Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in ‘Comments to the Editor’).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word document file format. Also a PDF version of the submission should be uploaded (see step 4).
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics for highlighting purposes (underlining is reserved for URL addresses only); all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• If submitting an article, or review article, the text includes an anonymous abstract in English and 3-5 keywords.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in ‘il Nome nel testo Style Sheet’. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
• Non-Latin fonts used are available and will be uploaded for reviewing purposes (see step 4).
• Should the submission be approved and published, the Author acknowledges that his/her article will be publicly available under Creative Commons licence five years after publication.
• No payment will be rewarded for his/her article, and any possible income that may derive from his/her article will be retained to meet publishing costs and to improve the functioning of the journal.