Instructions for authors

All Special Core and Special Issue proposals must address the relevant topic from a well-defined perspective. They must include a coherent set of articles that contribute to moving the understanding of the topic forward, in both a research and policy perspective.

The contributions must be authored by scholars from a number of different countries and institutions; multiple articles by the same author(s) or co-author(s) are not accepted.

More specifically, each proposal for a Special Core or Special Issue should include:

• A title clearly stating the subject matter and the chosen approach
• The name, affiliation and short bio (100 words) of the proponents
• Rationale (500 words, outlining the scope and significance of the proposed topic and approach)
• A list of contributions (from 4 to 6 for Special Cores; from 8 to 12 for Special Issues) including, for each article, a short abstract (100 words) and the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
• The proposed timeline for the submission of the full set of papers to the journal editors
• Any further relevant information (multimedia, guest editorial, promotional opportunities, e.g. relevant conferences)

• All Special Core and Special Issue proposals will be preliminarily screened by the editors and the editorial board of the journal based on their quality, originality and completeness. Proponents of successful proposals will be responsible for putting together and submitting to the journal editors all the articles within the agreed timeline.

  Please note that the acceptance of a Special Core or Special Issue does not entail acceptance of all individual contributions. Each article will go through a peer review process as do all individual submissions.

  All Special Core/Special Issue proposals may be submitted using this form to the editorial office by email: tis@iai.it

  Open Access

  You have the option to publish open access in this journal via our Open Select publishing program. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership and impact of your research. Articles published Open Select with Taylor & Francis typically receive 95% more citations* and over 7 times as many downloads** compared to those that are not published Open Select.

  Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access. Visit our Author Services website to find out more about open access policies and how you can comply with these.

  You will be asked to pay an article publishing charge (APC) to make your article open access and this cost can often be covered by your institution or funder. Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.

  Please visit our Author Services website if you would like more information about our Open Select Program.

  *Citations received up to 9th June 2021 for articles published in 2016-2020 in journals listed in Web of Science®. Data obtained on 9th June 2021, from Digital Science's Dimensions platform, available at https://app.dimensions.ai
  **Usage in 2018-2020 for articles published in 2016-2020.

  General guidelines

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

• Avoid overuse of abbreviations (for example, use 'that is', rather than 'ie'). Spell out acronyms on first use, indicating the acronym in parenthesis immediately thereafter. Use acronym for all subsequent references.
• In general, use a full point for lower case abbreviations ( et al., ibid., ed., art.), but no full point for upper case abbreviations (US, UN, Washington, DC).
• Full stop after abbreviations, none after contractions (ed., vol., but Ltd, Dr, Mr, mn, bn, edn, vs, eds).
   

  Capitalisation
  Too many variables to give brief rules. Consult New Hart's Rules, if available. In general:

• keep capitals to a minimum.
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  Commas

• No serial (Oxford) comma.
   

  Dashes

• Use hyphens, not dashes, for number ranges.
• Use spaced en dashes ( – ) when offsetting text within a sentence.
   

  Dates

• 1 June 2004, 1990s, 21st century, mid-17th century (hyphenated).
• Use least amount of numerals for date ranges; use hyphen: 1756-63, 1990-2002.
   
   

  Figures

  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word. For information relating to other file types, please consult our Submission of electronic artwork guidance.
  • Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online article free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in color in the print version, a charge will apply. Charges for color figures in print are $400 per figure (£300; $500 Australian Dollars; €350). For more than 4 color figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at $75 per figure (£50; $100 Australian Dollars; €65). Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to local taxes.
  • Please note that as an author, you are required to secure permission to reproduce any proprietary text, illustration, table, or other material, including data, audio, video, film stills, and screenshots and any supplementary material you propose to submit.
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  Headings

• Article title - main words have initial capital letters.
• Subheadings - A: Bold, only proper nouns and names in capitals; B: Bold, italics, only proper nouns and names in capitals.   
   

  Hyphenation
  Again too many variables to give brief rules. Refer to New Hart's Rules. In general:

• do not hyphenate: adverb-adjective combinations 'well known', 'fully operational' ; multiple words used as nouns day off; most prefixes, except where the word would be ambiguous or overly long.
• hyphenate: compound adjectives  part-time course; noun-present participle combinations  decision-making; numbers/fractions when written in full forty-five, two-thirds.
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  Names

• Give both name and surname the first time a person is mentioned in the text.
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  Numbers
• one to ten spelled out; 11+ numerals; 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, one million, 100 million, etc.
• 500 km (space), £100 billion, 18 percent (but use % in footnotes, figures and tables).
• Page ranges should be reduced as far as possible; use a hyphen: pp.22-3, 256-7, 207-8.
   

  Quotations

• Double quotation marks for direct quotes; single within double (the only exception from the Oxford style).
• Punctuation should be outside the quotation marks unless the quotation contains a grammatically complete sentence starting with a capital letter.
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  As an author, you are required to secure permission to reproduce any proprietary text, illustration, table, or other material, including data, audio, video, film stills, and screenshots, and any supplementary material you propose to submit. This applies to direct reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source). 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, please see here.
  
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