Editing Requirements

Before sending your manuscript, please make sure that your piece complies with all these requirements:

  • Check the word count (including footnotes and references)
    • 6,000–8,000 words.
  • Originality: the research piece has not been previously published (either in print or online) and is not under simultaneous consideration with another publisher.
  • Copyright: make sure that no copyright of another book, journal, author or publisher is infringed.
  • Obtain permissions for publication of copyrighted material like images, etc.

Note that non-standard ASCII characters or unusual fonts, illustrations, graphics, tables, pictures, etc. must be consulted with the editors.

  • MARGINS: 2,5 cm for all the margins.
  • FONT: Times New Roman 12 throughout the text (including title, subtitles, notes, quotations, etc.)
  • HEADINGS AND SUBHEADINGS should be capitalized in the same font and size.
  • LINE SPACING: 1’5.
  • Use FOOTNOTES rather than endnotes. Footnotes are intended for providing further detail / commentary or for explanatory purposes.
  • Please avoid HEADERS, FOOTERS, PAGE NUMBERS. 
  • SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION: British English 
  • QUOTATIONS:
    • Short quotations (up to three lines) should be incorporated into the text, using quotation marks (“ ”).
    • Longer quotations should be indented without quotation marks and no italics.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Communications submitted for publications as book chapters will follow the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) in its latest version (Chicago Style 17th ed). For a quick citation guide, see https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

REFERENCES are to be included within the text.
The resulting volume will use the author-date citation system, that is, the identification of sources is to be given in parenthetical citation in the text.

    • The information in parenthesis should include: author + publication year +
      page number(s).
      Example: (Owen 1996, 27)
    • If the author’s name is mentioned in the text, there is no need to repeat it in
      the citation.
      Example: … Owen (1996, 27), has downplayed the importance of personal
      satire…