Author Guidelines

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

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1. Scope and Languages

Another Now publishes original, unpublished research articles in the field of the history of ideas.
The journal accepts contributions mainly in English and Italian.

English-language articles should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition (Author-Date system).

2. Submission and Review

• Manuscripts should be submitted in Word format to the editorial office.
• All submissions undergo double-blind peer review.
• The journal will not consider work simultaneously under review elsewhere.

3. Length

• Articles: max 15,000 words (including footnotes).
• Reviews: max 3,000 words.
• Reports / Notes: max 2000 words.

4. Formatting and Style

• Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1.5 spacing; footnotes 10 pt.
• Avoid underlining and bold in the main text.
• Use italics for book titles and foreign terms.
• Paragraphs should start at the left margin, without indentation, after block quotations.

5. Quotations

• Short quotations (up to 40 words) appear in double quotation marks (“ ”); use single (‘ ’) quotation marks for quotations within quotations.
• Longer quotations should be set as indented blocks, 10 pt, without quotation marks.
• Ellipses indicating omissions should be placed within brackets: [...].
• Foreign words not assimilated into English should be set in italics.

6. Notes

• Footnotes are numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, placed after punctuation marks.
• Citations should appear in parentheses in the main text of the footnote, as (Author Year, page) or, depending on sentence structure, Author (Year, page).

Example:

(Lovejoy 1936, 112-114), or “In his most famous book, Arthur O. Lovejoy (1936, 112-114) argues that...”.

7. Citations and References

• In-text references follow the author–date style: (Author Year, page).
• When referring to more than one work, list chronologically and separate with semicolons: (Lovejoy 1936; Rossi 1979; Bianchi 2007).
• For more than three authors, always use et al. after the first author.
• Full bibliographic details appear in the reference list at the end of the essay.
• Use headline capitalization for English titles and sentence capitalization for other languages.
• In case of translations or reprints, place the original year of publication in brackets after the title.

a. Books

Author, First Name (Year). Title. Place: Publisher.

Example:

• Lovejoy, Arthur O. (1936). The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Lovejoy, Arthur O. (2001). The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea [1936]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Klibansky, Raymond, Panofsky, Erwin and Saxl, Fritz (1964). Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion and Art. London: Nelson.
• Rossi, Paolo (1984). The Dark Abyss of Time. The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico [1979], trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Peltonen, Markku (ed.) (1996). The Cambridge Companion to Bacon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Telesio, Bernardino (1565). De natura iuxta propria principia liber primus, et secundus. Romae: apud Antonium Bladum.
• Descartes, René (1964-74). Œuvres, eds. Charles Adam and Paul Tannery, 11 vols. Paris: Vrin.
• Bacon, Francis (1857) Novum Organum [1620], in Works, eds. James Spedding, Robert L. Ellis and Douglas D. Heath, vol. 1: 70-365. London: Longman and Co.

b. Chapters in Edited Volumes

Author, First Name (Year). “Title of Chapter”. In Title of Book, ed./eds. Editor’s Full Name, page range. Place: Publisher.

Example:

• Bianchi, Luca (2007). “Continuity and Change in the Aristotelian Tradition”. In The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, ed. James Hankins, 49-71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Pagel, Walter (1985). “The Vindication of Rubbish” [1945]. In Id., Religion and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Medicine, 1-14. London: Variorum Reprints.

c. Journal Articles

Author, First Name (Year). “Title of Article”. Title of Journal volume (no. issue): page range. If needed, include a DOI (if available), e.g. https://doi.org/xxxxxx

Example:

• Grafton, Anthony (2006). “The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950-2000 and Beyond”. Journal of the History of Ideas 67 (1): 1-32.
• Fennessy, Julian et al. (2016). “Multi-locus Analyses Reveal Four Giraffe Species Instead of One”. Current Biology 26 (18): 2543-2549.

8. Numbers, Dates, Abbreviations

• Dates: 17 March 2025.
• Centuries: spell out (eighteenth century).
• Page ranges: 123-1
• Standard abbreviations: ed./eds., trans., vol./vols., pp., n.d., n.p.

9. Illustrations

• Images should be supplied in .tif or .jpg format, minimum resolution 300 dpi.
• Authors are responsible for securing reproduction rights.

10. Proofs

• Proofs are sent to authors for minor corrections only.
• Substantial alterations at the proof stage are not permitted.