B IBLIOTHECA D ANTESCA Formatting Guidelines - Submit your manuscript, including tables, figures, appendices, etc., as a single file Word. Keep in mind that you r submission is close to what reader s will actually look at. Your file will be adjusted, formatted, and finally converted into a PDF file, which will eventually be published. See an example at: https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1089&context=phr - Page size should be 8.5 x 11 - inches. - All margins (left, right, top and bottom) should be 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), including your tables and figures. - Single space your text. - Use a single column layout with both left and right margins justified. - Font: Main Body — 1 4 pt. Times New Roman; L ong citations — 12 pt Times New Roman; Footnotes — 1 1 pt. 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All tables and figures included in the text must fit within 1.5" margins on all sides (top, bottom, left and right) in both portrait and l andscape view. - T ables and figures should, in addition, be sent as separate file s TIFF , with the captions in a sep a rate Word file. - Symbols and notation in unusual fonts should be avoided , when possible . This will not only enhance the clarity of the manuscript, but it will also help insure that it displays correctly on the reader's screen and prints correctly on her printer. When proofing your document pay particular attention to the rendering of the mathematics, especially symbols and notation drawn from other than standard fonts. - An abstract (max. 150 words) and at least three keywords should be provided. Stylesheet General Remarks For distinctive treatment of words and phrases, grammar, punctuation, style, and matters of bibliographic citation, con sult the Chicago Manual of Style . The following notes highlight major style issues and clarify BD preferences where CMS offers choices or where BD practice deviates from CMS Abbreviations Do not use abbreviations (except parenthetically) in run of text. In notes, avoid loc. cit. and op. cit. Use ibid. only to refer the reader to a single bibliographic item cited in the immediately preceding note. If more than one work is cited in the previo us note, an abbreviated (author - short title) citation should be used. Capitalization Certain terms designating historical, political, or cultural movements or periods are traditionally capitalized (e.g., Late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Cinquecento) ; Capitalize adjectives derived from proper nouns that designate cultural movements and styles (e.g, Romanesque) (CMS 8.85); otherwise, such terms may be set lowercase. Capitalize specific Dantean concepts (e.g., Purgatory), but do not capitalize units of topographical structure (e.g., ninth bolgia of the eighth circle). Capitalize religious and theological concepts (e.g., the Pentecost). Generic terms designating sections of poems, plays, and the like should be capitalized only when used with figures to ci te particular sections (e.g., Canto 23, Book 2 of the Bucolics, the fourth canto). Note that this opposes the recommendation of CMS 8.194, which specifies that such terms be universally lowercase. Capitalize permanent epithets and personal titles that func tion as part of the name or can be used in direct address. Titles occurring in apposition that function descriptively (and would not occur in direct address) should not be capitalized. Titles used alone or following a name should be lowercased in run of te xt (but capitalized in acknowledgments and the like). Pope Paul V, but the pope King Louis XIV, but the king of France the bishop of Perugia, Fulvio della Corgna F ra Girolamo Dandini , lector of philosophy at the University of Pa ris Doctor Angelicus the Master The prefect Gioacchino Napoleone Pepoli of Bologna Citations Archives and Libraries Use full names for first instance of a given institution, though sigla may be abbreviated: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (= Bibl. Naz.) (e.g., Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magl. [Magliabechian o ] 165, fol. 2 r) London, British Libra ry (e.g., London, British Library, MS Add. 19587) Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France (= Bib. nat.); Bib. nat. MS Lat. 6064; MS Arabe 384 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. Lat. 4072 Edition - Independent Identifying Numbers Short citation s to works by Dante are included parenthetically in running text (and may be used in notes as well): titles — spelled out in text (e.g., Inferno 26 1 10) — are abbreviated as below, with arabic identifying section numbers separated by periods. Conv 2 7 Epist . 13.10 Inf 26 110 - 13 Mon . 3.4.12 Par 24 .1 21 , 1 2 7 Purg 7 111 VN 4.5 DVE 1.2.4 Secondary Literature http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation - guide - 1.html Italics Foreign words and phrases not in general usage (Merriam - Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary may be considered a starting point in this regard) should be italicized (e.g., canzoni ). Quotations The Commedia is to be quoted according to the standard Italian critical edition of Giorgio Petrocchi (Milan: Mondadori, 1966 – 67; 2nd ed., 1994) Use a word space on both sides of the solidus (e.g., “ la quale è sì ’invilita, / che ogn’ om par che mi dica: ‘Io t’abandono,’ ” ). The journal does not include translations of Dante’s Italian texts unless there are special reasons In such cases, we recommend using the translation by Robert and Jean Hollander (New York: Doubleday, 200 0 - 07 ) Extracts from Latin texts should be translat ed in run of text, with the original text given in notes. Spelling Use American spelling. Merriam - Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary may be considered an authority in matters of spelling and hyphenation: where alternative spellings for the same term are given, use the main entry (e.g., “ toward ” not “ towards ” ).