibliography
- Note on the Author in Italian (approx. 10 lines)
- Correspondence address and telephone number of the Author (for the Editor’s information).
Further indications
– The text of the article or review, the abstracts, the titles and the note about the Author should be checked by native speakers.
– The review should include a critical analysis and evaluation of the book against the background of the state of research. We do not accept reviews of a purely descriptive nature. We are happy to publish discussion reviews.
– Length of the book reviews: 10 000 – 15 000 characters with spaces.
Bibliographic entries
Taking into account good editorial practices and international editorial standards, we ask the Authors to make bibliographic entries in accordance with the requirements of the APA6. Detailed information on the APA editorial standard is available at the following address: https://kildekompasset.no/en/referencing-styles/apa-6th/
