Articles must be submitted through the OJS system. To do so, authors must register at the following link: https://journals.uco.es/tl/user/register, select the “Author” profile, and upload the file. Submissions must follow the style sheet available for Transletters, use .docx format, be anonymized, and contain no comments. Articles that do not comply with all formatting requirements will be rejected. Contributions are accepted in Spanish, English, and French.
Submissions must be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, and abstracts must be between 150 and 200 words. The "Keywords" section must include between 4 and 6 words, separated by commas, with capitalization only where appropriate, and must end with a period. References must follow the examples provided in the style sheet and be organized in alphabetical order.
Book reviews
If you wish to review a book for Transletters, you may send a copy to the review coordinator at the following address:
Carmen Expósito Castro (lr1excac@uco.es) Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Córdoba Plaza Cardenal Salazar, 3 — 14071 Córdoba (Spain)
EDITORIAL PROCESS
1. Receipt of articles
After an article is received, a preliminary evaluation will be carried out to assess: a) its relevance to the journal’s thematic scope and editorial criteria, and b) compliance with the formatting requirements set out in the publication guidelines.
Receipt of a manuscript does not guarantee its acceptance.
2. Double-blind peer review
Submissions will be sent anonymously to two experts who are external to the journal’s editorial team. These reviewers will prepare evaluation reports recommending whether or not each article should be published. The editorial team will assess these reports and subsequently inform the author of the decision. If the two reviewers’ reports are incompatible, the article will be sent to a third reviewer.
If revisions are requested, acceptance of the article will be subject to the completion of these improvements. The revised version must be resubmitted to the journal’s editors within a maximum period of one month from the date the review reports are sent. If this deadline expires, the article will be rejected and the author will have to begin a new submission process from the beginning.
If necessary, the article will be sent to a second round of external double-blind peer review. Authors will be notified of the evaluation only once both reviewers have submitted their reports.
3. Reviewers
The journal has specialized reviewers to assess the methodological procedures used in submitted manuscripts. Reviewers are selected by the journal’s editors based on their academic and scientific merits, as well as their professional experience, and include both national and international specialists.
4. Acceptance or rejection
The editors’ decision to accept or reject a manuscript will take into account both negative and positive evaluations from the reviewers.
A manuscript may be rejected if it:
Does not fall within the scientific themes covered by the journal.
Does not use the prescribed citation system.
Is not submitted in the required format (please use the style sheet).
Has been previously published in the same or another language.
A manuscript may be accepted if:
It fits the objectives of the section in which it is submitted.
It is original or offers a qualitative analysis that provides relevant insights.
It demonstrates novelty, freshness, and advances in the topics addressed.
It shows methodological coherence and logical structure.
It has a high standard of formal presentation, including clear writing and good organization.
Copyright Notice
Suggested policy for journals that offer open access
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of authorship of the work and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors may enter into additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the paper in the journal (e.g., submission to an institutional repository), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish their work prior to the final version published in this journal once accepted (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website), as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and higher citation of the published work (see The Open Access Effect).
