期刊名称：JOURNAL OF MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
ISSN
1354-571X (Print), 1469-9583 (Online)
Subjects covered by this journal
Aims & scope
The Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JMIS) is one of the leading English language forums for debate and discussion on modern Italy. The journal publishes five issues a year, each containing scholarly articles and book reviews relating to the political, economic, cultural, and social history of modern Italy from 1700 to the present. JMIS is especially committed to promoting the study of modern and contemporary Italy in transnational contexts.
The JMIS:
- publishes in English the work of Italian and non-Italian specialists
- features the work of historians, political scientists and theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and cultural historians, as well as specialists in fields such as literature, cultural studies, fine arts and cinema
- organizes debates amongst leading experts on major themes in modern Italian history, culture, economics, and society
- provides comprehensive critical reviews and discussions in English of new publications on these topics in Italian, English, and other languages.
Peer Review Statement
All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Abstracting & indexing
Journal of Modern Italian Studies is abstracted/indexed in:
America: History and Life; British Humanities Index; C S A Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts); Current Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; Humanities International Index; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; OCLC; SCOPUS; Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Instructions to Authors
Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read them and follow the instructions as closely as possible.  Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us at authorqueries@tandf.co.uk. Use these instructions if you are preparing a manuscript to submit to Journal of Modern Italian Studies. To explore our journals portfolio, visit http://www.tandfonline.com/, and for more author resources, visit our Author Services website.
Journal of Modern Italian Studies considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that
- the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
- the manuscript has been submitted only to Journal of Modern Italian Studies; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
- the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
Please note that Journal of Modern Italian Studies uses CrossCheck™ software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to Journal of Modern Italian Studies you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your manuscript may have to undergo during the peer-review and production processes.
Any author who fails to adhere to the above conditions will be charged with costs which Journal of Modern Italian Studies incurs for their manuscript at the discretion of Journal of Modern Italian Studies’s Editors and Taylor & Francis, and their manuscript will be rejected.
This journal is compliant with the Research Councils UK OA policy. Please see the licence options and embargo periods here.
Contents ListManuscript preparation
- General guidelines
- Style guidelines
- Figures
- Publication charges
- Reproduction of copyright material
- Supplemental online material
Manuscript submission
Copyright and authors’ rights
Free article access
Reprints and journal copies
Open access
Manuscript preparation
- Manuscripts are accepted in English, Italian. American English spelling and punctuation are preferred. 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. Punctuation: Use a single (not double) space after a full point, and after commas, colons, semicolons, etc. Do not put a space in front of a question mark, or in front of any other closing quotation mark. Initial capitalization: Please keep capitalization to a minimum (Political terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ are always lower case; ‘Fascism’, ‘Fascist’ ‘Communism’, ‘Communist’, ‘Socialism’, ‘Socialist’ etc are always upper case). When possible, use lower case for government, church, state, party, volume, etc.; north, south, etc. are only capitalized if used as part of a recognized place name (e.g. Western Australia, South Africa); use lower case for general terms (e.g. eastern France, south-west of Berlin). Numbers: In general, spell out numbers under 100; use numerals for measurements (e.g. 12 km) and ages (e.g. 10 years old). Insert a comma for both thousands and tens of thousands (e.g. 1,000 and 20,000). Always use the minimum number of figures for ranged numbers and dates, e.g. 22 – 4, 105 – 6, use 112 – 13, 914 – 18 for teen numbers. Use the percentage sign only in figures and tables; spell out ‘per cent’ in the text using a numeral for the number (e.g. 84 per cent). Dates: Set out as follows: 8 July 1990 (no comma), on 8 July, or on the 8th; 1990s (not spelt out, no apostrophe); nineteenth century (not 19th century) and insert hyphen when used adjectivally (e.g. nineteenth-century art). Year spans should include a minimum of 2 numbers, e.g.: 2001–04; 1987–95 etc.
- A typical manuscript will not exceed 8000 words excluding tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes. Manuscripts that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
- Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (including Acknowledgements as well as Funding and grant-awarding bodies); 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.
- Search engine optimization (SEO) is a means of making your article more visible to anyone who might be looking for it. Please consult our guidance here.
- Section headings should be concise.
- All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.
- All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
- Please supply a short biographical note for each author.
- Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, as follows:
- For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx]."
- For multiple agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency 1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency 2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency 3] under Grant [number xxxx]."
- Authors must also incorporate a SI units. Units are not italicised.
- When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
- Authors must not embed equations or image files within their manuscript
- Please provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
- Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file.
- Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
- All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
- Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.
- The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
4. Publication charges
Submission fee
There is no submission fee for Journal of Modern Italian Studies.
Page charges
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Colour charges
Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in the online edition of the journal free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge will apply. Charges for colour figures in print are £250 per figure ($395 US Dollars; $385 Australian Dollars; 315 Euros). For more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($80 US Dollars; $75 Australian Dollars; 63 Euros).
Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to Value Added Tax.
5. Reproduction of copyright material
If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.
The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
For further information and FAQs on the reproduction of copyright material, please consult our Guide.
6. Supplemental online material
Authors are encouraged to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
Manuscript submission
Manuscripts for consideration should be sent to the Editor at jmis@uconn.edu.
Authors must submit manuscripts electronically. Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments using a standard word-processing program. If email submission is not possible, please send an electronic version on CD to:
JMIS, University of Connecticut, 241 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269-2103, USA.
Please complete this form and send it to the Editor with your submission.
Articles may be submitted in Italian, French , Spanish or German, but if accepted it will be on the condition that the final version with any revisions is re-submitted as a professionally translated English text at a level suitable for publication: the JMIS is not able to contribute to the costs of translations nor to undertake extensive revision of translated texts. Book reviews should be submitted in the same manner. It will be assumed that the authors will keep a copy of their paper. *Note to Authors: Please make sure your contact information is included in your email message. Details should be given of authors’ full postal and e-mail addresses, as well as telephone and fax numbers.
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Copyright and authors' rights
To assure the integrity, dissemination, and protection against copyright infringement of published articles, you will be asked to assign us, via a Publishing Agreement, the copyright in your article. Your Article is defined as the final, definitive, and citable Version of Record, and includes: (a) the accepted manuscript in its final form, including the abstract, text, bibliography, and all accompanying tables, illustrations, data; and (b) any supplemental material hosted by Taylor & Francis. Our Publishing Agreement with you will constitute the entire agreement and the sole understanding between you and us; no amendment, addendum, or other communication will be taken into account when interpreting your and our rights and obligations under this Agreement.
Copyright policy is explained in detail here.
Free article access
As an author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided guidance on how you can help. Also within My authored works, author eprints allow you as an author to quickly and easily give anyone free access to the electronic version of your article so that your friends and contacts can read and download your published article for free. This applies to all authors (not just the corresponding author).
Reprints and journal copies
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Open Access
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Full details of our Open Access programme
Last updated 23/06/2014
Editorial Board
Editors:
John A. Davis - University of Connecticut, USA
Associate Editors:
Alexander De Grand - North Carolina State University, USA
Mary Gibson - City University of New York, John Jay College, USA
Mark Gilbert - SAIS-Europe
Gianfranco Pasquino - SAIS-Europe
Jane Schneider - City University New York, Graduate Center, USA
Nadia Urbinati - Columbia University, USA
Book Review Editors:
Maura Hametz - Old Dominion University, USA
Gianfranco Pasquino - University of Bologna, Italy
David Ward - Wellesley College, USA
Managing Editor:
Martha McCormick - University of Connecticut, USA
Editorial Board:
Marzio Barbagli - University of Bologna, Italy
Ruth Ben-Ghiat - New York University, USA
Michael Blim - Graduate School, CUNY, USA
Anthony Cardoza - Loyola University of Chicago, USA
Jeffrey Cole - Connecticut College, USA
Paul Corner - University of Siena, Italy
Alexander De Grand - North Carolina State University, USA
Donna Gabaccia - University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
Paul Ginsborg - University of Florence, Italy
Raymond Grew - University of Michigan, USA
Stephen Hellman - York University, Toronto, Canada
Alice Kelikian - Brandeis University, USA
Lutz Klinkhammer - German Historical Institute, Rome, Italy
Axel Körner, University College, London, UK
Adrian Lyttelton - John Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy
Paolo Macry - University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Charles Maier - Harvard University, USA
Jim Miller - Emeritus, The Foreign Service Institute, USA
Gilles Pécout - ENS, Paris, France
Marta Petrusewicz - Università della Calabria, Italy
Lucy Riall - Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Massimo Riva - Brown University, USA
Raffaele Romanelli - University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
Donald Sassoon - Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK
Peter Schneider - Fordham University, USA
Mark Seymour - University of Otago, New Zealand
Geoffrey Symcox - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Sidney Tarrow - Cornell University, USA
Gianni Toniolo - University of Rome II, Italy
Stuart Woolf - University of Venice, Ca’Foscari, Italy
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