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  • Extension limits are not to be exceeded: up to 40,000 characters for articles (including spaces, notes and bibliography), 8,000 for notes.
  • The text adheres to the formal requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic rules (APA style).
  • The version of the article to be uploaded is ready for a blind peer review.
  • Abstract (maximum 150 words), keywords (maximum 8) and a list of bibliographical references are ready to be uploaded when prompted.

Author Guidelines

Originality of manuscripts
All manuscripts submitted for publication must be original and should not be published elsewhere. The authors guarantee that the manuscripts they submit are not under consideration for any other publication at the same time.

Languages
The journal publishes articles in any Romance language and in English. If you submit an article in Catalan, please make sure you follow the orthographic guidelines contained in the Llibre d'estil of the University of Barcelone or in the Guia d'usos lingüístics of the University of Valencia.

Length of manuscripts
Articles for the monographic section(s) and for the free section: maximum 40,000 characters (footnotes included).
Notes: 6,000-10,000 characters (footnotes included).
Reviews: maximum 6,000 characters.

Submission
Manuscripts must be submitted using the webpage of the journal. They may not be submitted via email.
When authors submit the manuscript on the webpage of the journal, they are required to submit, in the appropriate sections of the form, an abstract (maximum 100 words), some keywords (maximum 8) and the references.

Style
Font: Times New Roman 12.
Do not underline or bold the text to emphasise it.
Hyphens and dashes must not be confused:
• Nel dizionario italiano-spagnolo — pubblicato l’anno scorso — non compare la parola evenemenziale.

Footnotes are flagged by a superscripted number immediately following that portion of the text the note refers to. The superscripted number is placed after punctuation marks and parentheses, but before dashes:
• Ne parleremo in seguito.1
• Non serve aggiungere (e sia detto tra parentesi)2 nient’altro.
• Non è necessario — tranne in pochissimi casi3 — specificare ulteriormente la questione.

In the body of the text, the titles of artistic works and compositions, the titles of books and book chapters, the names of newspapers and periodicals, the titles of corpora and databases must be written in italics.

Frequent abbreviations
cf.                  compare
ed.                 edition
Ed./Eds.          editor/editors
No./Nos.          number/ numbers
p./pp.              page/pages
ff.                    following
n.d.                 no date of publication
t./tt.                tome/tomes
Trans./Transs.  translator/translators
v./vv.              verse/verses
vol./vols.         volume/volumes

How to cite sources
Quaderns d’Italià follows the APA style guidelines which are exemplified below. Where the journal standards are not explicit, authors should refer to the APA Standards (7th edition).

Citing direct sources
Sources have to be cited as in the following examples:
• Come segnala Vitale (1986), la decisione del titolo della prima edizione del vocabolario della Crusca fu il risultato di successive delibere.
• La prima edizione del vocabolario della Crusca (il cui titolo fu, come segnala Vitale, 1986, il risultato di successive delibere) fu data alle stampe nel 1612.
• La decisione del titolo della prima edizione del vocabolario della Crusca fu il risultato di successive delibere (Vitale, 1986, pp. 126-127).
• Miquel Rosell (1958, vol. 2, p. 418) attribuisce l’opera a un ellenista missionario in Terra Santa.

Quotations
Quotations in the body of the text must be enclosed in double inverted comas. If the quotation comprises 40 or more words, it must be displayed in a freestanding block of text; the block must be separated from the body of the text with a white blank line before and after, it must be indented 1 cm from the left margin of the text, and it must not be enclosed in quotation marks.

The author/editor, the date of publication and the page number(s) must appear immediately after the quotation, like in the following examples:
• Sarà utile ricordare che il problema della lingua nel Settecento “non si presenta più come un problema letterario, ma come una questione sociale e nazionale” (Folena, 1983, p. 55).

If some part of a quotation has been left out, the missing text is indicated with an ellipsis between brackets. If some word is added to the quotation, it must be written between brackets.
• [m]a non si deve neanche confondere l’umorismo vero e proprio con l’humour inglese [...] L’umorismo vero e proprio è un’altra cosa, ed è anche per gl’Inglesi un’eccentricità di stile. Basta confondere l’una cosa e l’altra — diciamo anche noi a nostra volta — perché si venga a riconoscere una letteratura umoristica a un popolo e a negarla a un altro. (Pirandello, 2006, p. 899).

Double inverted comas must be avoided within a quotation and must be substituted with single inverted comas.
• Lonardi (2017, p. 94) osserva che in Virgilio la similitudine ha per attori dei contadini, “della stessa schiatta, dunque, del leopardiano villanello, che tra gli ‘averi / […] poverelli’ della sua famigliola conta sulle vigne che crescono a stento su una zolla morta e su un ‘picciol campo’”.

Classical poems have to be quoted according to the following formats:
• (Inf. XIII, 40-45)
• (RVF 35, 1-2)
• (Fur. XXIII, 128, 1-3)

When the author decides to indicate only the numbers of the verses, or when the numbers of the verses are preceded only by the title of the composition, the numbers must be preceded by the abbreviation v./vv.
• In Poscia ch’amor sembra esserci un riferimento esplicito alla lussuria dei falsi leggiadri (“Qual non dirà fallenza / divorar cibo ed a lussuria intendere”, vv. 32-33).
• Qui si coglie un riferimento esplicito alla lussuria dei falsi leggiadri: “Qual non dirà fallenza / divorar cibo ed a lussuria intendere” (Poscia ch’amor, vv. 32-33).

Citing works by two or more authors
Two authors:
• (Renzi & Andreose, 2003)
• Renzi and Andreose (2003) claim that...

From three to five authors. First citation:
• (Cicalese, D’Agostino, Langella, & Villari, 2016)

From three to five authors. Following citations:
• (Cicalese et al., 2016)

More than five authors:
• (Gili-Fivela et al., 2015)

More works by the same author (in chronological order):
• (Segre, 1991a, 1991b, 1999)

Works by different authors (in alphabetical order):
• (Folena, 1983; Marazzini, 2003)

Citing web sites and web documents
Web sites and documents available in internet must be cited following the same rules that have been explained above. If the website has an administrator, he/she/it can be considered the editor of the item and appear as such in the quotation and in the reference list.
• In the Corpus OVI dell’italiano antico (Larson & Artale, 2019)...
• In the online version of the well-known Treccani encyclopedia (Enciclopedia Treccani, n.d.), s.v. Leonardo di Ser Giovanni...

Citing indirect sources (secondary sources)
In the in-text citation, one should include the surnames of both authors, but the reference is only to the secondary source:
• As Zanzotto (as cited in Brevini, 1990, p. 97) points out…

Reference list
Quaderns d’Italià follows the rules of APA style that are explained in the following pages. When the rules of the journal are not explicit, please refer to the APA handbook.
The surname(s) of the author/editor must be written in its full form, must be followed by a coma and by the initial(s) of the name(s).
If there are more authors/editors, the last one is preceded by coma and ampersand. If there are more than six authors, one must indicate the first five and the last, while the rest of the authors are substituted with an ellipsis.
If the author/editor of the text is not explicitly mentioned and cannot be reconstructed, one must omit this piece of information and begin the entry with the title of the work.
If there is a subtitle, it must be separated from the title with colon. The first letter of the subtitle is uppercase.
As a general rule, in the titles of periodicals all non-functional words should be written with a capital letter (for example, La Parola del Testo, Bollettino dell’Atlante Lessicale degli Antichi Volgari Italiani).
The place of publication has to be indicated as it is customary in the language used in the article (e.g., if the article is written in Italian the place of publication appears in the original language, if the article is in Spanish or Catalan the place name is translated).
La name of the publisher must be indicated in its full form (but words like “Publishing House” have to be omitted). If there are two publishers, their names must be separated with a slash. If there are two places of publication, the place names must be separated with a slash, too.
If a text is in print, this must be indicated as it is customary in the language used in the article (e.g., if the article is written in Italian with “in corso di stampa”, if it is in English with “in print”).
Any complementary piece of information (e.g. authorship of prologue, epilogue, critical notes…) may be added, between parentheses, after the title.
If the author cites a translated version of a work, the reference must be only to the translated version, not to the original one. If for any reason the author wants to mention also the original version, in the reference list the information about the original version must be placed between parentheses at the end of the entry; after the in-text citation both years of publication must be indicated:
• (Spitzer, 1921/1976)

The same applies if the author wants to mention two different editions of a work:
• (Vineis, 1976/2009)

If the author wants to mention the series a book belongs to, the name of the series must appear in roman script, preceded and followed by a full stop, before the place of publication.

Books
• Segre, G. (1979). Semiotica filologica: Testo e modelli culturali. Torino: Einaudi.
• Dardano, M., & Trifone, P. (1985). La lingua italiana. Bologna: Zanichelli.
• González Rolán, T., Moreno Hernández, A., & Saquero Suárez-Somonte, P. (2000). Humanismo y teoría de la traducción en España e Italia en la primera mitad del siglo XV: Edición y estudio de la Controversia Alphonsiana (Alfonso de Cartagena vs. L. Bruni y P. Candido Decembrio). Madrid: Clásicas.
• Beccaria, G. L., & Marello, C. (Eds.). (2002). La parola al testo: Scritti per Bice Mortara Garavelli. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso.
• Muñiz, M. N., & Amella, F. (Eds.). (1996). La costruzione del testo in italiano: Sistemi costruttivi e testi costruiti. Atti del Seminario Internazionale di Barcellona (24-29 aprile 1995). Barcelona/Firenze: Universitat de Barcelona/Franco Cesati.
• Grande dizionario tecnico spagnolo: Spagnolo-italiano, italiano-spagnolo. (2008). Milano: Hoepli.
• Alighieri, D. (1965). Rime (a cura di G. Contini). Torino: Einaudi. (1st ed. 1946)
• Berruto, G. (2012). Sociolinguistica dell’italiano contemporaneo (2nd ed.). Roma: Carocci.
• Leopardi, G. (1980). Canti (introduzione e commento di M. Fubini, edizione rifatta con la collaborazione di E. Bigi). Torino: Loescher.
• Moravia, A. (1932). Els indiferents (M. Llor, Trad.). Badalona: Proa.
• Pascoli, G. (2002). Poesies (M. A. Salvà, Trad., semblança de M. Ferrà, prefaci de M. Edo i Julià). Cabrera de Mar: Galerada.
• Spitzer, L. (1976). Lettere di prigionieri di guerra italiani 1915-1918 (R. Solmi, Trad.). Torino: Bollati Boringhieri. (Original edition 1921. Italienische Kriegsgefangenenbriefe: Materialen zu einer Charakteristik der volkstümlichen italienischen Korrespondenz).
• Berra, C., & Borsa, P. (2010), Le Rime di Dante. Quaderni di Acme (Vol. 117). Milano: Cisalpino.

Works in more than one volume (citing the work in general)
• Miquel Rosell, F. (1958). Inventario general de manuscritos de la Biblioteca Universitaria de Barcelona (4 Vols.). Madrid: Direcciones Generales de Enseñanza Universitaria y de Archivos y Bibliotecas, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Junta Técnica.
• Pirandello, L. (1986-1990). Novelle per un anno (a cura di M. Costanzo, introduzione di G. Macchia, 3 Vols., 6 tt.). I Meridiani. Milano: Mondadori.
• Rohlfs, G. (1966-1969). Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti (3 Vols.). Torino: Einaudi.

Works in more than one volume (citing the one volume)
• Alfano, G., & de Cristofaro, F. (Eds.). (2018). Il romanzo in Italia: Vol. 2. L’Ottocento. Roma: Carocci.
• Alighieri, D. (1995). Convivio (a cura di F. Brambilla Ageno, 2 Vols., 3 tt.). Le opere di Dante Alighieri (edizione nazionale a cura della Società Dantesca Italiana). Firenze: Le Lettere.
• Rohlfs, G. (1966). Fonetica. In G. Rohlfs (1966-1969). Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti (Vol. 2). Torino: Einaudi.
or
• Rohlfs, G. (1966). Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti: Fonetica. Torino: Einaudi.

Book chapters
Barsotti, A. (2000). Alfieri attore di se stesso. In M. Santagata & A. Stussi (Eds.), Studi per Umberto Carpi (pp. 109-126). Pisa: ETS.
Vineis, E. (2009). Per un’interpretazione strutturale delle ricorrenze fonetiche nella poesia montaliana. In E. Vineis, Di Montale e del tradurre: Applicazioni linguistiche (a cura di M. Versari Vineis, pp. 51-87). Bologna: Clueb. (1st ed. 1976)
Ferrario, E. (1989). Il linguaggio nel XXVI canto del Paradiso. In Miscellanea di studi in onore di Aurelio Roncaglia (Vol. 1, pp. 559-579). Modena: Mucchi.
Bolzoni, L. (1984). Oratoria e prediche. In A. Asor Rosa (Ed.), Letteratura Italiana: Vol. 3. Le forme del testo (t. 2, pp. 1041-1074). Torino: Einaudi.

Articles in scientific journals
Francalanci, L. (2006). Il commento di Bernardo Ilicino ai “Triumphi” di Petrarca e la sua diffusione europea: alcune questioni di metodo. Studi di Filologia Italiana, 64, 143-154.
Maraschio, N., & Poggi Salani, T. (1993). L’insegnamento di lingua di Diomede Borghesi e Celso Cittadini: idea di norma e idea di storia. Studi Linguistici Italiani, 17 (2), 204-232.
Pasolini, P. P. (1971, January-March). “Satura”. Nuovi Argomenti (Seconda serie), 21, 17-20.
Baranski, Z. G. (2011). Dante poeta e lector: “poesia” e “riflessione tecnica” (con divagazioni sulla Vita nova). In R. Antonelli, A. Landolfi & A. Punzi (Eds.). Dante, oggi [Special issue]. Critica del Testo, 14 (1), 81-110.

Articles in newspapers and periodicals
Gadda, C. E. (1932, August 9). Poesia di Montale. L’Ambrosiano, p. 3.
Raboni, G. (1975, December 20). Montale interprete di altri poeti. Tuttolibri, p. 6.
Ungaretti, G. (1921, August 16). Pes (T. G[arcés], Trad.). La Revista, p. 252.

Electronic documents with DOI (articles, books, book chapters, proceedings or dissertations)
Ceserani, R. (2011). La Storia della letteratura italiana come romanzo. Quaderns d’Italià, 16, 11-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.292
D’Alessandro, R., & Pescarini, D. (2018). Advances in Italian Dialectology. Grammars and Sketches of the World’s Languages (Vol. 5). Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004354395
Paterlini, R. (2017). Vittorini Americano: La traiettoria americanistica di Elio Vittorini (Doctoral dissertation, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). doi: 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/7836

Electronic documents without DOI (articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, web sites)
Cugno, F. (2008). Lingue e dialetti nell’Italia contemporanea. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, 53 (1-2), 133- 156. Retreived from http://www.lingv.ro/RRL-2008.html
Lenzini, L. (2015, February). Franco Fortini: un intellettuale, un letterato, dunque un niente. L’Indice dei Libri del Mese. Retreived from https://www.lindiceonline.com/category/l-indice/
Villani, G. (1997). Nuova cronica (3 Vols., edizione critica a cura di Giovanni Porta), [Milano]/Parma: Fondazione Pietro Bembo/Guanda. Retreived from https://www.liberliber.it (Printed edition 1990-1991)
Robustelli, C. (2012). L’uso del genere femminile nell’italiano contemporaneo: teoria, prassi, proposte. In “Politicamente o linguisticamente corretto?” Maschile e femminile: usi correnti della denominazione di cariche e professioni: Atti della X Giornata della Rete per l’Eccellenza dell’italiano istituzionale (REI), Roma, 29.11.2010. Retreived from http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/rei/documenti/10rei_robustelli.pdf
Edo, M. (2007). Carducci a la literatura catalana: Recepció i traduccions (Doctoral dissertation, Universitat de Barcelona). Retreived from https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/1730
Proyecto Boscán (n.d.). Catálogo de las traducciones españolas de obras italianas (hasta 1939). Retreived from http://www.ub.edu/boscan
Larson, P., & Artale, E. (2019). Corpus OVI dell’italiano antico. Retreived from http://gattoweb.ovi.cnr.it/(S(i5zidy55gt40tseksxq3ig55))/CatForm01.aspx
Enciclopedia Treccani (n.d.). Disponibile su http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/

Archive documents
Moravia, A. (1932). Els indiferents [Autograph manuscript of the translation by Miquel Llor]. Biblioteca de Catalunya. Ms. 4333.
Quasimodo, S. (n.d.). [Letter to José Augustín Goytisolo]. Centro di ricerca sulla tradizione manoscritta di autori moderni e contemporanei dell’Università di Pavia. QUA EP 0080.

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