Preparation of Text
Articles should not exceed 8,500 words including reference and endnotes (but should not be less than 6,000 words); a Review Article should not exceed 5,000 words.
Modern Italy is published in English, but also welcomes submissions in Italian. If accepted for publication, articles in Italian will be translated. The editors will recommend a translator, and we will generally share the costs of translation with the author. All articles, including commissioned ones, will be double-anonymous peer reviewed.
Modem Italy è pubblicata solo in inglese ma verranno presi in considerazione anche articoli inediti scritti in italiano. Se accettati per la pubblicazione, gli articoli verrano tradotti in inglese. I direttori della rivista sono in grado di suggerire un traduttore, e di condividere i costi della traduzione con l’autore. Tutti gli articoli saranno soggetti a ‘peer review’ anonima.
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked and edited by a native speaker before submission. This is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the editor and any reviewers. We list a number of third-party services specialising in language editing and/or translation, and suggest that authors contact as appropriate, here .
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
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General Guidelines
• When submitting in English, British spelling and punctuation (with -ise
endings where there is a choice) are preferred.
• Please adhere strictly to the style guidelines detailed in the references
section below. NB Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a
quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of 40 words or more
should be indented without quotation marks.
• Please divide your article into sections, each with its own subheading.
The subheadings should be kept concise. Subheadings should not be numbered.
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page;
abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as
appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure
caption(s) (as a list).
• Abstracts of 150 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.
• Each manuscript should have 3 to 6 keywords.
• Section headings should be concise.
References
Please see the Style Guide.
Artwork, figures and other graphics
Tables should be sent as separate files and should be numbered consecutively throughout. They should be provided with a full explanatory caption and source details. Use horizontal rules only. If a table consists of a large number of columns and rows, leave an extra space between every fifth row. Indicate where tables should appear in the text by writing <INSERT TABLE 5 NEAR HERE> in the manuscript. Ensure the table is directly referred to in the text, thus: (see table 5).
Line illustrations should be submitted in digital form. They should be produced to a standard reduction factor, ideally 1:1. They should be drawn to fit a page image of 115mm by 185mm. Do not caption or number illustrations on the artwork, but provide a separate caption list. As far as possible, avoid lettering on line illustration but use Helvetica, Avant Garde or a similar sans-serif typeface for labelling. If you have a preferred position for the illustrations, indicate this in the manuscript by writing ‘<INSERT FIGURE 1 HERE>’ Ensure figures are referred to in the text.
Charges apply for all colour figures that appear in the print version of the journal. At the time of submission, contributors should clearly state whether their figures should appear in colour in the online version only, or whether they should appear in colour online and in the print version. There is no charge for including colour figures in the online version of the Journal. If you request colour figures in the printed version, you will be contacted by CCC-Rightslink who are acting on our behalf to collect Author Charges. Please follow their instructions in order to avoid any delay in the publication of your article.
Formats should be as follows:
Line artwork : Format: tif or eps; minimum resolution 1200 dpi
Combination artwork (line/tone): Format: tif or eps; minimum resolution 800 dpi
Halftone artwork : Format: tif; minimum resolution. 300 dpi
Photographs may also be submitted as clear, sharp-contrast glossy prints.
Tables, line illustrations and photographs should be numbered in Arabic and provided with a separate caption thus: Table 1 etc., Figure 1 etc., Photograph 1 etc.
For more information on how to prepare suitable electronic figures, please visit the Cambridge Journals Artwork Guide .
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
ORCID
We encourage authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information. If you don’t already have an iD, you can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
Proposing Special Issues
Modern Italy welcomes proposals for special issues, but before submitting a full proposal, please e-mail an outline of your idea and approximate timeline to the general editors via our editorial assistant at [email protected]. We will endeavour to give a quick indication of feasibility and available slots. Regrettably, there are periods when we have to turn away special issue proposals owing to the number already commissioned or currently under review. If a special issue looks feasible, we will invite you to make a formal proposal. Please note that full proposals need to be submitted at least 18 months before the proposed publication date. Further details are available in the linked document here.