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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a Times New Roman 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are referenced within the text at the appropriate points.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the Journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Welcome to Histories of Post-War Architecture’s Guide for Authors. In these guidelines, you should find all the necessary instructions for preparing and submitting your paper.

In order to submit your abstract and/or your paper, you should register on the website. Abstracts and/or papers should be submitted in electronic form via the 5-step submission process of this journal. Authors should complete all relevant fields in the 3rd step “Enter Metadata”.

Materials should include:

  • “Bio-data” details (name, e-mail address, affiliation, ORCID ID)
  • Short biographical note (max 2000 characters. In case of two authors: max. 800 characters; three: max. 550 characters)
  • Abstract (max 2000 characters)
  • List of 5 keywords
  • Paper Bibliography – compulsory
  • Illustrations (.TIFF format, CMYK, 300dpi)
  • Captions
  • Example of reference to the images in the text: [Fig. 1]

General instructions

For general rules on style, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2010, or the most recent edition) online at: chicagomanualofstyle.org

Keep formatting to an absolute minimum. Do not use desktop publishing features such as justification, centering, or different fonts within the body of the text.

Articles should be typed double-spaced (including footnotes, which should appear at the bottom of the page).

TAB should be restricted to a paragraph indent. The use of italics should be limited to non-English words, book titles, and sub-sections.

Captions (including proper acknowledgements) should be placed at the appropriate position in the article text or sent separately.

Full paper length will be between 20,000 and 80,000 characters (footnotes included).

Abstract and Keywords

On the first article page, after the author’s name and affiliation there should be an abstract or summary of the article in not more than 250 words. Five keywords should be provided and placed below the abstract.

Headings

Headings should be flush left, and preferable unnumbered. First level headings are bold, second level headings are italic. Do not indent the first paragraph following a section heading.

Quotations

British and American styles are both acceptable: British style uses single quotation marks for the first level of quotation and double quotation marks for quotations within quotations.

American style uses double quotation marks for the first level of quotation and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. Note that in British-style quotations, punctuation appears outside the quotation marks, unless an entire sentence is being cited; in American-style quotations, punctuation appears within the quotation marks.

Quotations of more than four lines, which will be set as indented text in smaller type and line spacing, should not be preceded and followed by quotation marks, and should be double-spaced.

Footnotes

Notes will be typeset as footnotes rather than endnotes. They should be numbered consecutively, double spaced and in the same font size as the main text. A note number may be used only once: sub-numbering of notes (e.g., note 30a) is not acceptable.

Figures

Illustrations and photos, should be submitted in .tiff or .jpg format, scaled at 100%, resolution at least 300 dpi (600 dpi is preferred). Number the files and clearly mark the spot where the photo should be inserted (“insert ill. 2”). Provide the captions at the very end of the article.

Contact Address

For any questions relating to your manuscript please contact Anna Rosellini at

For any questions relating to illustrations please contact Matteo Cassani Simonetti at

Reviews

Only for the “Review section”, HPA accept text in Italian language, abstract must be in English anyway. Abstract and English text must follow the Chicago Manual editorial style (see above); the editorial guidelines for the the Italian text will be sent contacting: .

Articles

The Articles section publishes original contributions and is organized in two sub-sections: Focus and Miscellanea.

Focus includes articles in English submitted in response to our call for abstracts. Abstracts should be no more than 4,000 characters and are evaluated by the Editorial Team and the Scientific Committee, which selects proposals according to their originality, relevance and adherence to the topic described within the call.

Miscellanea includes articles that, regardless of the current topic, deal with topics relevant to the history of architecture of the second half of the 20th century.

Articles are expected to be between 20,000 and 80,000 characters long. Originality, relevance and coherence of the article will be evaluated with a double-blind peer-review process, which will involve experts in the field. If revisions are necessary, authors will be asked to revise their article following the instructions provided by reviewers.
Articles, along with abstracts and five keywords, will be published within six months from their submission. Usually, this section includes up to five papers.

Focus

Focus comprises Articles submitted in response to our call for abstracts. Abstracts are evaluated by the Editorial Team, who selects proposals according to their originality, relevance and adherence to the topic described within the call. Authors of selected abstracts will be asked to prepare their Article, the length of which should be comprised between 20.000 and 80.000 characters. Papers will have to pass a double blind peer review process, which will involve experts in the field. If revisions are necessary, Authors will be asked to revise their Articles following the instructions provided by reviewers. Articles, along with abstracts and five keywords, will be published within 6 months from their submission. Usually, this section comprises up to five papers.

Miscellanea

Miscellanea comprises Articles which, regardless the current topic, deal with topics relevant to the history of architecture of the second half of the 20th Century. Articles are expected to be between 20.000 and 80.000 characters long. Originality, relevance and coherence of the Article will be evaluated with a double blind peer review process, which will involve experts in the field. If revisions are necessary, Authors will be asked to revise their Articles following the instructions provided by reviewers. Articles, along with abstracts and five keywords, will be published within 6 months from their submission. Usually, this section comprises up to five papers.

Reviews

This section hosts critical reviews of books, conferences, exhibitions, events and any others interesting contributions for the purpose of this Journal.
The “Review” section is by the editorial staff. All readers and authors of the Journal are invited to submit a proposal send to Matteo Sintini.
Text will be considered by the editorial board. The issue of “Review” section doesn’t follow the releases of the Journal, contributions can be published at any time.

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