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Author Guidelines

Iperstoria publishes two issues per year, one in June and one in December. Scholars interested in submitting a contribution for our General Sections should send their contributions by April 30 for the Fall/Winter issue and November 30 for the Spring/Summer issue. Due to the high number of contributions we receive, the Editorial Board reserves the right to postpone publication of accepted submissions to a later issue.

Iperstoria also features a Thematic section in each of our issues. Specific Calls for Papers for these sections are published in our announcement section.

Authors should submit their contributions following the online submission procedure after logging in.

If you do not already have an account, you must first register in order to make a submission. Please read these GUIDELINES TO REGISTER AS AN AUTHOR.

Contributors should send a file (in English or Italian) in .doc or .docx format without name or affiliation, following the stylesheet (see below). For articles written in Italian, an abstract (approx. 250 words) should be provided in both English and Italian.

Authors who wish to submit a manuscript to Iperstoria should follow the bibliographic and formatting standards described in the files below:

A template in .docx format is also available

Scholars may also suggest a topic for a special section within the scope of the journal and act as guest editors. Proposals should be sent to redazione.iperstoria@gmail.com and include the following information:

  • Title of the Special Section
  • name[s], affiliation[s] and a short bio (150 words) of the Guest Editor[s]
  • an outline illustrating the topic of the proposed Special Section, how it fits within the scope of the journal, and the questions and themes it seeks to explore

When a proposal for a Special Section is accepted, a schedule will be established with the guest editor(s). As Iperstoria is published on a regular schedule, delivery of the special section will need to conform to the journal’s production schedule.

 

PLEASE NOTICE that at this time we do not accept submissions for the British and Postcolonial Literature section, as it has been discontinued.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The essay is formatted according to Iperstoria’s stylesheet. In particular: intext citation system; justified text; font in body text is Century Schoolbook 11pts; sections numbered as per the guidelines.
  • If the submission is to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the file has been ANONYMIZED (the name of the author must appear neither in the text nor in the metadata of the word file. See here for guidelines to anonymize a word file).
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submitted files are Word documents (.doc or .docx).
  • The article complies with the Code of Conduct of the journal.
  • The article is written in good academic prose from the grammatical, syntactical, and lexical point of view
  • The essay is between 4500 and 8000 words long; reviews should be under 2500 words long.
  • If including copyrighted materials (pictures, etc.), permission has been obtained from the copyright holder.
  • All figures, tables, images and graphs are numbered and captioned, with a clear reference in the text; font in tables and charts is Quattrocento Sans 9 pts.
  • Hyperlinks have been removed and a last visited date has been added after the URL.
  • Every resource mentioned in the text is listed in the ‘Works cited’ section according to our guidelines.
  • ‘And’ is used to indicate multiple authors of the same work.
  • AI has not been used in drafting or editing the manuscript.

Copyright Notice

 Iperstoria is an Open Access journal.
  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 BY-NC License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of their work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. We require authors to inform us of any instances of re-publication.

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