Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies style sheet

Font:

• Times New Roman, size 12. The text must be single-spaced and justified.

Quotations:

• If longer than 3 lines, open a new paragraph and use size 11. The new paragraph has to be indented.
• If shorter than 3 lines, quotations should be inserted in the body of the text and placed within inverted commas: “...”
• For quotes within quotes, use single quotes: “...‘...’...”
• If you quote from a text in another language and translate it yourself, please indicate that the translation is yours in brackets as in: (my translation).

Ellipses:

• Ellipses must be indicated by three dots […] in the middle of a sentence.
• Ellipses must be indicated by three dots […] at the end of a sentence.
• A suspension must be indicated by three dots: ...

Initials:

• E.M. Forster (with points and close up).

Abbreviations:

• No points (e.g.: Ms, Mr, Dr, UK, USA etc.).

Possessive

• Add an ’s to names ending in s: Burns’s works; Dickens’s novels.

Footnotes and References:

• References/Notes in the text should be indicated by superscript numbers cited in order throughout the article at the end of each page.
• Page abbreviations should be included:  p. 3; pp. 5-7.
• Date and page numbers should be indicated in full: 1997–1999; 233–235.

Punctuation:

• Always outside inverted commas in the middle of a sentence, e.g.: “the spectral quality”,
• At the end of a sentence the punctuation should precede the inverted commas, e.g.: “the spectral quality.”

Others:

• Ibid.; et al. — always in italics.
• Identical footnote as above — Ibid.
• Identical footnote but different page — Ibid., p. 77.
• Where only one work by the same author is quoted, having given the full reference, this would then be indicated by giving only the last name, e.g.: Gatti, p. 1.
• Where two or more works by the same author are quoted, having given the initial full reference, these would then be indicated by giving a half-title as follows: Gatti, The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge, p. 21.

Books:

• Name Surname, Title, City, Publisher, Year, p./pp., e.g.: Peter Lloyd, Perspectives and Identities: The Elizabethan Writer’s Search to Know His World, London, The Rubicon Press, 1989, p. 21.

Works in More than One Volume:

• Name Surname, Title, City, Publisher, Year, vol. …, p./pp. [or City, Year, … voll.], e.g.: Philip N. Furbank, E.M. Forster: A Life, London, Secker and Warburg, 1977-1978, vol. 1, p. 21.

Collections of Essays:

• Name Surname, “Title”, in Name Surname (ed.), Title, City, Publisher, Year, p./pp., e.g.: F.R. Leavis, “E.M. Forster”, in Malcolm Bradbury (ed.), A Collection of Critical Essays, New Jersey, Spectrum, 1966, p. 35. If more than one editor: (eds)
  
  

Conference Books:

• Name Surname, “Title”, in Name Surname (ed.) or (eds), Title, Conference Book of number and name of the conference (Conference City and Date), City, Publisher, Year, p./pp., e.g.: Tom Paulus, “Who’s Bazin? The Self-Taught Filmmaker and Global Cinema”, in Anna Bertolli, Andrea Mariani, Martina Panelli (eds), Il cinema si impara? Can We Learn Cinema?, Proceedings of XIX Convegno Internazionale di Studi sul Cinema/International Film Studies Conference (Udine/Gorizia, 20-22 March 2012), Udine, Forum, 2012, pp. 317-324.
  
  

Journals:

• When citing articles in journals, these should be presented as follows: Name Surname, "Title", Title of the Journal, number of the volume and/or of the issue, date of publication, p./pp., e.g.: G.B. Parks, "The First Italianate Englishmen", Studies in the Renaissance, 8, 1961, pp. 197-216.

Copious footnoting should be avoided.


Once articles have been submitted for publication, extensive changes will not be possible.


First Proofs and Final Proofs will be sent back to the author for correction.


28 December 2022