Periodico di Mineralogia is a journal devoted to publishing original research and review papers in MINERALOGY, CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, GEOCHEMISTRY, ORE DEPOSITS, PETROLOGY, VOLCANOLOGY and related applied topics on ENVIRONMENT, ARCHAEOMETRY and CULTURAL HERITAGE.

Papers must be written in English. Submission of a research article is understood to imply that both the whole and the parts of the manuscript are original and not being considered for publication elsewhere.

There is no page limitation on the length of articles and number of tables and illustrations.
Manuscripts should be submitted as Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file to one of the Editors. They must be double spaced and all pages must be numbered. The tables, drawings, and photographs should be sent together with the manuscript saved in the same type of file (.pdf).

The parts of the manuscript should appear in the following order:
1. Title; 2. NAME(S) and SURNAME(S); 3. ADDRESS(ES) OF AUTHOR(S); 4. ABSTRACT; 5. KEYWORDS; 6. TEXT; 7. LIST OF REFERENCES; 8. TABLES AND TABLE CAPTIONS; 9. FIGURES AND FIGURE CAPTIONS.

1. The title and any subtitle should be typed with the first word and all proper names capitalised. Other words are lower case.

2. Name(s) should be typed with initial capital letter and the rest as small capitals. To help identification in indexing and abstracting, it is recommended that Authors spell out one of their given names. Address(es) should be typed below the Author(s) name(s) with only first letters capitalised and without underlining or italics. If the corresponding Author is different from the senior Author it should be specified together with full mail and e-mail addresses for correspondence.

3. The abstract should be concise and of no more than 500 words; it should include important numbers (e.g., thermodynamic data, temperature range, isotope range, etc.). Citations must not appear in the abstract. A second summary in Italian is recommended and should come after the English abstract.

For non Italian Authors, translations of the abstract into Italian can be arranged at the Editorial Office.

4. Key-words should be given, possibly following recommendations of GeoRef.

5. Appropriate headings are used to break the text into sections. First-order headings are centred and entirely capitalised, with the first letter a large capital and the rest as small capitals. Second-order headings are left-justified; first letter and proper names are capitalised, with an italicised font. The ordinary type sequence of arguments should include the following sections: Introduction, Geological Background, Methods and Techniques, Studied Materials, Results, Discussion, Conclusions. “Rock names” must follow the recommendations of the IUGS, whereas “Mineral names” must follow the recommendations of the IMA. Helpful notes and discussions of the preparation of manuscripts are found in “T.N. Irvine, D. Rumble III and L.M. Irvine (1992) A writing guide for petrological (and other geological) Manuscripts. Suppl. J. Petrol., Oxford University Press, 1-46”.

6. All references quoted in the text, tables and figures, and other parts of the paper, must be included in the list of references. Citations should be placed in the appropriate position in the paper and cited as follow: for one Author, by the surname of the Author and the year of publication; for two Authors, by the surname of both Authors, connected by “and”, and the year of publication; for more than two Authors, by the surname of the first Author followed by “et al.”, italicised, and the year of publication. If citation is enclosed in brackets, a comma separates the Author(s) by the year; in the case of more citations they are separated by a semi-colon and ordered first by year of publication and second by alphabetical order. In a case were quotation is part of the sentence, only the year is put in brackets and no comma is used. Two different references, whose citation would be identical, are differentiated by adding, after the year of publication, a lower-case “a” and “b” in both the text and reference list.
The reference list is arranged in alphabetical order following the surname of the first Authors. In the case of multiple Authors they will be arranged following the further Authors; in the case of identical numbers of Authors, the different citations should be listed by year.
Styles of citations in the reference list for books, articles, abstracts and proceedings are listed as follows:
a) BOOKS - surnames and initials of all the Authors (in small capitals), year of publication (in brackets), full title (italicised), publisher and place of publication, pages; e.g., Cox K.G., Bell J.D. and Pankhurst R.J. (1979) - The interpretation of igneous rocks. Chapman Hall, London, 450 pp.
b) ARTICLES in JOURNALS - surnames and initials of all the Authors (in small capitals), year of publication (in brackets), full title of the paper (italicised), name of the journal, volume (boldface), first and last page numbers; e.g., Lustrino L., Melluso L. and Morra V. (2000) – The role of lower continental crust and lithosphere mantle in the genesis of Plio-Pleistocene volcanic rocks from Sardinia (Italy). Earth Planet. Sci.. Lett., 180, 259-270.
c) ABSTRACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF CONFERENCES - surnames and initials of all the Authors (in small capitals), year of publication (in brackets), full title of the abstract or proceedings (italicised), In: Official topic of the conference (in inverted commas and italicised), host journal, volume (boldface), first and last page numbers; e.g., Stevenson R.J., Dingwell D.B., Bagdassarov N.S. and Webb S.L. (1995) – Rheological modeling of an emplacing rhyolite lava flow: implication for hazard assessment. In: “Volcanoes in Town, an IAVCEI Conference on Volcanic Hazards in Densely Populated Regions”, extended abstract volume, Per. Mineral., 64, 275-276.

7. For the Tables, Author(s) should take into consideration the limitations set by the size (14 cm × 18.5 cm) of the “Periodico di Mineralogia”. If many data are presented, Authors are invited to divide their data set into two or more tables. Tables should be ready for 1:1 reproduction. For editing their tables Authors should use “Times New Roman” font with a size of 10 points. Footnotes of tables should be listed apart and provided along with original and copies of tables. Reference should be made in the text to each table. A list of captions would be furnished at the end of tables.

8. Illustrations (drawings and photographs) should respect the page format of the Periodico di Mineralogia (14 cm × 18.5 cm). Lettering should also be as large as possible to allow for eventual reduction without becoming illegible. Colour illustrations can be accepted, and paid for by the Author(s) (see below). Bar scales should be used rather than numeric scales, which must be changed in the case of reduction. All illustrations should be supplied in a camera-ready. References should be made in the text to each figure. Each illustration must be accompanied by a caption. A list of captions would be furnished at the end of illustrations.
Only one set of galley proofs will be sent to the Author(s) to be checked only for typesetting/editing errors. The Author(s) is (are) not expected to make changes or corrections that will modify the accepted version of the manuscript. Changes should be returned within four days to maurizio.salvati@uniroma.it.

Thirty reprints of each article are supplied free of charge. Additional copies may be purchased:

Color prints are charged according to their dimensions: half column € 200,00; half page € 250,00; full page € 300,00.
Additional reprints can be ordered on a Reprint Order Form which will be sent to the corresponding Author with proofs for correction.
Original drawings and photographs of papers published will be returned upon request by the Author(s) within two months of publication date.
Manuscripts can be submitted either to the Scientific Editor (Antonio Gianfagna, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy; antonio.gianfagna@ uniroma1.it) or to one of the members of the Editorial Board.