Submissions

Author Guidelines

Regular articles should be submitted trough the OJS platform. The submission and refereeing process of contributions for guest-edited issues is instead coordinated by the respective editors, who are required to send the final versions of all contributions, together with all refereeing reports, to JoNPIT’s Editorial Board.

Authors are kindly invited to write the articles using the template of the Journal (.docx).

Editing instructions for Authors

Manuscript length

Articles should be between 5,000 and 8,000 word long. Reviews should be between 800 and 2,500 word long. Pictures and illustrations may be included provided that you clear all copyright issues connected with them. Specific length requirements for guest-edited issues will be provided by their respective Editor(s).

General Document

Blind peer‐review integrity: To ensure the integrity of the blind peer‐review with regard to the text and the file properties, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other.

Title: Use Times New Roman 15, bold, uppercase, centred, for the title of your contribution. Add a blank line and write your name and surname in Times New Roman 12 regular in the line below. Use the following line to write your affiliation in Times New Roman 12 regular. Insert one blank line between your name + affiliation and the body of the text.

Abstract: up to 250 words, in English, use Times New Roman 11.

Keywords: 5 in English, separated with semicolons, Times New Roman 11.

Formatting

Size paper: A4.

Margins: top and bottom margin, 2.5 cm; left and right, 3 cm.

Font Size and Type: Use 12‐pt; Times New Roman throughout the body of the text, Times New Roman 11 for indented quotations, and Times New Roman 10 for footnotes. Please use the Footnote tool of your word processor rather than adding note numbers manually. Number notes consecutively using superscripted Arabic numbers (the standard option when using a word processor).

Line Spacing: Single‐space throughout the paper, including the title page, abstract, body of the document, references, appendixes, footnotes, end notes, tables, and figures.

Alignment: Justified.

Paragraphs: Indent the first line of each paragraph by 1 cm. Do not add blank lines between paragraphs. Set spacing to 0 pt. both before and after paragraphs throughout the document (including title, indented quotations, notes and references).

Sections: It is advisable to break down the text into sections (and, where appropriate, subsections) to improve readability. Insert one blank line before each section or subsection title. Sections should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numbers as in the following examples:

1. Section title (following sections will be numbered 2.; 3.; 4., etc.)

Section text.

1.1. First-level subsection title (following subsections of the same section will be numbered 1.2.; 1.3.; 1.4., etc.)

First-level subsection text.

1.1.1. Second-level subsection title (following second-level subsections of the same first-level subsection will be numbered 1.1.2.; 1.1.3.; 1.1.4., etc.)

Second-level subsection text.

Spelling and other conventions

Please use a consistent spelling throughout the text (i.e. American vs. British spelling).

Authors are responsible for preparing a manuscript with a clear written grammar and punctuation; neither the Editor nor the publisher is responsible for correcting errors of spelling and grammar.

JoNPIT promotes non-sexist language. In English, for instance, replace he and he or she with they or a repetition of the noun where possible, otherwise use he or she (or s/he), his or her (his/her) and him or her (him/her).

Use footnotes, if necessary, for additional information and glossing. Do not use footnotes to provide bibliographic references. Punctuation marks should be placed after note numbers, while parentheses and quotes go before note numbers.

Use double quotes (” “) for quotations and, when necessary, to single out terms or distance yourself from what you report on; use single quotes (’ ’) only within quotations in double quotes. Place punctuation outside quotes.

Use a single space after punctuation marks.

Use dashes, both preceded and followed by one space, for interpolated clauses (e.g., “the bearers of a representative or typified identity, to be understood as separate persons – characters – with singular sets of characteristics”) and hyphens without spaces for compound words (e.g., “the bearers of a representative or typified identity, to be understood as persons-characters”).

Quotations

Author, date of publication and page number should be provided for all quotations following the (name date: page) format. Works quoted in translation should be indicated with the date of the translation from which one is quoting, even if the date that appears after the author’s name in the works cited should be the original publication date. Use (ibid.) or (ibid.: page) when the source is the same as that of the previous quotation.

Quotations shorter than forty words should be incorporated into the text in double quotes.

Quotations longer than forty words should be taken out of the text with a 1 cm indent both to the right and left. Use Times New Roman 11, do not use quotation marks, and place author, date and page number immediately after the quotation, as in the example below:

A turn to narratives allows for the de-personalized persons of theory, the bearers of a representative or typified identity, to be understood as separate persons – characters – with singular sets of characteristics, including but not confined to their political context and/or group identity. (Whitebrook 2001: 15)

Quotations from less widely known languages should be glossed by a footnote containing a translation in the language in which the article is written. Please indicate whether the translation is your own or another author's; in the latter case, please provide a full reference, including page number(s).

Indicate omissions as follows: […].

Tables, figures and pictures

Should be in the text; a short descriptive title should appear above each table and below each figure and the sources should be clearly identified below them.

Figures: Use “Figure” for pictures, Times New Roman 10, italic and bold. Use Times New Roman 10 for the descriptive text. Ex.: Figure 1. Text.

Tables: For tables, use "Table" (followed by the table number), Times New Roman 10, bold. Use Times New Roman 10 for the title of the table. Ex.: Table 1. Title.

Use Times New Roman 11 for the content of the table.

References

References should follow the APA style (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association). Examples of APA‐formatted References are listed here:  

Journal article with DOI

Angelelli, C. (2016). Looking back: A study of (ad-hoc) family interpreters. European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 5-31. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2015-0029

Journal article without DOI, print version

Harris, B. (1976). The importance of natural translation. Working Papers in Bilingualism, 12, 96-114.

Journal article without DOI, retrieved online [Note: For articles retrieved from databases, include the URL of the journal home page. Database information is not needed. Do not include the date of retrieval.]

Cline, T., Crafter, S., & Prokopiou, E. (2014). Child Interpreting in School: Supporting Good Practice. Nuffield Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/Child%20Language%20Brokering%20-%20Good%20Practice%20Guide%20-%20June%202014.pdf

Book

Ceccoli, F. (2022). Migrant children on stage: their role as bilingual brokers. Bologna: Fondazione Bologna University Press.

Article or chapter in an edited book

Antonini, R. (2015). Child language brokering. In F. Pöchhacker (Ed.), Routledge encyclopedia of interpreting studies (pp. 48-49). London: Routledge.

Informally published Web document

Degelman, D. (2009). APA style essentials. Retrieved Jan. 25, 2017 from http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.aspx?doc_id=796

Authors Details

Author(s) have to fill the form on the journal platform and they will be asked the following pieces of information:

• The author’s first name and surname;

• E‐mail;

• Affiliation;

• Bio Statement (a short author's biography about 75 words);

• Title of the paper;

• Abstract in English;

• 5 Keywords in English, separated with semicolons;

• References in the case of co‐authors, the same details should be included for each author. All correspondence will be sent to the first named author, unless otherwise indicated.