Submissions

Author Guidelines

Deadlines for submissions:

Issue 1 (published in June): submission within 30th April

Issue 2 (published in December): submission within 31th October 

General guidelines:

Submissions to JOAL must respect some requirements, as follows:

JOAL accepts submissions for each section of the journal. Authors are kindly invited to choose the most suitable section for their submission.

During the submission process, authors are required to check that they are following the Submission Preparation Checklist, as it appears below.

JOAL welcomes papers in International English.

Authors are asked to provide metadata pertaining to their proposal in English. An asterisk marks mandatory metadata, as follows:

• name and surname,
• e-mail address,
• title of the contribution,
• abstract (max 150 words).

For each submission, the authors can suggest an academic discipline or sub-discipline, subject classifications for his/her paper, and they can propose some keywords for indexing. 

Accepted papers will be available for the final publication in PDF. 
Considering this fact, authors are asked to follow these instructions:

Notes (in the final paper they will result as endnotes) must be placed inside the text and not as annotation, this way:\footnote{annotation text}

Bibliography must comply to the MLA style, following the instructions at the end of this section.

Tables can be placed in text with a proper caption.

High resolution images must be uploaded separately as additional files: their name in the text has necessarily to be the same of the uploaded file. Authors should supply a caption for each image.

Bibliography

In the preparation of bibliography authors must:

Arrange entries in alphabetical order by authors' last names (surnames), or by title (for sources without authors).

Capitalize the first word and all other principal words of the titles and subtitles of cited works listed. (Do not capitalize articles, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions, or the "to" in infinitives.)

Shorten the publisher's name; for example, omit articles, business abbreviations (Co., Inc.), and descriptive words (Press, Publisher). When multiple publishers are listed, include all of them, placing a semicolon between each. When more than one city is listed for the same publisher, use only the first city.

Use the conjunction "and," not an ampersand [&], when listing multiple authors of a single work.

References must be formatted according to MLA style and comply with the following examples:

Book, one author:

Reed, Chris. Computer law. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. Print.

Two or more authors:

Leenes, Ronald E., Koops, Bert-Jaap and De Hert, Paul. Constitutional rights and new technologies : a comparative study. The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press ; Cambridge ; New York : Distributed by Cambridge University Press, 2008.Print.

Article in a book:

Kowalewski, Michael. "Jack Kerouac and the Beats in San Francisco." San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature. Ed. David Fine and Paul Skenazy. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1995. 126-43. Print.

Journal article, one author:

Shefter, Martin. "Institutional Conflict over Presidential Appointments: The Case of Clarence Thomas." PS: Political Science & Politics 25.4 (1992): 676-79. Print.

Article in an online periodical. If pagination is unavailable or is not continuous, use n. pag. in place of the page numbers, eg.

Britt, Phillip. "Taking the Byte Out of Cybercrime." Information Today Dec. 2008: n. pag. Web. 8 June 2009.

Indexing

Abstract

The abstract, as a brief and accurate synthesis of the document content, should be no longer than 250 words. It should describe the topics of the article in a clear and exhaustive way. We suggest that you avoid any biographical references, and use an impersonal style.

Classification and Keywords

During the submission process, authors can propose a class for his paper using  academic discipline or sub-discipline, subject classifications or 4-5 keywords summarizing the themes of the article.

Modifications to published articles

The online publication represents the official publication of research results. As soon as an article is published online, it is citable and quotable. If changes are then made, confusion can easily arise, with authors citing different versions of the same publication.

JOAL has therefore decided not to make systematic use of the technical possibilities that an online publication offers and not to simply replace a published document with an updated one. After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.