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Author Guidelines

Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia encourages scholars to submit unsolicited papers. For manuscript submission to the section Studi we suggest to contact the Editorial Board. The submitted papers should comply with the broadly understood focus and scope of the journal. They will be selected for publication through a double peer-review process, which may take up to 8 weeks. Papers referring to, discussing and challenging articles previously published in the journal are welcome and encouraged.

The first page of the manuscript file must include the manuscript tile only. Each manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter including manuscript tile, Authors' name, institutional affiliations, address, telephone numbers and e-mail address, that has to be uploaded as supplementary file to the submission when required during the 5-steps guided process. Although there are no stringent limitations upon manuscript length, we encourage Authors to take into account the “typical” range of papers for the section they are interested in. Studi and Reserche: 5000-9000 words; Temi ed eventi: 3000-6000 words; Recensioni: 800-1500 words. Submission length has to be considered inclusive of the footnotes (except for the section Recensioni, where footnotes are not allowed).

Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia is a no-fees full open access journal.

Manuscript

Manuscript file has to be sent in word document format. The body text has to be double spaced; for quotations use guillemets («…»); to stress the meaning or a non-standard use of words, concepts, etc. use double quotation marks (“…”); single quotation marks are allowed to report a quotation within another quotation («…‘…’... »); if stressed terms are present within a quotation, then use double quotation marks («…“…”... »); for references footnoting is recommended; punctuation marks have to precede numbers of reference in body text; the preferred font is Times New Roman (pt. 12 for body text, pt. 10 for footnotes).

References

We encourage – where possible – to use original editions or editions internationally acknowledged as standard reference.

Authored Books: Author(s) (abbreviation of given name precedes surname), Title (italicized), Publisher, Place & Year, Page(s).

In case of standard editions: Author’s name, Title (italicized), First Edition Year braketed followed by “in:”, Standard Edition Title (italicized), Volume number, Editor(s), Publisher, Place & Year, Page(s).

We recommend to use the Standard Edition System in case of reference to ancient works or more generally "classics". In case of further edition than the original one the referred edition has to be indicated after the year of its publication (see below).

K. Ameriks, Kant’s Theory of Mind. An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1982, p. 25.

K. Ameriks, Kant’s Theory of Mind. An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason, (1982), Clarendon Press, Oxford 2000, 2nd ed., p. 25.

I. Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Erste Auflage (1781), in: Immanuel Kants Gesammelte Werke, Akademie Ausgabe, vol. IV, herausgegeben von der Königlisch Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, G. Reimer, Berlin 1911, p. 17.

Aristotle, Metaphysica, 1005a109.

Co-Authored and Edited Books: Authors’names  or Editor(s)’ name(s) (separated by comma), Title (italicized), Publisher, Place & Year, Page(s). In case of Edited Books Editor(s)’ name(s) followed by (“ed.” or “eds.”)

A. Berthoz, J.L. Petit, Phénoménologie et physiologie de l’action, Odile Jacob, Paris 2006, p. 67.

Y.H. Gunther (ed.), Essay on Nonconceptual Content, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA)-London 2003.

S. Pocket, W.P. Banks, S. Gallagher (eds.), Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA)-London 2006.

Chapters in Edited Books: Author(s), Title (italicized), followed by “in:” & Editor(s)’ name, followed by “ed.” or “eds.”, Title (italicized), Publisher, Place & Year, Page(s).

S. Gallagher, Where’s the Action? Epiphenomenalism and the Problem of Free Will, in: S. Pocket, W.P. Banks, S. Gallagher (eds.), Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA)-London 2006, pp. 109-124.

S. Choudhury, S.-J. Blakemore, Intentions, Actions, and the Self, in: S. Pocket, W.P. Banks, S. Gallagher (eds.), Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, Cambridge (MA)-London 2006, pp. 39-51.

Journal Articles: Author(s), Title (italicized), “in:”and Journal Title put in guillemets («Journal Title»), Volume, Issue, Year, Page(s).

S.M. Bredlau, A Respectful World: Merleau-Ponty and the Experience of Depth, in: «Human Studies», vol. 33, n. 4, 2010, pp. 411-423.

Tanslations: reference as for Authored, Co-Authored or Edited Books in original edition comes first followed by (in brakets) Title (italicized), Editor(s), Traslator(s), Publisher, Place & Year, Page(s).

I. Kant, I. Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Zweite Auflage (1787), in: Immanuel Kants Gesammelte Werke, Akademie Ausgabe, vol. III, herausgegeben von der Königlisch Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, G. Reimer, Berlin 1911, p. 51 (Critique of Pure Reason, traslated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn, H.J. Bohn, London 1855, p. 23).

A. Berthoz, J.L. Petit, Phénoménologie et physiologie de l’action, Odile Jacob, Paris 2006, p. 67 (The Physiology and Phenomenology of Action, translated by C. Macann, Oxford University Press, Oxford (UK) 2008, p. 61).

Alreay Cited Works and Quotations Sequences
In case of reference to already cited works use title abbreviation followed by “cit.” and page(s). See below:

1. K. Ameriks, Kant’s Theory of Mind. An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1982, p. 25.

2. J. McDowell, Mind and World (1994), Harvard University Press, 19962, p. 24.

3. K. Ameriks, Kant’s Theory of Mind., cit., p. 30.

In case of an immediate sequence of quotations from the same work but referring to different pages use: Author’s name followed by “ivi,” (italicized) and page number(s); for a sequence of quotations from the same work and the same page use “ibidem” (italicized) only.

1. K. Ameriks, Kant’s Theory of Mind. An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1982, p. 25.

2. K. Ameriks, ivi, p. 30.

3. Ibidem

For translations:

1. I. Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Zweite Auflage (1787), in: Immanuel Kants Gesammelte Werke, Akademie Ausgabe, vol. III, herausgegeben von der Königlisch Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, G. Reimer, Berlin 1911, p. 51 (Critique of Pure Reason, traslated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn, H.J. Bohn, London 1855, p. 23).

2. Ivi, p. 52 (p. 24).

3. Ibidem.

4. Ibidem (p. 25) NB. This is in case the translation page doesn’t correspond to referred original edition only.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The author(s) hereby state(s) that the manuscript is original, presently not under consideration for publication in another journal and has not been published previously (if it is the case editors have to be informed - during the on line submitting use the apposite section).

  • The author(s) also state(s) that each contribution to their manuscript based on another author’s work has been acknowledged, that all information sources have been referenced and that they did not allow anyone to copy their work and to pass it off as his/her own.

  • The author(s) state(s) that the manuscript reflects instructions summarized in Authors' Guideline.
  • The author(s) state(s) that the manuscript reflects instruction summarized in Ensuring a Blind Review (if needed according to the journal section).
  • The author(s) state(s) to know that it is possible to indicate in the box "Comments for the Editor" at least two and at most four possible reviewers for each paper (name, affiliation and email-address). It is also possible to mention possibly hostile reviewers (cf. Persons and/or Reviewers).

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Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) as it can lead to productive exchange, as well as earlier and more extensive citation of published work (cf. The Effect of Open Access). After the conclusion of the double blind peer review procedure, they can self-archive any version of their work: the published version as well as the pre-print (pre-refereeing) and the final draft post-refereeing.