Section policies
Articles: indexed and peer-reviewed. Articles should be original texts, with a clearly defined argument and critical-theoretical framework. They should make a substantial contribution and/or provide an innovative critical perspective to the field of study in question. Articles that merely contribute to general knowledge will not be published. Accepted articles will be published in the “Monographic” or “Varia” section.
Reviews: indexed. They should not consist of a mere description of the contents of the book reviewed, but should contain an explanation of its contribution to the field in which it is introduced. The publications reviewed must be recent ones.
Notes: indexed. Short texts that include specific, specialized information on research, events or relevant publications related to the journal’s subject matter.
Publication guidelines
Submissions must be an original contribution and authors must guarantee that the content has not been previously published and is not considered for publication elsewhere. Articles may be written in Spanish or English; other languages may be exceptionally admitted by editors.
Articles should be sent in Word format and the text must be justified. The font size should be 12 pt, with the exception of quotations in free-standing blocks of text and the final bibliography, which should be 11 pt,, and footnotes, which should be 10 pt. Maintain single-spacing throughout the whole text. Do not include page numbers, nor headers or footers. Lateral margins should be of 3 cms and superior and inferior margins of 2.5 cms. The maximum text length is 60,000 characters, including spaces.
Regardless of the language in which they are written, all submissions must include an abstract in Spanish and another in English (maximum 10 lines each) and a list of key words (a maximum of 5) in both languages. The title should be in both English and Spanish, followed by the author’s complete name and surname, the University or centre s/he belongs to, and email address.
The title should be in capital letters, roman and centered. If there is subtitle, it should be below the title, roman and in lower-case. Include the author’s name in lower-case and right-aligned, with the University’s name below and in parenthesis.
Use footnotes, and not endnotes. Footnotes should be indicated by a superscript on the corresponding word, without brackets, and after the punctuation mark. Justify the text and indent the first line by 1,25 cm. Articles with endnotes will not be accepted.
Long quotations of more than four lines should be in a free-standing block of text, with the first line indented (1,25 cm), only if it is the beginning of a sentence. Introduce a blank line before and after the quotation. Short quotations should be enclosed within quotations marks and with roman font style. Quotations will never be in italics, unless the original text is italicized.
Authors are required to use Harvard referencing style. Do not use footnotes for bibliographical references. In-text citations will look like this: (Author’s surname, date of publication: page number). If you have cited more than one work by a particular author published in the same year, introduce a, b, c… after the year. The quotation’s final full stop will be introduced after the parenthesis in the bibliographical reference. Use brackets […] to indicate omissions and to add material in quotations. When you cite a source found within another source, use “in” (in Smith, 2004: 32).
The aim of this referencing style is to make as few interruptions in the text as possible and to include the necessary referencing information taking up as little space as possible. Thus:
- if the authors’ names form part of your sentence, you do not need to include them in the parentheses.
- parentheses should be included beside the authors’ names or after the quotation, and not at the end of the sentence.
- if you cite two or more works from the same author/s at one point in the text, arrange the sources in chronological order, without repeating the authors’ names: Smith (2000a, 2000b and 2001).
- if the same source is cited several times in a subsequent manner, after the first citation only the page number must be included within parentheses
- if a different source is inserted or if there is the possibility of confusion, the complete citation must be included.
When citing more than two sources, include the citation in a footnote: “For further discussion of this issue, see Smith (2000), Warren (1998), Brown (2015) and Jones (2004).”
Do not add blank lines between paragraphs (with the exceptions of long quotations, as explained above). Do not use bold or underlined font style, nor capital letters for emphasis. Only use italics for emphasis. Also use italics for foreign words and Latin abbreviations.
Section headings: Section headings should not be numbered, should not be indented and should not have final punctuation. Add a blank line above and below the heading. Please format them according to the following levels of heading, though we recommend that no more than two levels are used:
small capitals
Italics
Roman
Texts submitted in English will use regular double quotation marks; use single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. Texts submitted in any other language will use French quotation marks.
Use hyphen for compounds and numerical series and n-dash (–) for everything else. Use n-dash always to mark the end of the fragment, even if it is at the end of a sentence
If authors wish to reproduce an illustration or image, they must have the corresponding copyright permission. Authors are responsible for requesting these rights to the corresponding copyright holders.
Bibliography will be included at the end under the title “Works Cited” in alphabetical order. If the author wishes to do so, primary sources may be included in a different section from secondary sources.
When you are citing more than one source by the same author, you must repeat the author’s name in each entry. Include each citation entry with a hanging indent of 1.25 cm.
Include entries with the following format:
Articles in journals:
Surname(s), Name (year), “Title of article,” Title of journal in italics, volume(issue), page numbers.
Marchi, Lisa (2014), “Ghosts, Guests, Hosts: Rethinking “Illegal” Migration and Hospitality Through Arab Diasporic Literature,” Comparative Literature Studies, 51(4), pp. 603-626.
Leith, Sam (2017), “What could be saner?” TLS, June 2, <https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/will-self-consciousness/>.
Books:
Surname(s), Name [in the case of edited, coordinated or translated works, include (ed.) (coord.) (trad.)] (year), Title of book in italics, place of publication, publisher.
Royle, Nicholas (2003), Jacques Derrida, London, Routledge.
Neill, Alex and Aaron Ridley (eds.) (2008), Arguing about Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, 3rd ed, New York, Routledge..
Chapter in an edited book:
Surname(s), Name (year), “Title of article,” in editor(s) surname, initials (ed(s).), Title of book in italics, place of publication, publisher, page numbers.
Warhol, Robyn R. (2005), “Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in Realist Fiction and Contemporary Film” in James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz (eds.), A Companion to Narrative Theory, Malden, Blackwell, pp. 220-231.
Reviews will be headed by a complete reference to the reviewed text, in the following order: Name Surname, Title, Editor or translator, City, Publisher, year, ISBN, number of pages. The author’s or authors’ name should be at the end of the review, right-aligned. Reviews will have neither footnotes nor a final bibliography. Their length, with the exception of justified cases, will be of no more than three pages and their format will be the same of articles.
Use of images and graphics
If images are to be inserted in the text, these must have the necessary permissions for publication, being the authors responsible for requesting them to the pertinent institution. Otherwise, they must be adapted to article 32 of the TRLPI, which states: "It is lawful to include in one's own work fragments of other works of a written, sound or audiovisual nature, as well as isolated works of a plastic or photographic nature, provided that they are already published and their inclusion is made by way of quotation or with the purpose of analysis, commentary or critical judgment. Such use may only be made for teaching or research purposes, to the extent justified by the purpose of such incorporation and indicating the source and the name of the author of the work used".
The images or graphics shall be included in the document inserted in the corresponding place according to the mention in the text, indicating the reference (F1), (F2), (F3)... The corresponding reference shall be placed at the foot of the image, indicating the title, author and source.
Graphs, images and figures must be of sufficient quality for digital reproduction. If the article is accepted, the original graphic files should be attached in a separate file (preferably in JPG or PNG format) named with short, descriptive and correlatively numbered titles.
Review process
- The articles submitted will first be reviewed by the Editorial Team of the journal, to check whether they adapt to the journal's general style rules and scope .
- Then, all original articles will be reviewed by two external evaluators, whose suggestions, if any, will be sent to the authors so that they can make the pertinent modifications in accordance with the criteria of scientific quality. The Editorial Board will make the final decision in view of the reviewers' reports. The evaluation method used is "double blind", maintaining the anonymity of both the author and the evaluators.
- During proofreading, no significant variations or additions to the text will be admitted; only one correction will be made.
- The journal's management will inform the author of the acceptance or rejection of his contribution within a maximum period of eight months.
* The submission of articles or reviews entails the complete acceptance of these criteria.