Submissions

Author Guidelines

There is no APC or submission fee to publish a work in this journal.
The authors retain all copyrights.

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Please, make sure of the removal of the author’s name from the anonymous copy of your paper.

Online submission is disabled. Please send your paper in two copies: one anonymous and the other signed to e-mail h-ermes@unisalento.it.

Template H-ermes. Journal of Communication.

LAYOUT SETTINGS

(DO NOT CHANGE)

Margins:

Top: 3 cm

Bottom: 3 cm

Left: 3.5 cm

Right: 3.5 cm

Gutter: 0 cm

Gutter position: left

The font to be used for the article is Times New Roman.

The article must be arranged in the following order:

Title (font size 12, bold)

Author, University or other institutional affiliation, institutional e-mail address in round brackets
(font size 12, regular roman style).

Author example:

Antonio Rossi, University of Salento (antonio.rossi@unisalento.it)

Abstract.Title in English. Abstract in English, approximately 400 words, maximum 2,500 characters including spaces, single line spacing.

Keywords: 5 keywords (font size 8, single line spacing).

Article

Below the title, separated by one blank line, the author’s name must appear, using the same formatting as the title but not in bold. Below the author’s name, separated by two blank lines, the article abstract must appear: approximately 400 words, maximum 2,500 characters including spaces. The abstract must be set in italics, Times New Roman, font size 10, single line spacing, justified alignment.

The keywords must be placed below the abstract.

Below the keywords, separated by three blank lines, the main text of the article must appear. It must be set in Times New Roman, regular roman style, font size 12, 1.5 line spacing, justified alignment.

If the text is divided into sections or parts, the relevant headings must be set in italics, Times New Roman, font size 12, justified alignment. The text following the section heading must not be separated from the heading by any blank line.

Example of the beginning of a section with heading:

“Mediated” and “immediate” politics

Once upon a time, there was mediated journalism — through newspapers, radio news, and television news. I am not referring so much to the modes through which news was transmitted, because the media of the past — print, radio, and television — still survive: the Internet has not replaced them, and it will not replace them any time soon, assuming it ever succeeds in doing so and that its competitors do not instead undergo an adaptive metamorphosis. Rather, the Internet has simply been added to them.

Quotations shorter than three lines must be included in the text within “double quotation marks”. Do not use guillemets (« »).

Quotations longer than three lines must instead be set as block quotations, without quotation marks (“…”) or guillemets («…»), in font size 11, single line spacing, separated above and below by one blank line, indented only on the left by 1 cm, and justified.

Footnotes must be set in Times New Roman, font size 9, single line spacing, justified alignment. They are to be used exclusively as content notes, not for bibliographical references.

Simple in-text references and in-text references to quotations within the body of the article must be formatted like the main body text and must follow the examples below:

(Foucault 1966) for a simple reference to a work listed in the bibliography;

(Foucault 1966, p. 12) for a quotation from a work listed in the bibliography;

(ibid., p. 15) for a quotation from the same work but from a different page;

(ibid.) for a quotation from the same work and the same page.

Bibliographical References must be formatted like the body of the article, with a 1 cm hanging indent and single line spacing.

Bibliographical references must be arranged in alphabetical order and must follow the examples below:

Foucault M., 1966, Le mots et les choses, Minuit, Paris. (for a text in the original language);

Foucault M., 1966, Les mots et les choses, Minuit, Paris; Italian trans., 1975, Le parole e le cose, Feltrinelli, Milan. (for a translation where the original work is indicated);

Foucault M., (1966) 1975, Le parole e le cose, Feltrinelli, Milan. (for a translation where the original work is not indicated).

Example of Bibliographical References

Aleksic, A., 2025, Algospeak: How social media is transforming the future of language, Penguin Random House.

Anderson C., Wolff, M., 2010, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet, in «Wired», www.wired.com/magazine/2010/8/ff_webrip/all/ del 17 agosto 2010, consultato il 14 giugno 2013.

Eliade M., (1975) 2006, Storia delle credenze e delle idee religiose, RCS Libri, Milano.

Esiodo, ed. 1979, Opere e I giorni, Rizzoli, Milano.

Featherstone, M., Burrows, R., (a cura di), 1999, Tecnologia e cultura virtuale. Cyberspace, cyberbodies, cyberpunk, Franco Angeli, Milano.

Kahn-Lyotard L., (1981) 1989, Ermes, in Bonnefoy Y., Dizionario delle mitologie e delle religioni, Bompiani, Milano.

Luciano di Samosata, ed. 2010, Dialoghi degli dei, Mondadori, Milano.

Newspaper, journal, and scientific periodical titles must be enclosed in guillemets (« »).

Examples:

«H-ermes Journal of Communication», «Il Corriere della Sera», «Les Temps modernes»

Examples:

Denis, J., Pontille, D., 2015, Material ordering and the care of things, in «Science, Technology, & Human Values», 40(3), pp. 338-367, https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243914553129

Guerrera A., 2026, Jimmy Wales il wikiottimista, in «Il Venerdì di Repubblica», 1979, pp. 20–25.

Stokes S.L., 1980, Estimation of variance using judgment order ranked set samples, in «Biometrics», 36, pp. 35-42.

REFEREEING (double blind)

After submitting your paper as author following the platform-registration process of the magazine, the Editor will send to a competent anonymous Reviewer the anonymous copy of your paper, which will be then evaluated as: accepted, revised, rejected. The editor will notify applicants of the evaluation outcome.

The authors of an issue cannot act as reviewers of the same issue of the journal.