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La bibliografia deve coincidere con i testi citati in nota.
Distinguere tra Fonti d’archivio (se presenti) e poi Fonti a stampa e Bibliografia (che vanno insieme, se non ci sono fonti a stampa sarà solo Bibliografia). 

Il sistema di riferimento bibliografico adottato da JoMaCC è Autore, Titolo abbreviato (vedere § 4.2 e § 5 in guida completa).

In questo sistema i riferimenti bibliografici vengono dati in nota a piè di pagina e non nel corpo del testo. La forma abbreviata del titolo deve fornire le necessarie informazioni per individuare inequivocabilmente la forma completa nella bibliografia finale.

Cognome dell’autore, titolo principale in corsivo (abbreviato se composto da più di quattro parole), eventuale numero di pagina.

In bibliografia:

• 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 nota:

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

Cognome dell’autore, «Titolo», eventuale numero di pagina.

In bibliografia:

• 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 nota:

• Bianchi, «Il Gotico. Racconti e miti», 17.
• Casanova, «La pena di morte».

In bibliografia:

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

In nota:

• S. Congregatio Consistorialis. «De relationibus dioecesanis».

Cognome dell’autore, «Titolo», eventuale numero di pagina.

In bibliografia:

• 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 nota:

• Bianchi, «Storie e miti del Gotico italiano».

Titolo principale corsivo (abbreviato se composto da più di quattro parole), eventuale numero di pagina.

In bibliografia:

• Nuove risorse. Milano: Open Edition, 2000.

In nota:

• Nuove risorse, 110-15.

NOTA BENE: non è in assoluto ammesso il ricorso ad abbreviazioni quali: Ivi, Ibid., Ibidem, Id., Ead., op. cit. e analoghi. Ogni riferimento, anche se ricorrente più volte, deve essere sempre ripetuto secondo gli esempi sopra riportati.

Citazioni archivistiche

Per citare una fonte archivistica, in bibliografia basterà riportare l’archivio in acronimo e il fondo o eventualmente anche la busta e/o il fascicolo se di ampie dimensioni. In nota si segue il seguente ordine: documento, in archivio, fondo, busta (box), fascicolo (folder).

In bibliografia:

• CUAA, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ad Hoc Committee: Catholic Charismatic Renewal 1969-1979.

In nota:

• Letter from Alexander Carter to Edward O’Connor, 2 January 1970, in University of America Archives (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 Fonti d’archivio:

• AAV, Archivio Particolare Pio X, b. 116.

In nota:

• Lemius a Pio X, senza data (gennaio 1914), in Archivio Particolare Pio X, b. 116, fol. 1022r-1023v.

In bibliografia:

• 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 nota:

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

Per citare una fonte archivistica, nelle Fonti d’archivio si indichi, nell’ordine, l’acronimo dell’archivio, il fondo ed eventualmente anche l’unità archivistica (busta e/o fascicolo ecc.) se di ampie dimensioni. In nota si indichi: documento, seguito da «in» e la denominazione completa dell’archivio, fondo, unità archivistica (busta/box ecc.), sottounità archivistica (fascicolo/cartella ecc.), foglio o pagina, se si tratta di documento costituito da più pagine.

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 15th, 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

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