Asiatica Association

General Guidelines for Both Journals

• Papers should be original and scientific. They should be meaningful, logic, checkable, and updated. Authors are responsible for contents and data. We publish only papers relevant to the topic/discipline.
• The language is English. It should be fluent and correct.
• Papers should be divided into short chapters. Try to avoid tables.
• For Copyright purposes, papers should not be already published or in press or forthcoming anywhere else.
• Papers have no words limit.
• The title and the author should be clearly specified at the top of the first page in all contributions.
• Endnotes should be put at the bottom of the text.
• Papers should be followed by a list of Abbreviations, and the complete list of references cited in text and endnotes. List only the books/papers etc. really cited in the endnotes. No references in brackets in the body of the text.
• The file format is Microsoft Word, Openoffice Writer format, or XHTML.
• In Word or Openoffice, use paragraph styles instead of formatting to mark sections of text whenever possible. For example, use Heading 1 for the paper title, Heading 2 for sections titles, Normal style for regular paragraphs, and so on. Try to limit the use of inline formatting to Italics and Bold only. For footnotes, use the built-in endnotes function in the editor.
• Diacritic characters should follow the Unicode encoding.
• Endnotes should follow the following style:
  James Smith and Anne Visant, The Unspoken Words, New York: Penguin, 1999, pp. 3-51.
  James Smith and Anne Visant, The Unspoken Words, cit., p. 93. [if more works are cited by the same authors].
  James Smith and Anne Visant, op. cit., p. 93. [if only 1 work is cited by the same authors].
  Vidyut Sharma, "The Words He Said", in Annals of Religion, n. 2 (May 1999), p. 57.
  Michel Pandi, “Women’s Empowerment ”, paper presented in the seminar "A Decade of Women’s Empowerment in India" (June 20-21, 2008, New Delhi).
• The list of reference should follow the following style:
  Smith, James and Visant, Anne, The Unspoken Words, New York: Penguin, 1999.
  Sharma, Vidyut, "The Words He Said", in Annals of Religion, n. 2 (May 1999).
  Michel Pandi, “Women’s Empowerment ”, paper presented in the seminar "A Decade of Women’s Empowerment in India" (June 20-21, 2008, New Delhi).
• Papers should be sent along with a short bio-biblio of author(s) (a few lines stating the author's qualifications, position, and main publications).
• Papers should include an introduction no longer than 1000 characters (spaces included) clearly describing the purpose of the paper, the main steps followed (and methodology, if necessary).
• Papers should be sent along with an abstract no longer than 250 words (spaces included).
• If the paper is accepted, authors will be requested to sign a copyright agreement.

Please address all inquires to garzilli_at_asiatica_dot_org.