Submissions

Author Guidelines

General Rules 

All those participating in Digiti, as journal members or authors, are required to be familiar with and share the ethical principles of COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics. 

Papers to the journal Digiti must be submitted exclusively in handwritten form and as original copies. They can be delivered in person to Prof. Adriana Paolini at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento, or sent by mail to the following address: Prof.ssa Adriana Paolini, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Trento, Via Tommaso Gar 14, 38122, Trento (TN), Italy. To schedule an appointment, please email digiti.magazine.project@unitn.it. 

Papers are accepted in Italian, English, German, Spanish, and French without translation, and in other languages provided a translation is included. Papers using writing systems other than the Latin alphabet are also welcome. In this case, please ensure the text is accompanied by both a transliteration and a translation. 

When drafting the manuscript, the following general rules must be observed: 

• Handwritten contributions must be at least two pages long and no more than six. 
• Pages must be written on the front side only. No marks of any kind must be made on the back side.
• When drafting, authors are required to use the designated lined sheet template (grid). This template must be placed underneath the writing sheet so that authors can follow the lines visible through the sheet itself. The lined template will be provided by the Editorial Board along with the selected paper. Two templates are provided: the first one is for the header/front page, which includes spaces for the title of the paper, the author’s name, and the title of the relevant section (the latter will be added by the editorial staff); the second one is for the remainder of the text. 
• Writing must be done using a fountain pen, ballpoint pen, or drawing pen with black ink. 
• The text must be written in cursive (uppercase/lowercase) and must be as clear and legible as possible. 
• Please pay close attention to respecting the character size and the margins established by the page layout. 
• Handwritten sheets must not be numbered. Should the author need to number the pages for the purposes of understanding or organising the text, the numbering must be written exclusively in pencil. 
• Sheets must be submitted loose and must not be bound in any way. 
• Proposals for images and drawings are accepted. Please note that, for non-original images, all copyright holders – regardless of how the image has been acquired – must in principle grant their consent for publication. Each case will be assessed by the Editorial Board in compliance with current regulations. 

References and Bibliography 

• The Notes and Bibliography sections must be placed at the end of the paper, in that specific order, and titled accordingly (“Notes”, “Bibliography”), leaving one blank line before each title.
• References to notes must be included in the main text, indicating the note number in round brackets.
• In-text notes must be numbered sequentially using Arabic numerals.
• Punctuation marks must always follow the note reference number. Example:
  […] …as outlined by Umberto Eco in his famous 1977 essay (1).
• Textual notes, including references to bibliographic sources, must therefore be placed collectively at the end of the paper and listed in order of appearance. Example:
  (1) U. Eco, How to Write a Thesis, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA 2017.
  (2) …
  (3) …

As far as bibliographic standards are concerned, these are modelled on the criteria already adopted in the publication series of the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento, as listed below:

• Single volume citation: E. Donini, La nube e il limite. Donne, scienza, percorsi nel tempo, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 1990, pp. 189-195, or pp. 189ff. 
• Essay in a miscellaneous volume: R. Bloch, La religione etrusca, in H.C. Puech (ed.), Storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1976, pp. 499-531.
• Any series/collection indication should be placed in parentheses after the year of publication.
  Journal article: E. Fox Keller, Is Sex to Gender as Nature is to Science?, «Hypatia», 3 (1987), no. III, [the issue number is required only if the page numbering of the issues for each year is not continuous] p. 37. 
• Newspaper or weekly magazine article: N. Surname, Title, «Newspaper», Day Month Year.
• Chapter or section of a monograph: see [cfr.] chap. VI, La nevrosi dei bambini, in M. Klein, La psicoanalisi dei bambini, Italian trans. by G. Todeschini, C. Carminati, Martinelli, Firenze 1970.
• Reference to a previously cited volume: E. Donini, La nube e il limite, pp. 10-11. If the title is long, shorten it using an ellipsis (...).
• Reference to the immediately preceding text and citation location: Ibidem. If referencing only the same volume but a different page: ivi, p. XX.
• In-text quotation: enclosed in guillemets. 
  E.g.: …dunque, come ricorda Bianco, «lo stesso Habermas aveva fatto valere contro Gadamer la scoperta psicoanalitica di un livello paleo-simbolico» e se ne forniscono prove incontrovertibili nel saggio…
• Quotation of verses/poetry within the text: enclosed in guillemets quotation marks.
  E.g.: …come nei versi «Sovente in queste rive / che, desolate, a bruno / veste il flutto indurado, e par che ondeggi, / seggo la notte;…» in cui il poeta ritrae…
• Quotation within a quotation: enclosed in double quotation marks “…….”.
• Emphasis on terms and phrases: enclosed in single quotation marks ‘…’ (... gli uomini ‘speciali’ vivono sempre altre dimensioni).
• Titles of works within the text: enclosed in guillemets quotation marks.
  E.g.: … as outlined by Umberto Eco in the famous 1977 essay «How to Write a Thesis».
• Titles of works within other titles: enclosed in double quotation marks “……”
  E.g.: S. Battaglia, Premesse per una valutazione del “Novellino”, in La coscienza letteraria del Medioevo [...].

Additional guidelines:

• For Latin terms or other foreign languages, which are generally italicized in typed text, underlining must be used.
• Omissions within quotations must always be indicated by an ellipsis inside square brackets [...].
• As a rule, years must be written out in full (e.g., 1544-1595).

Abbreviations and similar terms:

• cf. = compare
• fr./frr. = fragment(s) 
• Id./Ead. = the same author 
• intro. by = introduction by 
• no = number(s) 
• n. /nn. = note(s) 
• p. /pp. = page(s) 
• cent. = century(ies) 
• ff. = following pages (with no space before) 
• Ital. trans. = Italian translation 
• see = see 
• v./vv. = verse/verses 
• ed. = edition 
• vol./voll. = volume/volumes 
• t./tt. = tome/tomes 
• Pl. / pls. = plate/plates 
• n.d. = no date 
• n.p. = no place of publication 
• n.pub. = no publisher
• Ivi/ivi = same work, but different page
• Ibidem/ibidem = same work, same page