ANIMAL Studies
Editorial Guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Any author wishing to submit an article to the journal is invited to take into account the following general guidelines:
a) each article should contain a “key point” highlighting its relevance, and the author should explicitly discuss it from the very beginning of the text;
b) particular care should be devoted to writing style, clarity of exposition, coherence, and simplicity of argumentative structure, favoring the discussion of a single thesis rather than the development of multiple lines of argument.
Papers presented at conferences or seminars may be submitted to the journal, provided they are appropriately revised and the original occasion is specified. If published, literary ownership belongs to the journal.
Editorial Standards
In order to ensure reasonable uniformity among articles, authors are asked to carefully follow the editorial standards below:
1. In the case of a book review, the title must be in Times New Roman (or Times family font), following this format:
author’s first and last name, ‘title of the work,’ publisher (series), city
year; pages, price. | including punctuation and formatting;
For example: Charles Darwin, ‘On the Origin of Species,’ Newton Compton (Grandi Tascabili Economici), Rome 2010; pp. 448, 7 euros.
2. The main text must be in Times New Roman (or Times family font), 12-point size, double-spaced;
3. Section titles must be in regular font (not bold), always 12-point, separated from the preceding and following paragraph by double spacing;
For example:
Title
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum congue commodo nulla eu
vehicula. Phasellus faucibus tempus felis, in sollicitudin quam posuere eu. In feugiat, metus vitae
suscipit egestas, lectus velit congue dolor, vel ultrices nisl felis vel metus. Integer sapien felis,
adipiscing id eleifend vel, imperdiet sit amet nulla. Aliquam ac lacus eget enim egestas tincidunt.
4. Paragraphs must be separated from their respective titles by one blank line;
5. Section titles and, where applicable, subsections must be formatted as follows:
1. Title
1.1 Subtitle
1.1.1 Sub-subtitle
6. For references to works within the text, authors are required to use the American notation Author [year] or more specifically Author [year; page/s];
For example:
As Darwin argues [1854], the comparison between fossils…
or
As Darwin argues [1854; p. 15], the comparison between fossils…
7. Footnotes must appear at the bottom of the page and be kept to a minimum (their use is discouraged);
8. End-of-sentence notes, at the end of a sentence, clause, or quotation, must be placed after the closing element, usually indicated by punctuation or quotation marks.
For example:
…tempus leo at vestibulum. Nam laoreet elit in eros varius blandit.1
or
…tempus leo at vestibulum. Nam laoreet elit in eros varius blandit».1
9.a Books. Author (Year), Title, Publisher, City.
If an Italian translation is available:
Author (Year), Title, Publisher, City. Italian trans. by Translator (Year), Italian Title, Publisher, City.
For example:
Rose S. P. R. (1988), Lifelines: Biology Beyond Determinism, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Italian trans. by L. Comoglio (2001), Linee di vita. La biologia oltre il determinismo, Garzanti, Milan.
If there are multiple authors, separate each name with a comma.
For example:
Camazine S., Deneubourg J., Franks N. R., Sneyd J. (2001), Self-Organization in Biological Systems, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
If the translation and the introduction were prepared by different authors, the citation must include the translation details and the editor’s initial (abbreviated first name) and full surname.
For example:
Davidson D. (1980), Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Italian trans. by R. Brigati (1992), Azioni ed eventi, edited by E. Picardi, Il Mulino, Bologna.
9.b Chapters in edited volumes.
Author (Year), “Title,” in Author (Year), Title, Publisher, City, pages.
For example:
Hull D. L. (1982), “Philosophy and Biology,” in Fløistad G. (ed.), Contemporary Philosophy, A New Survey, vol. 2: Philosophy of Science, pp. 280–316.
9.c Articles.
Author (Year), “Title,” Journal, issue, pages.
For example:
Lakoff G., Johnson M. (1980), “Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language,” Journal of Philosophy, 77(8), pp. 453–86.
9.d Unpublished works.
Author (Year), “Title,” manuscript or typescript.
9.e Online texts.
Author (Year), “Title,” internet address, (date of access).
10. Regarding quotations, passages not exceeding three lines should be enclosed in French quotation marks (« ») and follow the procedure for end-of-sentence notes (see point 8). Quotations longer than three lines must appear in a separate paragraph, 11-point font, without quotation marks, 1.5 line spacing, separated by 6 points from the preceding and following paragraphs, and indented 1 cm on both the right and left.
• Omissions must be indicated by […].
• Single quotation marks (‘ ’) should be used to enclose words or portions of text quoted within a cited passage, or when reported generically.
• Double quotation marks (“ ”) must be used to indicate the improper or non-standard use of a term, when necessary to clarify a concept.
• Italics should be used to emphasize a word or expression to which the author intends to assign particular (possibly technical) meaning. Italics must also be used for foreign words (unless they have entered common usage, e.g., “computer”). In the case of a long passage in a language other than Italian within which certain words are to be emphasized, those words should appear in regular font. Any modification made by the author to a quoted text must be specified in a note. Example: “italics added”; “underlining added,” etc.
11. The hyphen (-) must be used only to join two words (e.g., “logical-philosophical,” without spaces); the en dash (–, preceded and followed by a space) must be used to separate clauses in a parenthetical or interruptive function.
12. References to figures in the text and in notes must appear in abbreviated form as [Fig. 1]. Any iconographic material must be free of copyright restrictions.
13. Formulas. For documents produced with word processors such as MS Word or OpenOffice, authors may use the built-in symbols or dedicated software such as MathType.
14. Files and extensions. The file containing the review must be produced using Office, OpenOffice, or LaTeX software. For documents produced with MS Word or OpenOffice, the file must have the .rtf extension. For documents containing many special fonts (special alphabets, formulas, etc.), a copy in PDF format is also required.
15. The use of examples should, where possible, be introduced by the formula “for example,” avoiding other expressions such as “e.g.” or similar variants.
16. The use of the euphonic ‘d’ should be limited to cases of identical vowels, such as “ed ecco,” “ad adattare,” avoiding forms such as “ed allora,” “ad operare,” etc.
