Submissions

Proposals for contributions must be sent by email to the Journal’s editorial office at rivistariid.igsg@cnr.it, personally by the author or by one of the co-authors.
The Journal is open access and does not charge authors any fee, either for the submission and review of manuscripts or for publication. Authors retain copyright in their contributions, which are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Author Guidelines

Contributions must be prepared in accordance with the Journal’s Author Guidelines. The Guidelines set out the submission requirements, the structure of the manuscript, the editorial and citation rules, the peer review process and the duties of authors. Compliance with the Guidelines is a precondition for consideration: manuscripts that do not comply will not be examined. 

→ Author Guidelines (PDF, in Italian, version 1, November 2026)

Submission checklist

Before submitting the manuscript, please check that:

  • the contribution is original and is not under consideration by other journals (sect. 2.1);
  • the file is in ODT, DOC/DOCX or RTF format and is sent personally by the author or by one of the co-authors, with the title of the contribution in the subject line of the email (sects. 2.3 and 2.4);
  • title, abstract (approximately 200 words) and keywords (maximum 5) are provided in the required languages, together with the details and affiliation of each author (sects. 3 and 3.1);
  • the length does not exceed 120,000 characters, including spaces and references (sect. 3.2);
  • figures and tables are numbered, captioned and referred to in the text (sect. 3.3);
  • the text complies with the formatting rules (sect. 4);
  • citations follow the author–year system, without the abbreviations “cit.” and “op. cit.” (sect. 5.1);
  • legislation and case law are cited completely and consistently (sect. 5.2);
  • in contributions written in Italian, European Union sources are cited in their Italian version, where available (sect. 5.2);
  • the reference list includes all, and only, the works cited (sect. 5.3);
  • the text contains no links, unless strictly necessary to locate the resource (sect. 5.5);
  • bibliographic references are limited to the works necessary for the argument (sect. 5.6);
  • all co-authors have approved the final version and consented to publication (sect. 7.3);
  • statements on any conflicts of interest and funding, and on the use of artificial intelligence tools, are included (sects. 7.4 and 7.7).

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