Norme redazionali

 

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

TEXT FORMAT

Manuscripts must be submitted in Times New Roman, 14-point font.

LENGTH OF CONTRIBUTIONS

The recommended length of submissions varies according to the journal section:

  • Focus On: 40,000–50,000 characters (including spaces and footnotes);

  • Articles: 15,000–20,000 characters (including spaces and footnotes);

  • Conversations: 20,000–30,000 characters (including spaces and footnotes);

  • Critical Readings: 5,000–8,000 characters (including spaces and footnotes);

  • Reviews: 2,000–3,000 characters (including spaces).

Each standard page should contain approximately thirty lines, corresponding to around 2,000 characters.

TITLE

The title may include a subtitle, but should remain concise and clearly reflect the content of the contribution.

QUOTATIONS

  • Quotations longer than three (3) lines must be presented as a separate indented paragraph, in 12-point font, with left and right margins indented by 1 cm.

  • Quotations of three (3) lines or fewer should be incorporated into the text and enclosed in quotation marks. Omissions within quotations should be indicated by [...].

EDITORIAL STYLE

  • Titles of books, films, artworks, theatrical works, and similar works should be italicised.

  • Film titles should be cited using the official English title whenever available. At the first occurrence, include in parentheses the original title (if different), the director's surname (unless already mentioned in the text), and the year of release. Example: Near Dark (Bigelow, 1987).

  • Italics should also be used for foreign words and for occasional emphasis.

  • Ellipses consist of three dots (...).

  • Epigraphs should be set in italics, while the cited author's full name should appear in roman type.

  • Section headings may be used but should not be numbered.

  • Titles of poems, chapters, and sections should appear in quotation marks.

  • Decades and centuries should be capitalised where appropriate (e.g. the Forties, the Twentieth Century).

  • Pages must be numbered.

FOOTNOTES

  • Footnotes must appear at the bottom of the page, not at the end of the document.

  • They should be set in 10-point font and numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript.

  • Footnote reference numbers should appear as superscripts and be placed within the punctuation.

REFERENCES

Whenever available, works should be cited using the published English edition. If no English translation exists, the original edition should be cited.

Examples:

Books

W. Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA), 2008.

L. Quaresima, L. Vichi (eds.), La decima musa. Il cinema e le altre arti, Forum, Udine, 2001.

Special Issues

T. Gunning (ed.), Persistence of Vision, in Early Cinema, no. 9 (1991).

Journal Articles

L. Picco, "I criminali della cinematografia", Cine-Fono RFC, no. 93 (1910), pp. 8–9.

Book Chapters

B. Ejchenbaum, "The Problems of Cinematic Style", in G. Kraiski (ed.), The Russian Formalists in Cinema, Garzanti, Milan, 1971, p. 21.

R. Barthes, "The Photographic Message", in Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Hill and Wang, New York, 1981, pp. 138–151.

Online Resources

A. Danks, "Crossing Over, or 'It's a Long Way to Lordsburg'", Senses of Cinema, available at: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/04/33/comanche_station.htm

Subsequent references to the same work should use a shortened citation, for example:

L. Picco, I criminali della cinematografia, p. 8.

Successive references may use the standard scholarly abbreviations Ibid. (same work, same page) or Ibid., p. 9 (same work, different page), as appropriate.

When referring to a page and the following pages, use pp. 12 ff.

For quotations cited in footnotes:

"...", W. Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA), 2008, p. 5.