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Author Guidelines

Editorial Standards for authors

Authors who intend to submit a contribution for publication in Bollettino Filosofico must comply with the following editorial standards:

1.The amplitude of the contribution

Articles should not exceed 60,000 characters, including spaces, including bibliographical notes. In addition, each contribution should be accompanied by a brief abstract in English , which does not exceed 900 characters, together with five Keywords. Are accepted and published contributions in one of the following languages: italian, french, english, spanish, german.

The texts must be sent in Word and PDF format at the following    address:bollettinofilosofico@gmail.com; pio.colonnello@unical.it accompanied by a separate file containing the personal data of the authors, for the purposes of peer review.

Contributions should be drawn up in the following form: Word for Windows document with the extension " .doc". Font: Bookman Old Style 11 (for the text) and 9 (for footnotes), standard page, typed 1.

Any subdivisions in paragraphs within the same contribution, must observe the following form: "1 title of paragraph" (or simply the number in the event of loss of the title). 

2. The bibliographical indications  

Bibliographic information should be given only within the final bibliography.

a) The final bibliography should be compiled, in alphabetical order, by following the here mentioned examples.

Articles in journal:

Jackson, A. (2002), "The World of Blind Mathematicians", Notices of the AMS, vol. 49, n. 10, pp. 147-157.

Articles in volume:

von Foerster, H. (2006), Building a reality, in Watzlawick, P. (ed.), The invented reality. Controntribution to Constructivism, Feltrinelli, Milano, pp. 37-56.

Cannot be  inserted other indications.

b) in the notes at the bottom of the page, the books and articles cited respectively should be shown in abbreviated form, returning only the surname of the author, year of publication (the first edition in the original language) and any pages of the edition used.

Examples:

Behan (2000), pp. 528-541.
Descartes, R. (2003), p. 72.
Gaukroger, Schuster, Sutton (2000).

In the case of homonymous, it will be necessary to include also the initial of the authors.

In the case of a citation of a note, it should be used the indication "n. ":

Example

Baltrušaitis, J. (2007), p. 310 n.,

c) in the case where are mentioned, by the same author, more works published in the same calendar year, they will be distinct in both footnotes and bibliography in final.with the letters of the alphabet in tiny round.

Examples:

Behan (2000a), pp. 528-541.
Behan (2000b), pp. 132-145.

d) The authors have the right to use a legend to the works cited, which occur more frequently in their contribution. The marks, upper case italics, are used in the notes directly and without further specification, even when they appear for the first time

Example:

PG, p. 37.

At the end of the contribution, and before the bibliography, the author will indicate the bibliographic references of acronyms.
Examples:
ULB       K. Jaspers, "Uber leibhaftige Bewußtheiten (Bewußtheitstäuschungen), ein psychopathologisches Elementarsymptom", in Gesammelte Schriften zur Psychopathologie, Springer, Berlin 1963, pp. 413-420;
SP        K. Jaspers, The coscienzialità bodily, in psychopathological Writings, edited by S. and A. Achella Donise, Guide, Naples 2004, pp. 51-63;
AP        K. Jaspers, Allgemeine Psychopathologie. Ein Leitfaden für Ärzte und Studierende Psychologe, Springer, Berlin 1913, and IV. 1946;
PG              K. Jaspers, General Psychopathology, edited by R. Priori, Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore, Rome, 1964;

e) When you quote below the work of the previous note, it is enough the indication "therein" ( "there" if it is not placed at the beginning note), in the case where citi a different page from the previous, or "Ibid." ("ibid." if it is not placed at the beginning note), in the case where citi is the same page of the previous note.

 f) for the quotes from texts in original:

must use quotes to Corporal (« »); if, within the text citation will appear another, you use the quotes to quote (""); between quotes to single quotes ('') only citations contained within other quotations.

g) The quotes from  texts in original that exceed the four rows must be separated from the text, leaving a single spacing before and after, with margins 0.5 to the right and left. The body of citations separated must be 10.5 pt.

h) For the citation of slang or  in the case in which the expression used has a value metaphorical use exclusively the quotes as the apex (" " ). 

i) The italics is reserved only for terms borrowed from a different language from that  in which it was drawn up the contribution and the titles of volumes or parts of works cited in the body of the text.

l) the citation of sources online must state the reference in the network.

3. Use of dashes

It’s allowed the use of two types of dashes:

short (-), for compound words, double words, for the listing and indicate "from-to" (e.g. :  2-24).

medium (-), for the engraved.

4. Margins and paragraphs

Each paragraph must have a return of 0.5 . The same return must be applied in footnotes, except in the fall of first line at the beginning of the article and after the citation separated by line feed, and titles of paragraphs.

5. Images

The possible inclusion of images must take account of certain criteria charts. The image must be provided in JPEG or TIFF format, with a resolution of 600 dpi, chromatic selection grayscale.

6. Terms in different alphabets latin one

All of the terms belonging to different alphabets latin one should be transliterated and in italics.

All terms belonging to different alphabets from the Latin alphabet must be translittered and returned in italics.

The note exponent must always precede any punctuation mark (eg name1.).

In the case of citation of poetic verse, it is advisable to leave a space before and after the oblique bar / separating the verses.

They emphasize titles of books, conferences, articles, music compositions, paintings, songs, poems, cyclostilates, foreign terms and phrases that have not been used in Italian.

They do not go in italics to use foreign words of current use, which will be round and singular: films, leaders.

For unused or unreadable words it is good to give the foreign word in italics followed by an explanation in square brackets.

All abbreviations must be in capital letters: DC, US, USSR, RAF, FBI.

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