|
Nuncius is an international journal devoted to the history of science, published twice a year. Nuncius is the new series of the Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze, founded in 1976 by Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli.
- Manuscripts (three blind copies, plus a floppy disk or CD), no more than 40 pages in length (page calculated as typewritten text of 300 words) should be submitted to:
Editor of Nuncius
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Piazza dei Giudici, 1
50122 Florence, Italy
Every manuscript, accompanied by an abstract in English (maximum 150 words), and a brief list of keywords (maximum 3), will be subjected anonymously to double-blind refereeing: all information concerning the author (name, last name, institution, address for notifications, e-mail address) should therefore be presented on a detachable cover.
- Manuscripts should be sent in the following format: Word for Windows Document. Font: Times New Roman, 12 point, standard page, default margins, double-spaced.
- Bibliographic information should be given exclusively in footnotes (endnotes not accepted), and in the following manner:
a) references to books should include author’s full name in small-caps, complete title of the book in italics, and complete publishing information in the following order: place of publication, publisher, year of publication, page numbers cited.
Examples:
Christine Blondel, Matthias Dörries (eds.), Restaging Coulomb: usages, controversies et réplications autour de la balance de torsion (Firenze: Olschki, 1994).
John L. Heilbron, “On Coulomb’s Electrostatics Balance: Commentary”, in Restaging Coulomb: usages, controversies et réplications autour de la balance de torsion, edited by Christine Blondel, Matthias Dörries (Firenze: Olschki, 1994), pp. 151-162.
Charles Darwin, The Correspondence, 13 vols., Vol. 1: 1821-1836 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 37.
b) references to articles in periodicals should include author’s full name in small-caps, title of article in Roman type between double quotation marks, title of periodical in italics, year, volume number (numerals in italics), page numbers of article; colon, page cited.
Example:
Angela Bandinelli, “1783, Lavoisier and Laplace, Another Crucial Year, Antiphlogistic Chemistry and the Investigation on Living Beings between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Nuncius, 2003, 18:127-139, p. 138.
c) Bearing in mind that bibliographic information should always be given in full at the first citation (particularly as concerns the author’s full name), succeeding bibliographic citations should be abbreviated, indicate only the author’s last name in small-caps and an abbreviated form of the title, followed by the reference, between round parentheses, to the number of the note in which reference was first made in full.
Example:
Darwin, The Correspondence (cit. note 32), p. 3.
- Languages: Nuncius accepts articles in English, French, and Italian.
- Each article is allowed up to a maximum of six images. All departures from this standard shall be agreed upon directly with the editor. Images submitted to Nuncius should be free of copyright restrictions.
- Once published, the copyright on manuscripts will be transferred to the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. Articles already published in Nuncius may be published elsewhere but only with the permission of the editor. Articles that have already been published or are simultaneously presented to other journals will not be considered. Two years after their printed publication, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza reserves the right to publish the article, without alterations, on the Nuncius website. The authors receive 30 complimentary offprints of their articles.
For further information, please contact the Editor:
Marco Beretta
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Piazza dei Giudici 1
50122 Florence, Italy
mberetta@imss.fi.it
Book Reviews
All books submitted for review should be sent to:
Book Review Editor, Nuncius
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Piazza dei Giudici 1
50122 Florence, Italy
.................................
|
