GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS OF THE Rivista di Psicoanalisi
1) REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLICATION
Submissions to the Rivista di Psicoanalisi must meet certain formal requirements, which are the responsibility of the author. Without these, the submission will not be considered. When submitting a manuscript to the Editorial Board, the author must declare:
a) that the work is unpublished;
b) that it is not being simultaneously submitted to other journals;
c) that it complies with professional ethics and copyright regulations.
Authors may indicate which section of the journal they believe the work should be assigned to.
Before publication, authors must sign a form guaranteeing compliance with privacy regulations and the transfer of copyright. Once published, the article becomes the property of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi. Authors may later request permission to republish it elsewhere, with the statement: “by permission of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi.”
The manuscript (in Italian if translated from another language) must not exceed 35,000 characters including spaces, footnotes, and any epigraphs, but excluding abstract, keywords, and bibliography.
Submissions for the “Notes” section must not exceed 18,000 characters including spaces, footnotes, and any epigraphs, again excluding only abstract, keywords, and bibliography.
Submissions should be sent by email in Microsoft Word® or, preferably, Rich Text Format (.rtf).
For both articles and notes, footnotes should be minimal and sequentially numbered.
Quotations, which must be accurately verified, should appear in double angle quotation marks (« ... »). Added italics must be indicated in parentheses, e.g., (italics added), (my italics), (my underline), etc. Foreign author quotes should appear in Italian using, where available, the published Italian edition—except in the case of personal translations, which must be noted (my trans.). Text interpolations should be enclosed in square brackets, e.g., «He [S. Freud] meant...». Omissions are to be indicated as follows: […].
In-text references must appear in parentheses, with the author’s last name (plus first initial in case of ambiguity), original publication date, and page number if quoting a passage (page numbers for translated works refer to the Italian edition). Examples:
(Freud, 1921, 315)
(Freud A., 1936, 58)
(Hartmann, 1939a, 46), (Hartmann, 1939b, 161)
(Breuer and Freud, 1893–1895, 345)
(Carloni et al., 1981, 184)
Book titles in the text must be in italics.
Article titles from journals or edited volumes must appear in double quotation marks.
Each in-text citation must have a corresponding entry in the final bibliography.
2) BIBLIOGRAPHY
The bibliography should appear at the end of the article and include only and all cited works, listed alphabetically by author and chronologically by publication date.
If multiple works by the same author were published in the same year, they must be distinguished with a letter (Freud, 1925a; Freud, 1925b) in both the text and bibliography.
- Books should be formatted as follows:
MUSATTI, C. (1949). Trattato di psicoanalisi. Torino, Boringhieri.
JANIN, C. (1996). Figures et destin du traumatisme. Paris, Puf. - Foreign books with Italian translations (if available) should be cited like this:
BION, W.R. (1961). Esperienze nei gruppi ed altri saggi. Roma, Armando, 1971.
LAPLANCHE, J., PONTALIS, J.B. (1967). Enciclopedia della psicoanalisi. Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1981. - Chapters or articles in edited volumes should be cited as follows:
WITTENBERG, I. (1975). Depressione primaria dell’autismo. In: MELTZER, D. et al., Esplorazioni sull’autismo. Torino, Boringhieri, 1977.
BRITTON, R. (1985). The Oedipus Situation and the Depressive Position. In: ANDERSON, R. (Ed.), Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion. London, Routledge, 1992.
PUGET, J., WENDER, L. (1982). Analista e paziente in mondi sovrapposti. In: LUCATTINI, A., HOROWITZ, M. (Eds.), Psicoanalisti in lockdown. Chieti, Solfanelli, 2022.
DANON-BOILEAU, L., DURIEUX, M.-C., JANIN OUDINOT, M. (2015). La sexualité masculine. In: JANIN OUDINOT, M., DURIEUX, M.-C., DANON-BOILEAU, L. (Eds.), La sexualité masculine. Paris, PUF. - Articles in journals should be cited as:
SERVADIO, E. (1977). Il movimento psicoanalitico in Italia. Riv. Psicoanal., 22, 162-168.
LEMMA, A. (2015). Psychoanalysis in times of technoculture: Some reflections on the fate of the body in virtual space. Int. J. Psychoanal., 96, 569–582.
CHERVET, B. (2014). Pulsions, avez-vous une vie? Rev. Fr. Psychoanal., 45, 103-128.
Journal names must use the abbreviations adopted by the Rivista di Psicoanalisi. Here is an alphabetical list of the most frequently cited journal abbreviations:
American Imago – Am. Imago
American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Am. J. Psychoanal.
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic – Bull. Menn. Clin.
Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis – Can. J. Psychoanal.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis – Contemp. Psychoanal.
Free Associations – F. Assoc.
International Forum of Psychoanalysis – Int. Forum Psychoanal.
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies – Int. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Stud.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis – Int. J. Psychoanal.
International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology – Int. J. Psychoanal. Self Psychol.
International review of Psychoanalysis – Int. Rev. Psychoanal.
Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse – Jahrb. Psychoanal.
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association – J. Am. Psychoanal. Assoc.
Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane – Psicoter. Sci. Um.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues – Psychoanal. Dialogues
Psychoanalytic Inquiry – Psychoanal. Inq.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives – Psychoanal. Perspect.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – Psychoanal. Psychother.
Psychoanalytic Quarterly – Psychoanal. Q.
Psychoanalytic Study of the Child – Psychoanal. Study Child
Revista de Psicoanálisis – Rev. Psicoanal.
Revue Belge de Psychanalyse – Rev. Belg. Psychanal.
Revue Française de Psychanalyse – Rev. Fr. Psychoanal.
Rivista di Psicoanalisi – Riv. Psicoanal.
Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review – Scand. Psychoanal. Rev.
Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse – Tijdschr. Psychoanal.
For abbreviations not included, authors may consult the List of Title Word Abbreviations (LTWA), based on ISO 4 standards for scientific journal title abbreviations.
- Freud’s works must be cited in the Italian Boringhieri edition (O.S.F.) as follows:
FREUD, S. (1920). Al di là del principio di piacere. O.S.F., 9. - Conference papers should be cited like this:
FONAGY, P. (2000). Grasping the Nettle: Or Why Psychoanalytic Research is Such an Irritant. Paper presented at the Annual Research Lecture of The British Psychoanalytical Society, 1st March.
GARELLA, A. (2024). Essere, vivere, esistere in psicoanalisi. Paper presented at the conference of the Centro Veneto di Psicoanalisi “Autoconservazione tra istinto e pulsione”, 9 November.
3) ABSTRACT AND KEYWORDS
The submission must include an abstract of no more than 130 words, along with its English translation, and a list of keywords in both Italian and English.
An English translation of the article title must also be provided.
4) REVIEWS AND REPORTS
Proposals for reviews and conference reports must be pre-approved by the assigned Editor.
Reviews must not exceed 10,000 characters including spaces.
Submissions for the “Reports” section, also pre-approved, must not exceed 12,000 characters including spaces.
All submitted texts are considered final and will be edited by the editorial team.
Each submission is anonymously reviewed by three members of the Reading Commitee.
The Director has the final say regarding publication and any revision requests.
Submissions should be sent to the Editorial Secretary, Giulia Pretta, at: rivista.psa@gmail.com