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Author Guidelines

Formatting standards.

1. The submission file must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format (it must be editable for possible corrections or modifications during the publication process). If the author is confident that the paper will be accepted with no modifications, may submit a PDF file. If the article is written in LaTex, it must be converted into a PDF file In any case, Page 1 must be formatted as shown in point 3.
2. The text must: be single-spaced, use a 12-point Times font, employ italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
3. Guidelines for page 1. Page 1 contains the volume of Scientia, the date of preparation of the article (not the date of final publication of the volume, that usually is finished later), then the title of the article, the name of the author(s) with affiliation or mailing address, and the Abstract (if required - for scientific articles there must be an Abstract).
   Page 1 must be conform to one of the following templates (here in the popular format Microsoft Word .doc), depending on the number of authors.
   There are some templates based on the format A4, mostly used in Europe, and based on a format Letter, mostly used in the USA).
   The authors using a word processor which does not support files .doc, must convert or rebuild them following the proper template and place it at page 1 ot the article.
   The authors using LaTex can separately make a .pdf document of both the template and the article, and then join them together with a proper software, such as the freeware PdfEdit995 or the online service at PdfJoin.com.
   Choose and download the proper template for your article, which contains 2 other pages besides page 1, that are obviously page 2 and 3, and that you can use for properly formatting the article (otherwise you can cut and keep only page 1 of the template). Read and follow the instructions on the template itself, then delete those instructions and rewrite the beginning of the article over the same space:
   www.scientiajournal.org/templates/
   Then follow the other guidelines on this page.
4. Where available, URLs for the references should be provided.

The format must follow the proper guidelines related to the specific science or discipline. The formatting standards for every discipline can be easily found on the web.

Examples.

In Physics and Astronomy, the AIP (American Institute of Physics) style is widely used. Citations are indicated by numerals in square brackets in consecutive numerical order throughout the text, with the complete references arranged in the same order at the end.

In Psychology, the APA (American Psychological Association) style is widely used. Citations appears in the text with the author's (or coauthors') last name(s) and the year of publication, such as (Coppola, Fox, and Spector, 1998), and the complete reference is reported in the list at the end of the paper. Whereas two or more cited papers from the same author(s) happen to have been published in the same year, a letter is added for each separate paper, such as 1973a, 1973b, etc.

Since the APA style is so simple and effective, it can be even accepted for papers in other disciplines, including for example Physics and Astronomy, even though numerals in square brackets are widely used for citations in these areas of science.

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.

1. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, WordPerfect, or (if applicable) PDF document file format.
   
2. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point Times font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
3. Page 1 is formatted as shown in point 3, based on the proper template (here only shown for documents .doc).
4. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

Copyright Notice

The Copyright is of the Author, under the Creative Commons license Attribution + NoDerivatives + ShareAlike (by-nd-sa).

Attribution: anyone can copy and reproduce the content, as long as the source is cited: author, journal and publisher (Istituto Scientia).

NoDerivatives: the content must be copied as is. Comments and opinion can be added after (or before) the content, obvioysly, but the content itself can not be changed.

ShareAlike: a third party can copy the content at the same conditions.

Scientia accepts papers that have already been published, provided the copyright is still of the author.

Scientia accepts pre-prints that can be submitted to other journals.

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