Author Guidelines Rila, Sail, Beli

AUTHOR GUIDELINES RILA, SAIL, BELI

By sending a journal article, the author states that it has not been published in or submitted to other journals.

Linguistic correctness is responsibility of the author, no linguistic editing is provided by RILA.

Essays are submitted in .docx or .doc formats; a pdf copy is welcomed, to check layout in case of doubt. Unless specific problems arise, no proofreading by the author is required.

Tables, diagrams, pictures: please consider the width of the page: 11 centimetres; RILA does not use colours.

Articles should not exceed 35.000 characters, spaces included. If tables, pictures, diagrams are included, the number of characters must be proportionally reduced.

A 120-word long abstract in English is required.

Each essay is blind-refereed by 1 member of the scientific committee and, if accepted, by 2 more blind reviewers.

Essays are to be sent to ; ;

If authors cite their own work this should be anonymised for blind review purposes

Data

Mail and address of author

Title

Author and affiliation

No initial paragraph called ‘introduction’ o ‘preface’ etc.

Style:

a.  Foreign words in italics;

b.  commas: quotations “…….”; emphasising words: ‘…’; no « »;

c.  no bold in the text, only in the titles of the paragraphs

d.  spacing: 1; Layout: 0 and 0

e.  quotations: over 2-3 lines, separate it from the body with double spacing and reduce font

f.  footnotes should not be used for references, but only for additional information.

References

-  (Rossi 1998), (Rossi 1993; 1994), (Rossi 2006a; 2006b);

-  in case of quotations: (Rossi 1998: 134-135);

-  2 authors: (Rossi, Bianchi 1998); more than 2 authors: (Rossi et al. 1998).

Bibliography

Reference only to the works mentioned in the essay.

-  Volumes:

Rossi M., 2014, Title in italics, Town, Publisher. [Only commas; full stop at the end]

a.  3 or more authors: Rossi M. et al, 2014, ………..

b.  edited books: Rossi M. (ed. / eds), 2014, ………..

c.  use original title and date of the original publication, not titles and date of translations

-  Essays:

Rossi M., 2014, “Title. No italics”, in Bianchi G. (ed.), Title of the book, Town, Publisher.

Rossi M., 2014, , “Title. No italics”, in Journal in italics, no. 2. [No number of volume required, no pages required. If volume or pages are included, then they must be included in all entries].

Rossi M., 2014, “Title. No italics”, in Bianchi G. (ed.), Title of the book, Town, Publisher. Open access: www.paolobalboni.info retrieved on march 25th, 2017.