Manuscripts typed on duplicate on one side of the sheet only and an electronic version should be submitted to the editorial office: NEW MEDIT, IAMB, via Ceglie, 9, 70010 Valenzano – Bari (Italy).

All Authors are kindly requested to send their papers in writing, but namely on disk or cd, using Word processor program.

Every paper should conform to the following rules:

LANGUAGE: English or French

NAME OF THE AUTHORS: on a separate page, include the title of the manuscript, the name of the authors (surname in capitol letter), without abbreviations, their affiliation and their full address.

CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS: complete correspondence (Institutions, telephone, fax and e-mail) address to which send messages and free copies

TITLE: concise but detailed enough, without abbreviations (max 60 strokes)

ABSTRACTS: in English and French. The length should not exceed 1000 strokes, or 150 words.

HEADING: should be arranged as follows:

introduction, paragraphs (materials, methods, description, results and discussion) with short title, conclusions, acknowledgments (if required), references. All the headings should be numbered.

References: should include only publications mentioned in the text. The bibliography should be presented in conformity with the following patterns:

for periodicals: Di Cocco E., Rossi P., 1978. La riforma fondiaria in Italia, Rivista di Politica Agraria, 5, 122-141

for books: Ansoff H.I.., 1965. Corporate strategy, McGraw-Hill, New York, 280 pagg.

for edited symposia: Eymard-Duvernay F., 1995. La négociation de la qualité. In Nicolas F., Valceschini éds., Agroalimentaire: une économie de la qualité. INRA Ed. Economica, Paris, 39-48.

If references is made in the text to a publication written by more than two authors the name of the first author should be used followed by “et al.”. This indication, however, should never be used in the list of references. In the list names of first author and co-author should be mentioned.

Abbreviated titles of periodicals should conform to the rules of World List of Science Periodicals.

REVIEW: The editors will send all submitted papers to at least two reviewers of their choice according to contents of paper.

TABLES: each table should be numbered consecutively with a legend. Tables must be also stored separately on the file in format text.

GRAPHICS AND DRAWINGS: each graphics and drawings should be numbered consecutively with a legend. They must be also stored separately on the file in excel format. Don’t place figure caption within graphics image.

Illustrations and photographs (slides preferably), rigorously in black and white, should be numbered and lettered. They must be stored separately on the floppy disk.

NOTES: they should be numbered and referred in the text at the end of the page.

LENGTH: (min/max): from 15 (min.) to 25 (max.) typed pages, double spaced, that is to say from 25,000 to 45,000 strokes. The number of illustrations, tables and graphs should be proportional to the length of the text.

OFF-PRINTS: 10 free copies will be supplied to the authors. Additional off-prints can be ordered. Submission of an article implies that all authors have approved the paper for release and are in agreement with its contents. Upon acceptance of the article by the journal, the authors will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the wide possible dissemination of information.