Editorial rules

EDITORIAL RULES

Since its very beginning Ecdotica, intending to favour different philological sensibilities and methods, enables authors to choose between different referencing styles, the Italian and ‘Harvard’ ones. However, it is fundamental to coherence when choosing one of them.

All the papers must be delivered with the formatting to a minimum (no paragraph indent is permitted), typed in Times New Roman 12 point, single-spaces. All the quotes exceeding 3 lines must be in font size 10, single spaces, separated with a blank space from the text (no paragraph indent). Each footnote number has to be put after the punctuation. All the footnotes will be collocated at the bottom of the page instead of at the end of the article.

All the quotes lesser than 3 lines must be collocated in the body text between quotation marks «...». If there is a quote inside a quote, it has to be written between double quotes “…”. The latter or single quotation marks ('...') may be used for words or sentences to be highlighted, emphatic expressions, paraphrases, and translations. Please keep formatting such as italics to a minimum (to be used just for work and journal titles, e.g. Contemporary German editorial theory, A companion to Digital Humanities, and for foreign words. 

N.B.: For all the sections named Saggi, Foro and Questioni, the authors are required, at the beginning of the article, to put the paper’s title, an abstract, and 5 keywords, and, at the end of the article, institutional mail address and academic membership.

For the section named Rassegne: reviews should begin with the reviewed volume’s bibliographic information organized by:

Author (last name in small caps), first name. Date. Title (in italics). Place of publication: publisher. ISBN 13. # of pages (and, where appropriate, illustrations/figures/musical examples). Hardcover or softcover. Price (preferably in dollars and/or euros).

In case the author(s) chooses the Italian quoting system, he/she has to respect the following rules.

The bibliographic quotation of a book or of an essay in a book must be composed by:

• Author in Roman type, with the name initial;
• The volume’s title in Italics type; the paper’s title between quotation marks «…» followed by “in” and the title of the volume (if the title contains another title inside, it must be in Italics);
• The number of the volume, if any, in Roman numbers;
• The name of the editor must be indicated with the name initial and full surname, in Roman type, preceded by ‘edited by’;
• Place of publishing, name of publisher, year;
• Number of pages in Arab or Roman number preceded by ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’, in Roman type. If there is a particular page range to be referred to, it must be indicated as following pp-12-34: 13-15.

If the quotes are repeated after the first time, please indicate just the surname of the author, a short title of the work after a comma, the number of the pages (no “cit.”, “op. cit.”, “ed. cit.” etc.).

Use ‘ivi’ (Roman type) when citing the same work as previously, but changing the range of pages; use ibidem (Italics), in full, when citing the same quotation shortly after.

Examples:

A. Montevecchi, Gli uomini e i tempi. Studi da Machiavelli a Malvezzi, Bologna, Pàtron, 2016.

A. Benassi, «La teoria e la prassi dell’emblema e dell’impresa», in Letteratura e arti visive nel Rinascimento, a cura di G. Genovese, A. Torre, Roma, Carocci, 2019.

S. Petrelli, La stampa in Occidente. Analisi critica, ivi, Berlino-New York, de Gruyter, 20005, pp. 23-28.

Petrelli, La stampa in Occidente, pp. 25-26.

Ivi, p. 25.

Ibidem

The bibliographic quotation of an article published in a journal or book must be composed by  

• Author in Roman type, with the name initial;
•  The article’s title in Roman type between quotation marks «…» (if the title contains another title inside, it must be in Italics);
• The title of the journal or the book in Italics type;
• The number of the volume, if any, in Roman numbers;
• The year of the journal in Roman number;
• Issue number (if any), in Arabic numbers;
•  Year of publication in Arabic number between brackets;
• Number of pages in Arab or Roman number preceded by ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’, in Roman type. If there is a particular page range to be referred to, it must be indicated as following pp-12-34: 13-15.

Examples:

C. De Cesare, «Una corrispondenza corale. Alcune integrazioni al corpus epistolare ariostesco a partire del carteggio del suo luogotenente», Bollettino di italianistica, n.s., a. xix, 2 (2022), pp. 121-134.

M. Petoletti, «Poesia epigrafica pavese di età longobarda: le iscrizioni sui monumenti», Italia medioevale e umanistica, LX (2019), pp. 1-32. 

When authors, editors, prefaces, translators, etc., are more than one, they should be separated by a comma (e.g. G. M. Anselmi, L. Chines, C. Varotti) and not by a hyphen. Page and year numbers should be written in full (e.g. pp. 112-146, not 112-46; 113-118, not 113-8; 1953-1964, not 1953-964 or 1953-64 or 1953-4). Internet sites should be cited in lowercase without quotation marks (« » or < >) if specifying the full web address (e.g. www.griseldaonline.it). If only the name is provided, it should be italicized without quotation marks like a title of a work (e.g. Griseldaonline). 

If necessary to use the term "Idem" to indicate an author, write it out in full. 

Paragraph indentation should be done with a TAB; no indentation should be made in the initial paragraph of the contribution.

In case the Anglo-Saxon citation criteria are chosen, it is possible to make footnotes more concise with only the author's surname in round brackets, date, and possibly the page number from which the citation is taken, without specifying the volume or periodical reference. Similarly, the source can be directly inserted into the body of the contribution. However, the final bibliography, to be positioned necessarily at the end of each contribution, must be compiled in full; for its criteria, reference is made to the instructions provided for the Italian citation system.

Examples:

• In the body of the text or in a note, valid for each following example: (Craig 2004)

In the final bibliography: Craig 2004: H. Craig, «Stylistic analysis and authorship studies», in A companion to Digital Humanities, edited by S. Schreibman, R. Siemens, J. Unsworth, Blackwell, Oxford 2004

• Adams, Barker 1993: T.R. Adams, N. Barker, «A new model for the study of the book», in A potencie of life. Books in society: The Clark lectures 1986-1987, London, British Library, 1993.
• Avellini et al. 2009: Prospettive degli Studi culturali, edited by L. Avellini et al., Bologna, I Libri di Emil, 2009, pp. 190-19.
• Carriero et al 2020: V. A. Carriero, M. Daquino, A. Gangemi, A. G. Nuzzolese, S. Peroni, V. Presutti, F. Tomasi, «The Landscape of Ontology Reuse Approaches», in Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning, Amsterdam, IOS Press, 2020, pp. 21-38.

If referring to a specific citation from a work, it is necessary to include the page number:

• (Eggert 1990, pp. 19-40) (in the text or in a note)

In the final bibliography: Eggert 1990: Eggert P., «Textual product or textual process: procedures and assumptions of critical editing», in Editing in Australia, Sydney, University of New South Wales Press 1990, pp. 19-40.

In case of homonymy in reference to a text or in a note, specify the initial of the author's name.

PEER REVIEW

All contributions to the journal undergo a double-blind peer review process, whereby they are examined and evaluated by anonymous reviewers, as is the author of the essay under analysis, to ensure clarity and coherence in the final outcome.