Ratio Juris

Published in conjunction with the University of Bologna

Edited by:
Carla Faralli

Print ISSN: 0952-1917
Online ISSN: 1467-9337
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 23 / 2010

TopAuthor Guidelines

1. MANUSCRIPTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO:
Professor C. Faralli

RATIO JURIS
Istituto Giuridico A. Cicu
Universit. di Bologna
Via Zamboni 27/29
I-40126 Bologna
ITALY

2. FORM OF THE MANUSCRIPT.
a) The manuscript should be triplicate, triple-spaced throughout and printed on one side only of white A4 (8' x 11' or 21cm x 29.7cm) paper.

b) Articles should not be more than 800 lines long in print. Each article should contain a short (100 word) abstract. Book reviews should not be more than 100 lines long in print.

c) The title of the contribution must be printed 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 printed to the left and separated 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 should also 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 included at the end of the main body of the text to the right and it should be underlined.

f) Footnotes and references should each be submitted on a separate sheet (or sheets).

g) Because of the commitment we ask of our outside referees, Ratio Juris cannot consider for publication manuscripts being considered by other journals, and a submission to Ratio Juris carries with it the implicit promise that the manuscript will not be submitted elsewhere so long as it is under consideration from Ratio Juris. We regret that manuscripts cannot be returned.

3. 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 (Smith 1985, 23; 1987, 54).
Or: .... jurisprudence (Smith 1985, 1: 23).
Or: .... jurisprudence (Black 1982, 199; Smith 1986b,2: 34ff.).

b) But the references must go outside the punctuation, after a block quotation, as follows:

... jurisprudence. (Smith 1985, 23)

c) An alphabetical list of all references should follow the text under the heading 'References', as follows:

For books:
Dworkin, Ronald. 1984. A Reply. In Ronald Dworkin and Contemporary Jurisprudence. Ed. Marshall Cohen. Totowa, N. J. : Rowman and Allanheld.
----. 1986. Law's Empire. Cambridge,Mass. : Harvard University Press.
Kelsen, Hans. 1973. The Idea of Natural Law. In Hans Kelsen, Essays in Legal and Moral Philosophy. Ed. Ota Weinberger. Trans. P. Heath, 27-60. Dordecht: Reidel. (1st ed. in German 1928.)
Rotberg, Robert L. , and Ali A. Mazrui, eds. 1970. Protest and Power in Black Africa. New York: Oxford University Press.

For articles:
Premack, David, Ralf Thomas, and George 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 published during the same calendar year are used as a source, they should be lettered a, b, c, etc. , as follows:

Feinberg, Joel. 1968a. Harm to Others: A Rejoinder. Criminal Justice Ethics 5: 136-82.
----. 1986b. Limits to the Freedom of Opinion. In Philosophy of Law . 3rd ed. Ed. J. Feinberg and H. Gross. Belmont, Cal. : Wadswath.

If in doubt as to whether or not the form you have used to document a reference is correct, please send as much information as possible on the reference, and the English Editor will see that it is formulated correctly.

4. 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.

5. 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 a footnote.

6. CAPITALIZATION.
King John; Roman Catholic Church but 'church' in general;
Parliament; Commons, Lords, House, Congress, etc..
Protestant, Catholic, etc. ;
Radical or radical;
Liberal or liberal;
Iron Age, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Fascist period;
Negro, Italian, American; southern Scotland (general description), but South West Africa (political area);
sun, moon, earth; makes of products are capitalised (e.g. Ford).

7. DATES, TIMES, NUMBERS.
May 1, 1975 is preferred;
May 1975;
1860s (but not '60s);
the Sixties;
fourteenth century is spelled out, as are mid-fourteenth century, early fourteenth century etc..
pairs of dates are elided to the shortest pronounceable form: 1971-74;
B. C dates cannot be elided, and pairs of dates in titles cannot be changed; 18 September to 20 October - do not use a hyphen for the 'to';
1250 to 1260;
avoid starting a sentence with a figure (e.g. instead of '1971' begin 'The year 1971');
other numbers are usually shown in figures (e.g. There are 257 members in the club).

8. Please allow six to eight weeks for an answer from the Editor as to whether or not the paper has been accepted.

9. Each contributor will receive a PDF offprint of their article. Copies of the journal in which his or her article appeared or article offprints in multiples of 100 may be purchased from the publisher when authors return proofs.

10. EXCLUSIVE LICENCE FORM
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. (Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here

11. PROOFS
The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following web site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately.