VIPERS (this work) and zCOSMOS (Bolzonella et al. 2010) stellar mass functions of galaxies in LD/HD regions (orange/violet and grey/black colours, see the legend in the top-right corner of each panel). The comparison is restricted to a single redshift bin that is similar in the two surveys (0.5 < z < 0.7 in zCOSMOS, 0.51 < z < 0.65 in VIPERS). All the GSMFs are rescaled to have ρ_N(ℳ > ℳ_lim) = 1, as in Fig. 4. In both panels, solid lines represent the STY estimates for the various galaxy samples, with a shaded area encompassing the 1σ uncertainty. (The line is dashed below the stellar mass limit.) Filled circles and diamonds are the 1 /V_max determinations of the GSMFs of zCOSMOS (LD and HD, respectively). The upper panel includes the stellar mass functions of star-forming galaxies, classified by Bolzonella et al. (2010) according to their photometric types (T2, i.e. late-type galaxies), and by means of the NUVrK diagram in our analysis. With dot-dashed lines we also show the stellar mass function of the VIPERS galaxies having high sSFR (i.e. those remaining after removing the NUVrK-intermediate objects from the active sample). In the lower panel, the VIPERS passive sample and the zCOSMOS early-type galaxies (i.e. T1 spectrophotometric types) are considered.