Author Guidelines

The submission should be sent uniquely to the following address: redazione@poweranddemocracy.it

The submission must not have been previously published, or submitted simultaneously to another journal for consideration.

Manuscripts should be range between 5500-6000 words (including abstract, footnotes and reference list).

The manuscript file must contain the main text, without the author’s name appearing under the title, in notes and references (it should be substituted with ***). Also the document’s properties must not contain the author’s name or other personal details to ensure the process of blind review.

In a separate file, Authors must indicate:

• their first name and last name, email, ORCiD (recommended), personal website (if available), institutional affiliation, country, and a brief biographical note (50–100 words);
• an abstract (120-150 words);
• five keywords, separated by semicolons.

 

Formatting

Submission files should be in Microsoft Word file format, or equivalent formats.

The text should be double-spaced and use a 12-point font (Times New Roman).

Paragraph titles should be numbered using the Arabic numeral system. Numbering must have a maximum of two levels. Titles must be formatted using the appropriate heading style.

Notes should be limited and collected at the end of the text. Short quotations (<40 words) should be enclosed in double quotation marks (“ ”) and run on with the main text. For a quotation within a quotation, single quotation marks should be used (‘ ’). Longer quotations (>40 words) should be separated by a single line break before and a single line break after the quoted text, should be indented, and should not be enclosed within quotation marks.

All the links and URL addresses in the text have to be activated and ready to click. They must be exclusively included in the notes or in the references section, with no alternate text (plain URL must be visible).

Where not otherwise specified (spelling, abbreviations, punctuations, etc.) please follow the APA Style 6th ed..

 

References in the text

The whole citation should follow the Harvard style, enclosed within parentheses (author surname, year) if not a natural part of the surrounding sentence; the year should be enclosed within parentheses if the names do form a natural part of the surrounding sentence. Citations of works by two authors should have a comma (not “and” nor an ampersand) between the names (es. Smith, Doe 2020). Citations of works by three or more authors should have the first author followed by et al in italics with no trailing stop.

Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c (e.g. 2008a, 2008b) closed up to the year.

Articles not yet published should show ‘forthcoming’ in place of the year (in both the reference and the citation). ‘In press’ should be used in place of the volume, issue and page range details.

Example:

Smith, M. (forthcoming), Title, Publications, City, in press

 

List of references

References are placed in alphabetical order of authors.

 

Examples of correct forms of references for alphabetical style:

Book

Smith, R.. (2000) Title, Press, City

Edited volume

Smith, R., Doe J., Black M. (eds.) (2020) Title, Press, City

Chapter in book

Smith R.. (2020), in J. Doe, M. Black (eds.), Title, Press, City, pp. 12-40.

Article in journal

Smith, R., Doe J., Black M. (2020), Title, in “Journal”,  XVI, 2: 30-52

Article in newspaper

Smith, R. (2010), Title, in “Newspaper”, 9 May: 3

for Newspaper or magazine article without a named author:

“Newspaper” (2010), Title, 8 June: 15-17.

Article online

Smith, R., Doe J. (2018), Title, in “Journal”, online publication 19 October, doi:XXXXXX.

Other online resource

Institution (2002), Title, 16 March, http://www.XXXXXX, accessed 7 May 2020.

Conference proceedings

Smith, R. (ed.) (2010),  Title. Proceedings of the Conference on Topic, 14-15 December 2008, Press, City.

Conference paper

Smith, R. (1998), Title, in J. Doe, M. Black (eds.), Title. Proceedings of the Third Social Sciences Symposium, 8-10 July, Press, City:  70-79.

Papers/talks presented at a conference but not published

Smith, R. (2018), Title. Paper presented at the Law Conference, 7 February, Rome, Italy.

Dissertation/thesis

Smith, R. (1992), Title, Phd thesis, University, City, State.

Research papers/reports/working papers

Smith, R. et al (2017), Title, Working Paper, no. 3, Institute, City.

 

Images

All illustrations, figures, and tables must be embedded in the manuscript file at the appropriate reference points, rather than at the end of the article.

Each image must have a caption with essential information and must be inserted in order of appearance, numbered in Arabic numerals.

In addition, authors are require to upload their images as supplementary files, stored in a specific archive (.zip) and named with two-digit numbers following the order of their appearance in the text (01.jpg, 02.png, 03.jpg, 04.tiff…).

Illustrations, preferably in .TIFF or .JPEG format, must have a resolution of 300dpi or more, and a minimum width of 1750 pixels.

Diagrams must be in PNG format.

All the images must be accompanied by captions containing basic information. Moreover, they must be inserted according to the order in which they are cited, and numbered in Arabic numerals corresponding to the names of the associated files.

N.B.: Two or more images cannot be placed side by side (unless they are submitted after having been previously merged into one single image: in these cases it will be possible to insert only one caption).

The position of each image in the final PDF version of the article may vary depending on the space available for every element on each page; in articles containing many images it is therefore likely that some of them could be inserted in a different position from what initially suggested by the author.