The Working Papers published on the CIRSDIG website are legally valid publications, which are regularly registered and are provided with an ISBN code.
CIRSDIG is open to Italian and foreign scholars and it accepts articles written in Italian, English, Spanish, and French that reflect on normative and/or communicative processes regarding the ongoing transformations in the contemporary world.
Published articles may address the following main items: social and legal dynamics and changes; culture, collective imagination and social transformations; new civil, political and social rights; communication and New Technologies.
The proposed papers will be assessed by an international committee of anonymous referees.
With regard to length, articles should be 25 to 50 pages (about 2,500 characters for page) including footnotes and references, and be Word processed (font: either Garamond or Bookman Old Style, point12). Furthermore, articles should be accompanied by a short abstract (150 to 200 words) and a short biography of the author (less than 100 words).
styles:
The first line of a paragraph should be indented by 1,25 cm (1/2 inch)
Font and point size: Use Garamond or Bookman Old Style only.
Font size should be as follows:
—Title: 16 point, bold.
—Authors and affiliation: 12 point
-- headings: 12 point, bold
—Text (and abstract): 12 point
Notes: Footnotes only are to be used.
In-text references: References are cited in the text by the last name of the author and the year.
(Berger and Luckmann, 1969, 27)
(Foner, Rumbaut and Gold, 2000)
If authors were more than three, use et al.
(Goldthorpe et al., 1968, 122).
If the author’s name is part of the sentence, only the year is bracketed:
"As Becker (1966, 18) put it, etc. etc.".
Bibliography: Items are listed alphabetically at the end of the paper. Two or more publications by the same author in the same year are distinguished by a, b, c after the year.These items are referred to in the body of the paper by applying hanging indent (1,25 cm; 1/2 inch.).
Ambrosini M. (2003a) "Senza regia, ma non per caso: l'incontro tra immigrati e mercati del lavoro locali', in Negrelli S., Pichierri A. (eds.) La regolazione concertata dell'economia fra globale e locale, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 17-32.
Ambrosini M. (2003b) “Dopo l'integrazione subalterna: quali prospettive per gli immigrati e i loro figli?”, in Ambrosini M., Berti F. (eds.) Immigrazione e lavoro. Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 13-26.
Crapanzano V. (1986) "Hermes Dilemma", In Clifford J., Marcus G. (eds.) Writing culture, University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 51-76.
Goldthorpe J.H., Lockwood D., Bechhofer F., Platt J. (1968) The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Jewett S.O. (1997) The country of the pointed firs, http://www.columbia.edu/acis/.bartleby/ (Last visited: 13/3/2003).
Masuda J. R., Garvin T. (2006) “Place, Culture and the Social Amplification of Risk”, Risk Analysis, 26, 2, pp. 437-454.
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