RIVISTA DI LETTERATURE MODERNE E COMPARATE
E STORIA DELLE ARTI
Typographic norms
1) The official languages of RLMC are English, French, and Italian.
2) Texts should be delivered complete and free of typing errors in a Word document with right and left justified margins, 1.5 line spacing, and in Times New Roman font (body 12 for text, body 11 for longer quotations separated from the text, body 10 for notes). In the case of division into paragraphs, the number and title, if any, should be in italics. At the end of the essay, the author's first and last name in capitals, institution and e-mail should be indicated.
3) Any illustration must be delivered free of reproduction rights or coming with licence which allows to publish it, in .tiff or .jpg format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi, accompanied, in a separate file, by the respective captions, formulated according to the following model:
Fig. 1. Lorenzo Lippi, San Cosma, 1644 circa. New Orleans, Museum of Art, The Samuel H. Kress Collection.
4) In the text, foreign words and brief phrases, the titles of published books, plays, operas, paintings, etc., must be in italics.
5) Quotations of not more than five or six lines in the typescript, unless special emphasis is required, should be incorporated, within double quotation marks, as part of the text. Longer quotations must be separated from the text with a different spatial arrangement and without quotation marks (they must be detached from the text with 1.5 line spacing above and below, and reported with single line spacing and indentation of the entire left margin of 1 cm.Quotations within passages enclosed in double quotation marks must be enclosed in single quotation marks. Long quotations separated from the text, in languages different from English, French, German, Italian and Latin, must be followed by a translation enclosed in square brackets, while quotations enclosed in double quotation marks must be translated into the language of the article written in one of the official languages of the journal (cfr. infra, 1). Punctuation marks must be placed outside the final quotation mark, with the only exception of exclamation and question marks belonging to the quotation.
6) Footnotes must be numbered consecutively throughout the text and indicated by Arabic numbers without parentheses. All punctuation, with the exception of exclamation and question marks, must follow the note numbers.
7) In notes, the following order must be used:
- for published books: name and surname of the author followed by a comma; title of the work in italics followed by a comma; place of publication followed by a comma; name of the publisher followed by a comma; date of publication followed by a comma; page number/s preceded by “p.” or “pp.” (in case of multivolume works, the number of the volume/s, in capital Roman numerals and preceded by “vol.” or “voll.”, must be placed before the page number/s, preceded and followed by a comma).
Example:
Mauriel C. Bradbrook, The School of Night: A Study in the Literary Relationships of Sir
Walter Ralegh, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1936, p./pp.
- if the work is part of a collection of pieces by different authors, the title in italics must be followed by the title of the collection in italics preceded by “in” and followed by the name of the editor/s, the place of publication, the name of the publisher, the date of publication and the page number/s”.
Example:
Catherine Belsey, Desire’s Excess and the English Renaissance Theatre: ‘Edward II’, ‘Troilus and Cressida’, ‘Othello’, in Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage, ed. by S. Zimmerman, London, Routledge, 1992, p./pp.
- for articles in periodicals: name and surname of the author followed by a comma; title in italics; name of the periodical within double quotation marks; number of the volume, in capital Roman numerals, not preceded by “vol.” and not followed by a comma (if each issue of a volume is paged independently, i.e., each begins with page 1, indicate the number of the issue, in Arabic numerals, after the number of the volume and a comma); the year, enclosed in parentheses and followed by a comma; page number/s preceded by “p.” or “pp.”
Example:
Nina Ekstein, A Woman’s Tragedy: Catherine Bernard’s ‘Brutus’, “Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate”, XLVIII (1995), p./pp.
- after a work has been fully identified in a note, subsequent citations must include: the author’s name (initials only) and surname followed by a comma; the title of the work (shortened) followed by a comma; page number/s.
Example:
M. C. Bradbrook, The School of Night, p./pp.
N. Ekstein, A Woman’s Traged, p./pp.
8) List of abbreviations for notes and texts:
bk., bks. = book/s
cfr. = compare
chap., chaps. = chapter/s
edn., edns. = edition/s
f., ff. = and the following page/s or line/s
ibidem = in the same place, i.e., the single title cited in the note immediately preceding; may be followed by page number/s preceded by “p.” or “pp.”
l., ll. = line/s
loc. cit.: in the same place (passage) cited, i.e., in the same passage referred to in a recent note.
n., nn. = note_s
p., pp. = page/s
passim = throughout the work, here and there
vol., vols. = volume/s