Issue Information – Editorial Guidelines

• Date: 01 December 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12106
• Published date: 01 December 2016

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

1. FORM OF THE MANUSCRIPT

a) The manuscript should be submitted by email to rjuris.cirsfid@unibo.it(in .rtf or .doc format).

b) Articles should not be longer than 55,000 characters (including blanks). Each article should contain a

short (100 word) abstract. Book reviews will undergo the ordinary review process, should be written by

an author different from the book’s author, and mustconsist of a minimum of 15,000 and a maximum

of 20,000 characters (including blanks).

c) The title of the contribution must be typed in upper and lower case letters above the name of the

author which should be written in all upper case letters; these two items must be ranged left and sepa-

rated by a line. Please do not underline either the title or the author’s name.

d) Paragraphs should be indented, except for the very first paragraph as well as the text immediately

following a block quotation which should be flush left and right. Block quotations shouldalso be flush

left and right, and they should be justified left and right with the main text and separated from the latter

by a blank line above and below.

e) The University address of the author(s) should be placed at the end of the main body of the text to

the right and it should be italicized.

f) Manuscripts are submitted to peer reviewers anonymously. Because of the commitment we ask of our peer

reviewers, Ratio Juris cannot consider for publication manuscripts being considered by other journals, and a

submission to Ratio Juris carries with it the implicit undertaking that the manuscript will not be submitted else-

where so long as it is under consideration by Ratio Juris. We regret that manuscripts cannot be returned.

2. REFERENCES

a) The “B” system of documentation according to the Chicago Manual of Style (13th edition) should be

adopted for notes and bibliography; this means that footnotes must be kept to a minimum, and the

author-date system should be used throughout the text, incorporating references as follows:

Smith (1985, 23) argues . . . Or: . . . . jurisprudence (Smith 1985, 23). . . Or:

. . . . jurisprudence (Smith 1985,1987) . . . Or:....jurisprudence(Smith1985,23;Smith1987,54)...Or:

. . . jurisprudence(Smith 1985, 1: 23) . . . . Or: . . . . jurisprudence(Black 1982, 199; Smith 1986b, 2: 34ff.).

b) However, the referencesmust be placed outside the punctuation,after a block quotation, as follows:

. . . jurisprudence.(Smith 1985, 23)

c) An alphabetical list of all referencesshould follow the text under the heading “References,” as follows:

For books:

Dworkin, R. 1984. A Reply. In Ronald Dworkin and Contemporary Jurisprudence. Ed. M. Cohen. Totowa,

NJ: Rowman and Allanheld.

Dworkin, R. 1986. Law’s Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UniversityPress.

Kelsen, H. 1973. The Idea of Natural Law. In H. Kelsen, Essays in Legal and Moral Philosophy. Ed. O.

Weinberger. Trans. P. Heath, 27–60. Dordecht: Reidel.(1st ed. in German 1928.)

Rotberg, R. L., and A. A. Mazrui, eds. 1970. Protest and Power in Black Africa. New York: Oxford University

Press.

For articles:

Premack, D., R. Thomas, and G. Wood. 1978. Does the Chimpanzee Have a Theory of Mind? The Behavioral

and Brain Sciences 1: 515–26.

If two or more works by a single author publishedin the same calendar year are used as a source, they

should be lettered a, b, c, etc., as follows:

Feinberg, J. 1968a. Harm to Others: A Rejoinder. Criminal Justice Ethics 5: 136–82.

Feinberg, J. 1986b. Limits to the Freedom of Opinion. In Philosophy of Law. Ed. J. Feinberg and H. Gross.

Belmont, CA: Wadswath.

If in doubt as to whether or not the form you have used for a referenceis correct, please send as much

information as possible on the reference, and the English Editor will see that it is formulated correctly.

3. PUNCTUATION

Please remember to use only double inverted commas. A period (.) or a comma (,) must be placed inside

double inverted commas, whereas a colon (:) or a semi-colon (;) must instead be placed outside double

inverted commas.

4. TRANSLATING

All papers which are not already written in English by native speakers must be translated into English

by a professional translator and carefully checked by the author. As for quotations not in English where

the original language is considered essential,the translation should be given in a footnote.

5. CAPITALIZATION

King John; Roman Catholic Church but “church” in general; Parliament; Commons, Lords, House, Con-

gress, etc.; Protestant, Catholic, etc.; Radical or radical; Liberal or liberal; Iron Age, Dark Ages, Middle

Ages, Fascist period; Italian, American, African-American; southern Scotland (general description), but

South West Africa (political area); sun, moon, earth; makes of products are capitalised (e.g. Ford).

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