Guidelines for submissions

Please find some indications regarding the layout of your article, bibliographic references and footnotes..

WHAT SHOULD BE SUBMITTED:

  • the electronic version of your article, which should be submitted in Word for Windows format; in case you are using different programs, please send us your file as RTF and let us know which programs you have used;
  • the file should include an abstract in the language of the article, together with 3-5 keywords in English;
  • if the article contains tables, graphs or images, these should be inserted in the file, in the position where they are supposed to appear;
  • on a separate file, one abstract in English (max. 500 characters, including spaces).

GENERAL NORMS
Please DO NOT underline text nor use bold face; italics should be used for any foreign words in the text. Use single quotes to place emphasis on words or concepts, and quotes for direct quotations (see below).

FOOTNOTES
Notes should be added as footnotes, using Word standard formatting. The superscript number should be inserted in the text immediately after the word it refers to (without spaces) and before any punctuation marks.

Important: the only punctuation marks that are allowed before a superscript number referring to a footnote are the exclamation mark, the question mark and the suspension points.

DIRECT QUOTATIONS
Direct quotations can be incorporated in the text (in which case they should be enclosed with double quotation marks); if they are longer than three lines, they should appear as a free-standing indented “block quotation”, separated from the text by a space before and after the quotation, in a smaller font and with no quotation marks.

REFERENCES
Bibliographic references must appear only in the footnotes.

First citation
The author must be referred to by the initial of the name and the full surname; if the author has more than one name, the initials should follow one another without any spaces in between; the indication of the author ends with a comma. The author is followed by the title, written in italics and followed by a comma. Author and title must always be followed by the publisher’s name followed by a comma, the place of publication immediately followed – with no comma – by the year of publication, a comma, and, if needed, the indication of the page(s). Examples:

H. Weinrich, Tempus. Le funzioni del tempo nel testo, Il Mulino, Bologna 1974, p. 298 / pp. 303-307.

With two authors:
D.H. Sperber – D. Wilson, Relevance, Blackwell, Oxford 1986.

In case of more than one publisher, or more than one place of publication, they must be separated by a slash and no spaces:

J.Ladrière, Les limitations internes des formalisms, E. Nauwelaerts/Gauthier- Villars, Louvain/Paris 1957.            (two publishers: E. Nauwelaerts e Gauthier-Villars; two places of publication: Louvain e Paris)

ESSAY IN A BOOK
As far as the book is concerned, the name(s) of the curator(s) must be reported after the title of the book, with the initial of the name(s), and the surname(s) followed by “ed.”, meaning both “edidit” and “ediderunt”:

A. Delta, Note  sull’alfabeto  glagolitico  quadrato,  in  Sistemi  di  scrittura  a confronto, F. Verdi – G. Negri ed., Vita e Pensiero, Milano 1980, pp. 345-354.

If  the  names  of  the  curators  are  missing,  the  title  can  be  preceded  by  the abbreviation “Aa.Vv.” If the book is part of a series, the name of the series must be referred to after the date of publication: the title of the series will appear in brackets, followed by a comma and by the number of the book within the series:

G. Berruto, Definizioni del morfema, in Linguistica italiana d’oggi, A. Sobrero ed., Bulzoni, Roma 1990    (Società di Linguistica Italiana, 20), pp. 34-45.

ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL
The name of the journal must be enclosed with double quotes; it must be followed by the volume number, the year of publication and the number of pages. If the issues are also numbered, they should be indicated after the year of publication:

R.S. Wells, Immediate constituents, “Language”, 23, 1947, pp. 81-117.
X. Pallino, La citazione di una citazione, “Il piccolo bibliotecario”, 151, 1993, 4, pp. 11-15.

Note however that the issue number is optional, while the volume number is obligatory.

Subsequent citations
Immediately after the first citation (with no other citations in between): Ibidem (also shortened as Ibid. if followed by the page number).
Referred to after other works have been cited, the title will be reported in a shortened form:

H. Weinrich, Tempus., p. 96.

When citing subsequently (with no other citations in between) different works of the same author, starting from the second one, instead of repeating the name of the author it is possible to use: “Id./Ead.”

Other indications
If the work is in press, instead of the year of publication write in brackets, depending on the language used: (in corso di stampa), (in press), (sous press), etc. Before the open bracket of the indication “(in press)” NO COMMA is required.

An edition following the first will be indicated by a superscript number following the year of publication:

1. Laterza, Roma/Bari 19932.
2. year of publication: Laterza, Roma/Bari

If the name of the publisher is missing, write: s.e. If the place of publication is missing, write: s.l. If the date of publication is missing, write: s.d.

References to websites
Indicate the complte URL, followed by the date of last consultation, as inidcated in the following examples:

1)  ultima consultazione 12 ottobre 2014

2)  last accessed October 12, 2014

3)  dernière consultation le 12 octobre 2014

4)  letzter Zugriff 12. Oktober 2014

 

To ensure that only good science is published and in line with all reputable scientific journals, L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria adopts the method of double-blind peer review. All incoming manuscripts are peer reviewed following the procedure outlined below.

  1. The Editorial Board first evaluates all submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts rejected at this stage are not sufficiently original, have serious scientific drawbacks, use a very bad grammar or vocabulary, or fall outside the aims and scope of the journal. Those that meet the minimum criteria for admission are passed on to at least two expert referees.
  2. The Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria employs double-blind reviewing, in which the referees remain anonymous to the authors and vice-versa.
  3. Referees are chosen according to their expertise in relation to the topic of the article they are asked to review.
  4. Referees are asked to report on: originality of the articles; clarity and soundness of the methodology employed; relevance of results; clear and correct references to previous works; any ethical issues. It is not the referees’ task to revise grammar and vocabulary, but they may report on linguistic inaccuracies and suggest further revisions.
  5. Acceptance or rejection of the articles will be notified to the authors along with the referees’ reports.

Timing

Considering a period from 6 to 8 months for publication (from peer-review  to proof reading), a possible timing for submissions might be the following:

Issue Deadline for submissions
1 (Spring) July of the previous year
2 (Summer) November of the previous year
3 (Fall) March of the year in course

For example: in order to publish an article in the issue 2019/1, the suggested deadline would be July 2018.