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Editorial guidelines for publications in the Migratowns series

Length of the contribution

Paper for conference proceedings must include between 3000 and 5000 words, including the bibliography. The abstract of the proposal is no longer than 200 words.

Setting the page

The page shall be set with the following margins: 2,5cm top, 2cm down, 2cm left and 2cm right, with no indent, before spacing 0pt and after spacing 6pt. The font for the body of the text is Arial 11, colour black. Paragraph spacing must be set at 1,5. The text must be justified. Other fonts and setting for titles and abstract are indicated below. If no indications is provided, above setting is the one that must be used.

Titles

The title of the paper must have the following setting: Bold, Arial 20, aligned in the centre. Below the main titles, authors must identified with first name and  last name and the following setting: Italics, Arial 12, aligned in the centre, after spacing 12pt.

Titles of the article’s main sections must have the following setting: Bold, Colour “orange (#EA6C57, rgb234-108-87), Arial 16. Introduction, conclusion and bibliography are all considered as titles of main paragraph.

Titles of the article’s subsection use as font: Bold, Arial 14. No sub-sections after the second level are allowed.

Despite not mandatory, it is welcome if authors set titles’ styles from the 1^st to the 3^rd level.

Abstract

The abstract, that follows the paper’s title and the list of authors, is written using the same setting as the main text, but it must have indent 2cm right and 2cm left.

Quotes

Quotes from interviews or other articles must be included in Italics and directly in the text if they are shorter than 3 rows. If they are longer than 3 rows, they must be written in a new paragraph and formatted with the following setting: Arial 10, indent 0,5cm left and 0,5cm right, spacing 8pt before and 8pt after. The source of the quote should be indicated at the end of the paragraph between parentheses and before the final point. Please refer to the example in the box below:

As pointed out by a municipal decision-maker, in this current policy line, frequentation of public places such as the central city square, parks, and all other places shared with local people is an important indicator of integration:

When you go to the square, which is the main meeting place, you do not see those little separated groups anymore, but people talking freely among themselves so that there are no more divisions (Interview, 30.09.22).

Tables, figures and captions

Tables and figures must be included directly in the text and be accompanied by a caption and an identification number. Source of the data or information shown in tables and figures can be either included in the caption or after the table figures (in this case: Italics, Arial 9, aligned in the centre). Captions must be written in Bold, Arial 10, after spacing 0pt.

The standard format of tables is with font Arial 9, no vertical borders and no external border, except for the down double line. Please refer to the example in the box below for the structure of tables:

Table 1. Demographic variables about the immigrant population at the national, regional, provincial and local levels.

Source: Own calculation from Istat data

Footnotes

Footnotes must be written in Arial 9 and must be numbered progressively. References must not be included in footnotes (see below).

References

Within the text, references must be included at the end of the sentence and between parentheses, and they must include the last name of the author and the year with no comma between them. If more than one authors need to be specified in the same reference, each last name should be separated by a comma. When a reference contain more than three authors, only the last name of the first authors must be included, followed by et al. in Italics. If more than one references need to be included in a parenthesis, each reference must be separated from the following one by a semicolon. Please refer to the following examples:

This assumption is confirmed by research (Campomori, Caponio 2017), which showed that in migration policymaking regions have challenged the national government's attempts to override them; on the other hand, the national government has begun to challenge the constitutionality of regional immigration laws. […] Overall, as numerous scholars have pointed out (Barberis et al. 2017; Colombo 2017), Italy’s national political debates and agendas have usually framed discourses about migration and diversity (and planned policies and allocated resources) in connection with the construction of supposed “emergencies” (from Roma camps, to refugees and neighbourhood crime).

References at the end of the text must be included in alphabetical in the section References, following the structures listed below for various cases. For online sources, please include the link and indication about the last time it was checked.

Articles from academic journals:

Campomori, F., Caponio, T. 2013. Competing frames of immigrant integration in the EU: geographies of social inclusion in Italian Regions. “Policy Studies” 34, 2: 162–179.

Books:

Mezzadra, S., Neilson B. 2013. Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. Durham- London: Duke University Press.

Chapter from books:

Barberis, E., Angelucci, A. 2022.  Migration Policies at the Local Level: Constraints and Windows of Opportunities in a Contentious Field, in Handbook on Urban Social Policies, Kazepov, Y., Barberis, E., Cucca, R., Mocca, E. (eds.). Elgar Publishing, pp.187-203.

Reports:

Patuzzi, L., Andriescu, M., Pietropolli, A. 2020. Building Welcome from the Ground Up. European small and rural communities engaging in refugee resettlement. Migration Policy Institute, European Union Asylum Integration and Migration Fund.

Online sources:

ISTAT. 2020. Rapporto sul territorio 2020. Ambiente, economia, societa, capitolo 4. Published online: https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/240989 .(last checked 12^th Dicember 2022).

Language

The language of publications is UK English.