1. Manuscripts (the
original, a copy on floppy disk, plus 3 blind copies) should be submitted to
the Editors of Galilæana, Museo Galileo. Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Piazza dei
Giudici, 1 – 50122 Florence. Please
enclose a summary in English of about 300 words and a brief list of keywords.
2. Manuscripts should be submitted in
the following form: Word for Windows
Document. Font: Times New Roman, 12 point, standard page,
default margins, double-spaced.
3. Galilæana subjects the papers
received to 2 blind referees. Authors
will notified as soon as possible.
4. Bibliographic information should be
given in footnotes (citing the author-date between parentheses and using
endnotes is not accepted), written in smaller print than the main text,
numbered consecutively throughout the article and keyed to reference numbers
above the text line.
a. References to texts by Galileo
published in the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere, edited by Antonio Favaro,
should be cited using the abbreviation OG, followed by the indication of the
volume in Roman numerals and of the pages in Arabic numerals.
Example:
OG, XV, pp. 32-33.
b. References to books should
include: author’s full name in Small
Capitals; complete title of the book in italics; place of publication,
publisher’s name, date of publication, page numbers cited.
Example:
Maurice Clavelin, La philosophie naturelle de Galilée, Paris, Colin, 1968, pp.
270-271.
c. References to articles appearing in
volumes and with an editor, should include:
author’s full name in Small Capitals; title of article in italics; editor’s
full name in Small Capitals; volume title in italics; place of publication,
publisher’s name, date of publication, page numbers cited.
Example:
Horst Bredekamp, Gazing Hands and Blind Spots:
Galileo as Draftsman, in Jürgen Renn (ed.), Galileo in Context,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 153-192: 174-175.
d. References to articles in journals
should include: author’s full name
inSmall Capitals; title of article in italics; title of journal in quotation
marks (« »), year, volume number, page numbers of article, number of particular
page cited.
Example:
Stillman Drake, Kepler and Galileo, «Vistas in Astronomy», 18, 1975, pp.
237-247: 245.
e. Succeeding citations of books and
articles should use an abbreviated version with only the author’s last name,
indicating between parentheses the note in which the entire citation appears
for the first time.
Example:
Drake, Kepler and Galileo (cit. note 14), p. 242.
5. Passages quoted within text should
use only the quotation marks: « ». Single quotation marks (‘ ’) should instead
be used to lend particular emphasis to a term or expression. Double quotation marks (“ ”) are admitted
only in cases in which the cited passage in turn contains another.
6. Illustrations can be used if they
prove functional to the article’s purposes. Galilæana usually considers two
types of illustrations:
a. Photographs: black and white on gloss paper. Format: 13 x 18 cm. or 18 x 24 cm. These illustrations should be inserted
outside the text and marked with the abbreviation ILL.
b. Line drawings: black and white. These illustrations should be inserted inside
the text and marked with the abbreviation FIG.
7. For further or more detailed
information, please contact galilaeana@imss.fi.it. Manuscripts will not be returned.