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Manuscripts are emailed to the Executive Editors (redazione@dirittoepoliticadeitrasporti.it). Pdf or word format only are accepted. Manuscripts have to be drafted on templates downadable from this section.
Articles and essays
Drafting of manuscripts and footnotes
Manuscripts are drafted by using the relevant template downloadable here.
Headings are centered and in bold. Author’s name and surname are centered and in bold and are placed below the heading. Author’s affiliation is indicated below his/her name and surname. An abstract in Italian language of not more than 1.000 characters (including spaces) follows. The content of the abstract is preceded by the heading in Italian.
A list of 5-6 keywords (e.g. main topics, legislation and case law cited) precedes all contributions and are placed after the abstract.
Manuscripts are divided into paragraphs numbered sequentially. Before the text, a table of contents is included. The text is justified.
All footnotes are numbered sequentially and placed in one section following the text.
Footnotes are single spaced, both for the text (including the abstract) and for the footnotes. The type of font to be used is Times New Roman, size 12 for text, while 10 for footnotes and abstract.
Citations are indicated in italics and quotations should be clearly indicated by double quotation marks (“…”)
In footnotes, the text does not need to be broken into more paragraphs.
Citations requirements
Authors’ surname has to be cited in small capitals and mentioned by their first name (initialed) that precedes the surname (in full). When citing works of different authors, a comma needs to be used to keep the authors’ name separated (e.g. S. Zunarelli, M.M. Comenale Pinto, Manuale di diritto della navigazione e dei trasporti, Padova, 2016; A. Lefebvre D’Ovidio, G. Pescatore, L. Tullio, Manuale di diritto della navigazione, Milano, 2016 ). After the surname, a comma is included and the manuscript’s title follows. After the title, the following elements follow, separated by a comma: Volume or Issue Number (in roman numerals, without indicating “Vol.” or “Issue”), publisher’s city, year, pages preceded by “p.” (e.g. M. Libertini, Diritto della concorrenza dell’Unione Europea, Milano, 2014, p. 84; G. Ripert, Droit Maritime, I, Paris, 1952).
When citing works in series or commentaries or treatises the names of the series or the commentaries or the treatises are not indicated.
In edited works, the title is preceded by the indication of the editor(s) (if a specific editor is lacking, the expression “AA.VV.” is mentioned) followed by “ed.” or “eds.” in brakets (e.g. F.G. Scoca (ed.), Diritto amministrativo, Torino, 2017; L. Tullio, M. Deiana (eds.), Codice dei trasporti, Milano, 2011; A. Giorgis, sub Art. 3, 2° co., in M. Celotto, R. Bifulco, A. Olivetti (eds.), Commentario alla Costituzione, I, Torino, 2006, p. 88 ff.).
Citations of articles in periodicals (journals, reviews, yearbooks, etc.), includes the periodical’s name, abbreviated and in italics, preceded by “in”, after the title in italics and a comma. After the periodical’s name it is included a comma, date of publication as well as pages cited, as preceded by “p.”, separated by a comma. Moreover, the number of Issue or Volume of the periodical where the article is published needs to be indicated, if applicable (e.g. P. Di Palma, La liberalizzazione dei diritti di traffico per le compagnie comunitarie all’interno dell’Unione, in Rass. avv. Stato, No. 1, 2005, p. 9 ff.). If a periodical is divided into different parts, the relevant part is cited too. In some journals, columns and not pages are cited (e.g. P. Grossi, Globalizzazione, diritto, scienza giuridica, in Foro it., 2002, V, c. 151 ff.).
Encyclopedia entries are cited by indicating the relevant Volume, city of publisher and year (e.g. A. Sciolla Lagrange, s.v. Organizzazione dell’Aviazione Civile Internazionale (OACI), in Enc. giur. Treccani, XXV, Roma, 1990; F.G. Scoca, s.v. Attività amministrativa, in Enc. dir., Aggiornamento, VI, Milano, 2002, p. 75 ff.).
In citations of works published in periodicals, encyclopedias, edited books, etc., requiring the exact mention of the work’s initial page, the first citation has to include also the initial page of the work, followed by the relevant page cited (without indicating “p.”, but other expressions can be used, like “especially” or “esp.”. E.g. P. Di Palma, L’illegittimità costituzionale della legge regionale della Lombardia n. 29/07 sul trasporto aereo, in Rass. avv. Stato, No. 4, 2008, p. 234 ff., especially 236).
Periodicals and encyclopedias’ name are abbreviated as it is customary and indicated in italics.
When the same work is cited more than once, “cit.” can be used for the following citations, after the author’s name and in italics (e.g. S. Zunarelli, M.M. Comenale Pinto, op. cit., p. 12) if only one work of the same author is cited. If more than one work of the same author is cited, the first word or the first part of the title is cited followed by “cit.” (e.g. P. Di Palma, L’illegittimità costituzionale, cit., p. 235).
When more than one work of the same author is cited in the same footnote, for the second as well as any following works cited, “Id.” is used to replace the name of the repeated author (e.g. M.A. Sandulli, Il tempo del processo come bene della vita, in Dir. soc., No. 3, 2014, p. 561 ff.; Id., Sulle autorità indipendenti, in Foro amm./Tar, No. 2, 2008, p. 51 ff.).
Citations of legislation
Document type may be abbreviated. Date (in full) and number (if any) follow. A comma between date and number should not be included.
Latin words bis, ter, etc., after Article cited have to be indicated in italics after a dash (Art. 2-bis).
The word “paragraph” is not abbreviated (paragraph 2 or second paragraph).
Articles of EU legislation are divided into numbered paragraphs, that are indicated with symbol “§” or with “par.”). Paragraphs may, in turn, be divided in sub-paragraphs (Art. 12, § 1, sub-par. 2).
Regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions should be cited by giving the legislation type, number, year, title, followed by publication details in the OJ, as follows: European Parliament and Council directive 2014/24/EU of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L94/65).
In subsequent citations, you may just refer to the document type, number and year (e.g. l. 241/90).
Please note that the relevant year is expressed in four digits; in the EU legal acts only, the reference to the relevant year is expressed in two digits until 1998 and in four digits from 1999.
For Community and European Union acts, the acronym EEC is used until 31 October 1993; the acronym EC from 1st November 1993 to 30 November 2009; the acronym EU from 1st December 2009. Moreover, from 1st January 2015, in all EU acts (above mentioned), the year precedes the number and “No.” is not included.
The same rules apply for legislation cited in main texts of manuscripts.
Citation of cases
Judicial decisions should always be cited in their original language and in full, with specific reference to the nature of decision (judgement, court order, decree), date in full, filing number, as well as details about the publication of the decision (e.g. journals, etc.) in italics preceded by “in”. If the decision is commented, “with note by …” is added (and the title of the note is included). Between date and number of decisions no punctuation symbol is included, while a comma between journal and year will appear (the issue of the journal cited appears between commas).
Divisions of the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) should not be mentioned, except for the Joint Divisions (Sezioni Unite) or the labour or the criminal divisions (e.g. Corte di Cassazione, sez. un., judgement 14 February 2011 No. 3665, in Dir. giur. agr. alim. amb., No. 7-8, 2011, p. 473 ff., with note by L. Fulciniti, Valli da pesca lagunari. La Cassazione reinterpreta i beni pubblici). With regard to the Italian Council of State (Consiglio di Stato) and the Court of Auditors (Corte dei Conti), the relevant division is indicated before the date (e.g. Consiglio di Stato, sez. V, judgement 3 October 2017 No. 4614; Consiglio di Stato, Ad. Plen., judgement 4 May 2018 No. 5). As for the Constitutional Court (Corte Costituzionale), the filing date is considered as the decision date (Corte Costituzionale, judgement 15 March 2013, No. 41).
Decisions of Common Law Courts should be cited according to the scheme A v B. Parties should be in italics; versus should be abbreviated as “v” in roman type without full stop.
Decisions of the European Union Courts should be cited as follows: Court, type of decision and date, number of the case, parties (in italics). Divisions may be omitted (e.g. European Court of Justice, judgement 28 April 2011, C-61/11, El Dridi).
Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights are cited as follow: European Court of Human Rights, judgment 15 November 1996, Application No. 22414/93, Chahal v the United Kingdom.
Law notes
Manuscripts are drafted by using the relevant template downloadable here.
Law notes should consist of an in-depth analysis of a judicial decision and should contain precise reference to relevant bibliography and case-law.
As a rule, law notes are short with no more than 20.000 characters (including spaces). Law notes do not include the principle(s) of law stemming from the decision.
For the main text and the footnotes the same rules concerning “articles” apply, as referred to above.
Editorial notes
Editorial notes (not signed) published in the “Case-law” section do not have any specific title.
Cases and issues
Manuscripts are drafted by using the relevant template downloadable here.
Writings included in this section contain less requirements, as no bibliographic and case-law references are required. Such writings are short with no more than 10.000 characters (including spaces) and do not include footnotes (while interlining notes are permitted). As a rule, text is not divided into paragraphs.
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