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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Department of Humanities
Malcanton Marcorà
Dorsoduro 3848/D
30123 Venice
jomacc_editor@unive.it

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Every article published by ECF was accepted for publication by no less than two qualified reviewers as a result of a process of anonymous reviewing (double-blind peer review). The reviewers are independent of the authors and not affiliated with the same institution.

The Journal’s Editor-in-Chief guarantees the proper execution of the peer review process for every article published in the Journal.

Peer review policies for the different sections:

• Complete volume/issue: subject to peer review
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• Introductions, prefaces: no peer review
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For a complete description of the process, please visit: Scientific certification.

This handbook outlines the main editorial conventions adopted in the journal. For special cases and further guidance (such as the list of permissible abbreviations), please refer to the Edizioni Ca' Foscari Editorial Guidelines: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/pubblicare-con-noi/ecf_norme_en.pdf.pdf

I. Document Composition

For each document provide at least 5 keywords relating to the main topics of the article, along with an abstract (not exceeding 650 characters, spaces included). Please note that, in the abstract, bibliographic references should not be included. Do not use the first person.

The Main Text can be divided into titled sections and subsections (with additional levels, if necessary), which are numbered and titled. The text should begin with an Introduction section (number 1) and end with a Conclusions section. Please ensure that all text portions are numbered.

Use a font that includes the full Unicode range (e.g. Times New Roman, Calibri, Aptos or equivalent), with a body size of 12 in the main text (10 in footnotes).

Small caps, special styles, and line spacing other than 1 are excluded. Boldface is allowed for titles.

Dates, Numbers and Measure System

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E.g.: 1960-65; 270-1; 256-70; 311-14; 1,000; 120 × 240 cm; 5 March-7 May; Eighteenth century; 1930s.

Quotations in the Main Text

• Quotations counting less than 10 words should be included in the main text and enclosed in double inverted commas ( “…”). The verses are separated by a vertical bar ( | ).
• Quotations that are longer than 10 words must:
• NOT be enclosed in quotation marks,
• detached from the body and preceded and followed by a blank line,
• indented 1 cm from the left with respect to the main body of the text;
• end with a full stop;
• If the quotation contains other quotations, double inverted commas and single inverted commas should be used (e.g.: “as the Apostle teaches us: ‘There is one body and one Spirit’”).
• Quotations from primary sources must be in the original language. Translation, if any, may be given in footnotes. If quotations are translated by the author, this should be indicated at the first occurrence.
• Deliberate omissions in the body of the citation are marked with ‘[...]’. Gaps already present in the text from which you are quoting are marked with ‘<...>’.

Foreign Words and Translations

The translation must be given in regular, within round brackets placed immediately after the foreign word: e.g. Alltagsgeschichte (microhistory).

Emphasis

High inverted commas (‘...’) may be used to highlight a ‘concept’, to dwell on the precise meaning of a ‘term’, to signal the ‘idiomatic’, ‘metaphorical’ or ‘improper’ use of a lemma.

II. Bibliography

Each document is followed by a final bibliography, ordered alphabetically. The bibliography must contain all texts cited in the footnotes.
Distinguish between Archival Sources (if any) and then Printed Sources (if any) and Bibliography.

The bibliographic reference system adopted by JoMaCC is Author, Shortened Title (cf. § 4.2 e § 5 in Edizioni Ca' Foscari Editorial Guidelines).

In this system, bibliographical references are included in the footnotes and not in the body of the text. The shortened form of the title must provide the necessary information to unambiguously identify the complete form in the final bibliography.

Author’s Last Name, Title in italics (shortened title if longer than four words), page number(s), if any.

In the bibliography:

• Rossi, M. La stesura di norme sull’impiego dell’idrogeno. Venezia: Edizioni Aperte, 1987.
• Rossi, M.; Bianchi, T. (a cura di). La nostra opera. Venezia: Edizioni Aperte, 1990.

In footnotes:

• Rossi, La stesura di norme, 35-6; Rossi, Bianchi, La nostra opera.

Author’s Last Name, “Title”, page number(s), if any.

In the bibliography:

• Bianchi, F. “Il Gotico. Racconti e miti”. Letteratura inglese, 6(2), 2017, 15-34.
• Harsey, S.; Freyd, F.J. “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO): What is the Influence on Perceived Perpetrator and Victim Credibility?”. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 29(8), 2020, 897-916. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2020.1774695.

In footnotes:

• Bianchi, “Il Gotico. Racconti e miti”, 17.
• Casanova, “La pena di morte”.

In the bibliography:

• S. Congregatio Consistorialis. “De relationibus dioecesanis”. Acta Apostolicae Sedis (AAS), 10, 1918, 500-15.
• S. Congregatio Consistorialis. “Titolo”. AAS, 10, 1918, 515-30.

In footnotes:

• S. Congregatio Consistorialis. “De relationibus dioecesanis”.

Author’s Last Name, “Title”, page number(s), if any.

In the bibliography:

• Bianchi, F. “Storie e miti del Gotico italiano”. Ricci, L. (a cura di), Il Gotico nel diciannovesimo secolo, vol. 2. Venezia: Edizioni Aperte, 2016, 87-121.

In footnotes:

• Bianchi, “Storie e miti del Gotico italiano”.

Title in italics (shortened if it consists of more than four words), and the corresponding page number, if applicable.

In the bibliography:

• Nuove risorse. Milano: Open Edition, 2000.

In footnotes:

• Nuove risorse, 110-15.

Please note: the following abbreviations must not be used: Ivi, Ibid., Ibidem, Id., Ead., op. cit. etc. Each reference, even if recurring several times, must always be repeated.

Archive Quotations

To cite an archival source,

• in the bibliography: state the archive and the fond, or alternatively the box and/or folder, if the source is extensive;
• in footnotes observe the following order: document, in archive (acronym), fonds, box, folder.

In Archival Sources:

• Catholic University of America Archives (CUAA), National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ad Hoc Committee: Catholic Charismatic Renewal 1969-1979.

In footnotes:

• Letter from Alexander Carter to Edward O’Connor, 2 January 1970, in CUAA, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ad Hoc Committee: Catholic Charismatic Renewal 1969-1979, Box 120, folder NCCB: Ad Hoc Committee: Catholic Charismatic Renewal 1969-1971.

In Archival Sources:

• Archivio Apostolico Vaticano (AAV), Archivio Particolare Pio X, b. 116.

In footnotes:

• Lemius a Pio X, undated (January 1914), in AAV, Archivio Particolare Pio X, b. 116, ff. 1022r-1023v.

In the bibliography:

• Giovanni Paolo II. Costituzione apostolica Pastor Bonus. 1988. https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/it/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_19880628_pastor-bonus-index.html.

In foonotes:

• Giovanni Paolo II, Costituzione Apostolica Pastor Bonus, art. 149.

Common archival abbreviations

To cite an archival source, list, in order, the acronym of the archive, the fond and possibly also the archival unit (box/unit, etc.) if large. In footnotes, indicate: document, followed by “in” and the full name of the archive, fond, archival unit (box/unit, etc.), archival subunit (file / folder etc.), sheet or page if the document consists of several pages.

JoMaCC. Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity

1/2026

North America. A Mission Landscape (1820s-1910s)

Editor: Valentina Ciciliot (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Guest editors: Claudio Ferlan (Italian-German Historical Institute, FBK, Italy)

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the spread of the Christian faith experienced a new upswing in which all denominations – Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox – were involved. It was rightly described as a missionary century: the definition comes from a pioneer of missiology, Gustav Warneck (1834-1910), while Kenneth Scott Latourette (1884-1968) speaks of the great century of Christian missions

One of the places that marked this change was North America, where the missionary zeal of representatives of various Christian denominations, both women and men, materialized in a variety of ways. The specificity of missionary work in this country was characterized by a multifaceted activity carried out among emigrants, settlers, and members of the US Army on the one hand, and among the indigenous peoples on the other. For this reason, the situation required a constant confrontation between different religious and material cultures.

The purpose of this call for articles is to gather contributions that will deepen the understanding of these multifaceted efforts and consider the diversity of missionary activities of Catholics and Protestants, men and women, organized and unorganized, both within American society (towns, wagon trains, pioneers, mines, workplaces) and within the native population.

Possible topics:

• Christian missions
• Religious Orders, Congregations and Confraternities
• Schools, Catechism
• Missionary literature
• Women’s voices
• Native population’s perspective

Proposal submission deadline
December 31st, 2024 (Authors may submit an abstract or extended abstract in English)

Notification of acceptance
January 2025

Submission deadline for final and complete articles
January 15th, 2026

Articles should be written in English and range between approx. 30,000-50,000 characters (space included). The instructions for authors can be consulted on the journal’s website: Editorial Guidelines (Section 4.2 Author, title).

Submitted articles must be suitable for blind review. Each submission should include a brief abstract of no more than 650 words, five keywords for indexing purposes, and a bibliography.

For any questions, please use the following address: jomacc_editor@unive.it; vciciliot@unive.it.

Bibliography

Clarke, E.S. (2020). “The Sisters of Our Lady of the Snows: An Indigenous, Alaskan Sisterhood”. American Catholic Studies, 131(3), 57-91.
Fleck, M. (2024). “Sisters of Providence: Their Arrival and Adaptations to the Pacific Northwest”. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 125(2), 134-56.
Martin, J. W.; Mark, A.N. (eds) (2014). Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Scholarship Online.
McKevitt, G. (2007). Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
O’Donnell, C. (2020). Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States: Faith, Conflict, Adaptation. Leiden: Brill.
Joyeux, M.; Robinaud, M. (eds) (2023). “Missions catholiques féminines en contexte colonial et post-colonial”. Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 202, 2.

Go to the upload area to submit your proposal

https://peerflow.edizionicafoscari.it/abstracts/form/journal/29/343   

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Ethical Code of the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity

The Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity is a peer-reviewed scientific journal whose policy is inspired by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Ethical Code. See the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publisher’s responsibilities  

The Publisher must provide the Journal with adequate resources and the guidance of experts, in order to carry out its role in the most professional way, aiming at the highest quality standard.

The Publisher must have a written agreement that defines the relationship with the owner of the Journal and/or the Editor-in-Chief. The agreement must comply with the Code of Behavior for Publishers of Scientific Journals, as established by COPE.

The relationship among the Editor-in-Chief, the Advisory Board and the Publisher is based on the principle of publishing independence. 

Editors’ responsibilities 

The Editor-in-Chief and the Advisory Board of the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity alone are responsible for the decision to publish the articles submitted.

Submitted articles, after having been checked for plagiarism by means of the anti-plagiarism software Compilatio that is used by the University and is made available to us, will be sent to at least two reviewers. Final acceptance presumes the implementation of possible amendments, as required by the reviewers and under the supervision of the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity Editor-in-Chief.

The Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board must evaluate each submitted paper in compliance with the Journalʼs policy, i.e. exclusively on the basis of its scientific content, without discrimination of race, sex, gender, creed, ethnic origin, citizenship, or the scientific, academic and political position of the Authors. 

Allegations of misconduct

If the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board notice (or receive notifications of) mistakes or inaccuracies, conflict of interest or plagiarism in a published article, they will immediately warn the Author and the Publisher and will undertake the necessary actions to resolve the issue. They will do their best to correct the published content whenever they are informed that it contains scientific errors or that the authors have committed unethical or illegal acts in connection with their published work. If necessary, they will withdraw the article or publish a recantation.

All complaints are handled in accordance with the guidelines published by the COPE.

Concerns and complaints must be addressed to the following e-mail ecf_support@unive.it. The letter should contain the following information:

• complainant’s personal information;
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• complaint(s);
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Authors’ responsibilities

Stylesheet

Authors must follow the Guidelines for Authors to be downloaded from the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity website.

Authors must explicitly state that their work is original in all its parts and that the submitted paper has not been previously published, nor submitted to other journals, until the entire evaluation process is completed. Since no paper gets published without significant revision, earlier dissemination in conference proceedings or working papers does not preclude consideration for publication, but Authors are expected to fully disclose publication/dissemination of the material in other closely related publications, so that the overlap can be evaluated by the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity Editor-in-Chief. 

Authorship

Authors are strongly encouraged to use their ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript. This will ensure the authors’ visibility and correct citation of their work.

Authorship must be correctly attributed; all those who have given a substantial contribution to the design, organisation and accomplishment of the research the article is based on, must be indicated as Co-Authors. Please ensure that: the order of the author names is correct; the names of all authors are present and correctly spelled, and that affiliations are up-to-date.

The respective roles of each co-author should be described in a footnote. The statement that all authors have approved the final version should be included in the disclosure.

Conflicts of interest and financing

Authors, under their own responsibility, must avoid any conflict of interest affecting the results obtained or the interpretations suggested. The Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity Editor-in-Chief will give serious and careful consideration to suggestions of cases in which, due to possible conflict of interest, an Author’s work should not be reviewed by a specific scholar. Authors should indicate any financing agency or the project the article stems from. 

Quotations

Authors must see to it that all works consulted be properly quoted. If works or words of others are used, they have to be properly paraphrased or duly quoted. Quotations between “double quotes” (or «angled quotation marks» if the text is written in a language other than English) must reproduce the exact wording of the source; under their own responsibility, Authors should carefully refrain from disguising a restyling of the source’s wording, as though it was the original formulation. 

Any form of excessive, inappropriate or unnecessary self-citation, as well as any other form of citation manipulation, are strongly discouraged.

Ethical Committee

Whenever required, the research protocols must be authorised in advance by the Ethical Committee of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. 

Emendations

When Authors find a mistake or an inaccuracy in their own article, they must immediately warn the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity Editor-in-Chief, providing all the information needed to make the due adjustments. 

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Goal

By means of the peer-review procedure, reviewers assist the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board in taking decisions on the articles submitted. They are expected to offer the Authors suggestions as to possible adjustments aimed at improving their contribution submission. 

Timing and conflicts of interest

If a reviewer does not feel up to the task of doing a given review, or if she/he is unable to read the work within the agreed schedule, she/he should notify the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity Editor-in-Chief. Reviewers must not accept articles for which there is a conflict of interest due to previous contributions or to a competition with a disclosed author (or with an author they believe to have identified). 

Confidentiality

The content of the reviewed work must be considered confidential and must not be used without explicit authorisation by the Author, who is to be contacted via the editor-in-chief. Any confidential information obtained during the peer review process should not be used for other purposes.

Collaborative attitude

Reviewers should see themselves not as adversaries but as advocates for the field. Any comment must be done in a collaborative way and from an objective point of view. Reviewers should clearly motivate their comments and keep in mind the Golden Rule of Reviewing: “Review for others as you would have others review for you”. 

Plagiarism

Reviewers should report any similarity or overlapping of the work under analysis with other works known to them. 

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