1. Submission of papers

All papers must follow the style sheet available for Transletters. Unformatted papers will be rejected.

Contributors must submit a .docx file including an abstract in English or French (no longer than 100 words) as well as five key words must also be sent.

All the articles will include the full name of the authors and their institutional affiliation (university, institute, etc.). These details will be deleted by the editors in an anonymous version to be sent to reviewers.

Accepted publication languages: Spanish, English and French.

Papers should be sent through OJS system. In order to do so, authors should register on the following link: https://journals.uco.es/tl/user/register, select the profile "Author" and upload the paper.

2. Address to send books for review

Books for review must be sent to the following address:

Dr. Carmen Expósito Castro (lr1excac@uco.es)

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Córdoba. Plaza Cardenal Salazar, 3 ― 14071 Córdoba (Spain)

 

EDITORIAL PROCESS

1. The receipt of the articles

Receipt of the articles will be acknowledged by e-mail in the briefest period possible. In this phase a preliminary editorial assessment will take place in which we shall evaluate: a) the appropriateness to the thematic content and interest of the paper in relation to the editorial criteria of the Journal, and b) the fulfilment of the formal formatting requirements demanded by the publishing rules. Reception of the paper does not guarantee its acceptance. In this first stage and before entering a second phase (blind peer reviewing), we will communicate to the author if the article has been accepted, rejected or needs some corrections.

2. Blind peer reviews

Papers will be sent confidentially and anonymously to be analysed by two experts who are neither members of the journal editing body nor part of the editorial council.  Reviewers will deliver a report concerning the convenience of the article’s publication, which will be taken into consideration by the Editorial Board secretariat. Announcement of the publication of the paper, or if not revision recommendations will be communicated to the author. If the evaluating experts disagree, the paper shall be sent to a third evaluator.

A revised paper may be considered for publication conditionally to the inclusion of changes. It must be corrected and returned to the editos of the Journal at the most within a month. If the revised version is not sent within this established period, the article will be rejected and the author will have to start a new process of submission.

If necessary, the new version will again be sent to the external evaluators; this process will continue until the paper merits a definitive acceptance from the Journal. The authors will receive a notification concerning the evaluation reports only when both evaluators send their reports. 

3. Reviewers

The Journal uses specialised reviewers to compare methodological procedures used in papers. The choice of reviewers depends on the journal editors, who take into account their academic and scientific merits, and their professional experience, including both national and international specialists. 

 4. Acceptations and refusals

The Journal editors’ decision to accept or reject a paper will take into account both the negative and the favourable judgements of the evaluators.

 

Criteria for rejecting a paper include:

a.  Not being included under the scientific topics cultivated by the Journal.

b.  Not using the proposed citation system.

c.  Not sending the paper in the required format (please use our style sheet)

d. Previous publication of the same study (even in another language).

 

Criteria for accepting a paper include:

a.  Papers must conform to the objectives of the section in which they are offered.

b.  Papers must be original, or at least offer a qualitative analysis proffering valuable information.

c.  Novelty, freshness and advances in the themes covered by the Journal.

d.  In all cases coherence in the methodology and logic in the work submitted will be demanded.

e.  A good formal presentation will be required, that is, good writing and text organisation: logical coherence and presentation.