Submissions

Author Guidelines

No contributions (fees or other types of payments) are required from authors for the delivery of manuscripts or for the publication of scholarly articles in Ius Ecclesiae.

Contributions proposed for publication may be written in Italian, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish, as well as in Latin; they must be complete in all their parts, in accordance with the editorial standards of the journal, contained in these guidelines. All submitted papers must be unpublished and must not besimultaneously reviewed by other journals.

An additional anonymized copy for double-blind peer review or “double-blind refereeing” must be sent along with the original contribution, in which all direct and indirect references (including metadata) to the author have been removed: name, personal details, bibliographic references or comments from which the author can be traced.

Length of texts: The manuscript, including all the elements indicated below, must comply with the following maximum lengths, depending on the type of contribution proposed:

DOTTRINE (70,000 characters including spaces, including notes and abstract).

JURISPRUDENCE (45,000 characters including spaces, including notes and abstract, but without the text of the judgment).

NOTES AND COMMENTS (45,000 characters including spaces).

REVIEWS (12,000 characters including spaces). Reviews should not have footnotes. The presentation of the book in a review is done as follows: Robert Louis Benson, The Bishop-Elect: a Study in Medieval Ecclesiastical Office, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1968, pp. 440. Or, for works edited by two or more editors: Roberto Mazzola, Ilaria Zuanazzi, Maria Chiara Ruscazio (eds.), The Spirit of Church Law:Selected Writings of Rinaldo Bertolino, Turin-Naples, University of Turin-Italian Scientific Editions, 2022, pp. 586. At the end of the review, the reviewer should indicate his full name, an e-mail address and the institution to which he belongs.

Structure of the contribution: The contribution should contain, in this order, the following elements:

Title of the article (also in Italian);

Author(s), including, in footnote, the full address, including e-mail address, and the university affiliation at which one works;

Abstract, written in the language used in the writing of the paper and an English version of it (max. 150 words);

Keywords, drafted in the language used in the writing of the contribution and in English (a list of 4 or 5 keywords); 

Summary of the article, including the titles of the first level of paragraphs;

Text of the article, divided into paragraphs with Arabic numerals and with subheadings (up to a maximum of three levels of subheadings).

Typographical standards: The following guidelines should be taken into account when drafting the text:

Short quotations (not exceeding 25 words, two or three lines) should be placed in the text within corporal quotation marks (“...”). If additional quotation marks are needed within the quotation, the order would be as follows: («“... ‘...’...”»).

Quotations exceeding 25 words (about two or three lines) should be quoted in a smaller font size (11pt), spacing them from the body of the text that precedes and follows. Double quotation marks are not used in this case.

Single quotation marks (‘...’) should be used to highlight or emphasize a term.

Superscripts or quotation marks must, in all cases, be of typographical quality.

Words in a language other than that of the text, as well as titles of books and periodicals, should be transcribed in italics, without quotation marks. Exceptions are made for words that have entered common usage.

The on-dash hyphen ( - ) is employed to indicate multiple cities of publication and to construct incidental sentences. The hyphen on-dash ( - ), without spaces before or after, is employed for: dates (15-01-2023), periods (2000-2023), compound words, Bible quotations.

Bibliographical references in footnotes: Reference bibliography should be placed in footnotes (footnotes), according to the following structure in case it refers to the first citation of a text:

Books:

Initial Author Name in Small Caps (if there are multiple initials, with spaces between them). | Author Last Name in Small Caps, | Title. Subtitle, | Possibly (= Series and number - in round Roman numerals, omitting ‘vol.’, followed by comma and tome title in italics), | City of edition, | Publishing house, | Year of publication, | Page number(s) (p./pp.).

e.g., O. Condorelli, Clerici Peregrini. Legal Aspects of Clerical Mobility in the 12th-14th Centuries, Rome, Il cigno Galileo Galilei, 1995, pp. 23-28.

e.g., J. Finnis, Collected Essays, IV, Philosophy of Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 107.

If citing an edition later than the first, indicate it in superscript font, immediately after the year of publication:

e.g., C. J. Errázuriz, Diritto e giustizia nella Chiesa. Per una teoria fondamentale del diritto canonico, Milan, Giuffrè, 2020², pp. 11-24.

If there are more than one author, their names should be transcribed in small caps separating them with a comma, and omitting the conjunction ‘and’:

e.g., S. Aumenta, R. Interlandi, La curia romana secondo “Praedicate Evangelium”. Between History and Reform, Roma, EDUSC, 2023, pp. 13-15.

Collaborations in a collective book:

Author name initial in Small Caps (if there are multiple initials, with spaces between them). | Author last name in Small Caps, | Title. Subtitle, | in | Title. Subtitle, | possibly (= Series and number), | edited by Initial Name(s) Editor. | Editor's last name, | City of edition, | Publishing house | Year of publication, | Page number(s) of citation (p./pp.).

e.g., S. Kuttner, The Revival of Jurisprudence, in Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century, edited by R. L. Benson, G. Constable, C. D. Lanham, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1982, pp. 299-323.

Commentaries on the Code of Canon Law (or other legislative texts) are cited according to the example of collaboration in a collective book:

e.g., D. Cito, Can. 232, in Exegetical Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, II/1, edited by Á. Marzoa, J. Miras, R. Rodríguez-Ocaña, Montreal, Wilson&Lafleur, 2004, pp. 209-211.

Scientific journal articles:

Author name initial in Small Caps (if there are multiple initials, with spaces between them). | Author last name in Small Caps, | Title. Subtitle, | «Title of the journal» | indication of volume/issue | (year), | page number(s) of citation (p./pp.).

e.g., T. Lenherr, Der Begriff «executio» in der Summa decretorum des Huguccio, «Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht» 150 (1981), pp. 5-44.

For citations of texts found on the web:

Author name initialin Small Caps (If there are multiple initials, with spaces between them). | Author last name in Small Caps, | Title. Subtitle (along with other information about the work cited, e.g., an online encyclopedia), | Electronic address.

e.g., J. Finnis, Natural Law Theories, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by E. N. Zalta, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-theories/.

Some rules for all types of citations:

Subsequent references to the same work will indicate only:

Author name initial in Small Caps (If there are multiple initials, with spaces between them). | Author last name, | Title, | cit., | page number(s) of citation (p./pp.).

e.g., O. Condorelli, Clerici peregrini, cit., p. 45.

In cases where the citation of the same work, varied in some of its elements, e.g. by the addition of page numbers, is to be repeated below, ‘ivi’ (non-italicized) is used:

e.g., O. Condorelli, Clerici peregrini, cit., p. 45.

Ivi, pp. 30-34.

When the quotation is instead repeated identically immediately afterwards, ‘ibidem’ (italicized) is used, in unabbreviated form:

e.g., O. Condorelli, Clerici peregrini, cit., p. 45.

Ibidem.

Abbreviations:

The abbreviation of “canon” will be indicated by “can.”, that of “canons” by “cann.” The Acta Apostolicae Sedis will be indicated by “AAS” and the Acta Sanctae Sedis by “ASS.”

The Code of Canon Law will be denoted by CIC (CIC 17 for the 1917 code) and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches by CCEO.

The following abbreviations are also used: p., pp., col., fol., lib., ch., tit., vol., t. [tome], cf. and vid. For other abbreviations and acronyms each author should indicate them in the text.

Bibliography at the end of the article text, compiled alphabetically by author’s last name in Small Caps (complete or, if more than 20 sources are used, at least essential bibliography), e.g.:

Condorelli, O., Clerici Peregrini. Legal Aspects of Clerical Mobility in the 12th-14th Centuries, Roma, Il cigno Galileo Galilei, 1995.

Errázuriz, C. J., Diritto e giustizia nella Chiesa. Per una teoria fondamentale del diritto canonico, Milan, Giuffrè, 20202.

Idem, Il diritto come bene giuridico. Un’introduzione alla filosofia del diritto, Rome, EDUSC, 2021.

Kuttner, S., The Revival of Jurisprudence, in Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century, edited by R. L. Benson, G. Constable, C. D. Lanham, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1982, pp. 299-323.