Submissions

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 short 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    addresses: 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.

 

Essays 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, line spacing 1.

 

 

Any subdivisions in paragraphs within the same contribution, must observe the following form: "1. title of paragraph" (the number only if the title is absent). 

 

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.

Books:

Butler, J. (2004), Undoing gender, Routledge, New York-London.

Heidegger, M. (1999), Ontologie. Hermeneutik der Faktizität, Gesamtausgabe, Band. 63, hrsg. von K. Bröcker-Oltmanns, Frankfurt a.M. 1988; trans. by J. van Buren, Ontology. The Hermeneutics of Facticity, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis.

Scholem, G. (1996), Zur Kabbala und ihrer Symbolyk, Rhein Verlag, Zürich 1960; trans. by R. Manheim, On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism, Schocken Books, New York.

 

Articles in Journals:

Jackson, A. (2002), "The World of Blind Mathematicians", Notices of the AMS, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 147-157.

Articles in volumes:

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

 

Other indications cannot be inserted:

b) in the notes at the bottom of the page, books and articles cited respectively should be shown in abbreviated form, giving only surname of the author, year of publication 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 homonyms, it is necessary to include also the initial of the authors.

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

Example

Baltrušaitis, J. (2007), p. 310 n.,

c) in the case where there are more works published in the same calendar year, by the same author, these works should be distinct in both footnotes and final bibliography, with the letters of the alphabet in lowercase.

Examples:

Behan (2000a), pp. 528-541.

Behan (2000b), pp. 132-145.

d) The authors have the right to use an abbreviation for the works cited which occur more frequently in their essay. These abbreviations should be in upper case italics and placed in the footnotes directly and without further specification, even when they appear for the first time.

Example:

PG, p. 37.

At the end of the essay, and before the bibliography, the author will indicate the bibliographic references of acronyms.

Examples:
ULB       K. Jaspers, "Über leibhaftige Bewußtheiten (Bewußtheitstäuschungen), ein psychopathologisches Elementarsymptom", in Gesammelte Schriften zur Psychopathologie, Springer, Berlin 1963, pp. 413-420.

AP        K. Jaspers, Allgemeine Psychopathologie. Ein Leitfaden für Ärzte und Studierende Psychologen, Springer, Berlin 1913, and IV. 1946.

PG           K. Jaspers, Allgemeine Psychopathologie. Ein Leitfaden für Ärzte und Studierende Psychologen, Springer, Berlin 1913, and IV. 1946; Psicopatologia generale, ed. and trans. by R. Priori, Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore, Roma, 1964.

e) When you quote the same work as the previous note, the indication “Ivi” is enough. In the case where the same page from the previous work is quoted, you should use "Ibidem".

 f) for the quotes from texts in the original language:

you should use low quotation marks (« »); if another quote appears within the text, you should use high quotation marks (“ ”); if citations occur within other citations, you should use the following quotation ‘marks’: (‘ ’).

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

 h) For the citation of slang expressions, or in the case in which the expression used has a metaphorical value, you should use exclusively high quotation marks (“ ”). 

i) Italics is reserved only for terms borrowed from a different language from that in which the essay was drawn up. Italics is reserved also in the case of titles of volumes, or parts of works, quoted in the body of the text.

 l) the citation of sources online should state the network reference.

Use of dashes

The use of two types of dashes is allowed:

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

medium (–) for clauses within other sentences.

Margins and paragraphs

Each paragraph must be indented by 0.5. The same indentation should be applied in footnotes, except for the case of the first line at the beginning of the article and after the citation separated by line spacing, and titles of paragraphs.

Images

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

Terms in different alphabets from that of Latin

All the terms belonging to different alphabets from that of Latin should be transliterated and in italics.

 

The note number must always precede all punctuation marks.

 

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

 

Italics should not be used for foreign words of current use, which should be written in roman and in the singular: film, leader.

 

The titles of books, conferences, lectures, articles, musical compositions, paintings, songs, poems, foreign terms and phrases that have not come into current use in Italian should be in italics.

 

For rarely used or untranslatable words, it is best to give the foreign word in italics followed by an explanation in square brackets. 

 

All abbreviations should be in capital letters without dots: DC, US, USSR, RAF, FBI.