Editorial Guidelines

Scritture migranti Editorial Guidelines for Articles in English

Use of Italics

Italics should be used sparingly. The following are common and acceptable uses of italics:  foreign words, titles of tables or graphs, section titles (in the article submitted), book titles, and words that the author wishes to emphasize.

Abbreviations

Where possible, avoid overuse of abbreviations. Whn referencing the name of an author in the text do not use abbreviated forms (e.g., K. Marx). Rather, be sure to cite the entire name (e.g., Karl Marx) or last name only (e.g., Marx).

References

The Harvard author-date (i.e., parenthetical or “in-text”) referencing system is to be used for all articles. All references must be accompanied by a final bibliography which should only include works cited in the article.

For more information on the Harvard parenthetical and bibliographic forms, see: http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/harvard_referencing.htm

For translations and new editions of works:  please cite the original edition as the year reference after the author’s name in the text and bibliography. The publication year of the translation or particular edition used (if different from the publication date of the original) is cited at the end of the entry.

Example:

Weber, M. (1905) The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, trans., Thousand  Oaks, California, BN Publishing, 2008.

If you are citing from both an original text and a translation, these should be cited as two separate entries in the bibliography. Otherwise, use the system above.

Footnotes

Only discursive notes should be used (sparingly!) in the article (i.e., notes that add or explain information in the main text); otherwise, all other bibliographic information should be placed in parentheses in the body of the text (see section above).

When using discursive notes, use only footnotes, not endnotes. Footnotes should appear at the bottom of each page and be numbered consecutively beginning on the first page of the article. All notes should appear in superscript form (i.e., in a smaller font in raised position).

Citations

In order to maintain a consistent referencing system across articles in various languages, we ask that you kindly observe the following Italian format if possible:

- Citations should be placed in guillemets («…») and NOT in English style quotation marks (“…”   OR ‘…’). 

Example:  Said (1979, 6) argues that «Orientalism is more particularly valuable as a sign of European-Atlantic power over the Orient than it is as a veridic discourse about the Orient».

-If a quote is immediately followed by punctuation, be sure to place the punctuation OUTSIDE the last guillemet.

Example:  Equally important is his distinction between «pure and political knowledge» (Rossi 1978, 31-38).

-English quotation marks (“…”) are used only to signal a particular use of a word that merits special attention. In this case use double quotation marks.

Example: The airport, being the “home” of the airplane, is related to its special spatiality.

            or to signal a quotation within a quotation.

Example: In Orientalism Said (1979, 39) notes that «Cromer’s last annual report from Egypt consequently proclaimed Egyptian nationalism to be an “entirely novel idea” and a “plant of exotic rather than of indigenous growth”».

NB: in the parenthetical references above, a comma is used rather than a colon to separate the year from the page.  This departs from the editorial guidelines of the link to the Harvard system provided. 

All citations must be accompanied by a parenthetical reference (see section entitled “References”).

An ellipsis in brackets ([…]) is used to indicate the eliminated part of a quotation.

Any additions or corrections to the quotation should also be placed in brackets and the text should be in italics.

Quotations longer than 4 lines should be set off in a separate block quotes. No quotation marks are used in this case. Space the quote so that at least one line separates it from the text before and after it. The block quote should be indented 5 spaces and should be in a smaller font (1-2 pts. smaller than the font of the regular text). The quote ends with punctuation, followed by the parenthetical reference (unless cited earlier in the main body of the text).

Example: Identyfing herself as someone who is not an immigrant but who is familiar with the story of immigration through her parents' experience, Matalon articulates a space for narration between these two identities of native and immigrant:

_{I am the daughter of immigrants but not an immigrant myself, that is - I'm already someone who functions from the strength of a sense of place an a sense of Hebrew [...]. From this place, of a certain ownership of language and place, there comes into existence the territory of literature, the ability to narrate, and in Hebrew. Literature, especially prose, needs a home. The home, the sense of place and language, perhaps make possible the protest against the one place, and the appeal of Hebrew as the one language of the society of immigrants. (2001, 48)}

The page reference for a quote must correspond with the edition or translation that is cited on the page.

Page numbers are to be reported in full form (310-378) and not (310-78).