Submissions

Author Guidelines

This journal accepts articles and original submissions that have not been published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The author can also submit a proposal for Special Issue.

The author must upload the article in Word format along with the article metadata within the platform, using the 5 step submission process.

The journal accepts articles in Italian and English. Manuscripts should conform to the editorial conventions set by the American Psychological Association (APA, Manual Style, 7* edition), and have a maximum length of 8.000 words with spaces (including notes and bibliographical references). The notes must be formatted as endnotes (placed at the closing of the article, before bibliographical references), not as footnotes.

For further details and examples, please refer to: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

The file must be in Word format. Images, photographs, drawings must be in .jpg

All submissions should be organized as follows:

1. The anonymous submission file (step 2 of the submission process).

The first page should contain:

1.1. A heading reporting a short title of the paper, which will appear on every page of the document

1.2. The title

1.3. An abstract in both English and Italian (150 words each)

1.4. Five keywords in English and five keywords in Italian.

If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the full-text of the submission should be  anonymized, including the file properties.

The file, in Word format, must contain the main text of the article including notes, bibliographical references, appendixes, tables, images, charts, and artwork.

2. The submission metadata (step 3 of the submission process).

The following information must be provided within the platform:

2.1. Name, surname, institutional affiliation, country, email and a brief biographical note about the author or authors no longer than 75 words for each author. If the article has more than one author, please indicate the name of the one who will act as the contact author.

2.2. Title

2.3. An abstract (150 words)

2.4. Five keywords, separated by semicolons.

If submitting an article in Italian, all metadata must be provided both in English and Italian, using the "Form language" tool to switch between languages.

Style

- Font & Dimensions: EB Garamond 12 pt. (for the paragraphs’ titles)/EB Garamond 11,5 pt. (for the main text)/ 10 pt. (for the endnotes);
- Page Layout: default margins of Word, justified text, with single-spaced lines and no indent for paragraphs;
- Figures: max. 20, jpeg format, low resolution. Send the numbered figures also in a compressed file.

Translations and quoting from translations
When quoting from a translation or a previously published book, please use the following format.
In the text:
As Author claimed, “children need a secure base” (Author’s name, original data/data of the work you are referring to, page number of the quote).
If the quote is translated in English by the author of the article, add “auth. trans.” as in the following example:
As Rossi stated, “children need a secure base” (Rossi,
1980/1995, p. 55, auth. trans.).

In the reference list:
List the work you are referring to and provide the name of the translator(s): Provide also the reference to the original work as in the following:
Rossi, M. (1995). Title (N. Name & N. Name, Trans.). Publisher. (Original work published 1980). DOI (if available)
For ancient works, use the following format as in the example provided by APA Manual Style 7th ed.:
Laplace, P. S. (1951). A philosophical essay on probabilities. (F. W. Truscott & F. L. Emory, Trans.). Dover. (Original work published 1814)
Note: When you cite a republished work, like the one above, in your text, it should appear with both dates: Laplace (1814/1951).

Any element which might reveal the identity of the author should be removed from the file (name, surname, thanks, etc.). They may be restored to the article at a later stage.

The present Author Guidelines can be downloaded in PDF here.

The Journal also welcomes book reviews. The editors will also accept submissions and proposals for special issues. The journal accepts articles and original contributions that have not been published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. For further details and constraints, please see the Author Guidelines.

Each proposal will undergo a double-blind review process, the results of which may be: 1) accepted article; 2) request for minor revisions; 3) request for major revisions; 4) article rejected. In case that minor revisions are requested, the author must send the new version of the manuscript within (and no later than) 2 months from the receipt of the evaluations; it will be the editorial staff's responsibility to verify that the corrections have been made. If major revisions are requested, the author must send the new version of the manuscript within (and no later than) 3 months from the receipt of the evaluations; in its updated version, the manuscript will again be subjected to the evaluation of two anonymous reviewers.