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 the authors.
- The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
- Whenever possible, URLs are provided for references.
- Text is single spaced; 12-point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Authors are requested to consider providing their ORCID or linking through authentication each time they make a new submission.
Articles are original, unpublished work that is not under review in other journals.
You can download the suggested publication format in DOC or PDF.
We suggest that the structure of the article respects the following scheme.
Title
direct, clear and of a maximum of 12 words.
Author(s)
Full name, university institution, city, country, and e-mail.
Abstract:
While the main characteristics of the article are mentioned, the main details of the research should be noted. Maximum 150 words. In Spanish and English.
Any information not mentioned in the article should be avoided.
Clear and coherent form.
Key words: minimum of three and maximum of six that represent the central meaning of the article. In Spanish and English.
Content: The methods of the research should be illustrated in detail and the results and reflections should be given extensively. The conclusion should answer the questions mentioned in the introduction. The bibliography, always transliterated into the Latin alphabet, should include, for the most part, works published in the last fifteen years.
EDITING STANDARDS
- Body Word format - Maximum 20 pages (including bibliography, tables, images, activities...)
- Font type and size: Arial 12 throughout the document.
- Margins: 2.5 at the top, bottom, left and right.
- No justification, no page numbering, no hyphens.
- Headings: in capital letters, type 12. If numbering is required, although it is better to avoid it, it should appear in Arabic numerals.
- Paragraphs: indented with a tabulation. Between paragraphs, the same space as between lines.
- Text: no variations in font size, unnecessary indentations, boxes, boxes or page numbering. No underlining. Bold type should be avoided as much as possible.
- Italics: within the text, only in words or expressions in foreign languages or titles of works.
- Quotation marks: best to avoid generalized use. Reserved for textual quotations that are not highlighted in a separate paragraph.
Notes: Reduced to a minimum. Unnecessary for bibliographic data (see below). Limited to comments that cannot really be incorporated into the text of the article. They should be footnotes, in correlative numbering, letter 10, 1.5 spacing and without tabulation.
- Textual quotations of less than four lines: in the body of the text and between quotation marks (““) - For a quotation within another, single quotation marks (' ') are used.
- Textual quotations of more than four lines: In a separate paragraph, without quotation marks, with double indentation to the left (two returns). In font type 10 and 1.5 line spacing. - Interventions within the quotation are indicated by square brackets []. - Omissions within the quotation are indicated by ellipses between square brackets [...].
- Allusions, specific citations, and specific bibliographical references whose complete reference is to appear in the bibliography: They are introduced in the body of the text using the following abbreviated procedure:
- a) In case only one work by that author appears in the BIBLIOGRAPHY section, the last name is indicated in parentheses, and with a separating space (therefore, without comma) the page number.
- b) If more than one work by that author appears in the BIBLIOGRAPHY section, the last name is indicated in parentheses, and separated with a comma, the beginning of the title of the work in question followed by ellipsis, in italics (if it is a book) or in quotation marks (if it is an article) and then, with only one space (without comma), the page number.
- c) If the author is already clearly indicated in the body of the text, the author's name may be deleted from the reference and only the page number may be placed in parentheses if only one work is cited. If several works are cited, the beginning of the title should appear in parentheses (with ellipses), in italics (if it is a book) or in quotation marks (if it is an article) and then, with only one space (without comma), the page number.
- Bibliography
- The list of works cited appears after the body of the article.
- It should be arranged in alphabetical order by surname. When an author whose surname includes an article or preposition is cited in the bibliography, it should be placed according to the first letter of the surname, and not the article or preposition that precedes it.
For example: Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz.
- Bibliographic entries should follow the MLA editing format. Here are the most frequent citations:
4.1.- Books
Author's last name, first name. Title of the book (italics). Place of publication: Publisher, year.
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
If the book has an editor or coordinator, it should be included after the title of the book.
Columbus, Christopher. Textos y documentos completos, ed. Consuelo Varela. Madrid: Alianza Universidad, 1984.
If the year of the first edition of the book is available and it is considered pertinent to include it, it should be placed after the title:
Martín Barbero, Jesús. De los medios a las mediaciones. Communication, culture and hegemony. 1987. Mexico: Editions G. Gili, 1991.
If the book has two or three authors, the same format should be followed.
Magaña Esquivel, A. and Lamb, R. Breve historia del teatro colombiano. ...
Borges, Jorge Luis, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Anthology of fantastic literature. ...
More than 3 authors:
Müller, Bergh, Klaus and others. Sieges to Carpentier. ...
4.2.- Journal articles.
Author's last name, first name. "Title of article" (in quotation marks), Name of journal (italics) volume/issue (year of publication): pages.
Adorno, Rolena. "El sujeto colonial y la construcción de la alteridad," Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamerica 28 (1988): 55-68.
Concha, Jaime. "La literatura colonial hispano-americana: Problemas e hipótesis", Neohelicón 4/1-2 (1976): 31-50.
4.3.- Book chapters.
The title of the article should be cited in quotation marks, before the title of the book. The surname of the author of the article referred to should be used: Author's surname, First name. "Title of the article" (in quotation marks). Name of the book (italics), ed. Name of the publisher. Place of publication: Publisher, year. Pages:
Goic, Cedomil. "La novela hispanoamericana colonial". Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Volume I. Colonial Period, ed. Luis Iñigo-Madrigal. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1982. 369-406.
4.4.- Periodicals.
Author's last name, first name. "Title of the article. Name of the newspaper (italics). Date (day, month, year): section, page.
Cabrujas, José Ignacio. "Con real y medio". Nacional. 16 Nov. 1990: C-7.
Some newspapers contain different information in their different editions. In this case it is important to specify the edition after the date and preceded by a comma:
Collins, Glen. "Single-Father Survey Finds Adjustment a Problem." New York Times. 21 Nov. 1983, late ed.: B-17.
4.5.- Digital journals and online queries.
Author's last name, first name. "Title of the article" (in quotation marks), Name of the journal (italics) volume/issue (year of publication): pages. Date accessed 00/00/0000.
Nisbett, Richard E. and Timothy Decamps Wilson. "The Halo Effect: evidence for unconscious impairment of judgments." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35.4 (1977), 250-256. Accessed 09/07/2011.
- Other
- Quotation marks, parentheses or note calls are written first, followed by punctuation marks.
- Page numbers, in quotations, as follows: 12-3, not 12-13; 112-13, not 112-113, nor 112-3.
- When a book title includes within itself the title of a work, it is marked without italics.
- If possible, the use of abbreviations should be avoided. Abbreviations referring to imprecise quotations, such as op. cit., id., ibid., loc., cit. and others, are discarded. Indications for the most common abbreviations:
-, pp. For page, pages (not pg., pg.).
- see, not vid, nor view.
- "fols." for folios (not "f.", "ff."). To indicate recto or verso, add "r" or "v" without a space or period.
- "nu" or "nums." for "number" or "numbers" (not "nº.", "nos.").
- vols. For volume, volumes.
- For edition (do not use "eds." even if there are several editors: the abbreviation we use is "edition" and not "editor").
- , vv. For verso, versos.
- For dictionaries of authorities.
- For Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia.
- For Curricular Project of the Cervantes Institute
- For Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- For Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española by Sebastián de Covarrubias.
- Unnecessary Latinisms should be avoided.
- Bibliographical references should follow the form indicated in these rules.
- The spelling of all cited texts (parallel passages, dictionary definitions of the time, etc.) should be modernized, except in cases where non-modernization is pertinent for significant reasons.
- References to notes in superscripts are placed before low punctuation, and after quotation marks, exclamation or question marks and parentheses.