Author Guidelines

La camera blu

Editorial standards

Abstract/ keywords/ author profile/ referees

Abstract: max 600 characters including spaces for the sections: Highlighter, Points ov view,  Reviews.     

Abstract: max 1200 characters including spaces for the sections: The Topic, Materials, Feminisms, Research Workshop, Gender and training.

No abstract  for  Notes.

Keywords: 3-5

Author Profile: max 400 characters, including spaces.

 Double blind Peer review: ‘La Camera Blu’ has adopted the double-blind peer review process, where both reviewers and authors remain anonymous throughout the review, for the sections: 'Topic', 'Research Workshop', 'Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms', 'Gender and Education'. Reviewers are chosen from among selected international experts.

For the other sections, Editors alone control the quality of submitted papers and they decide which of them are to publish.

Characters

Types: 55.000

Article Text: Times New Roman 12 point, 1,5 spacing .

Long citations in the text: Times New Roman 11 point without quotation marks, separated from the text by a blank line above and one below. Deletion text within a quotation: dots between square brackets [...]. Not necessary at the start or end quote, if it has a complete meaning or in the case of poetry.

Note: Times New Roman 10 point

Article title: Times New Roman 14 point Italics

Author: Times New Roman 14 point

Paragraphs titles: Times New Roman 12 point Italics

Subsections titles: Times New Roman 10 point Italics

Sub-subsections titles: Times New Roman 10 point

Indents paragraph in the article: 4 characters

Multiple line spacing (value 3) before the title of the paragraphs, (value 2.5) after the title of the paragraphs, (value of 2, 5) before the title of the subsections and (value 2) after the title of the subsections, value (2) before the title of sub-subsections and (value 1.5) after the title of the sub-subsections.

Dates and numbers

- Years: the 90s (the decade), 1990 (single year).

- Centuries in Roman numerals (upper case): XXI sec. b. C., , or in letters: nineteenth century, twentieth century.

- Month of the year in lowercase and dates in full: April 15, 1996, Monday, May 2, 1873.

- Years of particular relevance: '68, '48, '17.

- Numbers: thousands in numbers with the point: 10,000.

Italics

It is used for foreign words only if they are in common use. Only in this case the plural follows the rules of a foreign language (commodities, but the leaders, elites ...).

Use italics in the titles of books, films, articles, chapters and sections of books, music, exhibitions, conferences, plays, and works of art.

Quotation Marks

Newspapers, magazines and periodicals in general should be in quotation marks

The Italian and foreign associations/groups/collectives are written without quotes. So institutions, political parties, associations, institutions (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History, Ministry of Education, the Democratic Party).

- Centuries (sixteenth, nineteenth century ...).

Upper case/Lower case

- Parties and political forces: the Labour Party

- Historical partitions: Reformation, Counter-Resistance.

- Cardinal points when they indicate geographical locations (North, North-East, Northern Europe, Northern Europe, ...), and therefore also the South, the West and theMiddle East.

- Institutions: State, Church, Ministry, Constituent Assembly, University of Pisa, but (if understood in a general sense): "I enrolled at the university", City, Province, Region if intended as institutional.

- Religious holidays: Easter, Christmas, Good Friday, Palm Sunday, New Year's Eve.

- Navy, Air Force, Armed Forces, Arma dei Carabinieri, but "he was arrested by the police."

- Artistic or literary movements (Mannerism, Classicism, Romanticism ...), but not the current science (Darwinism, mesmerism ...).

- Scientific, philosophical and political currents: communism, darwinism, feminism, idealism, fascism, nazism.

- Public offices and institutions: kings,, pope (and all religious figures, including the saints: bishop, cardinal, imam, rabbi, St. Francis ...), president, minister, mayor, prefect,

- Names of Peoples, Nationalities (Italian, Spanish ...).

- Religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Christians, Jews, Muslims ...), seven (Catharism Cathars ...), religious orders (Benedictines, Cistercians, Franciscans ...), but Islam if understood in a political-geographical sense.

- Legal terminology: law, order, code, bill, decree, law Basaglia, Law 194, Law of Guarantees.

- Currencies: EUR, USD.

 References

References should be included at the end of article, with  full information on the texts, as in the following examples. Citations in the text include author name, year and, eventually, page number in parentheses, (Rossi, 1950) (Rossi & Bianchi, 1999) (Smith 2011, p.21).

References must specifically contain only the authors explicitly mentioned in the text. Author’s  first name must be entered in full after the surname.

Articles in journal:

Fryer, David (2008). Power from the people? Critical reflection on a conceptualization of power. Journal of Community Psychology, 36 (2), 238-245.

Di Cagno, Livia, & Massaglia, Pia (1990). Il rischio di sviluppo atipico nei bambini affetti da malattia cronica ad esordio precoce. Psichiatria dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza, 57, 35-46.

Essays in the volume edited by:

Foucault, Michel (1982). The Subject and Power. In Herbert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow (Eds.), Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (pp.221-239). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

 Volume:

Bordoni, Carlo (2007). Società digitali. Napoli: Liguori.

Other standards

In the footnotes the final full stop should be added.

If it was necessary to insert a parenthesis between the parentheses, the round is inserted inside the square.

Hyphens are of two sizes: short (-), which is used to indicate a compound of two words: anatomo-biological, socio-cultural, etc.., To separate two digits: 15-20 people, to indicate a period of time: December 15 to 20.

The average short hyphen is used to isolate a sentence incidental, instead of commas. It is always preceded and followed by a space.

Main abbreviations

AA. VV.    by various authors

ca.              circa

cap./capp.   chapter /s

cfr.             compares

cit.             cited

Ead.           the same female author remembered immediately before

etc.           etc.

ed.         (in English texts, edited by)

eg.        (for example)

ibid.     there the same

Id.    the same male author mentioned immediately before

infra          see below

n. /Nn.        (number / s)

note / notes

p. / pp.      page / s

passim   here and there (when it does not refer to a specific page, because the concept is treated by the author in the whole work)

s. / ss.      following / s

supra    see above

t. / Tt.    (tomo / s)

trad.    translation

st.    see

vol. / vol.   volume / s