Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Manuscript Template

1 – The manuscript for the publication must be sent exclusively in OpenOffice, RTF, or Microsoft Word format (e.g. .doc or .docx). The manuscript must be formatted according to the template at the bottom of these guidelines. The author can use the template by writing directly or he can copy and paste from other text files. The contributions, subdivided into paragraphs and sub-paragraphs, numbered progressively according to ordinal classification, must not normally exceed 25 folders, including abstract, references list, tables, and images.

Submissions to Aestimum are made using the FUP website. Registration and access are available at https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ceset/login

Registering on FUP Website

If you have not yet registered on Aestimum website, please follow the instructions below:

• Please log on to https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ceset/user/register
• Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding.

• Click “Register” and your account has been created.
• In the following page, click on “Edit My Profile”.
• Select the “Roles” panel and register yourself as Author.
• Click “Save” and you are enabled to submit your manuscript.

Submitting an article to Aestimum

• Please log on to Aestimum at https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ceset/login  with your username and password.
• Click on the “New submission” link.
• Select the appropriate section for your submission.
• Complete all fields and browse to upload your article.
• Submit your manuscript.

The manuscript must include a title, an abstract (max 1000 characters, spaces included), the JEL codes, three keywords, the main text, the references list, all images (include relevant captions), all tables (including titles, description, footnotes) and appendices. Images, tables and mathematical equations must be reported at the end of the manuscript.

The authors have to indicate the position in which images, tables and mathematical equations must be inserted, including the related captions written in the same format as the body of the text.

The tables require the Word or Excel format.

The mathematical equations have to be numbered progressively in square brackets on the right side.

Any references to authors must be deleted to ensure anonymity during the review process. Aestimum publishes works in English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these), except for those submitted for the “Agricultural law” section, which may also be written in Italian.

The Authors must upload a Title Page. The title page includes the title of the manuscript, the author names, and affiliations, indicating the corresponding author.

The submission must include a Cover Letter, where authors provide the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of four potential reviewers. These reviewers must have published articles on the research topic of the contribution and/or have previously used the same analysis methodology, even in other research topics. Reviewers should not have the same affiliations as the authors or have co-authored or collaborated with the authors during the last three years. The Editor retains the sole right to decide whether the suggested reviewers will be used.

2 – The manuscripts submitted will be sent to a minimum of two anonymous reviewers, selected by the Aestimum Editorial Board.

3 – The footnotes in the text must contain explanations and not bibliographic references and be inserted at the bottom of the page. The numbering of the notes must be progressive.

4 – All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. In the text refer to the author's name (without initial) and year of publication with the number of pages (in the case of citations), according to the following examples:

(Serpieri, 1950, p.12)

(Marangon and Tempesta, 2001, pp. 23-24)

(Center of Studies of Estimation and Territorial Economics, 1991; Sorbi, 1986)

(Alberini et al., 2003; Romano and Luongo, 2003)

(Ministry of the Environment, 1994)

The reference list, by Author names and date of publication, must be listed according to the following examples:

Book

Serpieri, A. (1950). La stima dei beni fondiari. Bologna, Edizioni Agricole.

Cameron, A. C., & Trivedi, P. K. (2005). Microeconometrics: methods and applications. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Article

Romano, S., Cozzi, M., Di Napoli, F., & Catullo, G. (2013). Valutazione della sostituibilità tra fonti energetiche e strategia di impiego delle biomasse in Basilicata. Aestimum, (62), 1–28.

Plantiga, A. J., & Miller, D. J. (2001). Agricultural land values and the value of rights to future land development. Land Economics, 77(1), 56–67.

Multi-author book

Defrancesco, E., Rosato, P., & Rossetto, L. (2001). La valutazione economica del risarcimento per danni all’ambiente ai sensi dell’art. 18 Ln 349/1986: un approccio estimativo. In Marangon, F., & Tempesta, T. (Eds.). La valutazione dei beni ambientali come supporto alle decisioni pubbliche. Udine, Forum Editrice Universitaria.

Van Der Ploeg, J., & Roep, D. (2003). Multifunctionality and rural development the actual situation in Europe. In Van Huylenbroeck, G., & Durand, G. (Eds.). Multifunctional agriculture. A new paradigm for European agriculture and rural development. Aldershot, Ashgate.

Conference paper

Golden, B. B., & Featherstone, A. M. (2003). Determinants of Kansas agricultural land values. In 2003 Annual Meeting, February 1-5, 2003, Mobile, Alabama. Southern Agricultural Economics Association.

Technical reports, thesis

Ministero dell’Ambiente (1994). Acli anni verdi. Guida all’uso del parco. Roma, Ministero dell’Ambiente.

5 – Images must be uploaded also as separated files in step 4 of the submission process into “Upload supplementary file”.

Images must respect the format of the Journal page (mm 170 × 240).  Images must be added in colour but will be published in black-and-white in the print version. It is, therefore, necessary that in their transformation from colour to black-and-white the information reported in them are legible.

The images require the TIFF or EPS format (with a resolution of 300 DPI), for the EPS charts the author must add the original spreadsheet (Excel or other).

6 – When the article is written in Italian (only for the “Agricultural Law” section), it must include the abstract, title and keywords in English.

7 – DECLARATION OF GENERATIVE AI. Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies should only be used to improve language and readability of the manuscript, with caution. If the authors used generative Al or AI-assisted technology, they must include the following statement directly before the references:

“During the preparation of this work the author(s) used [NAME TOOL / SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the publication.”

This declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools for checking grammar, spelling, references etc. If there is nothing to disclose, there is no need to add a statement.

8 – ANTIPLAGIARISM. All manuscripts submitted to Aestimum may be screened with anti-plagiarism softwares to detect and prevent plagiarism.

9 – For any enquiries, please contact the editorial manager: andrea.dominici@unifi.it.