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Author Guidelines

Author/s should follow the following guidelines:

  • Papers must be written in English. Submitted papers should conform to the elementary rules of grammar, syntax, punctuation, and clarity. Slang and jargon should be avoided.
  • Authors should submit their manuscript, along with an abstract of 150 words. Authors should also provide 5 keywords.
  • The article should begin with a separate cover page bearing the title and author(s) information: full name, affiliation (University and Department/Centre), address, email.
  • Tecnoscienza operates a blind peer review process. To facilitate this process, authors are requested to ensure that all submissions are anonymized. To protect anonymity, please make sure that you do not include your name anywhere within the main document (e.g. as a running head or at the end). Author's name(s) should be substituted by ‘Author’ throughout the paper, e.g. in references to the author's own work. ‘Author (XXX)’ should be the only reference (without year, title, and any other information) in the reference list during the peer review process.
  • The number and length of footnotes should be limited. They should be numbered serially and included at the end of each page.
  • Acronyms and abbreviations should be spelled out the first time they are used unless they are common throughout the STS debate. Terms defined in the abstract should be defined independently in the main text.
  • Provide good quality copies of images in .jpg format (100/300dpi). Please send the images in separate files to redazione@tecnoscienza.net), inserting clearly in the text their location. The author(s) must also guarantee to publish visual materials in compliance with current rules on copyright.
  • Please make sure you insert page numbers into your manuscript.

Citation Guide

  • References should be cited in text by the last name of the author(s) and the date of publication (Latour 1987). There is no comma before the date. For papers with two authors, join author names with “and” (Star an Griesemer 1989). Papers by three or more authors are cited in text by the first author followed by “et al.” and the date (Knorr-Cetina et al. 1980), while all authors have to be listed in the final list of references.
  • If the author’s name is in the text, use only the year of publication in parentheses: Latour (1987). Pagination follows year: (Star and Griesemer 1989, 390-394).
  • If two or more references by the same author also have the same year, a distinguishing letter (a, b, c, etc.) is added after the year.

Reference format

Books
Latour, B. (1987) Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Bowker, G.C. and Star, S.L. (1999) Sorting things out. Classification and its consequences, Cambridge, MIT Press.
Edited books
Pickering, A. (ed.) (1992) Science as Practice and Culture, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press.
MacKenzie, D.A. and Wajcman, J. (eds.) (1985) The social shaping of technology, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia, Open University Press.
Chapter in books
Callon, M. (1980) Struggles and negotiations to define what is problematic and what is not. The sociology of translation, in K.D. Knorr-Cetina, R. Krohn and R.D. Whitley (eds.), The social process of scientific investigation: sociology of the sciences yearbook, Dordrecht and Boston, Reidel, pp. 197-219.
Journal Articles
Star, S.L. and Griesemer, J.R. (1989) Institutional ecology, translations and boundary objects: amateurs and professionals in Berkely’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39, in “Social Studies of Science”, 19 (3), pp. 387-420.
Web page
Mozilla Foundation (sd) The Mozilla Manifesto, in http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.html (retrieved March 10, 2010).

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

 

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