Submissions

Author Guidelines

The journal accepts article proposals in Italian, English, French, German, and Spanish.

Proposals aligned with the journal’s aims and scope undergo a double-blind peer review process with two external referees. Upon a positive outcome, they are assigned to one of the following sections, based on content type: Excursus, Focus, Hors de la page, Panorami, Rosminiana, and Spazio aperto.

Texts included in the Lectio magistralis and Overtime sections are selected directly by the journal’s Scientific Committee and are not subject to peer review, since they were previously published or presented in a public context. Texts included in the Editorial section, as well as the introductions to each section of an issue, are written directly by the journal’s editorial staff and are not subject to peer review.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR «ROSMINI STUDIES»  

The Editorial Team kindly requests authors to adhere strictly to the journal’s editorial standards, and declines all responsibility for the submission of non-compliant or incomplete contributions (for which further revision by their authors may be requested).

GENERAL GUIDELINES

Each contribution, no longer than 30,000 characters including spaces, shall necessarily be accompanied by a brief abstract in English (max. 5 lines) and by a list of keywords (which will be useful for indexing the contribution on the journal’s website and on academia.edu). 

FONT AND FORMATTING

Times New Roman (12 pt.), single-spaced. 

QUOTATIONS

For an in-text quote, use guillemets (e.g., «...»). For quotes within quotes, use double quotation marks (e.g., “…”). Any omission of a part of the quoted text should be indicated with square brackets (e.g., […]). To highlight important words, use single quotation marks (e.g., ‘…’). Words in a language different from the main one should be in italics. If a quotation is longer than 3 lines, start a new line and, without quotation marks, format the text in a smaller font size (10 pt.). 

NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS

Names of institutions shall be written in full, capitalizing only the initial of the first word. After the first citation, the full name can be replaced by its acronym, capitalizing only the initial of the first word.

FOOTNOTES

In the text, notes shall be indicated with a superscript number placed after the punctuation mark. Notes shall be inserted as footnotes and always end with a period.

Works must be cited according to the following criteria: 

- Books: initial of the first name (capitalized, followed by a period), surname (in small caps; first letter capitalized), title of the volume (in italics), publisher, place of publication followed by the year (without a separating comma). E.g.: L. Bulferetti, Antonio Rosmini nella Restaurazione, Le Monnier, Firenze 1942, p. 32 (or pp. 45-49).

- Edited volumes (single editor): E.g.: M.A. Raschini (ed.), Rosmini pensatore europeo, Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Roma, 26-29 ottobre 1988, Jaca Book, Milano 1989. In the case of two or more editors: E.g.: K.H. Menke – A. Stanagliò (eds.), Credere pensando. Domande della teologia contemporanea nell’orizzonte del pensiero di Antonio Rosmini, Morcelliana, Brescia 1997.

- Multi-volume editions: E.g.: A. Rosmini, Teosofia, M.A. Raschini - P.P. Ottonello (eds.), voll. 12-17, Città Nuova Editrice, Roma 1998-2000.

- Journal articles: initial of the first name (capitalized, followed by a period), surname (in small caps; first letter capitalized), title of the article (in italics), followed by ‘in’ and the title of the journal (in guillemets «…»), volume or year number (in Roman numerals), year, issue number (in Arabic numerals), pp. E.g.: F. Percivale, Il discorso su Dio nella circolarità solida della speculazione teosofica rosminiana, in «Rivista Rosminiana di filosofia e di cultura», LXVIII, 1974, 2, pp. 95-102.

- Works previously cited: use cit. (in roman type) without the author’s first name initial: E.g.: Cf. Rosmini, Scritti politici, cit., p. 58; use ivi (in roman type), p. X, if the text was cited in the immediately preceding note but with a different page number; use ibidem (in italics) if the text was cited in the immediately preceding note with the same page number.

- Essays in edited volumes or book chapters: initial of the first name (capitalized, followed by a period), surname (in small caps; first letter capitalized), title of the essay or chapter (in italics), followed by ‘in’, initial of the first name (capitalized, followed by a period), surname (in small caps; first letter capitalized), title of the volume (in italics), publisher, place of publication followed by the year (without a separating comma), pp. E.g.: F. De Giorgi, Il giovane Rosmini e la sua attenzione per la cultura tedesca e per Kant, in M. Krienke (ed.), Sulla ragione. Rosmini e la filosofia tedesca, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2008, pp. 111-127.

- Entries in dictionaries or lexicons: initial of the first name (capitalized, followed by a period), surname (in small caps; first letter capitalized), ‘a.v.’ (stands for ad vocem), followed by the title of the entry (in italics), ‘in’ followed by the editor(s) in small caps and (ed.) or (eds.) (see instructions for essays in volumes/chapters), title of the dictionary or lexicon (in italics), volume, publisher, place of publication followed by the year (without a separating comma), pp. E.g.: C. Bergamaschi, a.v. Coscienza, in Id. (ed.), Grande dizionario antologico del pensiero di Antonio Rosmini, vol. I, Città Nuova, Roma 2001, pp. 566-580.

COMMON ABBREVIATIONS

- Note > nota 
- Notes > note 
- Number > n. 
- Numbers > nn. 
- Page > p. 
- Pages > pp. 
- Following pages > ss. (= “seguenti”) (es.: A. Rosmini, Vincenzo Gioberti e il panteismo, Cedam, Padova 1970, pp. 75 e ss.; if possible, please cite the exact page numbers, pp. 75-78). 
- Quoted > cit. (= “citato”) (es.: cfr. Capone Braga, Saggio su Rosmini, cit.) 
- See > cfr. (= “confronta”) (es.: cfr. G. Capone Braga, Saggio su Rosmini. Il mondo delle idee, Libreria Editrice Milanese, Milano 1914) 
- Volume > vol. 
- Volumes > voll. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY (Optional)

The final bibliography (max. 10 works) shall be placed at the end of the text, in alphabetical order by authors’ last name (preceding it with the initial of the author’s first name followed by a period, as in the footnotes). If there are multiple works by the same author, they shall also be listed in chronological order (ascending, by year of publication).

WEB REFERENCES 
References to websites shall be indicated in roman type (i.e. not italicized), not underlined, and shall be followed by the date of the last consultation. 

Authors are encouraged to consult past issues of «Rosmini Studies» and – when scientifically relevant to their research – to cite previously published articles on specific themes they are addressing in their work. For this purpose, it may be helpful to consult the book dedicated to the journal’s first ten years of activity, available here.