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Author Guidelines

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission meets all the elements shown below. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to authors:

- Submission has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

- Submitted file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

- The text meets the bibliographic and style requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which can be found in About the Journal.

- If you are submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, you must ensure that the instructions in Ensuring Blind Review have been followed.

Guidelines for Authors

Texts Submission

1. Texts should be written in Spanish. In research articles, English translation of the title, abstract and keywords is requested.
2. All research texts must be unpublished and original. It is a requirement that they are not submitted at the same time in another publication.

3.The length of research articles should be between 15 and 30 pages, including footnotes and references. Other types of texts: academic papers, reviews, interviews, book reviews, essays, short stories and poems will be if their development requires.

4. Research texts will be submitted to a “double blind peer review” evaluation process: they will be simultaneously submitted to an internal and an external anonymous evaluator, who, without exchanging their opinions, will issue a verdict to the Editorial Board. The results may be threefold: the text is accepted without conditions; it is accepted but undergoes a period of revision and amendment to adapt it to the publication format of the journal; it is rejected for not complying with the requirements or with the purpose of the journal.
5. All authors should send a brief CV, in a separate file, not exceeding 230 words and containing: name, surname, e-mail, degrees, institutional affiliation, publications and most important awards.

Format of Articles

The following basic specifications should be followed:

Page size:  A4 (21cm x 29,7cm).

Margins: Top and bottom 2.5 cm. Right and left 2.5 cm.

Font size: Times New Roman, 12-point font.

Line spacing and alignment of body text: Double-spaced, including the References page(s). Justify the text. Do not number the pages.

Indent: 0.5 inches, which is equivalent to 1.27 cm. Another option is to press the tab button (1.25 cm). Do not leave line spacing between paragraphs.

Title: Do not exceed 12 words. Times New Roman, 14-point font, bold, no underlining, centered, single spacing. Only capitalize the first word.

Personal information: Below the title, leave a space, centered, single-spaced: name and surname of each author of the paper and below institutional affiliation of each author (do not use acronyms). Country and e-mail address. It must be written in Times New Roman, 12-point font, bold.

For student’s academic papers, under the student’s name, clarify name of the course and year.

Abstract: Precise, reflecting the purpose and content. Informative, not evaluative. Coherent and concise. Maximum length of words allowed: 250. Double-spaced and justified text. No indentation. In Spanish and English. English abstract should be in italics.

Keywords: Between 5 and 8 in Spanish and their equivalents in English. English keywords should be in italics. Keywords should be written in lower case (except for proper nouns), separated by commas and without a period.

Manuscript Structure: Introduction, Methodology, Development, Conclusion or results. Tables and figures. Notes. References. Appendix.

Tables and figures: Tables, figures and appendices will be accepted in case they are strictly necessary. They appear at the end of the article and before References, only those that were mentioned in the text. They are identified with Arabic numerals and consecutively: Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, etc.

Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, etc.

Footnotes: Times New Roman, 10-point font. No indent. Numbered in the order they appear in the manuscript in Arabic numerals. Footnotes are placed at the foot of the page. They are not intended for references to textual quotations, which, instead, are located at the end of the text. Limit the number of notes to the minimum necessary for the development of the article.

Refences: Should not be confused with the Bibliography. They should be indicated on a separate sheet. There will be no General Bibliography, only references of textual citations will be listed in alphabetical order.

Appendix: Each one, on a separate page.

References to other sources of information within the text are requested to avoid footnotes. All citations (in any form) must have an exact correspondence with the entries in the Reference List; at the same time, entries that do not correspond to the citations within the article should not be included in the Reference List. There are several ways to make the citation.

1. Direct or verbatim quotations. This is a word-for-word transcription of another text. Three pieces of information must always appear: author’s last name, date of publication and the number of the page(s) where the reference appears. If the quotation is less than 40 words long, it is integrated into the text with low quotation marks. If, on the contrary, the quotation has 40 words or more, it is written in block, with the same font size and spacing used in the article and with a margin of 1.27 cm only on the left, separated from the main text and without quotation marks. Italics should not be used for quotations. It is necessary to indicate the exact pages that were cited. The abbreviation “p.” for “page” and “pp.” for “pages” should be used. In case of textual citation without pagination, the following alternatives can be used: if the paragraph number is displayed, it is indicated with the abbreviation para (author, year, para). For example: (López, 2008, para. 4). If the paragraph number is not visible, the name of the heading plus the paragraph number, counted by us, is indicated (author, “title/heading”, para.). For instance: (López, 2008, “El renacimiento”, para. 4).
2. Paraphrases or indirect quotations. Literal transcription of the text does not appear in the article; however, the contents of arguments or what is said conceptually refer to other text(s). It is not necessary to indicate the pages.
3. Authority citations. Used to indicate to the reader what is the source of the information in a given paragraph of the article. It serves to show the fundamental bibliography consulted by the author and to support his research. Pages may or may not be indicated, depending on whether the source of information is a complete text, a chapter or a fragment. In the case of omitting part of the quotation, ellipsis should be indicated with three dots enclosed in parentheses and with spaces between the dots and between each parenthesis and the following and preceding dots ( . . . ). As for long quotations, with omissions of the beginning or end of the sentence, ellipsis is not used, unless it is included in the original source.
4. Quotes from poems or plays. The author may choose to indicate only the page of the quotation, but, since they are often classic works of which there are many versions, it is suggested that the reference be given according to the following examples.
5. Quotations from websites. If the page number can be located in the citation, it should be indicated as in any publication. If the citation does not have a page number, the reference should be given by paragraph number.
6. Quotations from foreign language. When quoting in a foreign language, the translation should be included. This should be placed in square brackets
7. Second-hand quotations. It is suggested that second-hand quotations be avoided, except in cases where the texts on which a comment is made cannot be found otherwise. If it cannot be avoided, the expression “quoted in” should be used and the source from which the information was obtained should be indicated.

References

References should begin on a new page with the title References (capitalized, centered, and in bold). The format of the list is double-spaced, between and within citations, hanging indent, and ordered alphabetically by the last name of the first author. It should include exclusively all texts that have been cited in the article, both directly and indirectly, as well as authority citations. Personal communications (such as interviews, letters, e-mails or messages from a discussion list) are only cited in the body of the text. Example of narrative citation: M. Parradis (personal communication, August 8, 2019). Example of parenthetical citation: (T. Nguyen, personal communication, February 24, 2020).

To elaborate the citation according to the type of document, you should follow the rules of the examples below.

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